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Hello MarcoLittel! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

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[edit] James M. Gavin

Hi there. I saw, that you translated parts of the German James M. Gavin article and hope, that you are interested in him. I have much text on him, the only problem is that images are missing to illustrate the text. I mailed some authors, his wife and some others, but I didn't get useful answers or sources where to find free images. I found a collection at http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usamhi/ (Research Catalogs → fill in "James M. Gavin" → several hits, e.g. "photograph collection"). The Army Heritage & Education Center is located at 950 Soldiers Drive, Carlisle, PA 17013-5021. I would order the stuff but the only way to receive it is to take a look at Carlisle for it, which is impossible for me (sitting here in Germany). It would be great if you could go there, or find someone else to do it and to ask, wheather the stuff is in the PD or the GNU FDL (a call would be usefull as well). I don’t know the USA that well and I think that it’s probably better if an inhabitant like you could help out there a bit. If you have an idea, where to search elsewhere and tell it to me, or find some images yourself and upload them, it would be great as well. It would be even ok for me, if you find someone else to do the research. I did my best and didn’t find any useful help at the image-search (even not here on en.wikipedia). I hope that you’ll help and have luck. Btw.: You seem to be interessted in military history. I’d like you to participate at Meta:Imperialism and world wars, if you want to. Would be great as well. So – I wrote enough now ;). Regards and best wishes from Hamburg, Germany, John N. 14:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi John Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, i'm in the Netherlands which is a bit closer to Carlisle, PA than you are but is still too far away from a visit :) I've joined your project though. My interest is in military history (WWII especially) and since I'm a Dutchman my language skills are in English, German, French and Dutch, and translation is a hobby of mine. Hope to be able to contribute to your project as well.MarcoLittel 16:09, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Upps :). But thanks for you're help on the translation and the participating at the international project. Btw.: How good are you're german skills? Regards from Hamburg, John N. 18:10, 8 December 2006 (UTC) PS: If you're able to join the Wikipedia:Chat you can find "us" at #Imperialismus. -- John N. 18:12, 8 December 2006 (UTC) PS²: It would be great, if you could translate the messages from the project into dutch. -- John N. 18:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey John, My german language skills are fair. I can understand what is being said in the German texts, and I can translate it into english and dutch. No german speaker myself, so expect no german prose from me :) MarcoLittel 12:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)