User talk:KumiokoCleanStart/Archive 5

Featured list candidates/List of cardinal-nephews/archive2
Thank you for your comments. I have implemented two-thirds of your comments, but would appreciate some clarification on the second. Savidan 01:26, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Smedley Butler
The M[ass] of S[tupidity] compiles the opinions of a handful of half-educated and provincial  would-be language-reformers. It is neither consensus nor English; "January of 1921" is perfectly idiomatic English, no matter what those incompetents think. I did not write it, but I will revert any meddling based solely upon the so-called Manual as often as necessary. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Your opinion that MoS's claims here are consensus is unsupported; far more of MOS is the product of a single crank or a revert war by a handful of fools than the product of any genuine consensus. Present the discussion, and if it is more than the usual blowhards, I will consider taking out the ofs myself. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:32, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Comment
A person who has never before been involved in the management of the "List of U.S. Marines" has expressed him/herself here: Talk:List of notable United States Marines. You may also want to express your opinion. Tony the Marine (talk) 20:27, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Featured Lists
Yeah, I noticed, I have all three on my watchlist. :D This one may be tricky though... if you thought that the CMC and SMMC had few refs and records, the ACMC is gonna be even more sparse. But it may not be an issue, the FL process seems to be highly dependant upon the whims of those who happen to stop by. Please let me know if any of the lists I offered earlier are in your plans for FL, and I will assist (they are an area I have more practical knowledge in). Anyway, Keep up the awesome work! Semper Fi.  bahamut0013  words deeds   14:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I would say to consult User:Looper5920. He basically wrote the article from scratch and got it up to A-class singlehandedly. I also think you should discuss your changes with him not only because he's an expert in Marine aviation, but because he's somewhat protective of that article in particular.  bahamut0013  words deeds   16:29, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't think anybody would object to fixing references. I was more referring to content and formatting changes. :P  bahamut0013  words deeds   16:40, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the congrats. I was celebrating the 4th, so Happy 4th of July to you. I'll check the FLC's. Tony the Marine (talk) 05:34, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Lists
Hey Kumioko. Sorry for taking a while to get back to you... But to your questions. I believe the Rickenbacker list would fail 3b as an unnecessary fork I'm afraid. As for your next MOH question, your suggestion of how to split them into sections seems fine. It may well be a case of seeing it once its done as you'll need some nice prose to adequately describe how you've made the subdivisions. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:54, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
NDM (talk) 10:16, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

images
Hi, Why were the images removed from the infobox in Michael P. Murphy? Is this part of an MOS or something?  -shirulashem (talk) 17:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Unrelated question on the same article: ribbon rack building. I'm curious if you built it from scratch, or if you were using my ribbon workshop. If the former, take a look, it can be a time-saver to copy and paste less. (yes, I've been wiki-stalking you lately)  bahamut0013  words deeds   17:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, his tours in Djibouti and Qatar sound like they might qualify, but what the durations for them aren't listed, so we don't know if they were long enough to qualify. With SEALs, who knows? He could have deployed for months, or possibly a weekend. However, if none of the refs mention it, I'd like to think to trust that a biography on a MOH recipient would be so incpmplete as to be missing TWO service medals.  bahamut0013  words deeds   05:11, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text
Hmm... Well, if the intent of having alt text is to facilitate a person using a screen reader, then wouldn't decribing each ribbon be kinda redundant to the text table under each ribbon rack? I mean, the intent of having the display is to identify what awards an individual rates, and a screen reader would certainly read the name of each award. That, and I'm not sure if template:ribbon devices can handle alt text of both the ribbon and the device. That, and one might argue that the images are more decorative, where Alternative text for images dictates that an alt is not necessary. Though I can certainly imagine that a screen reader would have result in some confusion when reviewing a ribbon rack table.  bahamut0013  words deeds   05:05, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Louis H. Carpenter GA Status
Hello Kumioko,

When you get a chance, please review or update what else is needed before a peer review on Louis H. Carpenter. I really do appreciate your help on this. The article is looking great because of your guideance and assistance.

Jrcrin001 (talk) 22:09, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

AustralianRupert completed the GAR for Louis H. Carpenter and passed it for GA status. I would like to let you and others know of your assistance, understanding,communication and above all your efforts to make this possible. The team work between you, AustralianRupert and my part made this GA article happen. I learned a lot in this process!

