Ed!, can you actually date the establishment of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade? Would be good to add that date and other MEB establishment dates to their pages (and, possibly, the 1st Prov Marine Brigade). Buckshot06 (talk) 19:27, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- First reference to the 1st MEB seems to be in 1990 for the Gulf War. I've added it to the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade article. —
Ed!
(talk) 20:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- I thought you might have a specific year. The thing is that Marine Amphibious Brigades were redesignated Marine Expeditionary Brigades after Vietnam, well before 1990. Thus I've unfortunately had to revert your last edit. Sorry.
Buckshot06
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- I see. Well, I can't find any mention of the MEB until 1990 in any sources. I suppose I'll look into that if someone asks for it in the review. —
Ed!
(talk) 03:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Actually the MAB's were formed in the Vietnam Era because the French had previously used the tem "Expeditionary Force" in Indochina and all the Expeditionary Brigades were renamed Amphibious Brigades. Expeditionary did not replace Amphibious again until 1988 as the Corps was positioning itself as a Rapid Deployment Force that was not strictly Amphibious in nature. MEU started to replace MAU in 1987, but I was present when MEB replaced MAB at the 7th MEB was renamed in 29 Palms, California in February 1988.--
Mike -
Μολὼν λαβέ 20:01, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm. That explains why I've had such a hard time finding a concrete activation date for the 1st Brigade. Do you know any source that could help us pin it down? —
Ed!
(talk) 21:05, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'll crack open a few books tonight and see what I find. If memory serves, 1st MEB may have come along later as they are defined by coming under the command of a General Officer. I think 1st MEB came along much later than say 9th MEB or even 7th. It has to do with the structure of the MEB incorporating non-infantry elements whereas 1st Marines tended to stay at Regiment.-- Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 21:22, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm. That explains why I've had such a hard time finding a concrete activation date for the 1st Brigade. Do you know any source that could help us pin it down? —
Ed!
(talk) 21:05, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Actually the MAB's were formed in the Vietnam Era because the French had previously used the tem "Expeditionary Force" in Indochina and all the Expeditionary Brigades were renamed Amphibious Brigades. Expeditionary did not replace Amphibious again until 1988 as the Corps was positioning itself as a Rapid Deployment Force that was not strictly Amphibious in nature. MEU started to replace MAU in 1987, but I was present when MEB replaced MAB at the 7th MEB was renamed in 29 Palms, California in February 1988.--
Mike -
Μολὼν λαβέ 20:01, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I see. Well, I can't find any mention of the MEB until 1990 in any sources. I suppose I'll look into that if someone asks for it in the review. —
Ed!
(talk) 03:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I thought you might have a specific year. The thing is that Marine Amphibious Brigades were redesignated Marine Expeditionary Brigades after Vietnam, well before 1990. Thus I've unfortunately had to revert your last edit. Sorry.
Buckshot06
(talk) 02:55, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
I've reviewed the article and left notes on the talk page. I've put the nomination on hold for seven days to allow the issues to be addressed. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, here, or on the article talk page with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Note that this review will be part of the WikiCup competition. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:55, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Responded to all of the comments. Let me know if you have anything else. — Ed! (talk) 03:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Do you remain invariably opposed to inclusion of this article in light of the known Farsi sources? — C M B J 13:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- It's still concerning to me that the sources generally mention it as the location of another action, with only a few mentions and little coverage of the road itself. It doesn't gain notability from the news events simply by being in proximity to them. So, unfortunately, I don't see those sources as properly addressing the road itself. — Ed! (talk) 15:38, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your comment at WT:MILHIST regarding photos about the army units and Point du Hoc, so I did a bit of digging. A number of photos came up, but I'm not sure if you'll like it [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]. Alternaively, you can see the wide selection of black-and-white Normandy-landing photos at [6]. And apparently this was where the 29th Ranger Battalion left for Normandy. I hope you find them useful. -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 10:59, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ahh. Good resources. Thank you for your help. —
Ed!
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- No problemo. -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 12:48, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed you work on Medal of Honor recipient articles and wondered if there is a good place to go to learn about which ones I can edit and what needs to be done to them. Does Wikipedia have articles for all the recipients? Maybe I could add some that are missing? I looked at several other users that look like they edit them but they appear to be retired or haven't edited in a while. Thanks. ShmuckatellieJoe ( talk) 16:27, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
- I found
this page on one of the Retired users but I'm not sure I am allowed to use it since it falls under another user. Should I copy it somewhere to use or is it ok to just link to that one? Sorry for all the questions.
