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Hi. About the comment, I never implied that Major Winchester's ancestors came across the pond that recently. Also, yes, Boston Brahmin would be accurate. Thank you for the info. Also how long have you been a registered user on Wikipedia? I've only been registered for I believe a month now and I'm only learning the ropes which explains why I took this long to respond.

[edit] ASUE

Hello, Wwoods and thank you for your contributions on articles related to A Series of Unfortunate Events. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject A Series of Unfortunate Events, a WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of A Series of Unfortunate Events and related articles on Wikipedia.

If you would like to help out and participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks! <3Clamster 00:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] ndashes

Ah. Thanks, I didn't understand it to clearly, I've self reverted my edit for you. Cheers for the info ;-) thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 22:39, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply re: TCG Murat Reis (USS Razorback (SS-394))

The reason I changed it is that (a) its namesake, Murat Reis, is multiple words and (b) the program for its decommissioning as the Razorback and recommissioning as a Turkish sub uses the multiple-word form [1]. The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum, however, has used both Muratreis and Murat Reis (though it obviously prefers Razorback). I live in Little Rock, AR, sister city to the Razorback's current home of North Little Rock; I recall seeing it both ways when I toured the sub in 2005. --RBBrittain 03:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

There's no disputing that the namesake, Murat Reis was two words, and even DANFS gives the ship's name as Murat Reis, but the Turkish sources available to me give the ship's name as one word, and I'm inclined to think they're more authoritative on this point.
—wwoods 06:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HP character

Readded. – Someguy0830 (T | C) 19:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Destroyer Natsugumo

Hello Wwoods, how do you do. I have added the kanji for Natsugumo, and I will proceed to add kanji for the other ships which also have missing names. There is no Natsugumo page in Wiki JPN, but instead, a general page for the Asashio class. I may translate that page later on. -- Natsugumo (T | C) 25 January 2007

[edit] B class assessment

My appoligies and thank you for catching that, the only issue I saw was with references. I was pasting from my text file that I keep all my code in and didn't catch that. I have correted the issue on the talk page and I believe I made the same mistake on a few others so I'll take care if those too. Again my bad.— WilsBadKarma (Talk) 19:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Honestly the way I look at it is that all sources should be cited according to WP:References#How_to_cite_sources. I know thats a pain when everything is copied from DANFS but everything should be cited the same way. Sorry it took so long your message came in with another and I just happen to see it a sec ago.— WilsBadKarma (Talk) 04:21, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] stargate templates

the nowraps were just unnecessary, and they caused the left collums to appear much thinner on some browser windows (including mine). although i don't understand what you mean with forcing them to appear as simple alphabetical lists... these templates are simple alphabetical lists after all.... Maartentje 17:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

fine, whatever Maartentje 18:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Catskill edits

Thanks for your recent work on some of those articles. Although I did have a few questions and comments:

  • Are you going to create an article on that other Slide Mountain in New York, the relatively minor one in the Adirondacks (not Big Slide, that's a High Peak)? I didn't really see the point of further disambiguating that one until and unless that article was created. But whatever ... I think, however, that it would better off following the example of North Mountain and using the range rather than the county ... seems to be what I've seen done elsewhere.
  • I had long thought of creating a High Peaks navbox as you did, but decided to wait until I had created articles on at least half. But better now than never. Anyway, I had some ideas that I'm going to put in the one you created to make it better-looking than the default design (use DEC's gold-on-brown color scheme in the frame, and maybe the Rocky canister and the 3500-foot sign as images in the side pockets). Also, I thought I'd use the more commonly-used peak names (the full "Kaaterskill High Peak" and "Southwest Hunter") and maybe organize them by height from Slide to Rocky (very few people I know in the Catskills' hiking community think in terms of those geographic subdivisions, which are somewhat arbitrary), with the trailless peaks in italics. Hope you don't mind ... thanks for doing the hard work (I am not really skilled yet at template design; the ones I have created ({{subsections}}, {{Orange County, New York}} have just been adapted from others' designs). Think they'll work? Could even do them on the {{High Peaks}} template. Daniel Case 04:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been working through the New England mountain lists, such as the New England Fifty Finest, and was looking around to other areas. I don't know much about the New York mountains, so feel free to reorganize the Catskill and {{NY High Peaks}} templates if the layout doesn't make sense to people who do. Maybe the latter should be moved to "Adirondack High Peaks"? Until today, I didn't realize there were more "high peaks" in the state, besides the two Catskill 4000-footers. I followed peakbagger.com to break them up, copying what I'd done with the New Hampshire four-thousand footers.
Go ahead and move High Peaks to Adirondack High Peaks. I'm sure there are other regions of the country, or the world, known as the High Peaks and just because we don't have articles now doesn't mean we won't in the future.
Checking the list of names in the GNIS, I saw that there's a Slide Mountain in the Lake Placid quad which is 3500+ ft high, which seemed sufficiently notable. Checking peakbagger.com, I see it isn't very prominent, so perhaps not. For disambiguation, I've been using state, county, and topo quad if necessary. E.g. Baldy Mountain.
Actually, according to WP:MOUNTAINS (have you added yourself there?), that's the right way to do it. I just say that, I guess, because I have designs on taking Slide to featured status someday and that's an awfully long title for a mountain. But that's the rule, I guess.
Which is more correct, "XXX Wilderness" or "XXX Wilderness Area"? It seems that the latter is, but all the listings on List of U.S. Wilderness Areas are to the former.
—wwoods 10:00, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
That list is all the federal wilderness areas, and so that's maybe the federal naming convention. But NYSDEC calls them wilderness areas in all its official documentation and on trailhead signage, so that's how it is in List of U.S. state and tribal wilderness areas. Daniel Case 16:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] JDS

