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Revision as of 16:55, 24 January 2006

Hello there David, welcome to Misplaced Pages! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Misplaced Pages:How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style.

Experiment at Misplaced Pages:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Misplaced Pages:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Angela 12:42 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Manual of Style

I'm pretty new to this whole wikipedia thing, and I've noticed sometimes that people make some of the most random edits, twice in which they decapitalize every word in a heading on the page except for the first one. I figured that because these edits were made specifically for that purpose, there must be a reason for it. I went into the capitalization policy for the site, and it seemed to only apply to the actual names of the pages themselves, until I came across the heading section--obviously seeing your name in the discussion page. You made references to the possibility of changing the policy, and I was curious as to (1) whether or not you found out why this policy exists in the first place and (2) whether or not you have tried to do or plan to do anything about it. If you do decide to change the policy to standard format, by which only interior article adjectives and small prepositions are displayed as lowercase, I would gladly give my vote towards that change, as I personally don't understand the policy as it is. But if that has already been tried or if your opinion has changed due to information you have discovered since that time, my personally curiosity motivates me to ask what this seemingly random policy is all about in the first place. Thank you. --Shackleton 4:56 28-07-05

RE:RCAF Flag.gif

From my user page, ] from Graham himself, While I don't mind the images being used in Misplaced Pages, whose aims I wholeheartedly endorse, I would prefer it that my copyright in the images is acknowledged in some form. I regularly give permission for images from my site to be used on other websites and only ask that they include an acknowledgement such as "Flag image courtesy of The World Flag Database www.flags.net". Would it be possible to add this to the "image tags" of all the images of mine that you are using?A notice is such applied. Astrotrain 19:06, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

I, myself, have launched an email to Graham. Though I do see what Astrotrain has receieved on his archive page, I just think that if he wants the images to be credited, I can go ahead and make a template. If he wants them gone, then I will make them gone, since I have the ability to do so. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 19:45, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Many many thanks

Thank you for contributing to the USS Trigger (SS-237) article. My great grandfather, William Zugecich, was aboard that submarine when it disappeared in the pacific. The information you and others have provided are very much appreciated by everyone in my family. This is the most thorough record of the Trigger's voyages that I have yet seen, and is a wonderful dedication to those who died to protect the freedoms of our beloved land. Salva 01:38, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

2005 Hurricanes

I believe that the 17 storms count is based upon named storms; consequently, Tropical Depression 10 is not counted in the total. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 22:11, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Re:Acts of Parliament

Thanks for the note. I liked the infobox btw. :) Do you have any advice on how to add acts in years which had two sessions i.e. 1914. There were two Finance Acts, I wasn't sure the best way to distinguish between them :) --KURANDO 11:03, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Ammunition ship classes?

I've just been writing stubs for various USN ship classes. I note you made templates for the Suribachi class ammunition ships and Nitro class ammunition ships some months back; can you remember why you did these seperately? I have a book to hand which seems to think they're both the same class, but it's rather vaguely written and it'd be nice to clear this up. Shimgray | talk | 23:50, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

USN jack image(s)

Okaay, I've been working through the articles using Image:Usnjack.png, switching them to Image:USN-Jack.png, |48px. But now I see a notice that the preferred replacement is Image:US Naval Jack.svg.

Is that correct? —wwoods 18:35, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, 1707-1799

Should this be renamed to Acts of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain or similar? I won't make any changes as I am not sure whether it would break the infobox template! --KURANDO 11:45, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Major General C. M. Barber

Hi, I am looking for some biographical information on Major General C. M. Barber for an article in the German Misplaced Pages on the Barber-Lyashenko-agreement which realigned the border between the English and the Soviet zone in Schleswig-Holstein. Can you help? Thank you --Concord 15:05, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

William Evan Allen

• Err, the Navy is one of Australias Armed Forces. --Irishpunktom\ 14:43, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

GFDL question

Thanks for your advice on the GFDL (with respect to the Chicago flag image). I still have some doubts, though, about my rights under the license. Could you take a look at my question and let me know what you think? Thanks. Mindfrieze 15:49, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Crown Copyright question

Hi! The Template:PD-BritishGov states that photographs taken prior to 1955 are in the public domain. Does this include unpublished images? I seem to recall that CC images created prior to '57 are also PD. If so, would that then mean such images at http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/ are in the Public Domain? For example, would this image be considered PD? Sorry about bothering you with this, but I'm interestered in using that particular image in an article. SoLando (Talk) 00:42, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much for giving your time to give such a comprehensive reply, which certainly answered my query. I can't say I'm anxiously awaiting 2039, but it is interesting to know (assuming Misplaced Pages still exists then ;-)). By the way, I hope you didn't think I was questioning the reliability of your template (or at least the references it was based on) - I personally think you are one of the most reliable contributors, hence why I brought my query to you :-) Take care. SoLando (Talk) 23:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Gun-type plutonium weapon

Please see Talk:Fat_Man#Gun_type about an old contribution of you .--Patrick 09:04, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Improved infobox syntax

