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Hello Philg88, I know you are an expert copyeditor so I was wondering if you can do some copyediting here. Actually the things you have to do is, you have to copyedit and change the bullets into paragraphs. See there are sections with bullet points change atleast three sections into paragraphs. Please help me here. Thank you. Jim Carter ( talk) 02:22, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey Jim Cartar, sure. I'll do it section by section over the next couple of days and let you know when it's finished. Please don't change it while I'm on the case to avoid edit conflicts. Cheers, ► Philg88 ◄ ♦ talk 07:36, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey Jim Cartar please slow down! Wikipedia is a marathon rather than a sprint and no, it isn't finished. As I said previously, I will let you know when it is. The copyedit on your article is not a two minute job and requires a lot of thought so please be patient. As for the DYK, the clock only starts once the article enters the main space so there is no rush. Best, ► Philg88 ◄ ♦ talk 06:22, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Jim Cartar: The copyedit of your article is now complete; here are a few comments to bear in mind:
Cheers, ► Philg88 ◄ ♦ talk 07:28, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey Jim Cartar, I've made a few changes to the lede to improve readability. Good to go now. Cheers, ► Philg88 ◄ ♦ talk 05:18, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
Okay. Can I use this hook [....] that the Early Nationalists were the formal beginning of the organised national movement in India?. This hook is mentioned on the lead section. Jim Carter ( talk) 09:13, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
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GreyShark (
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15:24, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
That's enough. It's high time I made usage of my machine, here. "My master, Annatar the Great, bids thee welcome!" 16:47, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the comments! I'll discuss these edits.
In regards on whether to use template:zh or template:Chinese I heard that when it's only Mandarin Pinyin and there are traditional and simplified characters (meaning three fields) then it is an either or on whether to use template:zh or Template:Chinese. But if you bring in other dialects, then one should definitely use template:Chinese. I am fine with the switch to Template:Chinese.
In regards to "In 2004 the company annually sold 7 billion yuan worth of product," which had "annually" deleted: The source sentence states: "The company currently has annual sales of CNY 7 billion (€700m)." so I had forgotten to write "As of 2004" instead of "In 2004". The source sentence meant the company habitually had sales of 7 billion yuan so I'll reword it to try to reflect that.
All of the other edits are fine. Thanks again! WhisperToMe ( talk) 08:31, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks the ISBN was
Fixed. And what about its assessment what class should I give it?
Jim Carter (
talk)
11:01, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Jim Cartar:The link you provided isn't a diff so it doesn't help. However, I've shortened the quote to show the essence, although I doubt if it spans pp 36-29, unless it's written backwards in very big letters :) Philg88 ♦ talk 08:03, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I have expanded one of the sub section, please copyedit. Thank you. Jim Carter ( talk) 15:30, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88: I would like to find out what's holding up the move of this article from the sandbox to the main namespace. Please let me know (or please move it). Thanks. BerikG ( talk) 17:19, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88: I met some difficulties to understand what you said above. Could you help me to explain that in more simple words? Sorry for my poor English. :p You said you still think that the article title is not appropriate and that a significant about of work is required before it moves to the main space. So I'm confused with this sentence: "the article is no longer move protected and provided it is accepted by a reviewing editor, anyone can move it." Is it mean that I could move it now? or I still need to do more revisions before the move? Thanks! Yangtana Li ( talk) 06:19, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88: Thanks for your explanation! 实在抱歉,不是你的问题,是我的英文水平还需要大大的提高。我明白了:现在你不能帮我考核了,需要再找另一个编者帮我考核,通过了才可以move to main space. 实在抱歉,拖累你了。>< 那我需要自己找编者对吗?你觉得这样可以吗:我去找我们这个Wikipedia Education Program 的 online volunteer,她也是编者。你看行吗?Thanks. Yangtana Li ( talk) 07:10, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
谢谢你 Philg88.!以后学习的同时我也要继续努力提高英文!哈哈!That's a good news for me. I gonna leave a message to her to see if she can help me to move the article to the namespace. Thanks so much for helping me with the article these days! Thanks a lot! I'll keep improving it after finals this week. 如果以后涉及关于中国方面的内容,我还会来找你帮忙的!^^ Thanks!! Have a nice day! ^o^ Best, Yangtana Li ( talk) 08:39, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
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The DYK project ( nominate) 10:22, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
