MSCUSN

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! TomStar81 (Talk) 11:05, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Re:Frank J. Breth

I see it. Adding the awards to the article will be easy (per se), we just need to know what he was awarded and we can build the table. Building the table requires some coding skills, which makes it time consuming, but its not hard work insofar as we are not physically rebuilding articles, adding or subtracting sources, etc. That I can take care of - if as I noted you have the list of awards received.

The larger image that you've expressed an interest in is trickier to address. On Wikipedia, images and other audio/visual aids need to licensed when uploaded, and most of the available images out there come under the heading of copyrighted material. Copyright material can be used here only under very specific circumstances, and in this case a copyrighted image won't pass the necessary criteria to exist here because the current image is a free image (or a copyleft image, if you prefer), meaning that the image is in the public domain or released under a free license which we can use here openly. I would need to see the larger image in question and the relevant web page its on, or if it isn't on the net, I would need to know who took the image to give you a better sense for which of the two above options you'd be looking at for adding the image here.

Lastly, adding Breth to the list of notable recipients of the Gallantry Cross (Vietnam) is a coin toss, so I couldn't tell you if the name will stay. As a general guideline for this sort of thing its the famous people who are usually considered notable (R. Lee Ermy, for example, is famous for his appears in films more so than his combat experience). For my part, I'm not going to remove it, but others may.

On an unrelated note (and I mean this more as an fyi than a warning shot), if you intend to keep editing your father-in-law's page it would be best to declare that you have a conflict of interest. Wikipedia as a page on the matter, click here and you can see what exactly is considered a conflict of interest on site. Speaking as an administrator, at the moment this isn't a problem yet because you've been looking for help and have expressed an interest only in improving the article, but as time goes by adds are good someone will call you on this, so its best to get ahead of it while you can. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:07, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Replying on my talk page is fine, in fact thats how editors are supposed to respond (nitpick though: you should be indenting your replies by adding one or more colons before the reply, but thats a minor issue). If you just want list the awards that works, or if you know where I can find a photograph of the awards online I can work from that. For the image, did a Marine Corps photographer physically take the photograph? TomStar81 (Talk) 16:58, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply and also instruction. I would assume the photographer is a marine since it's his official photo with the US and USMC flags in the background. Also, his awards are as follows

Legion of Merit with two gold stars

Bronze Star with V and two gold stars

Defense Meritorious Service Medal

Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal with V and gold star

Purple Heart medal with gold star

Navy & Marine Corps Combat action

Navy & Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation

Army & Air Force Presidential Unit Citation

Navy Unit Commendation

Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation with two bronze stars

Marine Corps Expeditionary medal

National Defense medal

Armed Forces Expeditionary medal

Vietnam Service medal with four bronze stars

Navy & Marine Corps Overseas service ribbon with bronze star

Vietnam Gallantry Cross with silver star

Vietnam Honor medal 1st class

Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation Emblem with Palm and Frame

Vietnam Campaign Medal with 1960 device

Thanks again for your assistance and help. As you know I am still starting out with this and hope to someday contribute more. Thanks again! (MSCUSN (talk) 17:54, 2 June 2017 (UTC))

I've begun work to collect the ribbons in question for use in the article in an awards section, however it'll be a few days before its ready for publication. In the mean time, since you are looking to contribute, I thought I might point you towards the Military history WikiProject's academy. Its a kind of "boot camp" for those new to Wikipedia, and while the information contained in the academy's pages is primarily intended for military history-specific articles, it can be useful for contributions made to other articles and areas of Wikipedia. Hopefully, it'll be of some use to you too. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:14, 10 June 2017 (UTC)