User talk:Shotgunscoop

Thanks
for your copy edits on Ramil L. Hernandez page. Yogibur (talk) 11:24, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm very late but thanks for the flower! Shotgunscoop (talk) 18:55, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Hail the copy edit wizard!
Holy cats, you're really tearing up that copy edit backlog. I'm cautiously optimistic that the Guild might set a new record low this month, or maybe - just maybe - get the backlog down to more or less zero. Thanks for putting in so much hard work! See you in the trenches! Wikignome Wintergreen talk 01:26, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the kind note! I'll keep at it. Shotgunscoop (talk) 19:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

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Bazentin-le-Petit Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery moved to draftspace
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Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery moved to draftspace
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Farmington River Trail (April 11)
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Tom (LT) (talk) 01:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Notabilty
What do you do if an article is tagged for not meeting notabilty? One of my articles which is identical to many others both created by me and not, but it's being considered for deletion if notabilty is not proven. What should I do? Article in question - James Webb (Medal of Honor). Gandalf the Groovy (talk) 23:10, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * From Notability_(people), Medal of Honor awardees should always be considered notable because of the guideline "1. The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times". In terms of demonstrating notability to a reviewer, from the James Webb article I think you can:
 * 1. Elaborate on Webb's military service in full sentences - put the valor.militarytimes.com citation in a blockquote and attribute it to the Secretary of War that was in office at the time of awarding.
 * 2. Also try to find a locally published biography from a Civil War Memorial group and/or the book Deeds of Valor (Keydel) and use the information in there to create a timeline, like a story, for the important events that happened that resulted in the Medal. This won't always be available, unfortunately, when the Medal was for something like capturing a flag, so make do with whatever you can find. The website civilwardata.com doesn't usually come up on Google searches but I've found it to be extremely useful for background information, and even though findagrave.com isn't technically a good source, it is sometimes useful as a collection of the biographical information that you can find on the other sites (I use it for birth/death/burial and #s of children and spouse).
 * 3. Create an infobox with a picture that you take from the list or upload to Wikimedia Commons using the infobox Military Person or infobox Soldier templates so that reviewers can easily see the biographical information.
 * 4. Finally, I wouldn't go through Articles for Creation. You can publish articles directly to mainspace if you just use the writing space that's provided to you when you click on a redlink instead of publishing things through your draftspace. This way, you can skip the arbitrariness of the AfC reviewers (no serious shade intended :) ) and have your article looked over by the new page reviewers instead, who I find are more consistent and lenient in general.

Shotgunscoop (talk) 12:03, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

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Civil War Medal of Honor Q - S
Just wondering if you mind if I help you finish the Q - S page? Gandalf the Groovy (talk) 20:27, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Gandalf the Groovy Sure, I've been pretty busy lately and haven't had a chance to work on it. Thanks! Shotgunscoop (talk) 13:39, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

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