User talk:Pen of bushido

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Paratyphoid fever
Hi. The redirect you just created was a double redirect e.g. Paratyphoid fever > Paratyphoid > Salmonella. These don't work properly and the user ends up at Paratyphoid. I changed the Paratyphoid fever so it goes direct to Salmonella. This happens all the time and usually gets fixed. It's not a problem but I just thought I would let you know for next time. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Philip Quast 2005.jpg
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G18
Not sure what you ment but I found these. I put the G18 back too. If it was something else let me know. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 15:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Wife swapping in India
I will take a look at it. :) --Moonriddengirl 18:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep. It's gone. There are a couple of speedy criteria I could have pursued--it wasn't a notable club, for instance, so it qualified for WP:CSD, but I went with advertising, WP:CSD. If it comes back or if you run into other articles, you can mark an article for speedy deletion for any administrator's notice. The templates used for doing that are found here: Speedy_deletion. You just choose the correct one and put it at the top of the article, and it will usually be evaluated within an hour. Sometimes, within minutes, but once in a while there's a backlog. :) Thanks for bringing it to my attention. --Moonriddengirl 18:53, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

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Request: Rank graphics, etc. in military biographies
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27th Guards Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
Hi Pen, thanks for your edit at Divisions of the Soviet Union. It's great when people take time to help out on such an esoteric (for English-speakers) topic. However one really has to be careful. There were two completely separate divisions, 27th Rifle Division, and, in the Guards Rifle Division series, which went up to 90 or 100, a separate formation, 27th Guards Rifle Division. Divisions were promoted to Guards status for exceptional valuable combat service. What you did was to link the 27th Rifle Division to the Guards formation, inaccurately, as well as fixing the link for the 27th Guards Rifle Division proper. Buckshot06 13:21, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No worries, thanks for the quick reply. Buckshot06 13:33, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

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Awards of the United States Marine Corps
Your redirect was to a non-existent page. I changed it to go to what I think is the correct page, which is a wikilink from Awards and decorations of the United States military. If I was mistaken, please feel free to correct it. Truthanado 14:24, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Redirects that aren't broken
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Your note
Thanks for your note. :) I have replied. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Image:L-13 Grasshopper.jpg
Your file is about to be deleted because it's only licensed for use on Wikipedia. While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, since explicit permission to use it was given, this is in fact not the case - Wikipedia content must be completely free for other people (newspapers, companies, advertising groups) to re-use, too! I've held off deleting it for now, so you can get permission if you want to. Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry (talk) 19:54, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
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Re: 19th Infantry Division Gavninana (Italy)
Hi, I noticed you changed the name of this article. It had conformed to the practice observed at List of Italian divisions in WWII, which I had assumed was using the established naming style for military units. I have no strong opinion about what form should be used in Wikipedia, but if you are standardizing these names you probably should look there & at the articles linked to the red links there -- & make sure your understanding matches what other Wikipedians (for example Asiaticus) believe it to be. -- llywrch (talk) 20:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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You can talk on this page
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Thanks for the help! :)
Anyone who helps whack the vandals such as you've been doing deserves a pat on the back. However, the best way to alert someone to the error of his ways is to leave word on the talk page, not the user page. Again, thanks for the help! --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:15, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Vontae Davis
I am re-creating the article, he is a top prospect for next years drafts, you could have givin me a chance to improve it before deleting, that was complte BS--Yankees10 16:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Military unit naming conventions
Please be aware, that, per WP:MILMOS, "The disambiguator is not necessary in cases where the name of the country is already present in the name of the unit... or where the name is clearly unique". In particular, the consensus is that the inclusion of "SS" in the unit name sufficiently identifies the unit as being German. Thanks! Kirill 13:59, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You may be interested in commenting at WT:MILHIST as well. Thanks! Kirill 14:23, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The same is also true of UK divisions that include unique disambiguators like "(2nd West Lancashire)" in the name of the unit - an additional parenthetical is a little unnecessary - the current locations of these units also reflects consensus, I think. Carom (talk) 14:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Help
Sure, fell free to contact me for assistence at anytime. (Sheliak (talk) 18:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC))

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re: 14th (Light) Division
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SAAF Squadron naming conventions
Hi there,

I've come across a few of your edits of South African Air Force squadron articles, in which you changed the format into the Commonwealth naming format. I'm afraid while this would seem like a logical change to make, it's incorrect. Unlike nearly all the other Commonwealth air forces, the South African Air Force does not use the 'No. x Squadron' format. The reason for the change appears to be related to the decision by the newly-elected Nationalist Party, in the early 1950s, to wean the South African military off its strong war-era ties to the British military. As part of this, the entire rank structure was overhauled, with the Commonwealth-style ranks (such as Wing Commander) being replaced with their American equivalents or with Army-style ranks, the uniform was changed and the squadron naming format was gradually altered. The end result was a curious amalgam of the Commonwealth and American naming formats, with the former services' preceding 'No.' being dropped in favour of the latter service's leading number style, but without the attending addition of the usual suffix (as in '42nd').

