Vasa2

Hello Vasa2! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! HausTalk 10:23, 29 May 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

United States Merchant Marine

Thanks for your edits to the article United States Merchant Marine. I made some minor changes to your section on Wipers and it fits in with the rest of the article quite nicely. The movie section is going to need to be hammered on to bring it up to snuff. I gave it a quick tune-up, but it still needs a lot of work. Sections like this tend to attract flack if they're not referenced and not more complete.

Finally, there's the "Belated thank you... write your congressmen" section. I'm personally sympathetic to the message, but Wikipedia just doesn't work that way. There's a trick: if someone could add cited material from respectable sources about activism to push for the bill, that could survive. But a direct appeal to "write your congressmen" wouldn't have lasted the day anyway, and it seemed best for me to remove it.

I'll keep an eye on your talk page to help you get started if you like. Cheers. Haus^Talk 10:23, 29 May 2007 (UTC)