User talk:JimmyTheOne
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[edit] French ship Océan
Greetings, and thank you for your fine additions to French ship Océan (1790) ! Information about individual French ships of this era is not always easy to collect, so your contributions are appreciated ! Cheers ! Rama 04:44, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Battle of Dogger Bank
Please stop making cut-and-paste moves. It is insulting to the people who contributed to the article and whose contributions you have now appropriated for yourself. If you wish to move an article to a more appropriate name, use the "move" tab. However, because both Battle of Dogger Bank and Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) have multiple edits it requires an administrator to make the move so you will have to submit a request to Wikipedia:Requested moves. Until such time, I suggest you make your edits to the original article , whether you approve of its current name or not. Geoff/Gsl 21:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
I should explain my thinking. I changed the Battle of Dogger Bank page into a disambiguation page for several reasons:
- The use of the Battle of Dogger Bank page for the 1915 battle was causing confusion for people seeking the 1781 battle. (See some of the talk pages leading to it, for examples, or check some of the old links).
- Using the ambiguous name as the disambiguation page seems to be the convention in naval history articles on Wikipedia. Several other battles, such as the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Cape Finisterre and Battle of Ushant are set up in this way, as are most ships (with HMS Victory as a good example of an exception to the rule).
- The two battles of Dogger Bank are of similar historical significance. Both involved squadrons detached from the main British fleet, were of little consequence in themselves but contained important tactical lessons. So neither battle is obviously more important or the most common meaning of the term.
- I was aware that the 1915 battle would lose its edit history, but I hoped that the fact that the history would still be available on the Battle of Dogger Bank page for anyone who really wanted it and that I had more than doubled the length of the article from 500 words to 1,200 by adding more details of the battle and the aftermath, as well as the order of battle and sources and making a couple of corrections, would compensate for that loss of convenience.
- I wasn't aware of the move option, which I now realize was my main error.
I copied the entire text of the article to the new page (and added a battlebox). I carefully corrected many of the links pointing to either Dogger Bank or Battle of Dogger Bank to point to the right battle, or the Dogger Bank incident.
So this was no unthinking edit.
When you first changed it back, I couldn't understand your reasons for undoing what I had done (if I had replaced the 1915 battle with the 1781 battle, for instance, I would have understood).
I'm completely appalled by your suggestion that I was trying to pretend that other people's work was my own. I can't believe any Wikipedians do that. I was simply trying to clarify an ambiguity and share my love of naval history. My notes say moved, not wrote, so it should have been clear that I wasn't appropriating authorship or intending to insult anyone.
My lesson is that I should have used the move function, for which I can only apologize to you and others I have inadvertently insulted. I hope, in return, that you will make your reasons for reverting things clearer as it has taken me some time to understand the basis of your objection -- which is why I reverted you back resulting in a silly edit war.
I have taken your suggestion of submitting a request to the administrators. JimmyTheOne 21:04, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
- I was not suggesting that your intention was to claim other peoples' work, just pointing out that that was the effect of your edits. I apologize in turn for any insult on my part. You still need to merge your changes to Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) into the original (so that the edits are, and will always be, attributed to you) and revert it to a redirect so that the Requested Move process can take its course. If it fails, your changes will need to be merged anyway. Geoff/Gsl 22:57, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Military history: Coordinator elections
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[edit] Thank you!
I would like to thank you for your support for my candidacy for the Military history WikiProject coordinator position. I am now the Lead Coordinator, and I intend to do my best to continue improving the project. If you ever have any questions or concerns regarding my actions, or simply new ideas for the project, be sure to let me know! —Kirill Lokshin 00:10, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cheers
I don't wanna overdo it or anything, so here's just a brief note thanking you for supporting me in the WikiProject Military history coordinator elections. Cheers, and I hope I can please as Assistant Coordinator! --Loopy e 01:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge issues
Kevin Myers posted the speedy delete template as part of a merge. Feel free to talk to him about this and if you need me to help sort it out, I'll be glad to help.Gator (talk) 21:28, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I
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[edit] Bismarck chase
I concur that it is reasonable to use a subarticle to give more details of the actions. I have restored the article from a redirect and done some edit myself, though i have not yet linked it again from the Bismarck page. I recommend leaving it until suitably polished. GraemeLeggett 11:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] British military history task force
I see that you are working on British naval history. Do you focus any particular period? I have begun work on RN minesweepers 1939-45. Please see my user page for details of articles I am tracking. Davidbober 16:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II
The April 2006 issue of the project newsletter is now out. You may read this issue or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following the link. Thanks. Kirill Lokshin 18:43, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue III - May 2006
The May 2006 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. —ERcheck @ 00:08, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Maritime military history task force
I just wanted to let you know that a Maritime warfare task force has been established. Hope to see you there:)Inge 13:50, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue IV - June 2006
The June 2006 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Kirill Lokshin 05:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Funnel Bands
My source for funnel bands is H. T. Lenton, British and Empire Warships of the Second World War. Emoscopes Talk 20:59, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue IX - November 2006
The November 2006 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
This is an automated delivery by grafikbot 22:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
