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Battleship userbox grammar

I couldn't help but notice, upon seeing your battleship userbox (here), that the grammar may not reflect what the intent is. What I think the intent is:

Battleships rule the waves, and aircraft carriers do not.

What is actually said is

Battleships rule the waves, and don't rule over aircraft carriers.

So, if the former is your intent, I would recommend rewording to this

This user knows that Battleships—not the bloody bird farmsrule the waves!

to avoid any ambiguity in your message. — Bellhalla (talk) 11:38, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

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An exciting opportunity to get involved!

As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 05:45, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

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Notice about your Userbox

Hi there Bushranger, I noticed an issue with your skillet userbox. The link goes to the skillet pan, not the band Skillet. You should probably make it Skillet (band) instead of just Skillet. Mr. Wayne (talk) 00:50, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch. It's fixed now. :) - The Bushranger (talk) 14:44, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale for File:A-67 Dragon.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:A-67 Dragon.jpg. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

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The issue here is that they're neighborhoods of a municipality; standard practice with county templates is to include only municipalities and unincorporated communities. I'm not trying to make a statement that they're too small to be included. Nyttend (talk) 22:58, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

HZ-1

Oops -- sorry for the slip; I was trying to untangle the Army VTOL template and accidentally nuked one that should indeed be there, as you correctly point out. Thanks for the catch! --Rlandmann (talk) 23:33, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

No worries! :) - The Bushranger (talk) 23:35, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

St Louis YPT-15

Evening Bushranger. I've posted some worries about the specs on this article's discussion page. That is probably the right place for comment, but I was not sure if you were watching it. No obligation to respond, of course. Cheers,TSRL (talk) 20:48, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Consolidation box

Go ahead, I probably pinched it myself.Noles1984 (talk) 11:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for the kind words -- now there's a motivation to keep 'em cranking :) --Rlandmann (talk) 23:30, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikiwings

Wikiwings 2.0 Wikiwings
For your efforts with some of the gaps in US military aircraft coverage MilborneOne (talk) 08:06, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Specifications

Can I ask that you use the latest aircraft specification template Template:Aircraft specs when creating new articles please. MilborneOne (talk) 08:06, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Can I ask that you don't? ;)
With respect to MilborneOne, the new template is IMHO ill-considered, and invites articles to be crammed with specifications far in excess of what's of encyclopedic value. One of the specific design goals of the {{aerospecs}} template was to keep information focused and concise.
You are, of course, completely free to use whichever template you feel most comfortable with, but I wanted to make you aware that there are issues here :) --Rlandmann (talk) 12:27, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Boat ramp

The picture - Lake Iamonia gallery004 boat ramp.jpg - is that on the north side? It looks like Bull Headley Landing to me? - The Bushranger (talk) 03:42, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

That is indeed Bull Headley taken in Spring 2009. Noles1984 (talk) 12:11, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIX (March 2010)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XLIX (March 2010)
From the coordinators

I am pleased to report that the March coordinator elections have concluded, and that 15 members have been selected to serve as coordinators from April to September. Special congratulations go to AustralianRupert, Dank, MisterBee1966, NativeForeigner, Patar knight, and Ranger Steve, all of whom are newly elected coordinators. As we start this new tranche we welcome all returning coordinators, and wish those who decided not to stand for reelection luck as they move on to new things.

In other election news, a motion made to extend the coordinator tranche from its current six-month term to one full year gained consensus from the election participants. This will take effect in September, during the next election cycle. For the IX Coordinator Tranche, TomStar81 (Talk) 05:02, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
  2. Battle of Osan
  3. Bayern class battleship
  4. Dutch 1913 battleship proposal
  5. Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg
  6. Mary Rose
  7. No. 1 Wing RAAF
  8. USS Congress (1799)

New featured lists:

  1. List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Boxer Rebellion
  2. List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War
  3. List of United States Military Academy alumni (Confederate States Army)

New featured topics:

  1. Battlecruisers of Germany

New featured pictures:

  1. Cavalry At Balaklava

New A-Class articles:

  1. Allan Walters
  2. Army of the Danube
  3. Battle of Dürenstein
  4. Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602–628
  5. HMAS Sydney (R17)
  6. Horses in World War I
  7. Lê Văn Duyệt
  8. Michael P. Murphy
  9. Roderic Dallas
  10. USS Triton (SSRN-586)
Project news
  • Operation Normandy

    In May 2008 a small group of editors, operating from a page in Cam's userspace, began work on improving Wikipedia's articles relating to the pivotal Second World War Battle of Normandy that took place in northern France between 6 June and the end of August 1944. Milhist has now adopted this collaboration as our third special project. The aim of Operation Normandy is to bring all core topics—official operations, battles, and the invasion beaches—to featured status by the 70th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 2014. More information can be found on the project page; any interested editors are most welcome to sign up and help us meet this challenging goal!

