User talk:BQZip01

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Hello, BQZip01, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  Johntex\talk 17:58, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

PS: Howdy and Hook 'em, by the way. Johntex\talk 17:58, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Marching band pic

I was in marching band in high school, so I'll try finding a decent picture to add onto the page. Thanks for the comment... are you an Aggie by the way? --Blueag9 08:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for all the great work you've done on all the articles relating to A&M. About how much time to you dedicate to wikipedia articles? -- Hut101 07:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats

Award
I, Blueag9, award this Barnstar to BQZip01 for his great efforts in improving Texas A&M-related articles. Gig 'em!

--Blueag9\talk 21:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Image:DSC04002.JPG Who does this truck belong to?? Have you seen it before? Blueag9\talk 22:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Re Electoral College

Thanks for the brief summary. I got it now. But being more specific, am I right in understanding that each state has one electoral college vote, and that the state vote is determined by the majority of electoral college members vote. Is that correct? Berserkerz Crit 10:34, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kyle Field Page

Hi BQZip. I'm sorry that I kept overwriting your changes to the Kyle Field page. I didn't realize that anyone else was working on it while I was or I would have been more careful to not just copy and paste the info I was writing out of notepad. It had nothing to do with the content of your changes -- hope I didn't offend! Karanacs '00 Karanacs 18:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:KyleField2.jpg

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BTW, I noticed the topic above and went to view the image. Images created by the US govt are generally public domain. However, this does not necesarily apply to the states. Florida has a law releasing most govt works into the public domain but to my knowledge Texas does not. In any case, even with the US govt the public domain status does not extend down to works made by contractors and the like. Therefore, this image is almost certainly not a free image. I suggest you try adding a fair use rationale if you want the image to be kept. Please see WP:Fair use for more information. Best, Johntex\talk 19:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sorting

Hi BQZip01, thanks for your help with List of Division I-FBS college football stadiums. Are you sorting by attendance? There is some discussion at Talk:List of Division I-FBS college football stadiums that perhaps alphabetical would be better. Please chime in. Best, Johntex\talk 20:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Registration

It is a very interesting question.

This has been discussed numerous times. Some people seem to have a philosophical opposition to the idea. They say we have to remain the encyclopedia that "anyone can edit" and that requiring registration would scare people away. Others have done small studies that seem to show that most IP edits are vandalism at worst, or misguided edits at best. However, the question is: if we keep registration easy, will it be so easy that vandals just go ahead and create an account in order to vandalize? I don't know if there is a happy medium between keeping out vandals and keeping out contributors.

I personally would have no objections to requiring everyone to register to edit. I think it would cut down on some vandalism. I think a lot of vandalism is spur-of-the-moment, and that the vandal probably will not go to the trouble of creating an account. Even more importantly, usernames help you know who you are dealing with. When 5 IP addresses comment on something, you don't know if they are really 5 seperate people or just one person who is changing IP addresses. Also, if you leave a Talk page message for someone, you want to know the right person is going to recieve the message. IP address editting gets in the way of that.

We have been moving towards less access to unregistered users. We now have "semi-protection" for some articles to prevent unregistered users from editting them, and you do have to have an account in order to start a new page. This was not always the case.

Also, as a result of the Essjay controversy, there may be pressure for additional changes to our system. We will see, I guess. Best, Johntex\talk 16:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stadium Page

Sorry for the mangled page. My touchpad is a trite sensitive and I saved the page on accident. Pepto gecko 21:44, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] USAF article

Horray to you for finally sorting out what has been a terrible eyesore for a while! I would have done it, but seeing as how I'm the main editor over at the Air Force portal, I was afraid it would be seen as too much "self-interest". By the way, if you want to pop over to the portal and put in your two cents worth (or more....), please feel free! I'm ALWAYS trying to find fresh victims editors and authors and people generally in the know! - NDCompuGeek 09:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Gunship

Thanx brother!

I knew that I didn't have the call sign listed, but I was being lazy at the moment, and was saving the trip to the basement file cabinet to look it up...

I have been working on this list for a buncha months, and I feel like Seabiscuit coming around the final turn... After wading through the war in Southeast Asia, the final two decades are gonna be a cake walk!

Bless you, my Herky-bird Son!

Sub*

Mark Sublette 05:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette 05:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Me Band Geek, too

Just checked yer bio - I marched proudly in the Clemson Tiger Band for six years - also extended plan - mellophone, French Horn, and proudly wear my retro 1978-1986 band uniform at Homecoming each year in Death Valley, marching with Alumni Band!

Sub*

Mark Sublette 05:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette 05:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hard facts

Absolutely should you list this gunship fact ! I have been trying to identify Hercules benchmarks for the various listings, (1st loss, 1st loss in SEA by service, last loss in SEA, et al), so any distinguishing identification you care to add - please be my guest! I am practically a plank-holder for this page...

Mark Sublette 05:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette 05:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jack rabbit

Hey - you were PDQ on adding the callsign - how did you come across my 20-min old entry? Just cruising - or do you have a Hurlburt alarm bell?

Sub*

Mark Sublette 06:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette 06:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ivan Gotasecret

Yuh - I know - life-long AF brat - best friend from Choctaw High now lost in the war on terror for some agency or other...

Mark Sublette 06:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette 06:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] B-1 Lancer

Uh, why did you revert my productive edits to the B-1 Lancer page? No references were deleted at all! Are you sure you got the right page here? We all make mistakes, and I honestly see know relationship between my edits and the reason you gave for the reversion! If I got something good by accident (it was after 3AM!), I'm sorry, but wholesale reversion of your part is not the answer either. Thanks. - BillCJ 16:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TAMU Rivals

Dear Sir,

I've posted my reasonings for my deltion of the statement on the Texas Aggies Talk page, please review them at your convineince.