Many Many Thanks! Jrcrin001 (talk) 14:52, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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Talkback
Dabomb87 (talk) 20:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed. It was just a simple math problem :) Dabomb87 (talk) 21:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, a row of three when we are using a base of four rows. Pain in the arse, because unlike the other combinations with rows of four, you have to add a colspan to each cell. If you look at my code for a four plus three stack, you'll notice that I have a dunny row of 12. That's because the lowest common denominator of 3 and 4 is 12. You set the row of three as a colspan of 4, and the rows of four as a colspan of three. But if you leave out the empty row, the spacing will be off. All the time I see good faith edits removing these empty rows and not seemingly noticing how they screw up the table. Perhaps I should start adding a hidden note?  bahamut0013  words deeds   04:58, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Pappy
Actually, just a coincidence. I've been very slowly working through Category:United States Marine Corps officers, adding ribbon racks to anyone who has a reference, I was in the B's today. Do let me know if there ever comes up an issue regarding awards, either in format, precedence, ratings, etc. in an article review. I've accumulated a lot of knowledge about them from editing Wikipedia; so I can help with any awards dispute. Referencing has been, unfortunately, dodgy at best, but I do have some sources.  bahamut0013  words deeds   16:39, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * How could I have forgotten the wings?!
 * I normally don't bother with the row numbers unless there are a number of rows; I picked four as a good number. Any less, and the reader probably won't have to count to match the image to the text. Probably not worth doing when there are any less. Also of note, because it may come up later, I generally try to use rows of four only when there are eight or more ribbons; any less, I use three. It just looks neater that way.  bahamut0013  words deeds   16:51, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * You're right, the line between OR and common sense is blurred (I wrote an essay on the topic a while back). I find that some measure of educated supposition is merited, such as basing good conduct medals based on years of service, and such; but photographs are invaluable and I reference them as much as possible. In this case, the article notes that Pappy's POW status is disputed because he was never declared a prisoner. To err on the side of caution, I chose not to include it because he probably never wore it. I'm sure there were some unit awards given to VMF-214, but I can't find any date records for that unit (nor do I know exactly when he was declared missing--at that point, he would be off the unit's rolls and not longer elligible to rate a unit award). If you come up with some specific findings, I would recommend we take up the discussion on the article's talk page to keep a better record.  bahamut0013  words deeds   17:04, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

re: New Articles
Good day to you good sir, I have a page of articles for creation relating to the Medal of Honor that I use for visibility over when a Medal of Honor recipient article is created and I wanted to add them to the Military History page of Articles for creation. Before I go adding 1000 or so to the list I wanted to ask you if it would be better to simply put a link to My page. --Kumioko (talk) 00:01, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Probably a simple link would be best :)  Roger Davies  talk 08:35, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Portal
Certainly a fresh idea... while there are plenty of biographies to feature (some in good shape, some in abysmal shape), I doubt that there is enough supporting material aside from the various lists. A portal needs to be able to feature a great deal of cntent, and I'm not sure you have much to work with besides biographies. There are only so many pictures that you can feature before it gets repetitive.

For example, look at the USMC portal: we have 4 features that automatically rotate monthly (article, image, bio, and quote), a monthly history rotation, and two sections that we update as needed (in the news and "did you know?"). Looking at the United States Military portal, each of thier sic features rotates every time you refresh the page, and they have between 78 and 27 available for each, the vast majority of which are Featured contnet, or at least GA. I just don't think there is enough to match that.

