User talk:Dawkeye/Archive 1

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Archive 2

Young Indiana Jones

Great job in fleshing that section out! Where did you find out all of the historical characters that appear in the show? The Wookieepedian 19:28, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

• I dumped the episode cast lists from IMDB and the official IJ site, and worked on the assumption that any character with two names was probably real, and googled those I didn't recognize. As a bit of a history nut (why I enjoyed the shows in the first place) I knew most of them anyway. dawkeye 19:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

• • Cool. Would you be interested in helping me expand and flesh out the article then? The Wookieepedian 20:51, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Francisco Javier Mina

Good job on the article. I'd been meaning to get to it, but it was still some way in the future. I've been working on colonial Mexico, with a few articles from the War of Independence. Rbraunwa 19:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Frank Zappa trivia section

I noticed your edit on this section. It clearly improves it a lot!!! I still think there is way too much trivia relative to the length of the article. However, it is difficult to cut out big chunks. I have suggested that the section could become an independent article in itself. See Talk:Frank Zappa. If you have an opinion on this, please let us know. Thanks! --HJ 10:18, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Battleships

Please do not wikify, as you call it, the infoboxes on the battleship articles that I have created. Doing so not only destroys the date linkages, but it also totally erases the data on the armour carried, which is of fundamental importance. I hope you will not take it amiss if I revert your changes.--Anthony.bradbury 00:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Additional comment; the box which I create is neater, and more attractive-looking, than the wiki-box you inserted. And, as I say, mine contains more data. I have reverted your edits. While we all know that all articles are subject to merciless editing, it is not done to remove data, as you have done. (Data on armour protection)----Anthony.bradbury 00:21, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Also, when ships received a change in armament, sticking it all in the one box, as you have done, is scrappy and much less clear than the way I did it. Talk to me.--Anthony.bradbury 00:50, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Really, please talk to me.--Anthony.bradbury 00:20, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi there. Quite right - revert away. I am sorry for the delay in replying but its been some week. First I come down with the flu, which I suspect accounts for my lack of editing judgement on your pages, then my broadband internet connection decides to quit on me for two days. dawkeye 22:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Career Laid down: December 1859 Launched: April 11 1861 Specification Displacement: 6,070 tons Length: 280 ft (85.3 m) pp, 302 ft (92 m) overall Anyways - what I was trying to do there was - I think - to make the tables look less like this ...

Career Laid down: December 1859 Launched: April 11 1861 Specification Displacement: 6,070 tons Length: 280 ft (85.3 m) pp, 302 ft (92 m) overall ... and more like this. Hardly vital, but in keeping with WP style generally, I think.

Counter Intelligence Corps

WikiThanks

Thanks for expanding (= creating) the article on Counter Intelligence Corps. -- Petri Krohn 10:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:CP

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Book cover

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An Invite to join Aviation WikiProject

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Could you help me write this article?

Hello,

I was wondering if you would be willing to help me write either Seikichi_Iha or Shorin-ryu_Shido-kan. Tkjazzer 21:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

William Green (rifleman)

On 3 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William Green (rifleman), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 03:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Missing aircraft

Hi Dawkeye and thanks for the work you're putting into whittling away the "Missing aircraft". When you've contributed one, could you also please make sure that it's linked from the List of aircraft? Cheers --Rlandmann 08:59, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

• Noted. I have been adding them to Wikipedia:New articles (Aircraft) however. (So many lists!) dawkeye 09:59, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Konrad Kujau

Hi Dawkeye, thanks for your interest in Konny Kujau. I was person of his "inner circle" but I never heard that his second firstname was "Paul". Please tell me about the source.

Greathings from germany --Telephil 22:04, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

• Everything I added to the article was from Robert Harris's 1986 book "Selling Hitler" (as referenced on the Kujau article). Chapter 9 begins :

"In Konrad Paul Kujau, alias Konrad Fischer, alias Peter Fischer, alias Heinz Fischer, alias Doctor Fischer, alias Doctor Kujau, alias "The Professor", alias "The General", known to his many friends as "Konny", Gerd Heidemann had at last met his match: someone whose talent for inventing stories was equal to his own capacity for believing them."

