User talk:Wild Wolf

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[edit] order of battle

I have {{prod}}ded some of your "order of battle" articles and you should consider all of them prodded. I strongly recommend that you move all these articles to your own website. There is no room here for what is essentially just a list of names - see "Wikipedia is not".

Also, these articles are totally without context - is it too much to ask you to start each article with "this is the order of battle of the Confederate army at the Battle of Havant in 1859".

-- RHaworth 16:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I have just noticed how long some of these articles have been around. Piecemeal "prodding" is not appropriate. I shall try and start an AfD discussion soon. -- RHaworth 16:15, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Interesting work on the orders of battle for the Civil War. I fixed a few links for you (mostly ones where you used initials instead of first names for officers. What battles are you doing next? Scott Mingus 20:44, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Your order of battle articles are turning out nicely; I just looked at the one you did for Shiloh. I generally try to avoid the snarky little warning boxes that people like to sprinkle around articles, so I will just point out to you that all of these articles should have a References section at the bottom that indicates where you got the data. Hal Jespersen 23:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pennsylvania State Symbols

Nice edit. ClairSamoht 01:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regimental names

First, thanks for editing my articles. Second, I'm expanding the stubs of the Pennsylvania Civil War regiments and writing articles for several more. I was wondering if the Union army prefered calling the regiments "Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry" or "Pennsylvania Regiments." You can answer me on my talk page. Thanks. Wild Wolf 02:30, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. There is quite a degree of variability in the names used in various states. I frankly do not keep track of which ones were called what, any more than I pay much attention as to whether some states are really called Commonwealths or not. I would recommend that we stick with a common naming convention across all Civil War articles, regardless of what the units were called at the time:

<ordinal number> <state> <arm>, with "Regiment" appended only upon first usage, and subsequent uses of the arm only to disambiguate like-named units.

Examples:

  • 1st Pennsylvania Infantry
  • 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry
  • 3rd Pennsylvania Light Artillery

You might check out my personal style guide recommendations. Hal Jespersen 23:04, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

The pictures from the Internet are copyrighted on some pages some not. Maybe if you find them you can post them here and I'll have a look? ForestH2

[edit] Spanish Inquisition

I recently recieved this from the user editing Spanish Inquisition and Inquisition:

"i'm not that great with using this system but i think you & "Wild Wolf," who has now threatened to block my ip adress - wrote me expressing concern re the additions i've made to the spanish inquisition page. i don't know how into this subject you are or if you had been on this page before but the info posted here was all Inquisition revisionist bs that, if it belongs anywhere, belongs on the "Inquisition Myth" page (where it is already btw located anyway). maybe reading the page before gave you some ideas about the inquisition that just happen to be ridiculously wrong, but i am very comfortable with the accuracy of all the contributions i've made - i've really gone to great efforts to be as accurate as possible and have cited quite a few sources. The Inquisition was a pretty major chapter of history and trying to help people learn the lessons from catastrophic lessons like that is not at all wrong. If some language isn't polite enough for you (or is too honest or blunt), change it. I'm always curious to know other peoples' viewpoints but just reverting the page is annoying - that's not changing the things you have good reason to believe are inaccurate, that's giving somebody a hard time, which is exactly what Wolf seems to have been doing. i don't seem to be able to write him a message but if you have any contact whim you can tell him inquisition revisionism has zero credibility among serious scholars of Spanish history. i will continue to try to be as accurate as possible in future additions." User:24.145.184.199 01:52, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree with him - some of his edits are a little PoV, but it has to be said that he is on the whole making decent edits. I'm going to stop reverting him, although I might make a few changes here and there. HawkerTyphoon 10:25, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I am quite happy to 'moderate' this, as it were, from a neutralish PoV (I'm Agnostic), but reading up on Catholic or anti-Catholic literature is not something I can do - I've promised myself I'd give religion a wide berth, and I'm not too keen on forming any sort of opinion about it... Not even for Wikipedia! User:Stalbach is of the opinion that I am horribly PoV, however, all I'm keen on mentioning is that User:24.145.184.199 has made some good points. HawkerTyphoon 15:57, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JD Template

Hey, how's it goin'? I built that template "User folk". Sorry about the recent changes due to Jimbo's laws with templates. But, luckily, I've got the recipie for another good one. Ii's not violating the Wikipedia law, so enjoy:

45px This user is a John Denver fan.

Enjoy. Editor19841 23:59, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Wondering where you were-The website you put the article on, an admin or another user will indeed delete your picture if they think it is copyrighted-My past experiences with copyright-that doesn't look like a possible copyright. ForestH2

[edit] WikiProject Narnia

Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in The Chronicles of Narnia. I thought you may be interested in knowing that there is a WikiProject working to improve articles about Narnia, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please consider joining the WikiProject Narnia. Thank you! Bornagain4 03:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Second Bull Run Union OB

Please add the Kanawha Division to the IX Corps when you get time. Thanks for all the hard work on the many OBs you have created! Nice job! Scott Mingus 04:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding this! Greetings from York County, PA... Scott Mingus 15:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar awarded!

The Original Barnstar
For hardwork and dedication to making Wikipedia a better place, I, Scott Mingus, award you this Original Barnstar. Wild Wolf, your hours of work to create (and then in many cases modify the style) of dozens of Civil War orders of battle has been impressive and of personal interest to me as an ACW wargamer. Please continue to provide this service for other important battles. Nice work! Scott Mingus 13:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Poems, Prayers & Promises 2.jpg

Hello Wild Wolf, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:Poems, Prayers & Promises 2.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Wild Wolf. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not readd the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 05:11, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

I'm writing to inform you that we are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

Thanks and I hope you join up! Cbrown1023 talk 04:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Order of battle at Caporetto

Order of battle at Caporetto, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Order of battle at Caporetto satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Order of battle at Caporetto and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Order of battle at Caporetto during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Rackabello 23:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Order of battle at Caporetto. 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Dbromage [Talk] 00:20, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response to questions

Hello from York County! I agree that PA articles should be consistent in name (in fact, all ACW regimental articles should be, but that is a daunting task. If you want to tackle PA, go ahead. Personally, I'd rather keep the actual title short in the article name. As far as merging the lists of regiments, go for it. I wasn't sure why these were created separately in the first place, although I assume the editors involved weren't aware of each other's activities. There are definitions of the theaters, but I can't find my reference. Arizona, NM, California, Colorado, etc. were Pacific Coast. Nebraska, Indiana Territory, Texas, Arkansas, etc. were Trans-Mississippi.Finally, Fort Sumter was considered to be a separate campaign than the actions to take Charleston later in the war. regards!!! Scott Mingus 01:15, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Penna. ACW regiment names

I changed all the Ohio Civil War article titles to be consistent, inspired by your efforts with the PA articles. Keep up the good work! Scott Mingus 00:47, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Additional questions

1. Individual battles are added to the battles in X campaign per the WP:ACW guidelines. 2. Yes, separating Union and Confederate units from the same state has been done for other states (Kentucky, I believe, perhaps Louisiana as well).

Scott Mingus (talk) 16:13, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Wild Wolf! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 22:39, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LST categories

Wild Wolf - I didn't create the campaign category system, so I am not an expert on this area. I suggest you post to the WP:ACW. Warmest regards! Scott Mingus (talk) 01:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Wild Wolf, I have written an article which is up for its second Peer Review in hopes of nominating it to FA. The PR can be found here. Any comments you may have would be appreciated. Regards, Daysleeper47 (talk) 20:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)