You also have to consider that creating a portal is a huge endeavor, and maintaining it as well. That said, if you choose to press on anyway, I will support you as well as I can.  bahamut0013  words deeds   13:12, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good plan. I'd say that to start a portal, I'd want a flagship of at least a dozen Featured Articles (with a few GAs and A-classes mixed in), and build from there. I'd also say that you want to make sure that Medal of Honor stays FA as well, but I'm sure you'd already fight for that should an FA Review ever crop up.
 * Another option that would speed things up by expanding the pool would be to create a joint-MOH/Victoria Cross portal. However, I'm sure many would object to that being an arbitrary matchup (and there would be some merit, though I think that the MOH and the VC are most well-known awards in the English speaking world, and this is the English Wikipedia after all). And, you'd also have to make a lot concessions--I know a few of the editors from Wikiproject Orders, Decorations, and Medals who are nigh impossible to work with (and embody the negative stereotypes of Brits as arrogant and conceited). I must admit, I'm fantasizing about a light blue and dark red color schemes... that's kinda odd, isn't it?
 * Let's plan to re-evaluate Between Christmas and New Year's!  bahamut0013  words deeds   13:42, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Charles Lindbergh
Hi Kumioko, I did revert your original edit of the reference section because the format that is used in the article is a combination of Harvard citations which are linked to the bibliography written in the Modern Language Style Guide format (that cannot be considered "general" references as the majority of the citations are actually linked to the reference sources given in the bibliographical record). As to creating a non-linear or non-chronological biography of an important historical figure, what is the reasoning behind that? All biographical writing in an encyclopedic format follows the "story" of the individual. There are many reasons to develop a prologue (which is the lede or "leading" statements) but moving the narrative into a non-chronological order has inherent problems. As to assigning reference points, Wiki world basically uses a "foot/end note" classification rather than the "specific" references that were proposed. Any further revisions such as those found in the sandbox article that you are setting up that are not coherent will also be a question of contention. Perhaps take up your concerns about the direction of the article on its talk/discussion page. FWiW, I did not note where you have made substantial or consequential edits to the article, as the submissions appear to be of the minor variety, mainly dealing with formatting. Bzuk (talk) 18:16, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Kumioko, thanks for your note. In not reiterating the above comments, there is one way that can be utilized effectively in addressing your concerns over recurring themes such as CAL's environmental preoccupation or continuing debate over his supposed Nazi sympathies, namely creating sub-articles or "daughter" articles such as what has occurred with Abraham Lincoln, although these are generally looked on with disfavor by the stylistic troops that patrol new articles. On another note, although the article has reached 101 kilobytes, it does not look substantially different from other biographical articles, see: Amelia Earhart, 104 kilobytes long. FWiW, forgive the mild chiding in the last statement, but remember that I am not the "gatekeeper" of the CAL article, that honor falls to Bruce who fiercely maintains the integrity of the article. Bzuk (talk) 18:46, 16 July 2009 (UTC).

Talkback
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Photos of the American Civil War generals
Dear Kumioko, multiple photos of the American Civil War generals use this source. The link is now not working. Internet Archive has this, but it doesn't work for all photos. Can you look into this issue? Best wishes, AdjustShift (talk) 00:12, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, let me start with the image of Luther Prentice Bradley. See File:L P Bradley ACW colonel.JPG. The image uses this link, but it doesn't work. Internet Archive has this link, but it also doesn't work. AdjustShift (talk) 00:22, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for replying. You can start working on it. Best wishes, AdjustShift (talk) 00:31, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Adelbert Ames
What is the public domain material used in this article from the USAMHI? It's not cited in Notes. Hal Jespersen (talk) 23:56, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


 * There you go all done. Just for some background, many of the Medal of Honor citations have broken links due to the Marine Corps whos who site or the Medal of Honor site so I am cleaning them up. I have also been having a lot of issues with the Corenbot tagging the MOH articles with copyright vio tags due to the Home of Heroes website. So this will fix that issue as well. You will likely see many more rolling through as well as cleaning up some dates.  In this case the source for the citation was the find a grave website and although that site is good for some info, the actual military site is a better ref for the citation itself. I hope you agree with that assessment. My intention is to add the AMOHW ref to all the recipients for the citation for the ones that are missing or broken. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. --Kumioko (talk) 00:10, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I didn't realize you weren't done. I now see what you're doing. The only change I'd ask for is to put these boiler-plate public domain notices at the end of the Refs, not the beginning. I always put the websites last in lists of primarily books. Thanks. Hal Jespersen (talk) 14:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Wow, you sure have been busy :)
Had a look at Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Army Center of Military History out of curiosity. 186 entries. I'm speechless. MLauba (talk) 09:09, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
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Don't give up :)
Hi,

I would like you to reconsider your idea of giving up on FPC. I'm not a photographer (as a matter of fact, i don't even own a camera, not even a basic one for family use !). When i first came upon FPC, I was attracted by the beautiful pictures, but like you, I couldn't understand the technical details, and couldn't understand why some pictures were rejected. But I still voted on images I felt confident i could vote on (anyone can access EV for example), and read the others votes to understand the technical details. It was a bit painful at first, but gradually I felt more and more confident. Now, I'm a regular voter there, and as a personal gain, I've learned quite a lot about technical defects and photographic techniques. So I strongly encourage you to stay and vote with us, and I'm confident you will overcome your current difficulties. Regards Ksempac (talk) 07:16, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Stone Pasha
Bravo Zulu. Congrats. I'm probably going to do a top to bottom copyedit on the page in the next month or so, and am going to build up his worthy son's page before the holidays. BusterD (talk) 01:55, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