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- Hello. Yes, Wikipedia is supposed to have an article on every person who has ever received the Medal of Honor. Most of the 3,400+ recipients have at least short articles but some from the Civil War do not yet. A great place to start is
List of Medal of Honor recipients, where every recipient is listed by war. If you want to use the list on that other userpage, I'd suggest just copying it to your own page. I work mainly with Korean War Medal of Honor recipients. Most of the Medal of Honor recipient pages aren't great; only a few are in good shape I would say, so you could get started working on just about any one of them! —
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- Thank you.
ShmuckatellieJoe (
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- Also, not sure if its a big deal but I found
this userpage that seems like it might violate the Wikipedia policy (I was thinking about different names and tried PappaSmurf when I found this one) I don't know what, if anything, needs to be done with it but I don't know where it should go.
ShmuckatellieJoe (
talk) 16:53, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
- I would ask an administrator about that, I don't deal very much with that area of Wikipedia. —
Ed!
(talk) 17:25, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ok thanks, its no big deal I just wondered about it. I read something that said EMAIL addresses were frowned upon. Besides I wouldn't know what and administrator looks like or what to say to them if I found one.
ShmuckatellieJoe (
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- I'm not really sure who to talk to about it either, to be honest.
WP:ADMIN is a good place to start. Though, I don't think email addresses are against policy per se, just advised against. —
Ed!
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- I just wanted to let you know that I talked to a user/administrator named ACdixon and they said that account wasn't a big deal since they haven't edited in a few years. I just wanted to share knowledge and let you know. ShmuckatellieJoe ( talk) 01:04, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not really sure who to talk to about it either, to be honest.
WP:ADMIN is a good place to start. Though, I don't think email addresses are against policy per se, just advised against. —
Ed!
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- Ok thanks, its no big deal I just wondered about it. I read something that said EMAIL addresses were frowned upon. Besides I wouldn't know what and administrator looks like or what to say to them if I found one.
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- I would ask an administrator about that, I don't deal very much with that area of Wikipedia. —
Ed!
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- Also, not sure if its a big deal but I found
this userpage that seems like it might violate the Wikipedia policy (I was thinking about different names and tried PappaSmurf when I found this one) I don't know what, if anything, needs to be done with it but I don't know where it should go.
ShmuckatellieJoe (
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- Thank you.
ShmuckatellieJoe (
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- Hello. Yes, Wikipedia is supposed to have an article on every person who has ever received the Medal of Honor. Most of the 3,400+ recipients have at least short articles but some from the Civil War do not yet. A great place to start is
List of Medal of Honor recipients, where every recipient is listed by war. If you want to use the list on that other userpage, I'd suggest just copying it to your own page. I work mainly with Korean War Medal of Honor recipients. Most of the Medal of Honor recipient pages aren't great; only a few are in good shape I would say, so you could get started working on just about any one of them! —
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Just to let you know, there are a couple issues remaining. And of course, help with reviews is always welcome Crisco 1492 ( talk) 13:09, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- OK. I think I got them all now. Let me know if I am missing anything. —
Ed!
