User talk:WarIIhistorian

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List of shipwrecks in 1942
Were you the IP editor who has been expanding the article recently? The American warships that sunk the Japanese merchantmen have their own articles, and can be wikilinked by use of the USS template. Mjroots (talk) 10:15, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Mjroots - yes, I am the one that (probably) is responsible for most of the expansion on that page. Hopefully; I didn't mess it up too badly, I think it's OK, only I don't know how to add coords very well and some of the coding gets a little thick for me.  I have been working on it for several months but only just got around to setting up a login account because I decided that if I was doing something wrong (and I haven't seen a single edit I have ever made on wikipedia changed) there would be someplace where someone could tell me I blundered.  Thanks for the template link, once I figure out how to use it, I am sure it will come in handy.  I wonder, is there one for the Imperial Japanese Navy and one for the regular Japanese merchant fleet for the period during WWII? There are almost no entries for either major belligerent in the Pacific Theater for any of those pages (shipwrecks_in_194X) so it is going to take a long, long time for me to enter them all, (if ever,) Any  shortcuts are always welcome. WarIIhistorian (talk) 18:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The templates are easy to use. USS (ship name) ((disambiguator / pennant number) For Royal Navy ships use HMS, steamships use SS, Motor ships/vessels use MS or MV. Royal Mail Ships use RMS, German U-boats use GS. There is also Ship too. The use of IJN as a prefix is deprecated, instead we use "Japanese (ship type) (name) (disambiguator [if necessary])" for articles about those ships. None of your edits were reverted because they were constructive, and presumably verifiable via the articles about the ships that sunk them (I didn't check this, but it's a reasonable assumption). Mjroots (talk) 01:53, 27 January 2010 (UTC)