RE:Monti
Absolutely no worries, I was just checking up on a different DYK candidate and I spotted that one at the top of the list. DYK seems to change every time I go there; this was only my second visit since they automated everything. Well done on the expansion of Monti given the limited amount of source material at the moment. Hopefully biographies should be forthcoming soon, particularly leading up to the ceremony. Regards, Woody (talk) 18:34, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * My spies have informed be that the bio is being routed as we speak and the official should be out there on the army website in the next week or so. The citation likely won't be publicly released until on or around the ceremony. I was actually tdrafting it up around the same time you added it, you where just a few minutes faster.--Kumioko (talk) 18:38, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow! That was fast. Kudos to both of you for getting that article made about ten seconds after the press release!  bahamut0013  words deeds   11:28, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/VADM John Bulkeley 1988.jpg

 * Congratulations! :-P  wadester 16  05:28, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK concern
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 * I have left follow-up comments on the nominations page. Some of the text is still closer to the original than I feel comfortable with, so I asked for a second opinion. I tend to be fairly rigid on paraphrasing, so I'd like to wait and see if other people can be more flexible. GaryColemanFan (talk) 04:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Charles Lindbergh GA review
I had to instantly fail the article Charles Lindbergh because I felt there was too much uncited information and structural issues to allow for a hold. It is probably better for you to make the suggested changes on the GA review page and renominate it so another editor can give it a thorough review. Dough4872 (talk) 17:23, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Curious
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Featured list candidates/Marine Corps Brevet Medal/archive1
Hi, I know you must be busy with other things, but I left a large list of issues to be fixed for the above FLC. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:56, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, you might want to make a note of that on the FLC so that the directors don't close it. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:02, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessessment of Joyce Kilmer
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found a large number of concerns and as a result have de-listed the article. When these issues have been addressed, it may be re-nominated at WP:GAN. If you disagree with the delisting and the assessment at Talk:Joyce Kilmer/GA1, you may ask for a community reassessment at WP:GAR. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No probs - you came up in the top five or six editors - I just notify everyone with more than 5 non-minor edits. Hopefully this scattergun approach hists ome of the right targets! Jezhotwells (talk) 13:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Louis H. Carpenter and A-Class prep
Hi mate, just to let you know I've completed the GAR for Louis H. Carpenter and have passed it for GA. Good work. —AustralianRupert (talk) 05:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Kumioko! You have a message from Jrcrin001 here. Jrcrin001 (talk) 16:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

A few more concerns ...

I have some confusion of checklinks for Louis H. Carpenter article. All are in the white with one in the green. I do not know how to resolve this one. Can you help?

The link redirects to this link but it goes to the correct or first html despite it saying it is a redirect. Puzzled.

In addtion, I have expanded and fixed most of the concerns in the A review. See: A-Class review & criteria FAQ.

Lastly, I see a possible need of category expandsion. Or is this overkill? See discussion at Talk:Louis H. Carpenter.

And Thank you again for your latest cleanup of misc grammar on LHC. It will make A status yet! Jrcrin001 (talk) 21:24, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

There has been some edit review that was sent via email and I added those corrections to the article. It reads more professionally. Any other thoughts of how to pass A-class review? Jrcrin001 (talk) 17:41, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

A wiki editor completed the requested copy-edit. A Second review has been done and I worked on this smaller list. When you get another chance, please take another look. This is getting tedious ... Jrcrin001 (talk) 07:23, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessessment of William March
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Talkback
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Template:USMCportallink
You use an AWB script for cleanup on biography article, right? Can you add something to your scripted changes? Specifically,  can be replaced with. It's handy for me to use the help:what links here tool to find USMC-related articles. 'Preciate it!  bahamut0013  words deeds 11:25, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Like I said, I use the links tool to find USMC articles (usually to find portal features). I do that with other templates as well, like the navbox. ERcheck origionally asked me to make it simply for shorthand when writing new articles.  bahamut0013  words deeds 13:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh... I didn't mean it was something you should go out of your way to do! :P Just when you do your normal AWB routine. And yeah, it would be nice for all USMC articles, but you need not run the cycle if you weren't going to anyway, just run it the next time you plan on doing so.  bahamut0013  words deeds 05:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Its no big deal, I am actually finding wuite a few other things that its fixing at the same time. --Kumioko (talk) 12:06, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Charles L. McCawley
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Bea Arthur part three
Great idea, you'll do all of us a favor if you looked up the records. Who knows maybe you will be able to help solve this mistery, something which she should have cleared up while she was alive. Tony the Marine (talk) 03:40, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