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Panyd The muffin is not subtle 06:38, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Let me politely suggest that you not edit war on the Gandhi page. I have been working on the article for a long time. You haven't. You are not an expert on Gandhi. Merely checking a detail or two is not enough. There is a longstanding process of consensus building in place on that page. I just purchased Disalvio's book. While it does have useful details, there is no mention of University College, London. Nevertheless, you have left UCL in. Besides, in a much chronicled and analyzed life such as Gandhi's, there are opinions (by respected historians such as Judith M. Brown, Anthony Low, Stanley Wolpert, or political scientists such as Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, much better known than Disalvio or Guha) about every aspect of his career. Scholars are mentioned by name in just one section of the Gandhi article. Please self-revert before I open a long drawn out debate on the talk page. I have left a question for Disalvio. Let him answer it, and we can together decide what is important and what is not. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 05:31, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Here is a reference citation you requested that shows Shanghai was ranked #1 in the world for international science and mathematics competitions for highschool students. Please add this to the wikipedia page.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/03/world/asia/pisa-education-study/
Thanks! 27.100.16.241 ( talk) 10:43, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Great_Bulgaria
how is it that turk is older term than Bulgar when great old bulgaria can not be lemon fresh at 600 AD. in order something to be great and old it needs to be at least 100 years old if not more????????????????????????? he is a descendant from the HUNS
47. And when the inhabitants of Byzantium heard this news, they said: 'This project is concerned with Kubratos, chief of the Huns, the nephew of Organa, who was baptized in the city of Constantinople, and received into the Christian community in his childhood and had grown up in the imperial palace.[1]
[1] http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nikiu2_chronicle.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashina_(clan)
if you run a statistical regression of the tribes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togarmah
you'll realize ohguz is mistranslated,mistyped, fading error over the centuries with ungar.
gar means tribe. Bul-Gar, Hun-Gar, Ma- Gar, Aldi-Gar : signing message for 99.33.211.25 on 28 April 2014
I do apologize,it was by mistake. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
99.33.211.25 (
talk)
09:41, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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Yoninah (
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21:50, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello Philg, can you copyedit here. Thank you :) Jim Carter ( talk) 14:57, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Many thanks :) BTW can't I use {{ Cite news}}? Jim Carter ( talk) 12:40, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Jim Cartar: Well, apart from the unprovable fact that his mother no doubt loves him, you could try a couple of these:
Now, I am not saying that you should include these quotes in full in your draft or that they will make it suitable for the main article space, but they will give you a springboard from which to provide balance.
Some more general advice for your real life future career - stay out of Indian politics - it appears to be a distinctly nasty business. Philg88 ♦ talk 08:21, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
@Philg, I know am disturbing you. I'm working on another project here which will need copyediting. It will be much bigger than Early Nationalists so I thought I should let you know so that you can copyedit by taking your own time. No hurry. 20 words/day is fine. Thank you. Jim Carter ( talk) 14:27, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Can you do this on my behalf? Am going out of town for some hours. Thanks Jim Carter ( talk) 06:38, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
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Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 07:31, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Hope I do this the right way now, but you said to leave a message here. I´ve gone over my draft several times now and I think it is time for you to take another look if/when you feel up to it. I´ve written some notes on the talk page. - W.carter ( talk) 22:33, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
In case you haven't figured it out, I want the image for the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 article. If you want to make the map, and you'll handle uploading it to Wikimedia, I'll add it to the article. If you like, credit yourself in the image, similar to NatGeo's copyright statement in their image. I'd like a map with the following changes:
1. Larger size, say 640px wide.
2. No globe inset.
3. No shaded area labeled "Approximate search area".
4. All "PT 109" changed to "PT-109".
5. "PT-109 wreck drifts south" changed to "PT-109 bow section drifts south".
6. No emphasis for "PT-109 wreck found" (not in a box, not a larger typeface).
Thanks! Mandruss ( talk) 19:07, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Mandruss: There you go. Note that the map is not identical to the Natgeo one because it is based on accurate orthographic map data ( OpenStreetMap) for both the islands and the point of collision. Let me know if you want anything changed/added. Best, Philg88 ♦ talk 05:21, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: Nice work, and fast too. There's a problem with the distance of the swim. All of the literature states this distance as 3.5 miles, but it's not quite 3 kilometers on your map. Since there's such a high degree of consensus on this distance, and since the challenge of this swim is such a big part of the story, I think it's important to be close to 3.5 mi. (I've never seen that stated as nautical miles, so I'm assuming statute).
