User talk:Ndougv

Welcome
Hi Ndougv, I have trimmed your contribution concerning your father, because as I said in the edit summary, him attending a gunnery course in Durban and being known as old Dougie is not really relevant to an article about HMS Petard. However, retrieving a Japanese logbook is! You should also be aware that article talk/discussion pages are for the improvement of the article. Having said that, if you want any more information about Petard, the references might be able to help you. Regards RASAM (talk) 15:23, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Questions
Hi Ndougv I've just realised that I originally put your 'trimmed contribution' er, contribution on your user page, (but see '2' below), when it should have gone to your talk page, sorry about that. It should now be in the right place. I've also moved your input of 19 June from the top of my user page to the bottom of my talk page. Having it at the top throws out the order of correspondence which is not so good when you are trying to follow a discussion. Having got that out of the way, I'll now attempt to answer your queries in the order in which you asked them:

1. Questions concerning the article are usually best placed on that article's talk page. If the subject is of a more general nature, user 'Talk' pages are fine. 2. Yes, you are quite correct about the placing of the 'trimmed contribution' segment, but I thought it would grab your attention, (it certainly seemed to do the trick!) It is usually best to keep a discussion on one page, its a lot easier for the 'discusees' and anyone else who might be reading over your shoulder, (I'm being metaphoric here). 3. Yes, it was me who removed the 'citation needed' tag from the Petard page, along with other irrelevant material. I did it by highlighting the appropiate words, pressing delete and clicking on 'save'. 4. I'm no expert, but I don't think your father's eye-witness account would be deemed a 'reliable source'. Yes, I know, it does seem to be a bit peculiar! On second thoughts, if you have access to his MiD, there should be something there about recovering the logbook which would be spot-on!

I would suggest that you look at the 'Welcome' blurb on your talk page. There are a lot of useful links for you there; enough reading to keep you off the streets for a bit!

If there is anything else I can help you with, let me know, at the bottom of my talk page; but as I said, I'm no expert.

Regards

RASAM (talk) 21:11, 20 June 2011 (UTC)