User talk:Jll/Archives/Jul-2008

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Ships
Hi, I notice your interest in ships, and wanted to bring WikiProject Ships to your attention if you're not already aware of it; we have quite a lot of material to crib from so you don't have to start from scratch. Stan 22:45 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

Nice work
I put HMS Inflexible (1881) in the "New Articles" section on the Main Page. --mav 09:13, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

rocks and minerals project
Since you've contributed in the rocks and minerals area before, wanted to let you know that I created a WikiProject Rocks and Minerals if you'd like to join. Elf 04:57, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

About the CERN article
Hello

Back in May, 2003 you wrote an excellent article about CERN. Still recall? :) Here is the original revision by you. The article has lived much since. I'm just troubled with this one sentence in the beginning of this paragraph. It has totally lost its context.

If you were originally referring to CERN as a whole, then I propose putting it in the second paragraph: "CERN currently employs just under 3000 people full-time. Some 6500 scientists and engineers (representing 500 universities and 80 nationalities), about half of the world's particle physics community, work on experiments conducted at CERN. CERN also has very impressive computer and wide-area networking facilities which are primarily used for experimental data analysis."

I don't dare to edit yet, if it's just about me missing some point. Anyway, a good article! ---Hydrox (8th October, 21:49 UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
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OR
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

DYK
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Fastnet Rock, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

New ship table template
I've spent the last few days working on a new ship table template to enable us to centralise the editing of things like weapons outfits for a particular class of ships in one template (so with the Fletchers or Gearings or other big classes you only have to edit in one place to alter a mistake rather than in dozens or hundreds). Please have a look at the WikiProject Ships page's talk section and see what you think. I haven't written the instructions for using it yet, and I want to see whether there are any table cells people would like me to include that aren't present yet. There are two example tables, one with all the optional cells present, and the other with some excluded. David Newton 14:10, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Nameless vessels
You contributed a number of articles on early Royal Navy submarines, including HMS A.1 and other British A class submarines. So I think it would be good if you could contribute to the discussion on the naming convention for nameless vessels like these, currently taking place at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (ships). Gdr 20:01, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)

Smallsword
Hi ! I have taken the liberty to detour you excellent Image:Smallsword.jpg and upload it on Commons. I was just wondering whether you would consider puttin the image under a Creating Commons licence as well, for instance CC-by-sa, which has basically the same properties as the GFDL, but makes it easier to use the image.

The images is available on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Smallsword.jpg

Thank you very much for your contributions ! Rama 16:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Gold foil experiment
Thanks for your work on this! It was in a pretty sad shape before. --Fastfission 19:02, 10 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi! I thought the name in the literature is Geiger-Marsden experiment, and so I would like to swap the article/redir setup. Since you changed it last, I thought I would ask what your rational was, so we can find consensus on this. Thanks! Awolf002 14:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Isle of May
Hi! I just wanted to say thanks for your edits to Isle of May. I have only visited the island once, but I found it very interesting to read the extra information that you added to the article. JeremyA (talk) 00:00, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Cut-and-paste moves
Hi, you used a cut-and-paste move to move HMS P311 to P.311 (or maybe it was HMS P.311, I'm not sure). Please don't do cut-and-paste moves, as it separates the article from its history, which we need to keep for Copyright reasons. Please use WP:RM for help with moves if the "Move this page" link/tab doesn't work. I will fix this one - have you done any others? Thanks! Noel (talk) 01:28, 29 September 2005 (UTC)


 * No problem, and thanks very much for taking this time to check, and letting me know. Noel (talk) 18:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Tabun (nerve gas) - thanks
I appreciate the wording changes that you made to Tabun (nerve gas): they're a definite improvement. Thanks! – ClockworkSoul 15:05, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

COAS
I've added the "prod" template to the article COAS, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the article (see also What Wikipedia is not and Importance). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:COAS. If you remove the dated prod template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Amalas  =^_^=  12:40, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment from Roger C. Ambrose
FYI: I have posted a comment: Roger ambrose 01:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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A H-W
The NPG is slowly populating its site so this link will come good. I have emailed them about A H-W in the hope they'll buck up a bit. Nunquam Dormio 09:32, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

