User talk:GABaker

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Hello there GABaker, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, I like you additions to the propaganda aticle. Cheers! --maveric149

I'm not sure I agree with your changes to Christian mythology and Islamic mythology. What makes you think those statements were not NPOV. (Since you appear to be new, to respond to this message, click on my name and go to the Talk Page, add your response to the bottom of that) Tokerboy 15:17 Oct 28, 2002 (UTC)


Hi. I was just looking at the article on Ace and I was wondering why you decided not to have a table for WWI aces. Do you think this deserves a page on it's own? Mintguy

The only reason I haven't done WWI yet is because I haven't had the time to do it. The WWII and other wars need updating as well. --GABaker


Hi there! I notice that you started the VoA article - do you have any idea what law prohibits it being broadcast in the US, and why? Thanks, Mark Richards 07:34, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Foreign Policy and learning

Hi, we are wondering what you may have meant when you added the sentence (Israel possesses nuclear weapons.) This poses a problem to American foreign policy, which by law must sanction Middle Eastern state with nuclear weapons. to Israel and weapons of mass destruction.?

Given that I am already here I would also like to know if you would be interested in a learning project I describe on my page. Get-back-world-respect 15:28, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Coast Guard

GABaker. Nice work with the Coast Guard page, I think that it looks much better. I'm still going to re-add the cleanup tag, because the article still seems very disorganized, especially with the history. The table of contents also seems unnecessarily long.

There's a lot more to be added, but there's a reason it's in short sections; we're trying to make things more organized and easier to find. GABaker

[edit] USCGC Munro

Back in February, you added, "A cutter, the USCGC Munro, was commissioned in his honor in 1944, and the name has remained in commission ever since." to the USCG page. The Coast Guard doen't seem to have anything on this ship[1], and all Google seems to have are echoes of Wikipedia. Is this a mistaken reference to the Navy ship, USS Douglas A. Munro (DE-422)? —wwoods 22:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

No, there's a cutter Munro, or at least Coast Guard Magazine thinks so! GABaker
There certainly is now a cutter Munro: USCGC Munro (WHEC-724). She was commissioned in 1971, and is still on active service. http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/Munro/History.html
And there certainly was a ship named in Munro's honor, and commissioned in 1944: USS Douglas A. Munro (DE-422), a Navy destroyer escort. She was decommissioned 24 June 1960. http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/d5/douglas_a_munro.htm
But was there an earlier cutter? The Coast Guard's website doesn't list one (http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/CutterList.html). Do you have a copy of the Coast Guard Magazine article? What exactly does it say?
—wwoods 07:19, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
The link is [2]. The USGCG Munro is currently in the Persian Gulf. Recent operations were with RFA Wave Knight in interdicting smuggling. GABaker
But that's USCGC Munro (WHEC-724) again, not her hypothetical predecessor from the 1940s. Here's a bunch of press releases from January, when she was doing tsunami relief: [3]. I've updated the article on Munro, adding the Persian Gulf.
—wwoods 19:49, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New radio station articles

Can you had the categories to these when you create them? Also remember to add the last 3 letters of the call sign to sort them in the categories. Vegaswikian 20:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Enjoyed the article which you started on WWRC AM 1260. The mergers, acquisitions and closings can all be a bit confusing to follow without the overview of a good history--I used to listen to WWDC AM 1260 back in the day and wondered about its transformation. I also liked the frequency grid at bottom and plan now to browse through it a bit to learn what may have happened to other stations such as WHFS 99.1 FM. I noticed you did not list the initial stub as part of your contributions to Wikipedia, perhaps because of its brevity relative to your other contributions. Nonetheless, may I suggest you do so. And I hope you will continue to write about radio in the Washington, DC, metro area. Thank you. WashDC 69.72.30.139 14:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikicity

You seem like a big Harry Turtledove fan. I help at the Turtledove wikicity and we need as much help as we can get. Anyone is invited. Raylan 15:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] War and Remembrance

Very nice contributions to the article on this major 20th cent novel. Would you be able to add something to the "Plot summary" section, it is ages since I read it so would struggle myself. Just as a guide try looking at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate for some other section prompts, idea and style ideas. Hope it helps. Thanks again. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page) 16:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC) GABaker 20:58, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I've been watching the miniseries on some rather scratchy VCR tapes and reading the novel again. I have enjoyed doing so. GABaker 22 March 2005 20:58 (UTC)

[edit] Trooping the Colour - BBC2 references

Hi - I have been doing extensive cleanup on this in trying to raise it to Featured Article standard. Regarding your refs to the BBC2 broadcasts in 2005 and 2006. I am presuming that you have put these in because you have contributed to these in the past and used the commentary in the article in some way, esp. if you have referred to them on video. That, to me, can be the only reason for including the broadcasts which are not available to the worldwide Wiki audience.

