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ICC

Thanks for the kind words. Marcel (the director of the library) and I have talked about setting up an entirely new page on Wiki for the William Inge Center. Among other projects and my own homework/studying, time becomes a slight issue. When adding more to the ICC page I just wanted to do an overview but am fully aware that there is SOOOO much more information. Taking on the task to dispatch more info into the world of Wiki and give the center the page it deserves is probably a week long task that right now, I just can't commit to. Hopefully before the end of the semester you'll see more up though. I can't make any promises but it's a goal to get more information gathered and posted for the Inge Center. EngineerMe85

PS I'm having issues figuring out how to get a picture on the page. HELP!!! Lol. Please? :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by EngineerMe85 (talk • contribs) 21:43, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Editing

your point is well taken. i have changed the listing in several places for navy e-5 corpsmen, from hc2c, whatever the hell that is, to the correct hm2. but these edits are a piece of cake. just click on the tab 'edit this page'. when the edit page displays, put the cursor behind what you want to delete, and backspace it out. type in the correct entry. fill in a cursory description of what you did in 'edit summary', and hit 'save page'. et voila! ya gotta learn sometime. have fun and don't worry, if you screw up a few times, somebody'll fix it. i watch the nam moh page.Toyokuni3 (talk) 03:08, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

my pleasure. welcome home, bro. bill hahn hm2 usn (1964-1968). Toyokuni3 (talk) 18:51, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Spec 4 not an nco?

according to the page: Specialist (rank) a spec 4 is not considered an nco. is that right? i know i was considered an nco when i was e-4.Toyokuni3 (talk) 21:20, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks

thanks, chief! Toyokuni3 (talk) 22:12, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Independence

Thanks for the note — as you guessed, I watch tons of articles, so I often don't notice errors that are on pages other than ones that I'm fixing, so I'd not noticed the Zion Lutheran link. Please don't think that I see you as rank :-)

For general instructions on external links, see Wikipedia:External links: among other things, you can see that it says that "external links should not normally be used in the body of an article", and that "links in the 'External links' section should be kept to a minimum". That's basically why I undid the edits of which you speak. Above all else, the reason that I undid your change today to the high school link is that an article could reasonably be created for the high school (high schools pretty much always qualify on notability grounds), so you could quite properly create an article on the high school and place its link there. As far as the arts place: I don't think that it's a "site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article", as required by the external links instructions page. I could be wrong (the closest I've been to Independence is going along I-35 in Sumner County), but I think the best policy would be to try to see if the center fulfills the notability criteria; if it does, you could create an article on it and link to it, just like you could do with the high school. If you don't believe that it fulfills the notability criteria, but you believe that a link to it fulfills the external links guidelines, you could ask for a third opinion. Nyttend (talk) 01:56, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Michael Healy

Thanks for your kind words. My interest was stirred as I was watching a History Channel program, and the more I researched, the more fascinated I became. I have also begun a new article about the [[[Healy family of Georgia]], as I found the stories of two of his brothers soon led me to the bigger picture of essentially the whole family. A different story than a number of the First Families of Virginia, but a meaningful one, I believe. Vaoverland (talk) 09:59, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the Barnstar! I appreciate it very much and will display it with pride!--Paul McDonald (talk) 21:16, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Scammon

Thanks for getting a source for the name of Scammon, Kansas. I wasn't sure exactly what you meant by one bit, so I reworded it the way I thought you meant. Can you check the page, either fixing it (if I misunderstood) or (if I understood correctly) making some minor change so it will show up in my watchlist? Nyttend (talk) 23:45, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

"Vandalism"

It is not my intention to vandalize any article on Wikipedia. I am not a citizen of the United States but if I was and I attempted to join the United States Coast Guard, it would be impossible for me to express my bisexuality as a result of the regulatory code by which that organisation operates. I am well aware of the fact that the Coast Guard and the rest of the United States military are following rules set down by congress but the fact remains that they enforce those rules. I am not singling out the Coast Guard. I categorized the Army, the Marine Corps and the Navy in the same way. Just because discrimination was ordered by a higher power, it doesn't make that discrimination in any way justified. I was not grandstanding for gay rights. I was telling what I believe is the truth and if you don't like my interpretation of the truth then don't read it. Thanks.TheGeniusPrince 00:45, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

NN?

Just curious why you keep talking about adding NNs to the Independence article — to take the most recent example, all state legislators are notable, so nonnotability isn't a problem for the majority leader! Nyttend (talk) 04:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey, no complaints; just a little curious :-) Nyttend (talk) 23:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:edit

Sorry! I had been checking all the other Medal of Honor articles as well for multiple instances of the note, but I must have missed those. I'll take care of the rest now.Reywas92^Talk 20:33, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I think I'll just remove the rest. There's no need to repeat it when a single use at the top is fine. Reywas92^Talk 20:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

to you too

And thank you!Bert Schlossberg (talk) 17:56, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks and your welcome

