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<Snip of stuff I've already read, thank you very much ;)>
That came from another page -I sure couldn't write that myself-, and of course a human is better, so leave a message on my talk page if you want to. (Maybe you could teach me something about fighter aircraft...?) Macintosh User 18:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
- Glad to meet you, Mac User! Lookin' forward to Wikifying. Guapovia 19:41, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Man
[edit]Hey. Nice to see you around. --huwr 00:37, 8 January 2006 (UTC) (You may know me as White Fire)
Hey, WF! Good to see ya! I do indeed know you! :) Guapovia 17:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Arbcom candidate userbox
[edit]Greetings. I've made a new userbox for arbcom candidates to show on their userpages so that visiters will know they're running.
- {{User arbcom nom}}
If you'd like to place it on your userpage, feel free. Regards, – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 02:17, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Quadell! I appreciate it. While my chances of winning are not especially high (last I checked, it was the No's by 64-4), I'll put the userbox up. :) Guapovia 15:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
WP:Air
[edit]Welcome to WikiProject Aircraft! A few suggestions to help you get started:
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Let me know if you have questions. - Emt147 Burninate! 02:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Rifle research
[edit]Hi, I'm doing research for a novel, and I was wondering, since you contributed to the Henry Rifle article, if you know of resources available online or to you regarding breechloader availability in the period 1850-1860. Specifically, how likely would it be that a cowboy could own a breechloader rifle during this time period? (Likely suspects: M1819 Hall rifle, maybe?) Thanks in advance, Guapovia 14:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- Other than learning about the Henry rifle from a novel many years ago, I don't know much about it. My contribution to the article was from bits of information I gathered on the Internet. As for owning a breechloader rifle, I suspect most cowboys couldn't afford one. There's the Hollywood movie image of cowboys, and then there's the reality: They were mostly poor, uneducated laborers, whose most important possession was their saddle; everything else they owned in the world, except for what they wore on their backs, could fit into a couple of saddlebags. Anyway, for a cowboy, a long rifle would tend to get in the way during their herding duties. He would be more likely to have a revolver, a more affordable firearm, strapped his hip. Good luck in your research. QuicksilverT @ 16:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- Henry rifle I am not the expert on rifles of the 1800's. If you look at the "history" tab for many of the rifle articles you will see names of contributors that have added more information, and know more about, than I do.
- That said. prior to the end of the Civil War, the rifle was a great LUXARY in the west. It was VERY expensive, and would have been few and far between. Rich cattle barrons, and then railroad men, would have been some of the only owners (unless it was stolen). After the U.S. Army ordered it in larger numbers for the Civil War (c.1869), the rifle started increasing in numbers in the west. When the soilders, like the Buffalo soilders finished their term of service the would try to find a way to take it with them ("somehow I lost my rifle..."). These babies were prized possesions. WikiDon 06:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
My thoughts on my ArbCom Candidacy
[edit]I think this userbox issue is really getting out of hand. Also, I confess: the only real reason I added ego as a reason for running was to stand out a little bit. One good thing that's come of running for ArbCom as such a new user is that I've really been able to learn a great deal about the Wikipedia user culture here, far sooner than I would have had I simply kept my head down and edited the encyclopedia to the exclusion of all else. I've learned that I'm Mergist, not Deletionist; exo-Pedian, and quite possibly a little Inclusionist. That's all, mostly. This is going on my User page. Thanks, everyone, again, for voting and talking to me! Guapovia 13:30, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Information on Rifles?
[edit]Hi. While I'm not sure what models whare avilable in the continental US in the timeframe you are considering (apart from the Henry and possible some old Halls), there are two military models avilable in Europe, at least one of which was avilable for civilians:
- The Prussian needle gun (adopted in 1848, paper cartridges, range of 600 m)
- The Norwegian kammerlader (adopted 1842, paper cartridges with seperate caps, range in excess of 1100 m)
While I'm unsure if the needle gun would be avilable for a civilian in the timeframe you are considering, I do know for a fact that civilian kammerladers were possible to buy - eitehr manufacured in the same factories that produced the military versions (and thus identical), or produced by local gunsmiths.
Hope this helps. WegianWarrior 08:46, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
- Ammo. I'm not certain what sort of ammunition the Hall used; I'm assuming that the paper cartridge used for the Hall would be more or less the same as the one used by the Kammerlader. There is an external link (reprodused here) in the Kammerlader article showing how to 'roll your own' cartridges. Provided one had a bulletmould (for casting bullets), I see no reason why someone in the 1850s or 1860s shouldn't be able to do the same thing. Interestingly enought, on the same page, is a picture of an unaltered 2 band chamber loader gun model 1860 made for target shooters found in U.S.A... perhaps that could give you something to spin on as far as a backstory goes. WegianWarrior 18:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Arbitration committee elections
[edit]Hi, you are currently standing in the Arbitration Committee elections.
