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Just saying hello
I came across your user page and you seem to be my naval counterpart. I have spent much of my time here updating the USMC avaition pages. A year and a half later and I still have a ways to go. Anyway, just wanted to say hello and, although I have only created a few USN pages, if there is ever any help I can provide just drop me a line. Cheers--Looper5920 21:28, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikilogos
I thought you might be interested in my proposal for Wikipedia to use logo variations created by members of the wiki community to mark national and international awareness days, Remembrance Days, notable anniversaries, and observance days. Please comment on Village_pump_(proposals) and on my talk page. Thanks! FrummerThanThou 10:40, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Portal:United States Navy‎ tabs
Hi, Wilsbadkarma. I noticed you're working on tabs for Portal:United States Navy‎. I made a slight adjustment to the "spacer" color so, hopefully, it works out okay. Let me know if you would like any help with anything. I love working on portals. By the way, it looks great already! :-) Regards, Rfrisbietalk 16:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks im screwing around with it i just cant make up my mind on colors and borders. --Wilsbadkarma 16:22, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Navy Squadron List
Looks to be off to a good start. The layout is pretty similar to List of United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons; the major thing I'd suggest at this point is being a bit more sparing with the bolding—there's no need to put everything in the table in boldface. ;-) Kirill Lokshin 03:02, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry I did not reply to your question earlier but I have been on vacation. First let me say that the page is looking great.  I know the work that is involved with creating something like that so kudos for all of the effort.  I do have one concern though.  I see that you have taken a different approach than I did and listed every name of every squadron that ever existed vice their name at the time of deactivation.  I am not criticizing but I must say that the list is extremely long and there is a large degree of duplication (VB=VA=VFA).  It has taken me a good 6-8 months to research the USMC list that I have now as far as what existed and what they changed their names too.  The WWII and 1950s records are incomplete and I have had to order some pretty obscure books to fill some gaps.  Not that the way I did it is better but I throw it out there as a way of making the list more readable and a bit shorter.  Then again the way you have done it allows for the old squadron logos to be used in the list.

My thoughts aside, the list is looking great. Whatever your decision, run with it and I am sure it will look great. --Looper5920 16:45, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Having your own page deleted
If you create a page, and before anyone else edits it you decide to have it deleted, like what seems to have happened with Portal:United States Navy/Selected picture/11, please put a   at the top of the page, in stead of blanking it. This will attract an administrator to it to have it deleted.Eli Falk 07:17, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Im in the process of replacing the images for the portal since that page had one that was vertical instead of horizontal im in the process of chaning them to new images as we speak.

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rotating portal thingie
Wil, thanks for your help with that rotating page content thingy whachamawhosit (formal, official name, right?). I'm still kind of a newbie (two months and counting...), so I don't know all the ins-and-outs of Wikipedia, and you helped quite a bit! I'm going to act on it in a day or two (spending time with my kids on Christmas break now), so again, I really do appreciate your help! Feel free to help out more anytime (please-please)!

(In case you can't tell, I also happen to be a bit irreverent and snide, with an unusual sense of humor. Please don't take offense at it - just trying to keep it light while letting you know that you DID indeed help me out of a bit of a jam!) -Dan (AKA NDCompuGeek 02:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC))

List of United States Navy staff corps
I noticed the expansion you made to the List of United States Navy staff corps. Very nice. Would you mind making the image table either two rows or a long column, or some format that is not so wide? For small screens, such as laptops, it requires scrolling to see it all. Thanks. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 04:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks great! Thanks.  &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 04:38, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
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RE:Portal
Hi, thanks for the advice i have created the suggest pages on the Aus Mil portal, i just copied the Navy portal's pages. I am going through your suggestions from the feature nomination, i only have to increase the num of selective articles. Thanks again Hossen27 02:03, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * finally got it up to 10 selective articles all GA or higher is there any other minor problems or is that about it. Hossen27 03:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I think i wrote somewhere that im happy to replace the web resources with a quote section, ill do that in a while. Hossen27 04:13, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

For you


Presented for your excellent contributions to the encyclopedia in such a short time. Please keep up the great work. Cheers--Looper5920 14:38, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for signing my book. Hope you have a happy New Year, only 1½ days away! The  RSJ  Sign my book 18:18, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Infobox for Airstations and such
Well, I'm not a big fan of creating new infoboxes for every little thing; it tends to become a maintenance nightmare fairly quickly. I would suggest instead simply adding any needed fields to Infobox Military Structure itself; if you could put together a list of what's missing, it would be fairly trivial to add. Kirill Lokshin 02:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