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 * That's great, I didn't know the website owner would be so responsive. — jwillbur 19:49, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

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Robert Bruce McCoy-
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William March, again
The GA nomination has been delisted. I have both absolutely mandatory March books now and can work on the biography a bit more in the next day or two; then we'll simply relist it. OK? Drmies (talk) 01:11, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Alexander Gordon Lyle
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Jac Vanek
I read the note you left on the affiliated talk page. I think you may not have realized that the article had been up at AfD (Articles for deletion/Jac Vanek) and failed, which I believe is why it was deleted. I just wanted to mention that because it seemed like no one was going to bother to mention it to you. If you have any questions or problems, I'm at your service. Accounting4Taste: talk 21:30, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

GA review for Darrell S. Cole
I am reviewing Darrell S. Cole's GA nomination; The review subpage can be found here. I should finish the review today, and will notify you when it's complete. Happy editing! Mm40 (talk) 13:17, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I thought I could review the article all in one go, but there are some issues that need to be fixed before I continue with the prose review. In the meantime, I'll review the sources and images. Mm40 (talk) 14:11, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm very sorry, but family issues have prevented me from completing the review as expediently as I'd like. I'm unsure when I'll get time to do more, so I suggest you watch the review page. I apologize for the inconvenience. Mm40 (talk) 20:50, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've posted the rest of the prose review, so I'm putting the review on hold for 7 days so you can tackle the issues. Mm40 (talk) 23:51, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've passed the article, congratulations. I would greatly appreciate it if you have any reviews of my review (or criticism). Cheers! Mm40 (talk) 19:16, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Samuel H. Starr - peer review
Samuel H. Starr was going to be just a stub article then I found all this nifty information including scans of several letters of his. I got carried away and it is now at B class. I have asked for a peer review on the talk page. Any help appreciated as always. Jrcrin001 (talk) 17:45, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

List of Asian American recipients of Medal of Honor
Why did you remove rank images from the table of the world war II section? --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:13, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply, and the explination. You might want to also check the rank links for the other sections, or better yet if I find the time I will do so as well, so that they be period and nationality specific when possible. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 13:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Ref #25 is a dead link. You should find a more suitable reference for that.  Good job by the way! --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:28, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Is the article ready for nomination? --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Talk:List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I
Hi Kumioko, the ArticleHistory problem didn't need fixing, it needed removing :) An event should never be added to the template if it is still in progress. An "active" FLC should not be noted in the template; it should only be moved into the template when the FLC has been closed and there has been an outcome (featured/not featured). ArticleHistory is quite a difficult template to use, so don't worry. Best wishes, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 19:46, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Anytime. Removing the thing entirely was actually the answer—don't forget that ArticleHistory should never be used for current events (GAN, FAC, FLC, etc.), only for completed ones! Best wishes, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 20:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I hope this is better. Best, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 20:32, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

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Removing the incorrect entry was the only change needed on talk. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 21:10, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Thomas A. Pope
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Future plans
Wow, you have a lot of things in the works! In regards to combining the Hispanic and Puerto Rican lists, you might want to mention it to User:Marine 69-71 since he created both lists. I am (slowly) adding alt text to the WWII and Vietnam lists, and searching for more photos of the recipients. The alt text is one step closer to FLC for those two. — jwillbur 20:31, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

MILHIST Banner
A bunch of your biographical articles don't have a talk page. It would make things easier on the coordinators if you were to go ahead and create one and add the all relevant tags from the project banner, including the B-class checklist. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:15, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Louis H. Carpenter ACR closed as unsuccessful
The maximum 28-day review period has now expired, so without reviewer consensus to promote, I've closed the milhist ACR for Louis H. Carpenter as unsuccessful. Thank you for your hard work during the review, and you can take pride in the fact that the article has improved as a result of its nomination, regardless of the final outcome. If you wish to continue to work on the points raised, we'll be happy to re-review the article when you feel it's ready. All the best, EyeSerene talk 09:39, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

More or less goodbye
As of 20090905 I will no longer be actively editing wikipedia. Due to a real life situation my heart just isn't in it anymore. Perhaps I will come back later or make some occasional edits though so I will leave my userpage and talk pages intact.
 * I'm sorry to hear this. I hope that all goes well in RL and that you return after a good rest. Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 03:58, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry to see you go, Kumioko. Hopefully everything works out and we see you back someday. — jwillbur 06:03, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Take it easy. All the best  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 06:41, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Your suggestion regarding Medal of Honor winners does strike a chord with me, since I once knew a very brave man who was cheated out of one. However, lack of subjects is not my reason for my sabbatical.

