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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello Splamo, welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed nobody had said hi yet... Hi!

If you feel a change is needed, feel free to make it yourself! Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone (yourself included) can edit any article by following the Edit this page link. Wikipedia convention is to be bold and not be afraid of making mistakes. If you're not sure how editing works, have a look at How to edit a page, or try out the Sandbox to test your editing skills.

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If, for some reason, you are unable to fix a problem yourself, feel free to ask someone else to do it. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Boot Camp, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Wikipedia has a vibrant community of contributors who have a wide range of skills and specialties, and many of them would be glad to help. As well as the wiki community pages there are IRC Channels, where you are more than welcome to ask for assistance.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, -- Alf melmac 23:06, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting redlinks

Hi there. Just a note: you don't really need to remove all the links to non-existent articles. Some removals are appropriate as the subject is unnotable and will likely never get an article of their own, but it's generally the safer bet to just leave the link in. After all, someone might see that it doesn't have an article and become inspired to write one!

In any case, welcome to Wikipedia! — Saxifrage ✎ 02:54, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I have to second Saxifrage's comments. I have reverted your redlink deletions on Razzle Dazzle as any of those individuals may have articles written about them in the future. 23skidoo 22:50, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scoutiing

With your obvious interest in Scouting, you should join the Scouting WikiProject. Let me know if you have questions. Rlevse 02:41, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Lmpfrontbig.gif

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[edit] Cruise ship edits

Hi Spalmo. Can you please be more careful when you edit cruise ship articles? Almost all of your recent edits unnecessarily removed existing information and formatting. If you want to add information, please read over the article and add your information in the appropriate areas without wrecking the work the other people have already contributed. Thanks. --NormanEinstein 20:59, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I reverted a few of your changes because they removed large chunks of existing information. For instance, this edit you made removed two paragraphs of detailed information. I realize you made some other formatting changes to that page, but please try to work with what already exists. In another example, this edit you completely deleted an existing infobox and replaced it with a list. I'm sorry if I upset you by reverting, but please continue editing because most of the cruise ship articles do need some work. You might want to checkout some guidelines and see what's going on over at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships. --NormanEinstein 21:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue I - March 2006
Project news
From the Coordinators

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Military history WikiProject's newsletter! We hope that this new format will help members—especially those who may be unable to keep up with some of the rapid developments that tend to occur—find new groups and programs within the project that they may wish to participate in.

Please consider this inital issue to be a prototype; as always, any comments and suggestions are quite welcome, and will help us improve the newsletter in the coming months.

Kirill Lokshin, Lead Coordinator
Current proposals
  • Proposed guidelines for categories of military people are currently being discussed. A number of issues have already been resolved, but the proposed scheme is still in draft form and further input would be very welcome.

delivered by Loopy e 05:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of Elation

I noticed that you nominated Elation for deletion. For some reason, it isn't appearing properly on the AfD page. I took a further look, though, and it looks like you're the only author of that article. In that case, you can request a speedy deletion of the page (via Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion). Just put the {{db-author}} template on the page, and mention why it should be deleted. It should be sufficient to explain that it's a duplicate of the MS Elation article, I think. Using the speedy deletion process is more streamlined than AfD in cases like this. --Elkman - (talk) 16:24, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of Enchantment of the Seas

When nominating someone else's article for deletion, make sure that you don't blank the article in question while doing the nominating, so that other users can judge the article's merits. Andy Saunders 16:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] M*A*S*H articles

Yo, thanks for starting on them. One thing: Please bulk them out a bit. I got all excited, only to be greeted with one sentence and a stub template. Don't do that to me again, and pad them out. Thanks, mate. Sarsaparilla39 11:35, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scouting article work

If you are getting this, it is because you do or did work on Scouting articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scouting#Participants_and_primary_areas_of_interest).

As the Scouting WikiProject has been formed since early January 2006, we've had many great improvements made in this area of Wiki and I want to personally thank everyone for their help. We don't always agree on things, but we keep moving forward. YIS, Rlevse 22:09, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II

The April 2006 issue of the project newsletter is now out. You may read this issue or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following the link. Thanks. Kirill Lokshin 18:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nice

yo, nice seabourn picture u put up

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue III - May 2006

The May 2006 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Kirill Lokshin 05:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue IV - June 2006

The June 2006 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Kirill Lokshin 05:25, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

Big shiny welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Firefly WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Firefly's coverage of topics.