(talk) 10:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- That looks good, I've set my vote as support. 15:54, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I've suggested an alt at the nomination. Another nice read. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 12:04, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I've recreated File:Battle of Guam map.jpg in SVG form, in standard colours, as File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg (pictured). The original is used on 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, and so I was wondering if you could take a look and confirm that it is the improvement I think it is, and, if so, replace the old with the new in the article. Thanks, Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 21:49, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
- It is definitely an improvement. I'll replace the image in the article with this one. Thanks for your help! — Ed! (talk) 13:11, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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| On 23 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David B. Bleak, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that combat medic David B. Bleak (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War after killing five Chinese soldiers, four using only his hands? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David B. Bleak.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Rs chen 7754 00:02, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ed, not sure if you have the time but I was wondering if you could consider doing an expansion of John Ackerman (former NSA Vice Director) - there seems to be some at least 2 bios on him, the official AF one and this one, along with a tonne of articles on Google News on an incident when he was relived of his position of the commander of the Thirteenth Air Force for over decorating his living quarters with government money. The articles also mention he flew a a veterinarian to a barbecue on official business to inspect the pig he wanted to roast and sent someone on official business to pick up slip covers for his wife. I've had this in mind for a possible DYK for while, but I'm extremely busy and I'm likely to forget about this. Any help would be appreciated! – Connormah ( talk) 02:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
- I'd be happy to do so. Give me a few days and I'll expand this one enough to push it through DYK. — Ed! (talk) 13:12, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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| On 23 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in spite of being shot eight times, Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. ordered his men to tie him to a tree so he could keep fighting, action for which action he received the Medal of Honor? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr..You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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I've reviewed the David B. Bleak and concluded that it nearly matches the GAC and found several issues, so I've put the GA nomination on hold for a period of one week. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 15:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Ed, this is just a reminder that the article will be failed soon if no action is taken. As you have not been active for the past week, I'll give a three-day grace period. I will also send this notice to your email. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 13:07, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry about my slow responses, I've been swamped in RL. I'll get to this ASAP. —
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- I've replied again. Almost Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:14, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ed! A user has left some comments regarding a source check at the Medal of Honor FAR. If you have time, could you check them out? I really appreciate your work on this article - it's great to see articles improved back to FA status rather than having to be delisted! Dana boomer ( talk) 14:02, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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I was just making the article for Sabo when I noticed you beat me to it. The one I was making is here. Its times like this when not allowing IP's to create articles becomes a real agrivation. 138.162.8.58 ( talk) 15:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I didn't see that. Well, that's frustrating. If anything can be added to the mainspace article, feel free to do so. Just working on it now. —
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- No problem, its just frustrating that Wikipedia has become the Encylcopedia that anyone with an account can edit. I don't want to step all over your edits so I'll wait till your done.
138.162.8.57 (
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- Thanks for your patience. I'm done editing for now, so have at it! —
Ed!
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- This is my home IP. Thanks, I added a few things but you already had the majority of it. 71.163.243.232 ( talk) 22:37, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your patience. I'm done editing for now, so have at it! —
Ed!
(talk) 16:39, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- No problem, its just frustrating that Wikipedia has become the Encylcopedia that anyone with an account can edit. I don't want to step all over your edits so I'll wait till your done.
138.162.8.57 (
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Hi Ed!, would you please mind rechecking reference two for this article? I've read the reference repeatedly and I cannot find any evidence that HHC 1 IB, 7 ID, has any lineage from HHC, 7 ID or HQ, 7 ID. Would appreciate you clarifying this. Kind regards, Buckshot06 (talk) 05:08, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, that looks to have been a mistake. I re-cited it to the correct source now. — Ed! (talk) 13:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, I've reviewed the article Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., which you nominated for GA sometime ago. I think the article is very good, but I have one or two questions that I've posed on the review page before I'm ready to pass this. I'd forgotten to leave a notification, so please consider the seven days as starting now (although its only a guideline anyway). Regards-- Jackyd101 ( talk) 00:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Do you want the DYK to be on May 10? Template:Did you know nominations/Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. -- Esemono ( talk) 12:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, please can you explain me a term "unnecessary illustration"? I place a small division insignia in the opening box on the page of Major General William F. Dean and you deleted it twice. Why? I think it is look good. Why that images should't be there? -- AntonyZ ( talk) 16:51, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- As far as the infobox is concerned, a lot of people are pushing to remove illustrations from it altogether except for the top image. In this case, the division insignia are of marginal importance in the infobox, especially when they already appear in an article under "decorations" — Ed! (talk) 12:33, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Ed - Feel free to delete this as soon as you've read this, but I just wanted to compliment you on all your great photos of small-town America. I absolutely love them to bits! 213.148.230.71 ( talk) 13:43, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Ed (nice username, by the way!). The Bugle is going to start a semi-regular series called the "Article writers' guide", and the fist subject is biographical articles. Would you mind adding your views to the questions here, and adding any questions you feel are necessary? Thanks! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Ed! Much appreciated. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:57, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Ed, just to let you know I've responded at Talk:Oerip Soemohardjo/GA1. I think that's everything. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:33, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
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G'day Ed!, if you are free, would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher and maybe providing a review? It has been open since 27 May and has only received one review. I would like to review it for Adam, but as I helped copy edit the article during its GA review, I'm probably ineligible now as a reviewer. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 11:13, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
- Left some comments there. —
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- Much thanks! I'd hoped to step up my reviewing a little more than this, but I'll kick it in at ACR in coming months. —
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- Great, see you there. - Dank ( push to talk) 20:51, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have reviewed Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. and placed it on hold for up to seven days with some concerns. You can see my review here: Talk:Leslie H. Sabo, Jr./GA1. Canadian Paul 20:39, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
I edited your user sub-page, User:Ed!/Corps insignia of the United States Army, diff, as it was appearing category pages. Wanted to mention it to turn the categories back on if the content is copied back to the regular article. — MrDolomite • Talk 04:47, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, ok. That's fine. I forgot to take them off in the first place when I started the page. — Ed! (talk) 10:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your feedback. Think I can address the issues you raise w/o too much problem--there may be one or two which we can discuss further. Am on vacation in Spain till 21 July, though, so sitting at computer is not a priority at the moment. Can we push review date back to 30 July? Bilhartz ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:49, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi,
I've reviewed your nomination and left a few comments on Talk:William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950)/GA1.