--- dawkeye 00:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikiwings

		Wikiwings
		For your yeoman's work in adding and expanding templates on aircraft articles. - BillCJ 00:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Specs requests

Sir, could you take a look at UH-1N Twin Huey and UH-1N Twin Huey articles? I'm having trouble finding updated specs for them, especially the UH-1Y. THanks. - BillCJ 18:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

• I have no sources myself, but http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=130 (UH-1N) and http://www.bellhelicopter.com/en/aircraft/military/pdf/UH1Y_PG_3-06_web.pdf (UH-1Y) look promising. Thanks for the wings by the way. It was a nice way to mark my first year (almost) editing Wikipedia. I guess this means I'm not a newbie any more! dawkeye 19:48, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

Just wanted to thank you for bravely tackling the Engrish that was Yokosuka D4Y! Maralia 13:32, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Both of you deserve a hearty "You go!" Binksternet 14:30, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Aircraft categories

Hi Dawkeye - you've done quite a lot to populate some of the "ghost town" aircraft categories like Category:High wing aircraft. Up until the last few days, it seems that you were actually the only person using them, and we're having a discussion over on Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Aircraft about whether to keep them at all. Obviously you feel they have a place, so we'd love to get your input! Cheers --Rlandmann (talk) 00:18, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

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Categories for deletion

Hi again - just a courtesy note to let you know that I've just nominated eight categories based on unremarkable aircraft features for deletion, as my note to you in December. The categories in question are:

• Category:High wing aircraft
• Category:Low wing aircraft
• Category:Propeller aircraft
• Category:Jet aircraft
• Category:Single engine aircraft
• Category:Multiple engine aircraft
• Category:Biplane aircraft
• Category:Pusher aircraft

Cheers. --Rlandmann (talk) 02:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Infobox Class - Infobox Ship Class

Hi - {{Infobox Class}} and {{Infobox Ship Class}} are deprecated and will soon be nominated for deletion. I notice that you are using these templates and wanted to inform you that they will no longer function once the templates are deleted. They have been replaced by using {{Infobox Ship Begin/doc}}. Thanks :) --Brad (talk) 07:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Charleston Class Infoboxes

These are nice infoboxes, but the captions are not showing up on the photos in them. In at least some cases, the captions exist, but don't show up. Captions of ship photos often contain important information, IMHO. Lou Sander (talk) 03:58, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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Welcome to WikiProject Ships

Hello Dawkeye, and welcome to WikiProject Ships! Please see the navigation sidebar on our main project page for information about our project guidelines, resources, and pending tasks. You can post any questions at the project talk page. Thank you for joining - we look forward to working with you! Maralia (talk) 19:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Ships Barnstar

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		Awarded for the continual replacement of outdated ship infoboxes. Too bad there are thousands left to go. Nice work! Brad (talk) 18:51, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Junkers F.13

Hi: I think you addded specs of the F.13de model. Do you have a citable ref for this that you could add? If not, I could replace them with those of the slightly longer F.13fe, which are citable from Turner & Nowarra's book.TSRL (talk) 09:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

• All I did was update the specs to the current template, they were added by the creator of the page - Andiszek. He doesn't seem to be active anymore (as he hasn't made an edit since November 2007). The general rule with specs is to use the most common model or variant. If that is what you have then go ahead. dawkeye (talk) 17:17, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

• • Thanks for that. I'd guess the -fe was as common as any, so I'll do that in the interests of citation.TSRL (talk) 17:57, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Using Your Images

Hi, I would like to use your image of the Guildhall on my blog about Leicester but before doing so I would like to know how you would like attribution...do you have a website you wish to link to, do you wish to link to here...what would you like me to say? I very much look forward to hearing from you. Koal4e (talk) 21:19, 19 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.98.106.202 (talk)

Thanks for asking. If you can attribute it to me - Dawkeye - and add a link to my Flickr account at - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawkeye/ - that would do fine.

Thank you for letting me use the image, I have uploaded it to my new blog on Leicester and added "attributed to Dawkeye" with Dawkeye linking to your Flickr page. Koal4e (talk) 18:58, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

HMS Defiance (1861)

On 3 October 2008 you added a {{nofootnotes}} to HMS Defiance (1861). Given that every paragraph has a at least one footnote, and there is a footnote given the sources for the infor-box, I am a bit puzzled as to where you think additional footnotes are required.