The Beeb 2 broadcasts are generally highlights; is there any reason why you don't refer to the BBC1 version shown in the morning? In any event, could you please format those references with full dates and times to conform to Wikipedia guidelines?

Please post your reply on Talk:Trooping the Colour. -- FClef (Talk) 02:32, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:CoastGuardEnsign.jpg

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[edit] WGMS Comment

Please do not add the comment "poorly written update rewritten" on the WGMS page. I could say the same about the WFAX page (please don't put additions below the links). The article in question on WGMS was taken from DCRTV.com directly, so no one on Wikipedia wrote that article. Contact DCRTV.com to let them know that their writting skills aren't up to par. Even if someone writes something here on Wiki, give 'em a break....we aren't all great writers. Thanks....SVRTVDude 04:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coast Guard article mergers

Hi there. I have proposed merging Federal Maritime Security Coordinator, Officer in Charge Marine Inspections, Federal On Scene Coordinator (USCG), and the U.S. section of Captain of the Port into Sector Commander. Just wanted to see if you have any thoughts on the topic. --Pesco 23:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Apparent copyright violation

Please be careful not to post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder as you seem to have done to USAT Dorchester. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. The text you added is included verbatim in the document to which you linked and also in other places, like this blog. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl 17:24, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

--There cannot be a copyright violation, since as a work of the United States Government, Coast Guard public affairs releases are in the public domain. --GABaker 17:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. But please put comments on talk pages and not userpages. :) --Moonriddengirl 21:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
oh, and I'm sorry for the misidentification. And for forgetting to include that crucial component in my last response. --Moonriddengirl 21:50, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD discussion

I thought that you, as a contributor to List of fictional books, might want to add your opinion to this discussion of the possible deletion of List of fictional books within the Harry Potter series.--ShelfSkewed Talk 18:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo War

Yesterday, you reverted the article on Kosovo War so that it now shows that participation of Mujahideen units in it is claimed by Serbia but disputed by KLA (which implies: claimed only by Serbia, and no one else). You also claimed that it is a concensus. However, if you look at the talk page, you will see that most users agree that the fact should be in the article, and no one mentions addition of the text you have reverted, so that is clearly not the concensus. Furthermore, no one mentioned that this fact is claimed by Serbia, actually not a single source provided was from Serbia, and no on mentioned that it is disputed by KLA. So, I urge you to not hastily revert in the future. Nikola 19:16, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Motor vessel Pegasus

[edit] Motor vessel Pegasus

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[edit] 1824: The Arkansas War, Eric Flint, Arkansas Army Flag

Hi-- thought I'd point out that you have the Arkansas army flag wrong. You just got a bit mixed up. The triangle is not smack dab in the middle, it's sideways from the hoist. It's called a chevron, I believe; though I think there might be another name. You can see an image of it on the cover of the Arkansas War-- the title is the flag. http://www.amazon.com/1824-Arkansas-War-Eric-Flint/dp/0345465695/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-8585063-6879216?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194643264&sr=8-2

The Arkansas Army flag is also identical to the national flag, but the national (before Driscoll altered it) was just a salmon field with the triangle. I was also under the impression that all the stripes/bars/whatever were the same size, but on that I could easily be wrong.

You also said it was described in Rivers of War, and even though that doesn't really matter, it wasn't-- 1824 was The Arkansas War, and in 1812: The Rivers of War Arkansas didn't exist as a nation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Walker-121 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Cool. I'll fix it and repost-GAB.

[edit] Comment on user page

You left the following comment on my user page:

Okay, you got the joke and removed it. Fine. --GABaker 1719 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are referring to here and I don't know why you put it on my user page as opposed to my talk page. (I actually hadn't realised that user pages were editable by other users.) I have deliberately kept my user page blank for years so that my username is red on history pages, and therefore easier to find. This is no longer the case and I'm not sure if there is a way to go back.

I have moved the comment to my talk page. Cjrother 03:05, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Epic Barnstar
For your contributions to military history articles and others. Kannie | talk 15:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kargil War

I'm pretty sure I added that a while back; maybe it got removed along the way, somehow. Good catch, at any rate. El_C 15:06, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chippawa, Ontario

What is the reason that you undid my revision to Chippawa, Ontario? R00m c (talk) 04:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I prefer addding information, or improving the quality of information; in this case, could you try again with a more comprehensive revision? GABaker (talk) 17:01, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
But you can't just copy and past the work of some one else. According to Wikipedia:Copyrights#Using copyrighted work from others "Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt the project. If in doubt, write it yourself." You can use The Village of Chippawa - a history as a source of your information but you can not copy it directly. R00m c (talk) 20:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
True, and I didn't notice the copyright notice. With attribution and rewriting, it could be a very useful asset, however. Chippawa is important in U.S. military history because of the American victory there in 1814.GABaker (talk) 21:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I agree.R00m c (talk) 21:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)