Whatever your real life situation is, I hope it resolves itself to your benefit. Best of luck to you.

Georgejdorner (talk) 22:25, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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WWI recipients list
No problem, I'll take a look at the Asian list once WWI is done. — jwillbur 16:15, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It was promoted, congrats. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

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David L. Grange article
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2010 flag suggestion
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Milhist Academy/Content drive
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Carpenter sisters
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I had a rater dismiss the B1-B5 criteria for rating as not used for the type of article called Carpenter sisters. Please see the discussion page here and see comment on the history of the page. Am I missing something here? I thought the B1-B5 was for all articles? Any help or comments would be appreciated. Jrcrin001 (talk) 02:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

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Medal of Honor; George G. Wortman
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Slight return?
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Welcome back
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Bryan M. Thomas
Hello again Kumioko it's been a while! Minor issue for you sir: this edit to Thomas's page linked one of the authors in the refs section, but the fellow was already linked in the ref right above this one, creating two links to the same guy. I removed it, but you might want to see if this is occuring elsewhere. Glad to see you editing again Marine and good day! Kresock (talk) 04:30, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Date style
Please rememebr that the month day, year style is only in common use in North America, so for people form outside that area WP:MOSDATE suggests that day month year is the appropriate style, and that articles should not be changed from one form to the other without good reason. David Underdown (talk) 17:38, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * You've done it again to David Niven. Please stop.  David Underdown (talk) 16:37, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

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Exception List in AWB
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 * There is a false positive button that can be enabled. Though, i can't tell you what/how it does or even if it works... —  Ree dy  11:47, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I mark this one as "exists". Enable "False positive button", while reviewing an article add it to the list if it's a false positive. I have false positives lists which I use to exclude articles from automatically created lists by using the Filter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:54, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy holidays! -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:46, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Side effect of Sources → References change
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Re: Featured list candidates/George Orwell bibliography/archive1
Please clarify
 * the sorting in the tables is off.
 * Can you tell me how it's off? I spent a lot of time trying to fix that.

I don't know if you're watching that page, so I figured I would post here. Please respond there or on my talk. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:32, 28 December 2009 (UTC) Forget it I think I got them all. Please let me know if I didn't. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:55, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Francis E. Dec
Thanks very much for editing the page on Francis E. Dec. However, your edit gave rise to a few automatic replacements where the name "Dec" was erroneously replaced by the word "December". I have sinced fixed all these problems, but I just thought I'd give you a heads-up anyway. Thanks again! :-) 95.209.21.60 (talk) 11:17, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Héctor Andrés Negroni
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Hello from Nagasaki, Japan ^.^
Hello, Kumioko, I noticed that you edited a page I've suggested some changes to. Since I'm very new here whereas you have great experience, I hope you'll look over my suggestions & use whatever is appropriate. Also, since you have interest in military pages, I have similar suggestions about quite a few more (over a hundred, some of which may not exist yet) so perhaps you'd be interested in those, too.

The one I need your help on is: Talk page of Eugene P. Wilkinson

Examples of two more military pages I've finished adding oral-history links to are: Elmo Zumwalt &  Paul A. Yost, Jr.

I'm trying to write a page on Paul Stillwell (Just playing in the sandbox with it & studying various Wikipedia articles now, but ...) I believe the work he's done is so useful for other military pages that you and other interested editors should look at what he's written: List of 161 books from WorldCat

Amazon.com's editorial review and author biography:

Submarine Stories: Recollections from the Diesel Boats

Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The story of these boats, their technological evolution and tactical value, is also the story of the men who went to sea in them. The accounts illustrate the human aspects of serving in diesel boats: the training, operations in peacetime and war, liberty exploits, humorous sidelights, and special feelings of bonding and camaraderie that grew among shipmates.

Included here are some familiar names. Slade Cutter, who earned four Navy Crosses as a skipper in World War II, describes the process that made him a capable submariner. Dennis Wilkinson, first skipper of the nuclear-powered Nautilus in the 1950s, tells of being in the first missile-firing submarine in the 1940s. Robert McNitt recalls his experiences as executive officer to Medal of Honor skipper Gene Fluckey. Among the other submariners who present their personal memories are Jerry Beckley, contemplating the possibility of firing nuclear missiles during the 1962 Cuban crisis; Hosey Mays, describing what it was like to be a black man in a boat with a nearly all-white crew; Paul Foster, discussing the sinking a German U-boat in World War I; and Wayne Miller, explaining the enormous satisfaction he felt when he earned his silver dolphins.

