User talk:Rose Palmer

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[edit] Welcome

Hi Rose,

Welcome to Wikipedia! Please take a look at the new user tutorial and an overview of the policies and guidelines on Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions so far and if you have any questions, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page

-Blackjack48 23:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, I am a part of the Wikipedia Welcoming Committee but I hope to become an administrator someday :) Blackjack48 02:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

Hello there! I see you're new to Wikipedia so welcome!

I saw you're comment in the Hubert Schiffer talk page. You're right about the article - it is rather confusing, having a description of the event and then a few contraditions in the subsequent section. I added some more to it, but it's good that you're going to try to improve it. By the way, how did you come across the article? It's a rather obscure topic.

Since you're new, you might want to see this list of things that need to be done, as when I was new I found some interesting articles that needed improving there.

--Grimhelm 19:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Three Came Home

Nope, the article is still a stub. It's a stub article until it gets more detailed information and becomes longer. If you want an idea of a start class article, take a look at an article in Category:Start-Class film articles and at: Category:Film articles by quality. The quality category gives a detailed explanation of what makes an article a certain class. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I will get back to you as soon as I can. RobJ1981 02:34, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Charlie Chaplin

Yes but all of his films were produced in the US, which would make him an American actor, Greta Garbo wasn't a US citizen during her film career but she was still credited as one. Gemini86_618 07:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

This sounded strange to me, but although Encarta describes him as English the Britannica Concise Online describes him as "British-U.S." The main Britannica article says he was a "British comedian, producer, writer, director, and composer". The case of Greta Garbo is more complicated because, after her retirement from film, she was naturalised. There are even more confusing cases, Albert Einstein for instance was born German, and at various different times in his life was German, stateless, Swiss, Swiss-German, and finally possessed dual Swiss-US nationality [1]. But I think Chaplin held British nationality and no other nationality all his life. Rosejpalmer 06:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unwanted Pages

I'm glad you like it here! I agree with you about the Lee Crompton article, and have put up a tag on the article page requesting deletion. If you find another article that you also think is non-notable, you can add the {{notability}} template to the top of the page; or if you think the article needs to be deleted, add {{db|(reason for deletion)}} .

--Grimhelm 10:31, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. It looks as if somebody decided to hold a vote on it. I've investigated and made some comments that should help people to make their minds up. Rosejpalmer 18:43, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename

As requested, I have renamed you as User:Rose Palmer. You should now move your userpages to the new name. Warofdreams talk 16:15, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Rose Palmer 05:43, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to the Military history WikiProject!

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[edit] Re: Battle of Borneo

Looks to be off to a good start. The main thing to keep in mind is inline citation, as it's much easier to put in when you're first writing the article and have all the books readily available. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 11:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm working on sources but this will take time, working from a provincial public library. Perhaps I'll pop down to the British Library and register as a researcher; they seem to be giving those once-coveted library cards away to anyone these days. It's good to get a thumbs-up signal this early, so I'm very glad that you took the trouble to check that everything is ship-shape.
I've seen those inline references in some articles, and must say that I find them very intimidating. I wish I could think of a better way of doing it, and one more suited to the kind of synthesis one must perform in writing a history (where the facts are usually easy enough to verify from the standard texts which can be listed at the end of the article, Britannica-style). I can see why the academic essay-style of writing has found favour on an open wiki, but I cannot help thinking that it's a little overkill for this subject matter andthis style of writing. We're not performing original research, so citing primary sources should be unnecessary. Anything that doesn't match the cited secondary sources, of that is contradicted in other sources, can be omitted or qualified (for instance: "the US official naval history reports that USS. Atlantis sailed from Guantanamo Bay on 12 April, 1923, but it is generally accepted by historians that, owing to bad weather, she did not leave port until 13th.")
Well this is all a bit abstract, and no doubt future generations will appreciate our over-researching at this stage in the project. I do worry that the war of the Dutch East Indies and associated British protectorates is, even after five years of this project, not very well covered. Perhaps the bias of the project has been towards the Pacific war and in particular to allied victories. I suppose I'm doing a little to rectify this lacuna in our coverage. Rose Palmer 13:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

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