A few features that you might find helpful:

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

  • Starting some new articles? Our style guidelines outline some things to include.
  • Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every Firefly article in Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow Browncoat, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Keep flyin'plange 20:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm also a member of the MILHIST project ;-) plange 20:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ship tables

Hello Splamo. I have been changing ship infoboxes to change the "Launched" field to "Placed in service". The folks at CruiseCritic apparently don't know that ships are launched months or a year or more before they are finished and commissioned, formally named (sometimes), and placed in service. And the use of the military template for passenger ships causes problems-- unfortunately there is no agreed-upon passenger template yet. So I have been changing "Displacement" to "Tonnage", and have also changed "Launched" to "Placed in service" as the last is a date applicable to all ships, regardless of the differences in the method of their construction (on slipways or in graving docks) or inauguration formalities. If you want to discuss, reply here; I'll watch your site. Thanks. Kablammo 02:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue V - July 2006

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[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history Coordinator Elections!

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[edit] Carnival Spirit

Greetings Splamo!

I'm writing you in regards to your article on the Carnival Spirit. Have you ever been on that ship before?

                                   -OxfordScholar09

[edit] August 2006 Firefly Newsletter

The August 2006 issue of the Firefly WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. plange 01:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator election - vote phase!

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[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue VI - August 2006

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[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Middle-earth!

Hello, Splamo!

Thank you for joining WikiProject Middle-earth and contributing to improve Tolkien-related articles. We are glad to have you join in the effort!

Here're some good links and subpages related to our WikiProject.

If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to ask on our talk page.

Thank you for your contributions and have fun editing! —Mirlen 21:51, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beanie Baby tags

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Beanie Baby tags, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.aboutbeanies.com/swingtags.html. As a copyright violation, Beanie Baby tags appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Beanie Baby tags has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Beanie Baby tags. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Beanie Baby tags, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Matt Eason 19:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Aah, okay, I can certainly see why you moved it to a new article. It's almost certainly a copyvio on the part of the original contributer (User:63.157.234.208) so I'll leave the db-copyvio tag on the new article. Matt Eason 19:34, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Camp LaNoChe Article

Please help me keep this article from being deleted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_La-No-Che

[edit] Commercial vessel template

Hello. As you may know, there are a variety of infobox templates used for ocean liners; at least one of which is ill-suited to passenger vessels. As a consequence of a discussion I had with User:Ebyabe at User_talk:Ebyabe#RMS_Queen_Mary, Ebyabe has generously agreed to create a template for passenger vessels. It appears at Template:Infobox Commercial Ship. Its creator needs assistance with the fields for the template. For example, it will need a tonnage field, but would not need a displacement field. Should beam be moulded breadth, or extreme beam? Should length be pp, or oa? Given your interest in this area, would you be willing to particpate in the project? If so, go to Template talk:Infobox Commercial Ship and weigh in. It may be that different templates are needed for passenger ships (gt), freighters (dwt, net), containerships (TEU) and that one size will not fit all. Thanks for your interest. Kablammo 21:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:MILHIST Coordinator Elections

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[edit] WikiProject Military History elections

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[edit] Clive Cussler

A request for confirmation that Cussler is an Eagle Scout has been on Talk:Clive Cussler since September. I did some searching at the time with no results. If you can confirm that he is indeed an Eagle, then we will welcome the cited entry. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category of Clive Cussler

A few things here - the term Book or Novel are in the case of Cussler's work nearly as applicable. But they are Novels, delivered in the form of Books. A small semantic point but there it is.

The other thing it is normal when proposing a category removal to propose first and empty the categories only if the debate is in favour.

The next thing is that "most of the novels are grouped in "Dirk Pitt novels" which was already a "deeper" category under "Novels by Clive Cussler".

Next thing if there is a valid debate about the future of these categories it is really the "Books by author" or "Works by author" of the 22 March that should set the precident.