PAUL STILLWELL, an independent historian, is the editor or author of nine previous books, including one on submarines titled Sharks of Steel, which he coauthored with Vice Adm. Robert Y. Kaufman. Other books include three collections of oral histories: Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! Recollections of a Day of Infamy, Assault on Normandy: First-Person Accounts from the Sea Services, and The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers. In addition, he wrote three illustrated battleship histories of the USS Arizona, New Jersey, and Missouri that are filled with stories of crew-members. All of these titles were published by the Naval Institute Press. The Golden Thirteen was named by the New York Times as one of the notable history books of 1993. Stillwell has been a frequent guest on network and cable television programs, including NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, the Discovery Channel, A&E, and the History Channel.

Stillwell was director of the U.S. Naval Institute's history division from 1993 to 2004. Prior to that he served as the first editor-in-chief of the Institute's Naval History magazine and earlier was managing editor of the organization's Proceedings magazine. From 1982 to 2004 he served as director of the Naval Institute s oral history program, one of the oldest and largest in the United States.

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Stillwell is a retired Naval Reserve commander who served in the late 1960s on board the tank landing ship Washoe County and the battleship New Jersey. He and his wife Karen live in Arnold, Maryland. They are the parents of three sons, James, Robert, and Joseph.

I'm just a beginner at Wikipedia and have one full-time job (about 12 hours a day five days a week) plus a part-time job on weekends, so ...

Best regards,

Pearl Dragon (talk) 20:25, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
To all my friends in Wikipedia. After so many years I have decided to take an extended leave from the project. My continued participation in the project has become less enjoyable as I have explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts#User:Damiens.rf_should_be_told_to_stop_his_rudeness_and_Wikihounding here]. I thank God that I became involved in the project in the first place because not only have I used it to educate others, but I have also learned a lot from friends such as yourself. Try to maintain a high standard in your contributions and make sure that the truth is always told in what you write. I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year, may God Bless you and thank you for your friendship. Tony the Marine (talk) 02:33, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Francis E. Dec
Would you please stop editing the article on Francis E. Dec using Project:AWB. Every time you are doing this, you are replacing the name "Dec" with "December". Hence, everery time you edit the article, I have to edit it right back again. This takes up time and energy I just don't have. Thank you. 109.58.8.251 (talk) 18:07, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Once is an error and excusable but twice in three days is just careless. Please look at what you are editing. Please go back and review all your edits that were made using AWB to ensure that you have made no other errors. Thanks. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 19:40, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

The 2010 WikiCup begins tomorrow!
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AWB
Here are some other errors, changing a quote, changing the spelling of the name, changing a quote and this. You changed the date to match US style but if you scroll down there are three others that didn't get changed. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 21:05, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I was just going to go back and change the McNear one but you were quicker. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 21:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Moving forward for Portal:United States
The nomination for FP for Portal:United States was closed as unsuccessful. I've got six months of anniversaries left to do, and I've got about six weeks of relatively consistent access to the internet before I hit a point where I won't be able to say for sure if I'll have any access at all. I'll get as much done on that as possible. Once I'm done with that, we can give it another run. There were a few other minor issues that got brought up during the nomination, but I don't see anything particularly difficult standing in the way of the third nomination. I'll be in touch when the anniversaries are done.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  06:44, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Great thanks for letting me know. Ill try to help out too but Ill be travelling a lot over the next month. --Kumioko (talk) 13:16, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Government of the United States
Regarding your plans to revamp it, I've been the primary maintainer of the portal since shortly after Aude created it. I think the In the news section ought to be kept. I'm less attached to the sections for legislation, court cases, and administration activities, although I think having that information in some form is useful and I've been keeping it moderately up to date. The WikiProject's section could use some work. Finally, I dropped a note on the portal's talk page about a featured content section. Cheers.--Chaser2 (talk) 17:23, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the note. I will post my ideas on the talk page as well. --Kumioko (talk) 17:26, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject United States and Wikipedia:Meetup/US ?
Hi Kumioko. With the success of the recent Great American Wiknic, I was thinking that we should pursue more national multi-events, perhaps more oriented around content-building and WikiProject United States. What do you think about us starting a centralized Meetup/US along these lines?--Pharos (talk) 20:11, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * That sounds like an awesome idea. --Kumioko (talk) 20:13, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Cool, you can see the ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 04:20, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello my friend
I dont want to see you on the wrong side of the fence here. I will explain a few reason why I believe we should not  delete project if they are not in bad taste. We have created banners/tag because....