It is worth noting that before you wikified the infobox, it was much clearer where the information in the infobox came from, and that your wikification removed some useful information in the infobox. Defiance being the only ship of its class, I twas useful to have some class related information in the infobox.--Toddy1 (talk) 13:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

USS Cyane 1806

Made some "refits". Could you please take a look? Thanks! APhilipp29 (talk), 02:38 p.m., Mar 13th 2009 (CET)

Something for you…

		WikiProject Ships Barnstar
		Your name kept popping up on my watchlist for infobox additions every once in a while, so I was going to just post a thank you comment. But after looking at your contributions, I feel that simple thanks aren't enough. So, even though Brad awarded you this same award back in December for the same reason, I hereby award you with the WikiProject Ships Barnstar for your tireless contributions to ship article infoboxes. Keep up the great work. — Bellhalla (talk) 17:18, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for Sundowner (yacht)

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U-boats

Hello
I notice you’ve been editing the U-boat pages (as have I, working from the opposite direction; we’ve just crossed over)
I notice you’ve changed the header on a number of them (the VIIF’s from U-1059 to 1063) from "German submarine" to "Unterseeboot".
Can you not do that; they need changing from Unterseeboot, to match the page titles and in line with the discussion on the subject at WP:NC(ships).
Thanks, Xyl 54 (talk) 00:17, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

PS: I noticed you were doing infoboxes; if it's any help, U-953 and U-843 needed them. If you're doing something else now I can probably get back to them later. Xyl 54 (talk) 00:26, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

OK Thanks for the heads up. I am working my way through the U-boats in the "ships without infoboxes" category (slowly).

No worries: we'll get there eventually! Xyl 54 (talk) 23:39, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Service awards proposal

Hello, Dawkeye/Archive 1! I noticed you display a service award, and would like to invite you to join the discussion over a proposed revamping of the awards. If you have any opinions on the proposal, please participate in the discussion. Thanks! — the Man in Question (in question) 04:46, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Autoreviewer

Hi Dawkeye, I just came across one of your articles at newpage patrol, and was surprised to see that an editor who has been contributing referenced articles since 2006 hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that. Also I noticed that you do a bit of vandalism reversion. If you'd like to have Rollback as well, just read wp:rollback and tell me when you would and wouldn't use it. Cheers and happy editing. ϢereSpielChequers 17:48, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!!

Just a note to say thanks for fixing up the formatting on the Xhol Caravan Wiki page. I was hoping to do something like that, but I just never had the time nor mastered the techniques to do it. I will be trying to add a few citations to the article to show where some info comes from if I can ever get the spare time and I can figure out how to do it without wrecking the appearance of the article. - Anyway, thanks again! Letterbox wind (talk) 18:46, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Collaboration

Hello Dawkeye! I see that you are expanding articles on German WWII U-boats. I myself am an avid editor to these articles as well. So I was wondering, do you mind if we collaborate on articles that deal with German U-boats? I have already nominated German submarine U-255 for a DYK in your (and to a lesser extent, my) name. I was wondering if you would like to get some of these articles to GA status. I already have one at that point (U-162). Thanks!--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 16:34, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello White Shadows!

Yes, I started working on U-boats via "ships without infoboxes" and seem to have become rather obsessed. I'm not sure how a collaboration would work, but do you want to start with particularly significant U-boats (the most successful?) - some of them are need more information - U-107 and U-124 are just lists of ships sunk, while U-66 and U-68 give no details at all.--dawkeye 12:57, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

you do have a point. You see, I currently have U-47, U-38, possibly U-37 and U-255 up for a GAN. at least 2 of them have major contributions on your part. I was sugesting that we pick a type of U-boat (IXA for example) and try to get all of them to GA class and submit the topic to GTC. That would be a start. Many of your articles that you have expanded are worthy of a DYK and with a bit more work, a GA. What do you think?--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 17:01, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Ok. So I have U-37 and U-38 up for a GAN and U-39 is also ready. Now can you help me out in expanding German submarine U-43 (1939)? It sank 21 vessles and went on 14 patrols yet there is only a paragraph about her. This is an article that can easily be brought up to a GA if it were expanded as much as U-255 was. I'll try to help out as well but I'll likely be buisy getting the other two to GA status.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:44, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Oy. I've been writing a new U-43 article all afternoon, but it is turning into a monster - 15 patrols and 23 ships sunk. I've not finished it, but having looked at what I've already got see that it needs editing down. I'm going out tonight, and will be busy on Sunday, so it will have to wait until Monday. TTFN.--dawkeye 17:07, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Great job man! I've nominated it for another DYK. I'll be makeing some corrections to it and now and latter, getting it prepered for a GAN.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 01:23, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for German submarine U-246

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Materialscientist (talk) 12:03, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for German submarine U-255