Proof of the SAAF's unique approach to squadron naming can be seen at the official SAAF website, in all SAAF-produced documentation and in coverage of the SAAF by local aviation publications. It is not contested in any serious form, so the use of the 'No. x Squadron' format is most certainly incorrect. Please don't change any more SAAF squadron articles back to the incorrect format. Thank you, &mdash; Impi (talk) 19:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

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Re:Royal Navy ship formatting
Hello Bushido, I received your message and let me tell you it is always nice to hear from a dedicated editor. I have seen your work around here and I am very impressed. I wish that there were more like you. You are right in regard to the format of the US ships in Wikipedia. To tell you the truth, I have no idea on how to develope a template which would recognize the italicizing of the ship names of the United Kingdom Royal Navy (alpha-numeric digits). This may be an interesting subject to take up with the WikiProject Military history. Have you done so already? Let me know if you find out anything new. Tony the Marine (talk) 01:33, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:VA-42
It is done. I went ahead and did what you requested. Verify and see if everything is in order. Tony the Marine (talk) 06:37, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

10th Regiment of Foot
The rename may be necessary but how about (British Army) as disamb as the regiment started life in England, then Great Britain and then the UK as the UK evolved. Kernel Saunters (talk) 19:51, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I actually think on reflection the correct disamb would be 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. Would you be OK for me to change it? Kernel Saunters (talk) 20:20, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

39th Battalion (Australia)
Hi Pen..,

Thank you for the change. Yes I agree, it needed to be done. Also thank you for your kind comments, I still have some work to fill in the WWII section. Best Regards Vufors (talk) 05:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

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Bombardment of Lowestoft and Yarmouth
Hi. I have just finished a run through editing this article adding information from a couple of other sources. You may want to have a look. I think it likely the account which you uploaded was based largely on the memoirs of Admiral Reinhard Scheer available at. As such, this 1920's account was a little one-sided. There are still a few facts floating about which I can't source. (this is not to be taken as criticism for loading it: we have to start somewhere)Sandpiper (talk) 17:08, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * To respond in kind: I notice various articles consistently use am or AM or a.m. or 15.00 etc and I havn't figured which is correct. ditto its not so much whether I prefer  capitals as what its generally supposed to  be. There is a big style guide somewhere suggesting minimal use of capitals, but many people stick them in wherever possible.  The article isn't finished and corresponds to my general editing principle of facts first and sort out my bad typing after. This is made worse by uncertainty over which to use! There is a similar poster on the [Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby] page, so someone else got the idea first: I was thinking of finding a zepelin, but havn't managed a relevant picture of a real one. Also there are lots of pictures of seydlitz damaged after Jutland, but I havn't found one of the mine damage. It still really wants something like a contemporary picture of the towns attacked.
 * As to context, I think several of these battle articles lack context: The books on the subject do much better and set things in their time and in other events, but we risk missing this because each article is a bit isolated on just its own topic. I have been trying to make them flow together better with background about events. Similarly, trying to get some biography on the main officers concened on each side. I am still a bit bothered by some of ths stuff in Scheer's account: it was written close to the events by someone with a case to make about how well he did/justify his actions, so although it is interesting to get a first hand view from the German side he might have not have been completely truthfull? The other sources are in English, and while they ough to be unbiased accounts, there is that problem about victors writing the offical history. But thank you for your comments.Sandpiper (talk) 06:02, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of John Bobo (disambiguation)
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Re "Navy list"
Just for future reference (re this edit), U.S. Navy ships have their own Navy List article which is the Naval Vessel Register. Regards, Gatoclass (talk) 06:53, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Redirects
I saw this edit and wish to make a comment. Redirects are not redundant links. The whole point of them is that often there is no one correct name for an article, and depending on circumstances, different names can be used. That is why we have redirects. For example First World War and World War I are just as valid as is Great War, or Third Reich and Nazi Germany, none of these links need to be "fixed". I have just finished writing an article on Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Ormond, for much of his life he was known by the title Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, so if one is writing an article that mentions the man before the creation of the Earldom of Ormond, then referring to him as "Earl of Angus" is correct and linking to the article via that redirect is the correct thing to do. It is also the most practical as the spelling of Ormonde [sic] varies from source to source.

Anyway I think you could make more useful contributions to the project than changing links like Second World War to "Second World War" as redirects are cheap and work efficiently. -- PBS (talk) 03:15, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

40th Regiment
Hi, I saw you reverted my changes to 40th Regiment. Although it looks strange, that's actually the proper syntax for intentional disambiguation links per WP:INTDABLINKS. If you don't like its appearance, you could always pipe the links to get the look you prefer; but please, don't just revert it. Thanks, -- Ja Ga  talk 13:48, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

The reason we make intentional links to disambiguation pages redirect through "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects is so those pages do not show up on the list of pages needing repair. Edits like this one only create additional work for disambiguators, and I would appreciate if you would fix any such links you have made. bd2412 T 15:01, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Triple Nickel
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Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting
As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians
Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:30, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive and create a worklist at WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 31 March 2021 (UTC)