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Hayagriva

With respect to Wikification, there are whole sections with no wikilinks whatsoever. That's not normal in a Misplaced Pages article. With respect to references, there are really no citations to the references. It is not adequate to merely list sources. The information has to be cited to the sources. See WP:CITE. (Note: the problem is with the "anybody can edit" method of Misplaced Pages. An article cited only at the end when written may be changed by others. Therefore, all information needs to be footnoted so that future editors can verify which information came from which source, to prevent the information from being changed while leaving the implication that the information came from one of the cited sources.) IPSOS (talk) 22:00, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:pnc nominated for deletion

See Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Template:pnc for the discussion, which will certainly spill over into larger issues. Your thoughts would be appreciated. --Kevin Murray 23:21, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Misplaced Pages's coverage of topics related to military history.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Kirill Lokshin 11:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Military history project publications

User:Kyriakos is working on a wikireader about 'Athens, history of a maor power in ancient Greece'. So far the topic has quite a lot to do with naval warfare. Would you be interested in helping with this task? Greetings Wandalstouring 11:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Saul Rosen

I believe Saul Rosen is definately more credible than such as Adam Rosen, Founder of the Miami Gay-Straight Alliance Corps, Facilitator of JCC Rainbow Fund, Axel Rosen, who doesn't even have a wikipedia page, Dan Rosen?, a few RABBIs... I'm just telling you how absurd it is how a multimillionare and one of the largest car firms in the UNITED STATES Cannot have his name listed in one of the famous rosens! 24.13.253.21 19:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC) www.rosenrosen.com

You're Right

You were right about the "no personal attacks" policy, which I violated on the Elton John page. Thanks for reminding me. Keep up the good work! Also, would you like to guess what I stuck up my butt today? 172.162.2.155 11:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

No thanks. Given that I haven't reminded you about personal attacks or anything else, I think you're confusing me with someone who cares. Euryalus 11:44, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Shadoof

Good maintenance! Peterkingiron 22:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Porteous

Thank you for your kind response. I was not at all assuming bad faith in reverting the notability tag. I simply disagree as to the question of notability. Porteous was a viable candidate in a high-profile race; she was one of the first minor party candidates (along with Fiona Byrne in Marrickville) in state history to be given a chance of a lower house victory. A search of newspaper archive Factiva turns up quite a few more press mentions both in the context of that campaign and in her role as a councillor, and I'd argue that that criterion is met. Still, my view has no more merit than yours, so if you wish to seek a consensus for deletion, feel free. :) Rebecca 04:10, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Bill Haley

That is a great site! Vielen Dank! It always amazes me that Europeans seem to know more about our music that we do. Would you think about some text for that link such as "auf Deutsch" but has great photos even if you can't read German? I guess that's what the dt is? And so much other stuff! I will be back there! Steve Pastor 19:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Errol Flynn

Thanks for your comment. As I mentioned, LC Robson who was headmaster at the time (during the 1920s) struck Flynn's name from the official register. I formerly attended the school and worked in the school archives and there is photographic evidence of Flynn prior to his expulsion. Additionally, the story of Errol Flynn and the manner of his expulsion is one of the enduring school "legends" passed down from generation to generation (which is not difficult given that mayny sons follow their fathers and grand-fathers to the school, and cetain members of staff had been employed there for up to 40 years). Regrettably though, short of visiting the school archives, there is nothing I am going to be able to produce for Misplaced Pages.--Calabraxthis 11:59, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Subsequent to this, I have managed to find one reference to Errol Flynn attending the school. Please see the article in question. Kind regards. --Calabraxthis 12:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Help

(moved from userpage) hey euryalus , whats up ? i really need help with translation... i translated a certain article to a different language and i dont know how to submit it... can u help me out? thanks! Shantigk69

Reverting

Hi, please be careful when reverting vandalism, so that you don't revert to a vandalised version. I've reverted to the clean version. Cheers. – Chacor 11:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XIV (April 2007)

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Ronald McDonald

Just an FYI, Ronald McDonald wasn't really empty, but was instead a victim of page move vandalism combined with other vandalism edits. I've put everything back where it should be. -- Gogo Dodo 06:36, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Re your message: It was a little confusing. When you move a page, the edit history goes with it. So when Angelica Pickles (talk · contribs) moved it, the edit history went there. An anonymous IP came along and replaced the redirect with nonsense, another IP showed up and blanked the nonsense, MartinBot (talk · contribs) reverted that, and then you CSD tagged it. I'd point you to the history, but I had to delete it to move the article back to where it's supposed to be. If the page move was caught before the anonymous IPs came along, you would have been able to move it back, but since they changed something, it required intervention by an admin. So you could say that everything ended up just fine as your CSD tag caught an admin's attention which was going to be needed to put the page back where it's supposed to be. =) -- Gogo Dodo 17:08, 14 May 2007 (UTC)