I didn't mean to cross sword with anyone and still don't, but the area of categorisation is such a fiddly thing it is difficult to bring clear order to the caos, hope to understand and I'm sure that is what we are all "trying" for. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 15:30, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Hang on a minute you have just moved them all again - this is a little silly - they are novels after all. Can we agree to put them back - at least until the debate is had. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 15:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
"The Sea Hunters" books I notice are "not" in the "Books by" category as non-fiction (i.e. not Novels) that doesn't make too much sense. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 15:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that - we are here to co-operate after all and that is how I like it. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 15:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

As to the "Deeper" category issue. I personally would tend to agree with you and place the individual articles in both the "Novels by" and "Dirk Pitt novels" cats but that is not the way it appears to be done here. Plenty of editors make it their work to remove articles to the deeepest category possible and reduce the category count per article. I can see why, but it makes the logic of a category less easy to see. If you did that I personally would not object but I can see it being reversed by others, and fairly soon. Cheers. Thanks for you efforts on the Clive Cussler articles by the way, and I think articles on the other series is a good idea! Regards :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 15:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National Scout Jamboree (Boy Scouts of America)

Per the Language of Scouting, the BSA style guide:

jamboree
A term chosen by Baden-Powell to describe the first international gathering of Scouts camping together in London in 1920. The term is restricted to indicate a national or world jamboree. Not capitalized unless in the title of a specific jamboree, as: "1993 National Scout Jamboree" or "19th World Scout Jamboree." The BSA has a national jamboree every four years. See "contingent" regarding the use of the word to describe Scouting groups attending a jamboree.

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 12:52, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category name formatting

Hi, I Noticed your work on all the Holland America ship articles in formatting their names in the categories. You may already be aware, but you can use {{DEFAULTSORT:Insert preferred name here}} which will automatically format the names of all the categories to whatever your "Insert pereferred name here" is.

Hope that helps!

Jarfingle 22:40, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Goldenprincess.jpg)

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[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Grandprincess.jpg

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[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator selection

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[edit] Image source problem with Image:ACLlogo.jpg

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[edit] Cruise ship reviews in question

FYI: I urge you to take a look at WT:SHIPS#Cruise_Ships_and_use_of_review_links. I do not know why you were not notified on your own talk page already - but the cruise ship reviews you inserted are being brought into question as to their appropriateness as well as questions of if you have personal gain in the Adsense account used on that site. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:51, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Splamo: I am glad that someone notified you of this discussion. It is also taking place at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Potential_Sneaky_spam.3F. I am familiar with your work (and I see I posted once before to your page). I personally have no doubt that it was in good faith and proper, but others unfortunately are not familiar with it and perhaps have not fully reviewed it or looked at your userpage and history of valuable contributions to this project. In any event it might be a good idea for you to answer at both of these locations in order to allay any doubts. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 13:32, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I just came across your comment on the noticeboard. You did nothing wrong. You started or improved a lot of articles with the best source of information to you at the time. Much later someone came along and thought the source was spam; it was not, and it does not appear that anyone agreed with that suspicion. In the meantime a lot of links were deleted. Now future editors will have to add them back.
Keep up your good work. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 01:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Albuera
  2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
  3. Battle of the Gebora
  4. Constantine II of Scotland
  5. Francis Harvey
  6. Vasa (ship)
  7. Wulfhere of Mercia

New A-Class articles:

  1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
  2. Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions
Awards and honors
  • Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
  • Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
  • For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.
Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

1. Bedford — 7,600
2. TomStar81 — 5,500
3. Parsival74 — 5,200
4. FayssalF — 3,500
5. Roger Davies — 3,000
6. Ouro — 2600
7. Kateshortforbob — 2250
8. Cromdog — 2,200
9. BrokenSphere — 2000
9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000
9. Maralia — 2,000
12. MBK004 — 1,340
13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250
14. Sniperz11 — 1100
15. Burzmali — 1000
15. Cplakidas — 1000
15. Gimme danger — 1000
15. Raoulduke471000
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15. Welsh — 1000
15. Blnguyen — 1000

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[edit] AfD nomination of Cruise West

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[edit] Spirit of Oceanus

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[edit] Spirit of Endeavour

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[edit] Spirit of Discovery

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[edit] Spirit of Alaska

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[edit] Spirit of Columbia

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[edit] Pacific Explorer

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[edit] Spirit of '98

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[edit] Spirit of Yorktown

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[edit] AfD nomination of Spirit of Columbia

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:RSSC.jpg

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[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator elections

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! Kirill 17:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Whitedeathcover.jpg

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[edit] Milhist coordinators election has started

The February 2008 Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of fifteen candidates. Please vote here by February 28! --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 16:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)