F. .J. Walker
Hi! Apologies for the belated reply. As you took the iniative, this reply is somewhat redundant, but I would have agreed with the move :-) SoLando (Talk) 05:15, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Vesuvius
You're most likely correct. I was staying in a convent described as "near the Bay of Naples," so I just put that as the closest presumption. Thank you for fixing it. RichardMarcJ 03:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

HMCS Asbestos K358
My dad decided to do a search for his old ship and found the Wiki entry you started. Was your choice of ship alphabetical or do you have a family connection? Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.146.66 (talk) 30 January 2007


 * No, I don't have a connection with the ship. I started the article because its unusual name caught my eye. Best wishes. Jll 23:10, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi MY father was on K358 I am looking to share photos and make contact with any one or knows of a family member that was on K358. I can be reached at stehud@mts.net

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.202.14.220 (talk) 05:59, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Operation Marine
Hi Jll, may I ask, what your source for this edit was? Was this operation carried out or just thought about? Best regards, --Flominator 11:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, It was a long time ago and I cannot remember. However it is mentioned in a modern reprint of a Victorian book on advances in technology, and I have updated the article to reflect that, and included a reference this time. The chapter on Torpedoes starts by explaining that (in 1890) the idea of destroying ships using submerged or floating containers of gunpowder is not new, and illustrates this with the sentence "Two hundred and fifty years ago the English tried "floating petards" at the siege of Rochelle." before mentioning that similar devices were used against the British during the American War of Independence. -- Jll 17:46, 5 March 2007
 * Thank you very much for these informations. Do you know anything more Operation Marine? Was it only an idea or was it done? --Flominator 17:51, 5 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It seems that it was actually done. I have added some more information to the article (and renamed it) -- Jll 01:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * This was very helpful and just in time: The German article already had a deletion request in it. Now I hope it will be saved. Thank you.--Flominator 08:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I am glad to have been able to help. Jll 10:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Date for the Wreck of HMS Pomone
Can you please confirm the contents of an edit you made to HMS Pomone (1805) that changed the date of its wreck to January 1811? I cannot confirm your source readily, as I do not have a copy of the text in question, but I have found a wealth of sources on the web that date the wreck as 11 October or 14 October 1811:


 * http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_History/Reports/British_Lost/RN_Vessels_Lost_19th_Century.html
 * http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/jcr/~vancouver2.html
 * http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/PQ.htm
 * http://www.iwight.com/council/departments/museums/Museum_of_Island_History/Past_Exhibitions/SHIPWRECK/HMS_POMONE/
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A894224
 * http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15301

Thanks for your help. Mmccalpin 16:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I have put the reply on your talk page. Regards, Jll 15:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Plurals
Hi there; quite right, of course, about my error in entitling the article Muzzle-loading rifle as "Muzzle-loading rifles". I was quite new in Wikipedia when I did that, and never had occasion to return to the article.--Anthony.bradbury 22:28, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Muzzle-loading rifles
Hi there; yes, i suppose that small-arms such as the Minié and the Dreese and so forth count as muzzle-loading rifles. I was writing in a strictly naval framework, as you obviously realise, and it never occurred to me to include them. You do what you think best, but I would personally have thought that mergfing would be quite tricky - they are really two different subjects - and not necessarily in the best interest of either article. I would have thought that just a link referring both ways might be adequate. But I don't own the article (I read that somewhere!)--Anthony.bradbury 21:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

p.s. i cannot believe that those are red-links! I will go and check my spelling, and if i'm right start work on the articles.--Anthony.bradbury 21:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Dreyse needle gun; Minié ball. Oh well.--Anthony.bradbury 21:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

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Just a courtesy note - I've nominated this template for deletion, as it seems to be spelled incorrectly (the articles report the class as "Astraea"), and someone has since made the same template with the proper spelling, at Template:Astraea class cruiser (1893). Just wanted to let you know. Maralia 01:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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United States Coast Guard use of Flower Class Corvettes
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