If you aren't already aware, you are only attracting a vote of under 20% support to 80% oppose. This is mostly due to perceptions of a lack of experience.
Statistically, your vote is unlikely to rise above a 70-80% supermajority threshold required for election.
Therefore, it would be helpful if you would withdraw your candidacy from the election. This way there will be less candidates for others to read through before deciding their votes. The best place to announce such a decision would be on your candidate statement on the vote page, or on WP:AN/I, IF you choose to withdraw.
Better luck for the future. --Victim of signature fascism | help remove biblecruft 19:13, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, if you wish, you can add yourself to the above category. Adam78 18:34, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Military history: Coordinator elections
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Vandalism
[edit]Well, I must confess, the vandalism was nothing more than me adding that userbox. ;) huwr 14:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikiproject: aircraft
[edit]Regarding your comments on the F-16 Fighting Falcon FAC subpage, I have joined up to the project now. And when I said there was bias against Aircraft, I was referring to the comments on the Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/F-35 Joint Strike Fighter page, not to you directly. I mean, the Wikiproject doesn't use infoboxes, and if I use them then I get told that the article is not using the wikiprojects guidelines! Its a vicious circle. --The1exile 16:52, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Military aviation
[edit]Well, since you asked...
Here is a skeleton. Feel free to run wild with it; please don't remove the navigation template, though ;-)
The first order of business is to recruit interested people from WikiProject Aircraft. I'd like to run this, in theory, as a "joint task force" with them; but simply having common members may be sufficient for now.
Think you can sell the idea? —Kirill Lokshin 23:06, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you!
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I would like to thank you for your support for my candidacy for the Military history WikiProject coordinator position. I am now the Lead Coordinator, and I intend to do my best to continue improving the project. If you ever have any questions or concerns regarding my actions, or simply new ideas for the project, be sure to let me know! —Kirill Lokshin 00:08, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Cheers
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I don't wanna overdo it or anything, so here's just a brief note thanking you for supporting me in the WikiProject Military history coordinator elections. Cheers, and I hope I can please as Assistant Coordinator! --Loopy e 01:25, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Joke's RfA
[edit]Hi Guapovia, thanks for your support in my (successful) RfA! –Joke 16:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Can I help?
[edit]I have just completed a book on Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe and wrote a Wikipedia article on the Union Army Balloon Corps. Would this be of use or interest in Miltary Aviation History? Magi Media 14:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)Magi Media
Thank you for letting me onboard. What do I do first? Magi Media 23:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)Magi Media
My article is written
[edit]I have since prepared an article on military ballooning which I consider the start of military aviation. Where do I post it for review or consideration? Magi Media 13:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)Magi Media
Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I
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Infobox
[edit]There is a consensus discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft#Infobox Aicraft consensus discussion on adopting a non-specifications summary infobox for aircraft articles. Your comments would be appreciated. Thanks! - Emt147 Burninate! 18:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II
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An exciting opportunity to get involved!
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As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 00:34, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
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MILHIST Military Aviation Questionaire
[edit]Hi Guapovia! As your MILHIST Military Avation Task Force coordinator, I'd like to conduct a short questionaire to give me an idea of what you would the task force to achieve and the capabilities of yours that might contribute positively to the task force. The four questions of this questionaire are:
- What are your strengths on Wikipedia?
- Which four military aviation articles would you like to see be promoted to at least GA?
- What detailed resources (books, journals, etc) about military aviation do you have access to? Please provide the publications' authors, titles and ISSNs/ISBNs.
- Which three military aviation articles are you wiling to provide assistance? This can be expansion, copyediting, reference formatting, etc.
Please reply by copying and pasting the following at User talk:Sp33dyphil#MILHIST Military Aviation questionnaire and filling it out.
; ~~~ #My strengths #Articles I'd like to see the task force improve #: #: #: #: #Sources which I have #: #: #Articles I'm willing to provide assistance #:
Thank you for your assistance. Regards --Sp33dyphil © • © 09:26, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Military Historian of the Year
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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User group for Military Historians
[edit]Greetings,
"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.
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WikiProject Apple Inc.
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Hello Guapovia,
You've been identified either as a previous member of the project, an active editor on Apple related pages, a bearer of Apple related userboxes, or just a hoopy frood.
WikiProject Apple Inc. has unexpectedly quit, because an error type "unknown" occured. Editors must restart it! If you are interested, read the project page and sign up as a member. There's something for everyone to do, such as welcoming, sourcing, writing, copy editing, gnoming, proofreading, or feedback — but no pressure. Do what you do, but let's coordinate and stay in touch.
See the full welcome message on the talk page, or join the new IRC channel on irc.freenode.net named #wikipedia-en-appleinc connect. Please join, speak, and idle, and someone will read and reply.
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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
[edit]Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:21, 31 March 2021 (UTC)