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Hi,
I'm trying to review your nomination and I've left some comments at Talk:3rd Ranger Infantry Company (United States)/GA1
Please discuss my comments there and help me understand.
Best wishes, MathewTownsend ( talk) 22:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Alexander 1998 is undefined and not linking to anything. I suspect it should be Appleman 1998, but am not going to just guess. The "et al." on Battle of Sangju (1950) isn't a matter of any policy, it's just a stylistic convention, but if you don't like it, no problem. The omission of most of the years would go a ways to de-clutter things. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 23:45, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Please check fn#34 in that diff; it was not linking to anything defined (was seeking an undefined "Alexander 2001"), and I changed it to "Appleman 1998" because the named-ref implied that. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 04:20, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Whoops. You were right about both notes. Fixed the Taejon ref. Thanks for the heads up. — Ed! (talk) 13:22, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Glad I didn't guess on the first one; I'd have been wrong, as you fixed it to Alexander 2003. Anyway, glad it's fixed.
- You seem fairly new to the various harv-style templates. I saw in several articles that you only started using them last month. I've been doing a lot of this for years. The {{ sfn}} mechanism is rapidly replacing {{ harvnb}} nested in ref-tags. It is considerably shorter inline, especially with single authors. All the footnote collation is automatic, so you don't have to concern yourself with named refs, which often run into trouble with duplicate definitions that squabble with each other. Their greatest advantage is their flexibility; you can simply tweak page numbers and ranges as the article develops without having to re-work a named ref scheme. {sfn} works by generating the ref tags with consistent names and allowing MediaWiki to then do an automatic combining of whatever duplicates.
- You should install a helper script:
- importScript('User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js');
- User:Ucucha/HarvErrors
- it should go here:
- It helps diagnose syntax issues with the various harv/sfn citations templates.
- Pleased to meet you, I hear you're a sensible fellow. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 23:24, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Be aware that the script can generate "false positives". If it says nothing is linking to a source, that often means that the source is using {{
citation}} and the inline refs are just plain text; the cite it ready, but the inlines are just not doing it. If a footnote says "not linking to anything" that means something is truly wrong. When both everything is trying to do the linking and you're getting a message it often means a typo of some sort; name/year wrong/omitted, missing "|". And note that with
|ref={{ sfnRef}}you can take full control of the footnote text. I've probably done that somewhere on one of these battles. It's for sources that don't fit the author/year scheme or need disambiguation. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 02:35, 17 July 2012 (UTC) - I just re-worked this article. The two links to pieces by Hanley no longer work. There seem to be some traces of them in Google and the Wayback Machine might have copies. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 03:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Be aware that the script can generate "false positives". If it says nothing is linking to a source, that often means that the source is using {{
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Ed!, can you actually date the establishment of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade? Would be good to add that date and other MEB establishment dates to their pages (and, possibly, the 1st Prov Marine Brigade). Buckshot06 (talk) 19:27, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- First reference to the 1st MEB seems to be in 1990 for the Gulf War. I've added it to the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade article. —
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- I thought you might have a specific year. The thing is that Marine Amphibious Brigades were redesignated Marine Expeditionary Brigades after Vietnam, well before 1990. Thus I've unfortunately had to revert your last edit. Sorry.
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- I see. Well, I can't find any mention of the MEB until 1990 in any sources. I suppose I'll look into that if someone asks for it in the review. —
Ed!
