User talk:Riddley/2007-01-24

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[edit] Article request

Hi Riddley - you're doing some great work on ammunition at the moment! I don't know exactly where your interests lie, but I'd really love to see an article on the .303 British round from you - lots of articles in WikiProject Aircraft would be able to make use of a link there... Cheers! --Rlandmann 23:50, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Many thanks! :) --Rlandmann 05:13, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks also for all of your work on firearms! AlexanderWinston 23:37, 2004 Oct 5 (UTC)
Triple thanks. I keep on eye on new pages for Template:Did you know and your stuff is always very well done. Feel free to nominate anything you write that you think is DYK-worthy on Template_talk:Did you know or on my talk page. Cheers! jengod 17:53, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Great work

Congrats on your ammunition contributions. I misread the table which caused me to add Sten, but as you point out Luger is the name of the ammunition and not the weapon it is fired from. Sorry about that, and thanks for the correction. Cheers. Moriori 21:42, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Definitions

It would really help those who don;t know about all of these armament articles you spend so much time improving, if you started each with a definition of what the heck was being discussed. Take 9 mm caliber. Nowhere on the article do you define what a 9 mm caliber is. Oh, and the table on that page has headings, such as OAL, which are incomprehensible without explanation. --Tagishsimon

Many thanks. Makes a lot more sense now. --Tagishsimon
Ah. Next issue: units. I can infer you're denoting units in mm then (imperial) ... but can everyone else? --Tagishsimon


[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. I see you're not too active anymore, but if you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:09, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

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Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 03:19, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modern issue re-hash

I have responded to your matter. I would appreciate it if you in the future add new talk items at the end of the page...this is not only my page, but most folks I have seen. As for your issue, I wouldn't put too much into the whole 'modern' thing, it just isn't that big a deal. I'm no fan, but don't care for any of the other 'solutions' either. Josh 08:32, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] saw your width fix on Mel Gipson

You used

Is that how to re-widthing? John wesley 19:18, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] McDonalds

Your edit summary for this change had me laughing. Doesn't happen often. Take care, thanks for the laugh. --Stéphane Charette 18:12, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop deleting Popular Culture sections from firearms articles

I hadn't noticed this becoming project policy, but there's a wider WP wide consensus on this that it is unavoidably information people are interested in and which is therefore notable. A project can't impose its policy on wider, wikipedia-wide policies. Please stop making those modifications while I push back on the project page. Georgewilliamherbert 18:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please do not re-name firearm calibre articles

I appreciate the effort, but I have a loathing of the WP "style" for firearm calibres, involving "X mm" or "A mm x B mm". It just looks wrong, and I'd appreciate it if you refrained from re-naming my articles without at least consulting me first. --Commander Zulu 13:59, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Your point is taken, but I'd still consider it a courtesy to post on an article's talk page before changing the title, to give people a chance for discussion. --Commander Zulu 14:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Benelli

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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:RPGs.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:RPGs.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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Yes, I saw that. However, that's not proof of a source. While I agree it's similar to most Navy description pages, it doesn't mean it is. If you could just provide the URL of the image we could get this all cleared up quickly. I plan on moving the image to Commons once you provide the source. I do think it's a valid image, but we still need the URL source. Thank you for your understanding. --MECU≈talk 19:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't have time for games. Please provide the source, whatever it is. --MECU≈talk 19:09, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I know that. I am a Marine. But, the Marines are part of the Navy and their images are on the navy website typically. Which is where I've gotten lots of images. --MECU≈talk 19:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)