NatGeo's map looks pretty close to 3.5 mi on the swim distance. I think the difference is because (1) they show the collision a little closer to Kolombangara, and (2) from the collision to the start of the swim, they show the drift direction as perhaps 175 degrees, where yours is more like 190. If their map is inaccurate as to the relative positions of the islands, that might also be a factor.
Don't take the article's collision coordinates too literally. They are merely my best guess from eyeballing NatGeo's map, rounded to the nearest minutes of lat and long. That rounding may have shifted the location a little to the west, I don't recall. I have found no other source for the collision coordinates. In fact, before I changed it, the article stated that the collision happened "near x", where x are the coordinates of Plum Pudding Island!
In hindsight, I should have said all this before you started, and I apologize for not doing so. Thanks for your efforts! Mandruss ( talk) 06:31, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
If it's the only way to get a swim of 3.5 miles, I have no problem with widening the channel; i.e., moving Kolombangara to the east as necessary. I understand that that would be inaccurate, but I don't think the map would last very long with a too-short swim (there are too many protectors of the JFK legend out there). And remember, Wikipedia isn't about truth, it's about citation, and there are plenty of reliable sources for 3.5 miles.
Obviously moving Kolombangara would necessitate removal of your lat and long lines. Mandruss ( talk) 07:21, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Nice. I'll buy it with two more little changes. Change Collide to collide for consistency, and change the default res to 640x454. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mandruss ( talk • contribs) 10:13, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Done I have added the map to the article. Thanks again!!
Mandruss (
talk)
20:03, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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The DYK project ( nominate) 10:22, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
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A beach chair for you! So you can lean back and relax after all your hard work copyediting my draft on Einar Jolin. Thank you! W.carter ( talk) 16:24, 4 May 2014 (UTC) |
Don't template the regulars. It is extremely irritating.— indopug ( talk) 09:14, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Philg88, I know you are an expert copyeditor so I was wondering if you can do some copyediting here. Actually the things you have to do is, you have to copyedit and change the bullets into paragraphs. See there are sections with bullet points change atleast three sections into paragraphs. Please help me here. Thank you. Jim Carter ( talk) 02:22, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey Jim Cartar, sure. I'll do it section by section over the next couple of days and let you know when it's finished. Please don't change it while I'm on the case to avoid edit conflicts. Cheers, ► Philg88 ◄ ♦ talk 07:36, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey Jim Cartar please slow down! Wikipedia is a marathon rather than a sprint and no, it isn't finished. As I said previously, I will let you know when it is. The copyedit on your article is not a two minute job and requires a lot of thought so please be patient. As for the DYK, the clock only starts once the article enters the main space so there is no rush. Best, ► Philg88 ◄ ♦ talk 06:22, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Jim Cartar: The copyedit of your article is now complete; here are a few comments to bear in mind:
Cheers, ► Philg88 ◄ ♦ talk 07:28, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey Jim Cartar, I've made a few changes to the lede to improve readability. Good to go now. Cheers, ► Philg88 ◄ ♦ talk 05:18, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
Okay. Can I use this hook [....] that the Early Nationalists were the formal beginning of the organised national movement in India?. This hook is mentioned on the lead section. Jim Carter ( talk) 09:13, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Template:Palestine (historic region) topics has been nominated for merging with
Template:Palestine topics. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
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GreyShark (
dibra)
15:24, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
That's enough. It's high time I made usage of my machine, here. "My master, Annatar the Great, bids thee welcome!" 16:47, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the comments! I'll discuss these edits.
In regards on whether to use template:zh or template:Chinese I heard that when it's only Mandarin Pinyin and there are traditional and simplified characters (meaning three fields) then it is an either or on whether to use template:zh or Template:Chinese. But if you bring in other dialects, then one should definitely use template:Chinese. I am fine with the switch to Template:Chinese.