So basically deleting the pages causes undo conflict and leads to projects being remade or ones similar being made because editors cant see why they failed in the first place. Moxy (talk) 19:35, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Deleting a project only makes it not visible to normal readers (non-admins) - thus does not save any space on Wiki as all pages are retained for historical reference purposes they just may not all be seen by the public.
 * We have the tags/banners Template:Historical and Template:Dormant so that old projects that did some work can still been seen by our readers - thus the projects will not be made again by mistake and or it could (but not likely) be revived.
 * We have the tags/banners Template:Defunct and Template:Mothballed so that we dont delete this fail projects that never got of the ground - because we want our editors to see why  this projects  were not viable (no members - not a broad topic etc..) - again  may  prevent a new project with a  similar topic from being made.
 * We are free to post links on the failed projects to other projects that cover this topics -  thus redirecting wanted editors to the proper projects that are still alive.
 * Great to hear from you and I see your point but there are also a couple good reasons why we shouldn't leave them all either.
 * If us non admin folk don't see a project we are less likely to join it thinking its still active. I have seen a lot of editors join inactive and defunct projects because they don't understand how these work and then wonder why questions go unanswered.
 * Aside from just saving space a lot of these projects are just clutter. There are some I admit that have been submitted for deletion that I thought were silly but the majority probably should never have been made into projects to begin with. Many barley have the scope or number of articles to rate as a task force let alone a project. As for telling our users why they failed I don't believe I have ever seen a project say anything about why it failed.
 * I look at it this way, we have a process for deleting unneeded, unwarranted and improper articles, files and other types of content and we should do that for Projects as well. If we have a project that has been abandoned for a long period of time, has not been created properly, has such a narrow scope or size that it can't succeed, etc. then we should suggest getting rid of it. I understand what your saying and thats why I just submit it for MFD and let the group decide. If there is sufficient interest to keep it thats fine, if not then thats ok too. --Kumioko (talk) 19:49, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Re: Template:WikiProject United States
Hi, I've fixed and added WikiProject West Virginia, South Carolina, Presidential elections and Franco Americans per your request Kumioko. Sorry I got litte disruptive, after my ANI, which I've nominated large deletions, including WikiProject Mecrosur and Wikiproject Conan O'Brien, however, I have still good faiths, but I will still be with you. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  06:03, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem thanks for the help. --Kumioko (talk) 13:00, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

July 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:17, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Changing project templates
Hi, can you please check the articles you're changing the templates for. You converted several school alumni categories for Durham, North East England, United Kingdom to WikiProject United States. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:53, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh I apologize. I thougtht that template was for Durham, North Carolina. Did you fix them already or do you want me to do that?--Kumioko (talk) 19:55, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I've reverted all the ones I've seen. Timrollpickering (talk) 00:37, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, there were only about 10 and they were all categories. --Kumioko (talk) 00:57, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject United States/sandbox
i see you have overwritten my last edit that has an outstanding edit protected on it. Have you just missed this change request or do you disagree with my change? --Traveler100 (talk) 18:04, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that I didn't even see that. I'll fix that now. Kumioko (talk) 18:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

November 2012
Your user page User_talk:Kumioko/sandbox, by reason of its contents, was accidentally included in a content category. It has been corrected for you. For information about this, please see the guidelines about the categorization of user pages. Thank you. ''Actually, Kumioko, the issue is not corrected. I'm not sure what your goal is for the sandbox, but it has resulted in a lot of "missing coordinates" categories. (Making the culling process for cleaning up the missing coordinates endeavor a bit more difficult.) Can you correct please? Thanks so much.'' S. Rich (talk) 17:43, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks so very much for the quick fix!--S. Rich (talk) 18:28, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Your welcome. If you see any more of my pages popping up please feel free to just blank them. I'm retired from editing. Jsut fyi throug, for this one I was working to make sure that the template had all the categories and to do lists and other things created but I gave up on that because I do not have access to edit protected templates and it was taking a week or more for an admin to make the change. That's is part of the reason I retired from editing. It's just becoming too hard to get anything done because so much content is protected and I am not an admin. I'm still watching my talk page for now and making the occassional comment, but I am done editing. Kumioko (talk) 18:31, 6 November 2012 (UTC)