Your welcome and thanks to you as well. I am in the process of getting all of the Medal of Honor lists to Featured status (got several already) and the Vietnam list will likely be one of the next ones I submit so any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. Here is a link to the page I created and use to monitor the Medal of Honor related pages, Medal of Honor. This helps me track a variety of info regarding the Medal of Honor related articles including new articles that have been created recently, articles that still need to be created, what status the articles are, etc. I also currently have the Charles Lindbergh article in peer review to solicite improvements and get it to featured status and I will be submitting a couple more soon (probably Theodore Roosevelt and either Pappy Boyington, Buffalo Bill Cody or Jimmy Doolittle). Please let me know if you have any questions and thanks again. --Kumioko (talk) 15:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

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Back at ya Coastie

Nicely done, Chief. Beat me to the reversion by "this much". QueenofBattle (talk)

Well, I looked into your suggestion that I consider the Coast Guard reserve, but I'm told that at 44, I am too old... QueenofBattle (talk) 22:14, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Editing Chief Petty Officer page

Hey I responded to your post on my page. I look forward to the discussion. I don't know if you get notified when I respond to your post or not, but thought I'd just put this on your page just in case. Supergoalie1617 (talk) 19:52, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Calling all hands

Could use your inputs on the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Schott and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Ackerman (USMC). I was very surprised to see these up for deletion, especially with sources from both NPRC and the Marine Corps historical society. Your previous interest in the service number series indicates your interest in this topic. -OberRanks (talk) 03:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your inputs. Taking a look at whats going on, we sadly seem to have a lot of non-Americans and also high school students chiming in saying "not notable". If they get an admin on their side, the articles will probably be deleted. Ackerman's info will be here in about 2-3 weeks at which time I will rewrite the entire article with cits to his WWI service & Silver Star. Guess we weill see what happens then. -OberRanks (talk) 12:34, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

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RE: Coast Guard Civilians

Chief,

Thanks for the note. One of the things I like about Wikipedia is that it's a joint effort and if someone makes a mistake there are others who will jump in and correct it.

I meant no disrespect to all the civilians in the Coast Guard or to the service they provide, it just seemed like there wasn't enough information there to justify having it's own section. Maybe it could be expanded with more information about the jobs they do.

I appreciate your point about including all parts of Team Coast Guard. New Hampshirite (talk) 18:12, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

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Hello, and thanks a lot for creating the Point Class cutter articles. Just for your information I have a note though on the use of categories, specifically the top category [[Category:Ships of the United States Coast Guard]]. This one is not needed since [[Category:USCG Point Class Cutter]] is a subcategory in there. So we don't add both the top category and a subcategory to articles. De728631 (talk) 19:26, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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Wichita State University

Hello Cuprum17, i am trying to further improve the content of the Wichita State University article, but unfortunately i have not been able to make some considerable contribution in this regard. I need help from other user to help me further improve the article which is currently too ordinary for a State institution. I would kindly request you to add more information regarding University campus and the Student life section, while I'll soon add few Photos to the sections. I hope you would accept my request. Regards! SyedMANaqvi (talk) 01:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

"Did you know?" submission

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DYK for USCGC Point Marone (WPB-82331)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for USCGC Point Young (WPB-82303)

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Nominated USCGC Point Arden (WPB-82309) for DYK

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Well done on these VN War era USCGC boats YellowMonkey (new photo poll) 06:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for USCGC Point Caution (WPB-82301)

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USRCs

Hello Cuprum. I just came across USRC Rush (1885). I was about to start USRC Richard Rush (1885) as an offshoot of USRC Richard Rush (1874) when I discovered your article. I'm not sure I'm going to much more in the area, but if you want, I put images on Commons of the later ship you can use. I think it might be better to use the full name for these ships (including the one from the 1830s) in order to avoid confusion, but whatever convention is used, there should be redirects. Let me know you thoughts here-- I'll watchlist this page. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 13:13, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello Kablammo. The convention that I believe is used on older ships is the commissioning date. If the ship I'm writing an article on doesn't have a hull number, I use the commissioning date in parentheses, even if there is only one ship by that name. I have run across several exceptions to this in ship articles, but have left them alone. My source for Revenue Cutters is Canney and the Coast Guard Historian's site, but even those two don't always agree on facts. Canney refers to USRC Rush (1874) rather than USRC Richard Rush (1874). If you look at the Coast Guard Historian site they refer to USRC Richard Rush (1874). Take your pick, I guess. I think as long as the year of commission is in the article title you would probably be OK in any case. The histories of the older cutters were not very well kept. Thank you for your interest in the USRC Rush. I wrote several of the USRC articles a few months ago, but got sidetracked by the Point class cutter and the individual articles on each of them, all 78 of them. (Example: USCGC Point Marone (WPB-82331) I am bogged down now on some of the engineering issues of the Point class cutter because I am having difficulties on finding references that will satisfy a B-Class review. If finding references on recent USCG Cutters is hard, imagine the USRC Cutters. Anyway, if you want to proceed with mods on either or all USRC Rush articles, go right ahead. I do not claim any "ownership". If I can help in anyway, let this old retired Coast Guardsman know and I will do my best. Cheers. Cuprum17 (talk) 22:53, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I don't have a strong feeling either, so I created redirects for both articles. Perhaps there's a policy somewhere that someone will apply to these articles.

If you are interested in more history the New York Times archive can be a valuable source of contemporaneous news reports. See, for example, this search for Richard Rush" + cutter.

I look forward to crossing paths with you again. Semper Paratus! Kablammo (talk) 19:09, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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