HMS Newton Date launched: 1999 Location {{{place}}} Strength 100 aircraft

HMS Newton Location {{{place}}} Belligerents Displacement: 60,000 tons

David Newton Location {{{place}}} Result 200 meters

David Newton Location {{{place}}}

David, have you been following the developments in infoboxes such as Template:Warbox and Template:Infobox_Film? I don't understand the syntax, but it seems to be very flexible and tolerant of optional line items. E.g.:

Wwoods 01:10, 4 December 2005

Nimitz class infoboxs

I don't know if you relise this, but all of the Nimitz class carrier infoboxs are not displaying things like displacement and radars and such, the boxes that should contain that info say "Nimitz class carrier I" or something similar to it. TomStar81 02:42, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Whew, that a load off. I noticed the infobar switch when I tweaked the USS Abraham Lincoln page a little. At first I thought it was something I had done, so I was in a panic. Thanks for the heads up, and Good Luck! TomStar81 10:18, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

For some reason, there's a lot of space added around the jack images. It looks kind of odd, since "Career" is at the top of its cell.
—wwoods 19:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

What is going on with the flag images is that they are set to be vertically aligned with the middle of the cell (the default setting for HTML tables) and there are two lines of text on the left which means there is the space above and below the flag images. David Newton 19:34, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Two lines of text? I only see two words. Is there some way to cut it to one line?

I've added some general comments at User talk:David Newton/New Format Ship Tables/IF Operator Table

—wwoods 22:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't know why it insists on putting the text on two lines. It is very odd indeed since at least so far as I can see from the code it should not do so. David Newton 22:25, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Flag of Ontario, et al.

Hello! Thanks for your note. I created the prior PNG and current SVG for this provincial flag, and others. (I find some of the free Sodipodi renditions are 'off'.) I also release the images I created to the public domain but am also cognizant that the flags/symbols themselves (in prior and current SVGs) may have limited use (depending on the jurisdiction). I apologise if I didn't get the tags right, but this is my intention; please edit them as needed. Thoughts? Thanks! E Pluribus Anthony 15:17, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Right on! :)

And despite your prior note to me eons ago, I remain somewhat unclear about the correct use of some tags and such, particularly when dealing with Crown copyrights. I'll overcome this eventually, methinks; in any event, please forgive me and thank you for your attention to this. E Pluribus Anthony 16:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

Lists of USN ships

What do you think about slightly changing the formatting for List of United States Navy ships, A, et al.? I'm thinking of adding live links from the designations of ships with unique names. I.e. instead of

USS Malo (IX-42) , making it

USS Malo (IX-42) .

When I filled out and split the list last spring, I just took the format as I found it, but it makes sense to me to have the plain links, since every ship name should have either an index page or a redirect. If the designations were also links, we could see the cases where the redirect was needed.
And, we wouldn't have to keep reverting people who are helpfully 'fixing' the links.

—wwoods 10:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I think that's reasonable thing to do. We certainly still have a massive amount of work to do with ships of the USN to say the least. That's before even beginning to think about foreign navies that don't have such a nice resource as DANFS available. David Newton 20:45, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:British-Civil-Jack.png has been listed for deletion

--Sherool (talk) 15:52, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:British-Blue-Ensign.png has been listed for deletion

--Sherool (talk) 00:36, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:British-Merchant-Navy-Ensign.png has been listed for deletion

--Sherool (talk) 00:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi David, Please help

I would like to request your help with serious NPOV and verifiability problems on the Arabic numerals page. I have mentioned it, yet again, here Misplaced Pages:Wikiquette_alerts#December_17. Please help me recruit as many neutral and well-intending editors to the page to counter the strong and manifest bias. Regards, and thanks. csssclll (14:43, 17 December 2005 (UTC))

Kkkensign.png

Hi David, I've added the information you requested. As for the abbreviation, thanks for noticing that. I thought up that "KKK" to mean "K. u. K. Kriegsmarine" without knowing anything about the other possible usages. Well, such approach apparently wasn't very wise. -- Sandius 12:56, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Civil Air Ensign

This is just to let you know that I used your Civil Air Ensign in Image:NZCAE.svg.

DiamondVertex (Talk) 05:03, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Also just in, I used your RAF ensign in this. DiamondVertex (Talk) 05:41, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Afd q

Is the List of LSTs being used by you or a group to "fill-in" missing articles, or for any other purpose? I ask because the list is on Afd at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of LSTs. KillerChihuahua 22:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

FOTW stuff

Ole Anderson from FOTW contacted me about Template:User FOTWer and maybe we could use this to talk about FOTW on the Wiki. Zach 09:50, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Ship table vs. infobox

What's the current situation of template:Ship table vis a vis template:Infobox Ship? Which should be used? —wwoods 07:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Bach image

Hi

The building was demolished in 1902, so the image was taken before then; does that place it out of copyright? Is fair use possible?

Tony

Template Deletions

I have nominated {{PD-old-50}} and {{PD-art-life-50}} for deletion at WP:TFD#Template:PD-old-50 because I do not believe they are legally valid. Superm401 | Talk 07:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Ship table

I implemented "gray" for NavyColor on Template:Ship table on the Laurent Millaudon article. PAR 04:58, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Infobox ship

Infobox ship should probably be TFD'd as a fork of Ship table; would it be hard to move articles using Infobox ship over to using Ship table? —Locke Cole • t • c 16:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)