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- Actually the MAB's were formed in the Vietnam Era because the French had previously used the tem "Expeditionary Force" in Indochina and all the Expeditionary Brigades were renamed Amphibious Brigades. Expeditionary did not replace Amphibious again until 1988 as the Corps was positioning itself as a Rapid Deployment Force that was not strictly Amphibious in nature. MEU started to replace MAU in 1987, but I was present when MEB replaced MAB at the 7th MEB was renamed in 29 Palms, California in February 1988.--
Mike -
Μολὼν λαβέ 20:01, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm. That explains why I've had such a hard time finding a concrete activation date for the 1st Brigade. Do you know any source that could help us pin it down? —
Ed!
(talk) 21:05, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'll crack open a few books tonight and see what I find. If memory serves, 1st MEB may have come along later as they are defined by coming under the command of a General Officer. I think 1st MEB came along much later than say 9th MEB or even 7th. It has to do with the structure of the MEB incorporating non-infantry elements whereas 1st Marines tended to stay at Regiment.-- Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 21:22, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm. That explains why I've had such a hard time finding a concrete activation date for the 1st Brigade. Do you know any source that could help us pin it down? —
Ed!
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- Actually the MAB's were formed in the Vietnam Era because the French had previously used the tem "Expeditionary Force" in Indochina and all the Expeditionary Brigades were renamed Amphibious Brigades. Expeditionary did not replace Amphibious again until 1988 as the Corps was positioning itself as a Rapid Deployment Force that was not strictly Amphibious in nature. MEU started to replace MAU in 1987, but I was present when MEB replaced MAB at the 7th MEB was renamed in 29 Palms, California in February 1988.--
Mike -
Μολὼν λαβέ 20:01, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I see. Well, I can't find any mention of the MEB until 1990 in any sources. I suppose I'll look into that if someone asks for it in the review. —
Ed!
(talk) 03:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I thought you might have a specific year. The thing is that Marine Amphibious Brigades were redesignated Marine Expeditionary Brigades after Vietnam, well before 1990. Thus I've unfortunately had to revert your last edit. Sorry.
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I've reviewed the article and left notes on the talk page. I've put the nomination on hold for seven days to allow the issues to be addressed. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, here, or on the article talk page with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Note that this review will be part of the WikiCup competition. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:55, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Responded to all of the comments. Let me know if you have anything else. — Ed! (talk) 03:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Do you remain invariably opposed to inclusion of this article in light of the known Farsi sources? — C M B J 13:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- It's still concerning to me that the sources generally mention it as the location of another action, with only a few mentions and little coverage of the road itself. It doesn't gain notability from the news events simply by being in proximity to them. So, unfortunately, I don't see those sources as properly addressing the road itself. — Ed! (talk) 15:38, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your comment at WT:MILHIST regarding photos about the army units and Point du Hoc, so I did a bit of digging. A number of photos came up, but I'm not sure if you'll like it [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]. Alternaively, you can see the wide selection of black-and-white Normandy-landing photos at [6]. And apparently this was where the 29th Ranger Battalion left for Normandy. I hope you find them useful. -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 10:59, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ahh. Good resources. Thank you for your help. —
Ed!
(talk) 11:41, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- No problemo. -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 12:48, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi mate, would you mind putting in the beginning and closing assessment grades of your articles, and the resultant points by your calculations? Just so finalising them by another editor (e.g. me) is a matter of verifying what's there rather than writing it all in from scratch... Tks/cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 07:56, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed you work on Medal of Honor recipient articles and wondered if there is a good place to go to learn about which ones I can edit and what needs to be done to them. Does Wikipedia have articles for all the recipients? Maybe I could add some that are missing? I looked at several other users that look like they edit them but they appear to be retired or haven't edited in a while. Thanks. ShmuckatellieJoe ( talk) 16:27, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
- I found
this page on one of the Retired users but I'm not sure I am allowed to use it since it falls under another user. Should I copy it somewhere to use or is it ok to just link to that one? Sorry for all the questions.
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- Hello. Yes, Wikipedia is supposed to have an article on every person who has ever received the Medal of Honor. Most of the 3,400+ recipients have at least short articles but some from the Civil War do not yet. A great place to start is
List of Medal of Honor recipients, where every recipient is listed by war. If you want to use the list on that other userpage, I'd suggest just copying it to your own page. I work mainly with Korean War Medal of Honor recipients. Most of the Medal of Honor recipient pages aren't great; only a few are in good shape I would say, so you could get started working on just about any one of them! —
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- Thank you.