  • Henry Allingham World War I Contest

    Our Henry Allingham World War I Contest ended on 11 March with the following results: in first place was Sturmvogel 66; in second place was Ian Rose; in third place was Dana boomer; and the finalists were Abraham, B.S., Carcharoth, and XavierGreen. The contest produced an incredible 238 recognised article improvements, of which 6 were Featured articles, 13 were A-Class articles and 22 were Good articles. In addition 43 newly created or expanded articles were successfully submitted for the 'Did you know' section on Wikipedia's main page. Our warmest congratulations go to the medallists and finalists, and our grateful thanks go to all participants and particularly to Eurocopter for organizing the contest.

  • Would you like to get more involved in the project? There are many open tasks that could use your help. The project's review department is always in need of input at peer reviews, A-class reviews, FACs and FARs; these can be found here. Also, the project maintains a list of deletion debates for military-related articles that have been nominated for deletion; project members are encouraged to provide their opinions in this forum so that consensus can be established. Finally, if content creation is more what you are looking for, each of the project's 48 task forces maintains a list of requested articles.
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Editorial: Translating article writing to real life

I (Ed) am a college student in the United States, and as part of attaining my desired degree, I chose to take a course in Arab-Islamic history. We began in the early 600s and spent some time on the origins of the Islamic conquering of the Sassanid Empire and partial takeover of the Byzantine Empire (c. 634–750). From there, we have moved through the various ages of history, and the class recently began discussing the Ottoman Empire and other Islamic regions of more recent times.

As we began discussing the Ottoman Empire's role in the First World War, our professor mentioned that they were blockading the Bosphorus, using it as a chokepoint to cut off needed supplies traveling to Russia's only warm-water port, Sevastopol. An astute classmate, realizing this meant the use of warships, wondered what naval technology was like during this time. The professor turned and asked me to answer the question, as he knew I had been studying naval history and believed that I knew more about the subject.

The point of this anecdote is not to boast, but to provoke some thought. By virtue of the research Wikipedia writers must do to write complete, referenced articles, many of us are acquiring knowledge in specialized topics that can surpass even learned scholars. Wikipedia might even provoke some of us into becoming learned scholars through the subjects we find here. To profile one such case, take a look at Parsecboy.

Beginning in May 2007, he came across a few essentially empty stubs on German battleship classes. Nearly 3 years later, he's written or collaborated on more than forty articles rated as good or higher, including over a dozen featured articles and a featured list; the majority relate to German warships. The work Parsecboy has done for Wikipedia has had a tremendous impact on his academic career: to complete his undergraduate degree, Parsecboy is currently writing an Honors Thesis that will analyze the British and German battlecruiser squadrons during the First World War. Parsecboy plans to attend graduate school and continue his research in the area, culminating in a dissertation. He comments that "without a doubt, I would not have had nearly as much knowledge and interest in the topic, nor would I have known where to begin researching if I had not become so involved with the topic here on Wikipedia."

The knowledge you acquire through writing Wikipedia articles will remain with you for the rest of your life. Try to find a way to use it to your advantage.

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Chincoteague

I've bolded the article in the hook, if it gets used next 1 April you'll get a credit for creation. Mjroots (talk) 21:28, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Russian airforce

Whats reliable about Global security? Global security dosent even include the Russian airforces Bomber aircraft, helicopters or even attack helicopters. warfare.ru on the otherhand included helicopters, attack helicopters and bomber aircraft.

Also global security gives a figure of 2,588 aircraft in the Russian airforce, not the 1,715 figure that you reverted it too!

Please explain to me why you would use a source that dosent even include the Russian airforces Bomber aircraft, attack helicopters and helicopters? Please explain, becuase that dosent look reliable to me. Rademire2 (talk) 17:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Global security is not reliable. Look these are the figures it gives they add up to 2,588. Not the 1,715 that you say.

"Fighters - 822 Ground attack - 600 Airborne Early Warning and Control - 16 Reconnaissance - 170 ECM - 0 Traning - 980

Total - 2,588"

Now do you see any thing wrong with these figures? becuase I do!! Global Security dosent include Transport aircraft, trankers and supply aircraft, attack helicopters, Bomber aircraft, transport and resuce helicopters!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So what happend? Russia suddenyl dosent have any bombers, transports and helicopters?

warfare.ru includeds ALL the types of aircraft from the russian airforce and updates their numbers every 6 months. GS only updates their numbers every 1 or 2 years Rademire2 (talk) 17:55, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Rhesus Macaque...