New Year
Hi, thanks for the wishes :) a very happy new year to you as well. Shyam  ( T / C ) 04:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

New Year
Thank you for the festive New Year's greeting. I wish you and all those you love a wonderful 2007! &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 04:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you and Happy New Years to you also and don't worry I did party like it was New Years. Hossen27 08:41, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

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Article needing attention
Hey, I came across Attack Squadron 174 (U.S. Navy) as it was listed for deletion. Thought you may be interested in cleaning it up. I did just a bit to clean her up but she could still use alot of work. Cheers --Looper5920 23:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

USCG portal
Thank you for cleaning it up. I hope you can find time to keep on contributing to it. --- Safemariner 04:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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Squadrons
Great job on reworking the squadrons for the CAF page. Need to ask a favor though. Hold off on the USMC squadrons for a bit. I want to use the old WWII logos. Some of the ones up there are very recent and wouldn't have any place in the article. Just wanted to give you a heads up before it got posted. --Looper5920 21:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Portal War
Ah, thanks for catching that! (You'd think the Commons admins would let somebody on the English Wikipedia know when they decided to delete one of our featured pictures. But no...) Kirill Lokshin 05:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

List of United States Navy ratings
It's been quite a while since you first requested me to review this, so I'd give it a full review. I have a few major concerns, but they can easily be addressed if you're decisive on getting it featured.
 * Convert all "*", "**", and others to proper note format using and . See Trapped in the Closet (South Park) as an example.
 * I've noted a lot of prose that needs partial rewriting, please avoid using ";" for separation or addition. You should also avoid repetition of the word "and". For instance, I'd convert
 * ...including gears; shafting and controllable pitch propellers; assigned auxiliary equipment propulsion control systems; electrical and electronic circuitry up to the printed circuit module; and alarm and warning circuitry.
 * to
 * ...including gears, shafting and controllable pitch propellers, assigned auxiliary equipment propulsion control systems, electrical and electronic circuitry up to the printed circuit module, and alarm or warning circuitry.


 * Please link technical terms per WP:CONTEXT, there are plenty of paragraphs which require this kind of wikification. Not a single link in the "Engineering/Hull Ratings" section descriptions.
 * I really don't like black-and-white insignia, are you sure no actual insignia can be given rather than only the symbol itself?
 * All the images need to provide the URL which they where found on to confirm their copyright status. Although it is optional, you might also add a better summary which includes linking and an explanation of this list where it is used.
 * Any way in which Badges of the United States Navy can be merged inside this? Try to avoid content forking.
 * Some ratings are not linked, if a rating doesn't have it's own article, it doesn't mean it shouldn't be linked.
 * The external links should not be in italic font, which shouldn't be used unless in cases described by WP:MOS. You should also include the subject of the links as their label, for instance, change "Navy Ratings, Past and present" to "Further history and description of the United States Navy ratings".
 * Lead: Needs expansion, possibly add a mention of the ranks' history from here. WP:LEAD states that the name of the list should appear in bold in its beginning. Also remove the external spacing between the paragraphs.
 * Minor: Some descriptions and notes lack a period at their end. Some references are one space ahead of the text, which is against WP:FN. Only the first letter of each section's title should be capitalized per WP:MSH. In the "Changed or Disestablished Ratings" section the full dates require linking per WP:DATE.  Michaelas10   (Talk)   17:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes the new designing is certainly better, please switch to it.  Michaelas10   (Talk)   22:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Navy ratings table
Hey, I just took a quick look at the new table layout. Personally, I find that style of "double rows" per item hard to follow visually. It's too easy to get confused about which narrative goes with which set of coulmns ID'd in the header. It needs a stronger visual separater (a "big fat line" or "white (blue) space"). I did a spacing test and got some interesting results! Maybe using a 5-10px blue divider between sections would do the trick. :-) Looking at your template, I didn't even try to decipher it off the bat, but it seemed like parts of it would be simpler coding if you used #switch:, rather than #ifeq:. That's it for now, the formatting template is a great idea, it just needs a little more visual clarity. Rfrisbietalk 03:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikitable issue
Hi Wilsbadkarma, I have little knowledge about wikitables, may be less than you have. But if you want to discuss the issue, you are welcome. May be I am able to help you in fixing the problem. Regards, Shyam  ( T / C ) 12:59, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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