In regards to "In 2004 the company annually sold 7 billion yuan worth of product," which had "annually" deleted: The source sentence states: "The company currently has annual sales of CNY 7 billion (€700m)." so I had forgotten to write "As of 2004" instead of "In 2004". The source sentence meant the company habitually had sales of 7 billion yuan so I'll reword it to try to reflect that.
All of the other edits are fine. Thanks again! WhisperToMe ( talk) 08:31, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks the ISBN was
Fixed. And what about its assessment what class should I give it?
Jim Carter (
talk)
11:01, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Jim Cartar:The link you provided isn't a diff so it doesn't help. However, I've shortened the quote to show the essence, although I doubt if it spans pp 36-29, unless it's written backwards in very big letters :) Philg88 ♦ talk 08:03, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I have expanded one of the sub section, please copyedit. Thank you. Jim Carter ( talk) 15:30, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88: I would like to find out what's holding up the move of this article from the sandbox to the main namespace. Please let me know (or please move it). Thanks. BerikG ( talk) 17:19, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88: I met some difficulties to understand what you said above. Could you help me to explain that in more simple words? Sorry for my poor English. :p You said you still think that the article title is not appropriate and that a significant about of work is required before it moves to the main space. So I'm confused with this sentence: "the article is no longer move protected and provided it is accepted by a reviewing editor, anyone can move it." Is it mean that I could move it now? or I still need to do more revisions before the move? Thanks! Yangtana Li ( talk) 06:19, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88: Thanks for your explanation! 实在抱歉,不是你的问题,是我的英文水平还需要大大的提高。我明白了:现在你不能帮我考核了,需要再找另一个编者帮我考核,通过了才可以move to main space. 实在抱歉,拖累你了。>< 那我需要自己找编者对吗?你觉得这样可以吗:我去找我们这个Wikipedia Education Program 的 online volunteer,她也是编者。你看行吗?Thanks. Yangtana Li ( talk) 07:10, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
谢谢你 Philg88.!以后学习的同时我也要继续努力提高英文!哈哈!That's a good news for me. I gonna leave a message to her to see if she can help me to move the article to the namespace. Thanks so much for helping me with the article these days! Thanks a lot! I'll keep improving it after finals this week. 如果以后涉及关于中国方面的内容,我还会来找你帮忙的!^^ Thanks!! Have a nice day! ^o^ Best, Yangtana Li ( talk) 08:39, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
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The DYK project ( nominate) 10:22, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Tireless contributor barnstar moved to User:Philg88/Barnstars
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Panyd The muffin is not subtle 06:38, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Let me politely suggest that you not edit war on the Gandhi page. I have been working on the article for a long time. You haven't. You are not an expert on Gandhi. Merely checking a detail or two is not enough. There is a longstanding process of consensus building in place on that page. I just purchased Disalvio's book. While it does have useful details, there is no mention of University College, London. Nevertheless, you have left UCL in. Besides, in a much chronicled and analyzed life such as Gandhi's, there are opinions (by respected historians such as Judith M. Brown, Anthony Low, Stanley Wolpert, or political scientists such as Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, much better known than Disalvio or Guha) about every aspect of his career. Scholars are mentioned by name in just one section of the Gandhi article. Please self-revert before I open a long drawn out debate on the talk page. I have left a question for Disalvio. Let him answer it, and we can together decide what is important and what is not. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 05:31, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Here is a reference citation you requested that shows Shanghai was ranked #1 in the world for international science and mathematics competitions for highschool students. Please add this to the wikipedia page.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/03/world/asia/pisa-education-study/
Thanks! 27.100.16.241 ( talk) 10:43, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Great_Bulgaria
how is it that turk is older term than Bulgar when great old bulgaria can not be lemon fresh at 600 AD. in order something to be great and old it needs to be at least 100 years old if not more????????????????????????? he is a descendant from the HUNS
47. And when the inhabitants of Byzantium heard this news, they said: 'This project is concerned with Kubratos, chief of the Huns, the nephew of Organa, who was baptized in the city of Constantinople, and received into the Christian community in his childhood and had grown up in the imperial palace.[1]
[1] http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nikiu2_chronicle.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashina_(clan)
if you run a statistical regression of the tribes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togarmah
you'll realize ohguz is mistranslated,mistyped, fading error over the centuries with ungar.
gar means tribe. Bul-Gar, Hun-Gar, Ma- Gar, Aldi-Gar : signing message for 99.33.211.25 on 28 April 2014
I do apologize,it was by mistake. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
99.33.211.25 (
talk)
09:41, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
Samuel Bowen at the
Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath
your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!