...is not a scientific name, but a common name. as such, "Rhesus" isn't the genus, and ""macaque" isn't the species epithet. If anything, they are reversed... Macaca is the genus of all macaques... - UtherSRG (talk) 21:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism on today's featured article

About my revert I was cleaning a vandalism that was marked with shouting from an unregistered editor. There's probably other vandalism that I was not aware of at that time. --Yong (talk) 01:35, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

WP:OMT needed article count

Hi there Bushranger. I've counted over the main list on the project page again, and there seems to be 11 red-links (counting Tosa, which is in ed17's sandbox). They are:

You might be counting List of battleships of Greece, which was just redirected to a section of List of decommissioned ships of the Hellenic Navy. It might be possible to unredirect it and turn it into somthing like List of battlecruisers of Germany, but it might still be redirected as a content fork. Am I missing somthing? Buggie111 (talk) 13:56, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Ah. I was in fact counting that Greek list as being 'needed', while I wasn't counting Tosa and Sevastopol - since they redirect - instead counting the two Turkish ships that were redirected to the class page last night. :) - The Bushranger (talk) 17:44, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi guys, hope you don't mind me butting in :) I was thinking that it might be wise to create these pages in a sandbox somewhere until there's enough content for it to qualify for DYK, since creating a new article large enough to make the cut is often quite easier than trying to get the 5x expansion for an older one. We are rather short on non-German BB articles for the DYK list at Portal:Battleship. Just a thought :) Parsecboy (talk) 02:32, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm doing that with Sevastopol and Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand. The latter might be needing a redirect and blank. BEsides that, it's pretty tough to find sources for those, so I'll try my best. Buggie111 (talk) 03:02, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
No worries on butting in. And that sounds like a reasonable plan. The Austrian BBs have always fascinated me, as an aside... - The Bushranger (talk) 05:46, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
With Erzherzgo's hook done, can you re-review the DYK? (It's a GA now) Buggie111 (talk) 03:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Super work on that! Consider it done - The Bushranger (talk) 03:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! I'll start my FA work on it once the peer review finishes. Thanks again for accepting my impatience. Buggie111 (talk) 03:07, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Deletion nomination of Category talk:Scramjet powered aircraft

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DYK for Dewoitine HD.730

Updated DYK query On 19 April, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dewoitine HD.730, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Whoops

Sorry Stupid error, now fixed. Thanks for your note. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 00:23, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Wait User:70.29.208.247 wrote "'steam' still presents problems..." which invalidates the speedy nomination. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 00:25, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Sure Seems fine to me. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 00:27, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
CfDs You don't need to do anything; if you just leave it be, someone else will get to it eventually. Otherwise, you are free to remove the non-controversial one yourself and leave the objectionable case (and nominate it for a full CfD.) —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 01:40, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikiwings

Wikiwings
For amazing, if unsung, work sorting out WikiProject Aircraft categories - Ahunt (talk) 19:29, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. Thanks and keep up the good work. -Fnlayson (talk) 21:38, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your note - no problem - "Credit where credit is due" - Ahunt (talk) 22:10, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Article assessment updates

I noticed you did this. You should be aware that reassessing articles should only be done by members of that Wikiproject and also that A-Class is only used by a few projects so unilaterally applying it to an article should never be done. -MBK004 04:28, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Rollback/autoreviewer

I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback correctly, and for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. —Ed (talkmajestic titan) 07:09, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

I also gave you autoreviewer. —Ed (talkmajestic titan) 07:09, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
You're welcome! Thanks for your help on Tosa! —Ed (talkmajestic titan) 18:37, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Good Article nom

Hi there, I've decided to review FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II, however it looks like you forgot to add the required subst:GAN template in the talk page - can you? Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:03, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Ah! I did forget that didn't I. Whoops. Consider it done. And, thanks! - The Bushranger (talk) 00:06, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Able 50

I gotta, thanks a lot for your help! It was great to get a fresh set of eyes in the tropical cyclone project (and BTW, welcome to the group). If you want to collaborate on something in the future (say, getting something featured), I'd be interested. Just give me post. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:29, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Radius edit on A-10 page

Please explain to me why the content of the disputed note is not self-evident in the preceding text. It's obvious that the issue is contentious to some. Thank you.Wikiuser100 (talk) 14:57, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

To you, and to me, it's perfectly clear as it is, I agree completely. However, to a younger student using Wikipedia either as part of their studies or independently to learn, it might be something they find not quite as clear, and the footnote helps with that by explaning exactly how the process works. - The Bushranger (talk) 15:28, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Fair enough. There is a dumbed down version of Wikipedia for students; and there is so much nonsense and claptrap in this version that needs culling it would be the labors of Sisyphus to try to make a dent. Further, I oppose on principle virtually all intratext notation (especially of the <- sort, where people introduce what belongs on the Discussion page), which is where I believe the content in question belongs. Perhaps you'd be willing to relocate it there with a suitable reference. But your response to me is even-handed enough that I am done challenging the matter. Yours. Wikiuser100 (talk) 17:54, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

I have a short clip in mpg form of the testing of the Pulqui II, but I cannot convert it into an ogg file. Can you help? FWiW Bzuk (talk) 08:09, 29 April 2010 (UTC).

Wish I could, because a video could be great. But I never got much into computer technicalities; .MPGs and .OGGs are a mystery to me, I'm afraid. - The Bushranger (talk) 12:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Unified FT

Hey, thanks for fixing the topic box for me! I guess that's what I get for trying to do stuff after a long day of class and work :) Parsecboy (talk) 11:30, 30 April 2010 (UTC)