ShmuckatellieJoe (
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- Also, not sure if its a big deal but I found
this userpage that seems like it might violate the Wikipedia policy (I was thinking about different names and tried PappaSmurf when I found this one) I don't know what, if anything, needs to be done with it but I don't know where it should go.
ShmuckatellieJoe (
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- I would ask an administrator about that, I don't deal very much with that area of Wikipedia. —
Ed!
(talk) 17:25, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ok thanks, its no big deal I just wondered about it. I read something that said EMAIL addresses were frowned upon. Besides I wouldn't know what and administrator looks like or what to say to them if I found one.
ShmuckatellieJoe (
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- I'm not really sure who to talk to about it either, to be honest.
WP:ADMIN is a good place to start. Though, I don't think email addresses are against policy per se, just advised against. —
Ed!
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- I just wanted to let you know that I talked to a user/administrator named ACdixon and they said that account wasn't a big deal since they haven't edited in a few years. I just wanted to share knowledge and let you know. ShmuckatellieJoe ( talk) 01:04, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not really sure who to talk to about it either, to be honest.
WP:ADMIN is a good place to start. Though, I don't think email addresses are against policy per se, just advised against. —
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- Ok thanks, its no big deal I just wondered about it. I read something that said EMAIL addresses were frowned upon. Besides I wouldn't know what and administrator looks like or what to say to them if I found one.
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- I would ask an administrator about that, I don't deal very much with that area of Wikipedia. —
Ed!
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- Also, not sure if its a big deal but I found
this userpage that seems like it might violate the Wikipedia policy (I was thinking about different names and tried PappaSmurf when I found this one) I don't know what, if anything, needs to be done with it but I don't know where it should go.
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- Thank you.
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- Hello. Yes, Wikipedia is supposed to have an article on every person who has ever received the Medal of Honor. Most of the 3,400+ recipients have at least short articles but some from the Civil War do not yet. A great place to start is
List of Medal of Honor recipients, where every recipient is listed by war. If you want to use the list on that other userpage, I'd suggest just copying it to your own page. I work mainly with Korean War Medal of Honor recipients. Most of the Medal of Honor recipient pages aren't great; only a few are in good shape I would say, so you could get started working on just about any one of them! —
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Just to let you know, there are a couple issues remaining. And of course, help with reviews is always welcome Crisco 1492 ( talk) 13:09, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- OK. I think I got them all now. Let me know if I am missing anything. —
Ed!
(talk) 10:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- That looks good, I've set my vote as support. 15:54, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I've suggested an alt at the nomination. Another nice read. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 12:04, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I've recreated File:Battle of Guam map.jpg in SVG form, in standard colours, as File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg (pictured). The original is used on 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, and so I was wondering if you could take a look and confirm that it is the improvement I think it is, and, if so, replace the old with the new in the article. Thanks, Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 21:49, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
- It is definitely an improvement. I'll replace the image in the article with this one. Thanks for your help! — Ed! (talk) 13:11, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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| On 23 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David B. Bleak, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that combat medic David B. Bleak (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War after killing five Chinese soldiers, four using only his hands? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David B. Bleak.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Rs chen 7754 00:02, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ed, not sure if you have the time but I was wondering if you could consider doing an expansion of John Ackerman (former NSA Vice Director) - there seems to be some at least 2 bios on him, the official AF one and this one, along with a tonne of articles on Google News on an incident when he was relived of his position of the commander of the Thirteenth Air Force for over decorating his living quarters with government money. The articles also mention he flew a a veterinarian to a barbecue on official business to inspect the pig he wanted to roast and sent someone on official business to pick up slip covers for his wife. I've had this in mind for a possible DYK for while, but I'm extremely busy and I'm likely to forget about this. Any help would be appreciated! – Connormah ( talk) 02:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
- I'd be happy to do so. Give me a few days and I'll expand this one enough to push it through DYK. — Ed! (talk) 13:12, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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| On 23 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in spite of being shot eight times, Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. ordered his men to tie him to a tree so he could keep fighting, action for which action he received the Medal of Honor? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr..You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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I've reviewed the David B. Bleak and concluded that it nearly matches the GAC and found several issues, so I've put the GA nomination on hold for a period of one week. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 15:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Ed, this is just a reminder that the article will be failed soon if no action is taken. As you have not been active for the past week, I'll give a three-day grace period. I will also send this notice to your email. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 13:07, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry about my slow responses, I've been swamped in RL. I'll get to this ASAP. —
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- I've replied again. Almost Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:14, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Ed! A user has left some comments regarding a source check at the Medal of Honor FAR. If you have time, could you check them out? I really appreciate your work on this article - it's great to see articles improved back to FA status rather than having to be delisted! Dana boomer ( talk) 14:02, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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I was just making the article for Sabo when I noticed you beat me to it. The one I was making is here. Its times like this when not allowing IP's to create articles becomes a real agrivation. 138.162.8.58 ( talk) 15:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I didn't see that. Well, that's frustrating. If anything can be added to the mainspace article, feel free to do so. Just working on it now. —
Ed!