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Materialscientist (talk) 16:02, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Hi, have seen you have been changing infoboxes on some articles (eg HMS H2 etc) the info box you are importing doesnt match the one listed at Template:Infobox ship begin which are the ones that should be used according to the Wikiproject: Ships. Was wondering where your version has come from, as the Wikiproject version is considerably neater code...Thanks JonEastham (talk) 12:36, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

You're right. The version I am using dates back to 2007. When I learned to code, making it as small as possible was always vital - old habits die hard. dawkeye 12:49, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for German submarine U-43 (1939)

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Materialscientist (talk) 12:04, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for German submarine U-355

Courcelles (talk) 18:04, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for German submarine U-343

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DYK for German submarine U-371

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DYK for German submarine U-376

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Thank You for your help and I need some more

Your recent edit of USCGC Point Young (WPB-82303) was a refreshing bit of help, but the mission isn't accomplished yet. I started writing the articles for USCG Point Class Cutters because I am a retired Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer and they needed writing; however, I have more practical knowledge of the cutters themselves than the writing of the articles. You have done a great job of cleaning my Point Young article up, but there are so far seven or eight others that need the "Dawkeye treatment". I want them right before I continue on with the other 70 cutters in the class. Could I impose on you to look at the other articles I have written and do your magic? They would be the cutters listed in the table in the USCG Point Class Cutter article with blue links. Specifically Glover, Garnet, Clear, Mast, Comfort, Grey, and Marone . On the remaining works, I will "template" information in the ship infobox to the new inforbox and change the pertinent information for each cutter. Please give my request consideration, and it doesn't have to happen overnight of course! Thanks for your help on Point Young in any case. Cuprum17 (talk) 13:32, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Well gosh, thanks. Most of the changes I made were fairly minor points of style or for clarity, I will do the same for the rest of the ships in the group. dawkeye (talk) 19:49, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Only 2,099 total infoboxes to go ...

WikiThanks

Thanks for all your persistence! Djembayz (talk) 20:14, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

I'll definitely second that! Cuprum17 (talk) 21:43, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Kenneth Althaus

Hi Dawkeye, would you mind having another look at your edit to Kenneth Althaus? I have a sneaky feeling we now have a hybrid article of senior born in 1893 retired 1946 and jnr who served in the Korean war and died in 2006. ϢereSpielChequers 22:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

You are right. I have amended/updated the article accordingly. Apologies.dawkeye (talk) 08:39, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Dawkeye, I'd have fixed it myself, but it isn't my subject. ϢereSpielChequers 17:57, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Edmond Thieffry

You are listed in the edit history of this article, in August 2007. The article remains without citations. If you can supply source(s) for any or all facts contained in this article, please do so.

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Bullet points in infoboxes

Hi there Dawkeye! I noticed recently that you are adding bulleted lists to infoboxes. This is just to let you know that the issue of using bullet points in infoboxes was raised at Wikiships a while back and the consensus was not to use them. Regards, Gatoclass (talk) 18:31, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Category:Biography articles without listas parameter

Hi!

I noticed that you have been working on the backlog in this category and, based on what I have found in the area of the obviously incorrect, thought I should give you some background of the category, tips on how to find sort values and some traps you may encounter.

The category was established after WP Biog decided that each article should have a DEFAULTSORT value. There was no way to track that and still may not be so it was decided that every banner should have a listas value that would be the same as the DEFAULTSORT value.

The good news is that many articles have a valid DEFAULTSORT value that can be copied to the |listas= on the banner. The bad new is that some of the values are not valid. Some of the rules for establishing the sort value are on the category's talk page. There is a link there to a more complete explanation. (It is very Anglo-centric.) Besides that there are the naming conventions of various cultures to consider.

The biggest sticking point is what constitutes a surname. Sometimes the only clue is the name of a close ancestor or descendent. Sometimes there is no clue at all and the article has to left until more information is available or the article is deleted for some reason.

I hope this helps you. If you have any questions, just ask me.

JimCubb (talk) 00:07, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I have been sticking to WP:SUR, but have generally been taking the easy way out by fixing only straightforward firstname surname pages, and usually passing on anything too tricky for now.

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Ralph Van Deman

nice work Decora (talk) 14:26, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

More nice work

I admire your work on List of clasps to the Naval General Service Medal (1847). Shem (talk) 17:14, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much. It's good to get stuck in to a really big editing task once in a while, it gives more of a sense of achievement. That one represented several evenings work.dawkeye (talk) 17:21, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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Article expansion or new article?

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Operation Magic Carpet#Service points. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 09:55, 11 June 2011 (UTC) (Using {{pls}})

A barnstar for you!

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