Thom Katt Class of 2010 Theturtlehermit 22:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I appologize, my earlier note was not very clear, in part because of poor punctuation on my part. What I ment to say was that I was the one who had delted the "Other significant..." statement on the Texas Aggies page, which you reverted, I posted my reasonings for deletion on the talk page. You have looked at them and adressed them already. I had posted this just to make sure you saw it, in case the talk page wasn't on you watchlist.

Theturtlehermit 06:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Corps Stack

Thanks for the description of the Corps Stack. I never knew that had an official name. I don't suppose you have a picture of your old one that we could put in the Corps of Cadets article? If not, I'll ask some of my friends who were in the Corps if they can find one. Karanacs 16:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Great picture! Thanks for adding it :) Karanacs 19:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Hi BQ Zip, I notice you deal with some of the vandalism in the articles. I don't know if you're aware of this, but you can report lunatic vandals to admins here: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. I got to do my first report after this one guy kept vandalizing Acie Law IV. (Obviously, if you mess with the Law, you're in trouble) Just letting you know. --Blueag9 (Talk | contribs) 07:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SOCCENT?

No, I never was in SOCCENT. I'm in the Army, though - 2/23 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, based at Fort Lewis, Wa. I was scratching my head trying to figure out how you knew I was in the military at all until I remembered that I had posted that bit about wingtip vortices on the A-10 talk page.

I noticed you're in flight training currently; what kind of aircraft are you training on at the moment? --Molon Labe 00:25, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I've seen a few T-37's at airshows in Oshkosh. My dad's a retired airline pilot and the family used to go up there every other summer for a week at the EAA airshow. I'm actually in the Army right now, getting ready to deploy to Baghdad very soon. My MOS is 11B - infantry. It's interesting work, to say the least. I've been with my platoon for about two years now and I'm getting a little impatient with waiting now that deployment is so close.
Good luck with the medical situation; hopefully it's nothing too serious. And good luck with the flight training. I've decided that as soon as I get back from deployment I'm gonna make it a priority to take lessons and get my private license. The new sport pilot license ought to make it a bit easier to actually get some time behind the stick, I think. If you had your choice of aircraft after you graduate from the Tweety Bird what would be your preference? --Molon Labe 02:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - I'll take all the good luck I can get. Wasn't it a fighter pilot that said "I'd rather be lucky than good any day"? I agree with you, BTW about the Iraqis providing their own security. The training going on over there right now is the key; hopefully it'll pay off soon. It would be nice if the Iraqis could shoulder more of the load themselves - we might need to use the troops elsewhere these days, what with Iran starting to push things to a critical point and much of Somalia, inclulding Mogadishu, in the hands of an extremist Muslim government - although that's probably in the line of the Special Operations guys.
Good luck with getting the aircraft of your choice; having the job you want and getting the kinds of missions you're interested in performing is crucial. I think. In the Army if you enlist for the infantry, you generally (not always) have to enlist as an 11X - infantry, but you could end up as 11C (mortar infantry) or 11B (direct fire infantry) which is what most people seem to want. The thing is, even if you end up as 11B you could still end up in any number of jobs; you could end up doing staff work, being a driver for a battalion commander or a First Sergeant, being a crewman on a TOW Stryker, or you could end up in a line squad in a line platoon, kicking down doors on raids. I suppose you officers have it even worse, though; I know you tend to have to rotate between schools, command jobs and staff jobs. So long story short - good luck with flight training and with your assignment, and if I ever have to call in fire from your AC-130, shoot straight. ;)
I'll have to put something up on the user page soon. I suppose I should just check out various user pages to get an idea of how the good ones look. --Molon Labe 05:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minot

I noticed you have been to North Dakota. Any chance it was at Minot AFB? By the way - great userpage! - NDCompuGeek 22:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image thumbs reply

By setting a fixed size, you aren't necessarily making them bigger, what you are actually doing is disabling the User Preferences feature. I'm guessing you aren't familiar with this. Under "My Preferences", you can set the size that thumbs are displayed. This is so that people can set the thumb display size to look best on whatever monitor they're viewing. If they're viewing on a high-res screen, you might very well be making the images look smaller to them. For folks who view on a very small screen, by fixing the images at a certain size, you can overpower the article. That's why WP:MOS says "Specifying the size of a thumb image is not recommended". So, if you think the images need to look bigger when you view it, please don't fix the pixel size, adjust your user preferences. Thanks. Akradecki 00:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

With all due respect, you can't arbitrarily decide to ignore the Manual of Style, deliberately disable user preferences for everyone else, and force your view of how pictures should look on everyone else. Please respect the guidelines around here. The CV-22 article is a part of the Aircraft Project, and you need to respect the way we have standardized the articles, and the guidelines we follow. If you choose to deliberately contravene the MOS, that could be considered vandalism. I know you're fairly new around here, and I'd rather not go the vandalism warning route, instead, I'd rather see you become an active part of the project, so please respect the system that you're coming in to. Akradecki 04:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Loved your latest post on this. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot indeed. I wasted 5 minutes of my life following that link and reading about bicycle sheds. That's five minutes of my life I will never get back. I'm sorry to see you being dogged on this. Don't let it drag you down. Johntex\talk 06:39, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aggie Thought

Your Barnstar Was EATEN BY A BEAR!
THANK YOU for the pic and the laugh. I was having an awful day and now I'm in a much better mood :). Gig 'em! Karanacs 18:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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