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- No problem, its just frustrating that Wikipedia has become the Encylcopedia that anyone with an account can edit. I don't want to step all over your edits so I'll wait till your done.
138.162.8.57 (
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- Thanks for your patience. I'm done editing for now, so have at it! —
Ed!
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- This is my home IP. Thanks, I added a few things but you already had the majority of it. 71.163.243.232 ( talk) 22:37, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your patience. I'm done editing for now, so have at it! —
Ed!
(talk) 16:39, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- No problem, its just frustrating that Wikipedia has become the Encylcopedia that anyone with an account can edit. I don't want to step all over your edits so I'll wait till your done.
138.162.8.57 (
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Hi Ed!, would you please mind rechecking reference two for this article? I've read the reference repeatedly and I cannot find any evidence that HHC 1 IB, 7 ID, has any lineage from HHC, 7 ID or HQ, 7 ID. Would appreciate you clarifying this. Kind regards, Buckshot06 (talk) 05:08, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, that looks to have been a mistake. I re-cited it to the correct source now. — Ed! (talk) 13:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, I've reviewed the article Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., which you nominated for GA sometime ago. I think the article is very good, but I have one or two questions that I've posed on the review page before I'm ready to pass this. I'd forgotten to leave a notification, so please consider the seven days as starting now (although its only a guideline anyway). Regards-- Jackyd101 ( talk) 00:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Do you want the DYK to be on May 10? Template:Did you know nominations/Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. -- Esemono ( talk) 12:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, please can you explain me a term "unnecessary illustration"? I place a small division insignia in the opening box on the page of Major General William F. Dean and you deleted it twice. Why? I think it is look good. Why that images should't be there? -- AntonyZ ( talk) 16:51, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- As far as the infobox is concerned, a lot of people are pushing to remove illustrations from it altogether except for the top image. In this case, the division insignia are of marginal importance in the infobox, especially when they already appear in an article under "decorations" — Ed! (talk) 12:33, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Ed - Feel free to delete this as soon as you've read this, but I just wanted to compliment you on all your great photos of small-town America. I absolutely love them to bits! 213.148.230.71 ( talk) 13:43, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Ed (nice username, by the way!). The Bugle is going to start a semi-regular series called the "Article writers' guide", and the fist subject is biographical articles. Would you mind adding your views to the questions here, and adding any questions you feel are necessary? Thanks! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Ed! Much appreciated. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:57, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Ed, just to let you know I've responded at Talk:Oerip Soemohardjo/GA1. I think that's everything. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:33, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
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G'day Ed!, if you are free, would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher and maybe providing a review? It has been open since 27 May and has only received one review. I would like to review it for Adam, but as I helped copy edit the article during its GA review, I'm probably ineligible now as a reviewer. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 11:13, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
- Left some comments there. —
Ed!
(talk) 15:50, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, Ed. AustralianRupert ( talk) 07:39, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
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The Content Review Medal of Merit | |
| By order of the Military History WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted work on the WikiProject's Peer, A-Class and Featured Article Candidate reviews for the second quarter of 2012, I am delighted to award you this Content Review Medal. - Dank ( push to talk) 19:13, 5 July 2012 (UTC) |
- Much thanks! I'd hoped to step up my reviewing a little more than this, but I'll kick it in at ACR in coming months. —
Ed!