Yoninah (
talk)
21:50, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello Philg, can you copyedit here. Thank you :) Jim Carter ( talk) 14:57, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Many thanks :) BTW can't I use {{ Cite news}}? Jim Carter ( talk) 12:40, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Jim Cartar: Well, apart from the unprovable fact that his mother no doubt loves him, you could try a couple of these:
Now, I am not saying that you should include these quotes in full in your draft or that they will make it suitable for the main article space, but they will give you a springboard from which to provide balance.
Some more general advice for your real life future career - stay out of Indian politics - it appears to be a distinctly nasty business. Philg88 ♦ talk 08:21, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
@Philg, I know am disturbing you. I'm working on another project here which will need copyediting. It will be much bigger than Early Nationalists so I thought I should let you know so that you can copyedit by taking your own time. No hurry. 20 words/day is fine. Thank you. Jim Carter ( talk) 14:27, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Can you do this on my behalf? Am going out of town for some hours. Thanks Jim Carter ( talk) 06:38, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
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Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 07:31, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Hope I do this the right way now, but you said to leave a message here. I´ve gone over my draft several times now and I think it is time for you to take another look if/when you feel up to it. I´ve written some notes on the talk page. - W.carter ( talk) 22:33, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
In case you haven't figured it out, I want the image for the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 article. If you want to make the map, and you'll handle uploading it to Wikimedia, I'll add it to the article. If you like, credit yourself in the image, similar to NatGeo's copyright statement in their image. I'd like a map with the following changes:
1. Larger size, say 640px wide.
2. No globe inset.
3. No shaded area labeled "Approximate search area".
4. All "PT 109" changed to "PT-109".
5. "PT-109 wreck drifts south" changed to "PT-109 bow section drifts south".
6. No emphasis for "PT-109 wreck found" (not in a box, not a larger typeface).
Thanks! Mandruss ( talk) 19:07, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Mandruss: There you go. Note that the map is not identical to the Natgeo one because it is based on accurate orthographic map data ( OpenStreetMap) for both the islands and the point of collision. Let me know if you want anything changed/added. Best, Philg88 ♦ talk 05:21, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: Nice work, and fast too. There's a problem with the distance of the swim. All of the literature states this distance as 3.5 miles, but it's not quite 3 kilometers on your map. Since there's such a high degree of consensus on this distance, and since the challenge of this swim is such a big part of the story, I think it's important to be close to 3.5 mi. (I've never seen that stated as nautical miles, so I'm assuming statute).
NatGeo's map looks pretty close to 3.5 mi on the swim distance. I think the difference is because (1) they show the collision a little closer to Kolombangara, and (2) from the collision to the start of the swim, they show the drift direction as perhaps 175 degrees, where yours is more like 190. If their map is inaccurate as to the relative positions of the islands, that might also be a factor.
Don't take the article's collision coordinates too literally. They are merely my best guess from eyeballing NatGeo's map, rounded to the nearest minutes of lat and long. That rounding may have shifted the location a little to the west, I don't recall. I have found no other source for the collision coordinates. In fact, before I changed it, the article stated that the collision happened "near x", where x are the coordinates of Plum Pudding Island!
In hindsight, I should have said all this before you started, and I apologize for not doing so. Thanks for your efforts! Mandruss ( talk) 06:31, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
If it's the only way to get a swim of 3.5 miles, I have no problem with widening the channel; i.e., moving Kolombangara to the east as necessary. I understand that that would be inaccurate, but I don't think the map would last very long with a too-short swim (there are too many protectors of the JFK legend out there). And remember, Wikipedia isn't about truth, it's about citation, and there are plenty of reliable sources for 3.5 miles.
Obviously moving Kolombangara would necessitate removal of your lat and long lines. Mandruss ( talk) 07:21, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Nice. I'll buy it with two more little changes. Change Collide to collide for consistency, and change the default res to 640x454. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mandruss ( talk • contribs) 10:13, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Done I have added the map to the article. Thanks again!!
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Don't template the regulars. It is extremely irritating.— indopug ( talk) 09:14, 9 May 2014 (UTC)