I found JDS in use on several US Navy sites so I assumed it was the proper prefix: RIMPAC 2006, USS Blue Ridge. FAS also confirms it. [2]-Loren 22:05, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

But globalsecurity also says, 'Until the end of World War II, Japanse warships were prefixed by HIJMS, which stands for "His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Ship".'
Wikipedia says, 'The use of ship prefixes is not universal; in particular neither the Third Reich's Kriegsmarine nor the Imperial Japanese Navy used ship prefixes. Some English-language writers use prefixes like "DKM" (for "Deutsche Kriegsmarine") and "HIJMS" (for "His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Ship") or "IJN" (for "Imperial Japanese Navy", a translation of 大日本帝国海軍 dai-nippon teikoku kaigun) for consistency with "HMS" and "USS". Other writers follow the practice of the navy and omit any prefix.'
I see that further down the page it does list
'JDS Japan Defense Ship'
I'm perfectly happy to use it — if it's correct. For one thing, it could save me a lot work, disambiguating "Japanese destroyer <Shipname>"s.
—wwoods 22:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I see nothing wrong with the way its used on the JSDF articles. The point is, JDS is the prefix used by JMSDF ships. Since the JMSDF wasn't around before 1945, we've only been using it on post-1945 ships. If you're working on pre-1945 stuff, then tough luck. -Loren 00:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Verona/Verona Island

The current full name of the town appears to be Verona Island. This was my mistake and I will revert my changes immediately. I was doing work cleaning up lists of Maine towns/plantations/cities and the categories and I was using the Maine.gov website as a guide, but realize now that had not caught up to the Verona Island change. Sorry. I will correct this. JackME 13:22, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] State template format

Hi Wwoods,

I just implemented your suggestions for all of the state template. In particular, I removed all of the {{pipe}} templates and replaced them with the {{!}} template. Also, I put in the {{nowrap|...}} template and removed the nbsp; tags. Let me know if you have other suggestions and I'll implement those too. --CapitalR 05:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Best fanzine Hugo

I reverted your changes primarily because it is against procedure to wikilink multiple occurences of the same item (say, Dave Langford); only the first appearance should be linked. I may try to clean up the format of the lead there, though. Thanks for drawing my attention to it.--Orange Mike 19:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jonah Goldberg

Thanks for semi-protecting the Goldberg article, there was a lot of vandalism there. I was wondering if you'd also extend the same semi-protection to the talk page where the same user has been posting homophobic slurs aimed at me. I'm not personally offended by them but I agree with the NPA policy that they have no place on wikipedia. Makgraf 06:45, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Pursuant to this, could you please also watchlist Lucianne Goldberg? The same vandal is persistently making the same claims about Lyndon Johnson being Jonah's father on that article as well, and the first time they did so it didn't get reverted for four days. Incidentally, the same person has also previously been involved in persistent attack edits against Canadian politicians Cheri DiNovo, Michael Prue and Frances Lankin. As DiNovo-related attack edits are still taking place, I've started blocking any involved IP number for 48 hours as soon as I see it. I'd ask you, if possible, to do the same if you come across anything. Bearcat 07:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No wrap

Oi. Looks like that's a better format. I hope you're fixing those templates with some type of find and replace function:-)--Fuhghettaboutit 00:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that's why I even changed the single-word titles, which didn't need actually need it. I just did one find&replace-all, then fixed the first and last.
—wwoods 00:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Administrator?

By the way, are you an admin? If not, would you like to be? If so, I'd be happy to nominate you. —wwoods 20:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I was considering trying to become an administrator. I'm not sure if I would pass the review though. I haven't participated that much in some of the community "clean-up" activities like the AfD voting pages or the Community noticeboard and I've had a few "run-ins" with other established editors, including a couple of the more well-known administrators. If you think I could pass the admin review, however, I would accept the nomination. Cla68 23:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmm. I don't think the lack of community participation is a show-stopper; I don't do that much myself. I thought to ask when I saw you reverting vandalism – not for the first time – and wondered if you didn't have access to the admin tools. I don't know about your disputes with other admins, so I don't know how they'll feel... If you want to try, I'll push the button. Here's what happened to me:
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wwoods
There's a standard set of questions. Don't forget to mention all those Featured Articles. :-)
—wwoods 02:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Sure. I'm ready to give it a try and see how it goes. Thank you for the support. Cla68 07:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "List of episodes"

I have a question, why do you revert say something says (12) as in episodes of a tv show, you change it to (12) (List of episodes). I have to keep changing them back, The numberlink is better than an unlinked number and next to it (List of episodes)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 53180 (talk • contribs) 17:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't agree that linking the number is better than having the explicit link to the list of episodes. The latter way, using the template parameter created for that purpose, is clearer, and doesn't require guessing what clicking on the number might lead to.
—wwoods 05:58, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: ja.* links from "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"

Hi. ja:広島市への原子爆弾投下 is the article of the "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima" and ja:長崎市への原子爆弾投下 is the article of the "Atomic bombings of Nagasaki" And now, they have the argument to unify these articles or not..

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