(talk) 19:52, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
- Great, see you there. - Dank ( push to talk) 20:51, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have reviewed Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. and placed it on hold for up to seven days with some concerns. You can see my review here: Talk:Leslie H. Sabo, Jr./GA1. Canadian Paul 20:39, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
I edited your user sub-page, User:Ed!/Corps insignia of the United States Army, diff, as it was appearing category pages. Wanted to mention it to turn the categories back on if the content is copied back to the regular article. — MrDolomite • Talk 04:47, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, ok. That's fine. I forgot to take them off in the first place when I started the page. — Ed! (talk) 10:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your feedback. Think I can address the issues you raise w/o too much problem--there may be one or two which we can discuss further. Am on vacation in Spain till 21 July, though, so sitting at computer is not a priority at the moment. Can we push review date back to 30 July? Bilhartz ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:49, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) at the
Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that 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!
Lajbi
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CP 15:12, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
- There's one more tiny thing and it's ready to go. Lajbi Holla @ me • CP 10:41, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I've reviewed your nomination and left a few comments on Talk:William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950)/GA1.
Best wishes,
MathewTownsend ( talk) 20:46, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to review your nomination and I've left some comments at Talk:3rd Ranger Infantry Company (United States)/GA1
Please discuss my comments there and help me understand.
Best wishes, MathewTownsend ( talk) 22:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Alexander 1998 is undefined and not linking to anything. I suspect it should be Appleman 1998, but am not going to just guess. The "et al." on Battle of Sangju (1950) isn't a matter of any policy, it's just a stylistic convention, but if you don't like it, no problem. The omission of most of the years would go a ways to de-clutter things. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 23:45, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Please check fn#34 in that diff; it was not linking to anything defined (was seeking an undefined "Alexander 2001"), and I changed it to "Appleman 1998" because the named-ref implied that. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 04:20, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Whoops. You were right about both notes. Fixed the Taejon ref. Thanks for the heads up. — Ed! (talk) 13:22, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Glad I didn't guess on the first one; I'd have been wrong, as you fixed it to Alexander 2003. Anyway, glad it's fixed.
- You seem fairly new to the various harv-style templates. I saw in several articles that you only started using them last month. I've been doing a lot of this for years. The {{ sfn}} mechanism is rapidly replacing {{ harvnb}} nested in ref-tags. It is considerably shorter inline, especially with single authors. All the footnote collation is automatic, so you don't have to concern yourself with named refs, which often run into trouble with duplicate definitions that squabble with each other. Their greatest advantage is their flexibility; you can simply tweak page numbers and ranges as the article develops without having to re-work a named ref scheme. {sfn} works by generating the ref tags with consistent names and allowing MediaWiki to then do an automatic combining of whatever duplicates.
- You should install a helper script:
- importScript('User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js');
- User:Ucucha/HarvErrors
- it should go here:
- It helps diagnose syntax issues with the various harv/sfn citations templates.
- Pleased to meet you, I hear you're a sensible fellow. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 23:24, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Be aware that the script can generate "false positives". If it says nothing is linking to a source, that often means that the source is using {{
citation}} and the inline refs are just plain text; the cite it ready, but the inlines are just not doing it. If a footnote says "not linking to anything" that means something is truly wrong. When both everything is trying to do the linking and you're getting a message it often means a typo of some sort; name/year wrong/omitted, missing "|". And note that with
|ref={{ sfnRef}}you can take full control of the footnote text. I've probably done that somewhere on one of these battles. It's for sources that don't fit the author/year scheme or need disambiguation. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 02:35, 17 July 2012 (UTC) - I just re-worked this article. The two links to pieces by Hanley no longer work. There seem to be some traces of them in Google and the Wayback Machine might have copies. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 03:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- Be aware that the script can generate "false positives". If it says nothing is linking to a source, that often means that the source is using {{
citation}} and the inline refs are just plain text; the cite it ready, but the inlines are just not doing it. If a footnote says "not linking to anything" that means something is truly wrong. When both everything is trying to do the linking and you're getting a message it often means a typo of some sort; name/year wrong/omitted, missing "|". And note that with
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| On 16 July 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 3rd Ranger Infantry Company (United States), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the 3rd Ranger Infantry Company suffered over 50 percent casualties in its first Korean War engagement? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/3rd Ranger Infantry Company (United States). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:03, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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The Good Article Barnstar | |
| Thanks Ed! for helping to promote William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) to Good Article status. Please accept this little sign of appreciation and goodwill from me, because you deserve it. Keep it up, and give someone a pat on the back today. -- Sp33dyphil © hat ontributions 07:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC) |