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Hi Randy as an active member of the Scouting wikiproject, would you care to respond to the wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Baden-Powell House. Any comment, either supportive or suggestions for improvement and similar feedback will be appreciated. Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 16:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC).
Hi Randy, would you please
Thanks, brother! Chris 21:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out. Remedied. — ERcheck ( talk) 21:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Hope you have a great 4th of July!
Thank you for the non-combative notice--I'm sorry I caused trouble.
Unfortunately I was unable to see any differences whatsoever when I tested it. And I really mean I saw no difference: not even the ones I expected. Might have had something to do with the MediaWiki internal caches. Is there any way you know of that I can test a format without risking mayhem in the progress? -- Gutza T T+ 21:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
How do you get a linkbox on your user page/subpages? You know, the group of links at the top of your page? -- Kschwerdt514 21:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Rlevse,
I appreciate the recent changes you made to VBCPS articles, including Frank W. Cox High School. However, I do think that instead of the logo or seal, an actual picture of the school building would make more sense, as a photograph is better illustrative of a building tied to an institution that its seal is. I am considering switching back to the actual image of the school, but I'm also looking into methods to display both a picture and a logo, much like in Template:Infobox City.
It is also worth noting that it's highly possible that logos are copyrighted, and with the growing anti-fair-use sentiment on en.wp, it might not be a good idea to use them extensively. — UED77 23:05, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
The Version 0.5 system is imperfect; disagreements are inevitable. I did not approve Kylie Minogue, Sharon Tate, and Rebecca Clarke. But I would approve a more general article about Scouting. Maurreen 16:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I'll try and take a look at this when I get a chance. I'm going to be very busy over the next couple of days, then I can look at it on Sunday night or early next week, is that OK? As for picture and current event tags I really have no idea, in my field (chemistry) we've seen little of that, and most of my editing work has been trying to raise mediocre articles to A or B-Class, not much with the FA procedure. You really started something over at Talk:V0.5N, didn't you! Walkerma 18:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Would appreciate any comment on proposed merge over at Talk:United States National Scout Jamboree -- Gadget850 ( Ed) 16:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I quite agree, there are problems with the text in this article too, but I thought it was worth putting it on hold for the images to get sorted out before making a thorough review, on the grounds that if the images don't get sorted out then it's not even in the running. Sorry I didn't put it on hold on the noms page - good spot. TheGrappler 19:26, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I've made a bunch of progress on the article
check it out and tell me what you think. Andman8 02:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment on Spirit of the American Doughboy. I hope my changes have cleared up any confusion. If not, just let me know. Thanks again! Kafziel 19:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up, I've added my support. --GW_Simulations |User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 12:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, you're going about this in the wrong order ;-)
What you should do:
In general, I have no particular opinion on whether some tag should be there, but I do think that using the FA star (regardless of the color) is confusing for readers, and suggests a formal relationship between the FA and GA processes that simply isn't there.
On a somewhat related note, two suggestions about making the GA process more palatable to Wikipedia at large:
Hope that helps! Kirill Lokshin 17:50, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Re: the internal links, can you fix the first one for me to show me how this is done, and I'll do the rest SP-KP 18:07, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Glad you know where my heart is, which makes it easy for support when either of us hits impasses on something with the Scout WP. We're reading from the same page, we want each article to be the very best as a reflection of the youth we're about. I appreciate you having my six, I know I get too worked up at times, it's important stuff. :) Chris 23:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'd be grateful if you could cast a quick eye over User:Zaian/Brownsea Island Scout Camp before I launch it at the proper location. I suspect it would then make a nice candidate as a Did You Know article. Comments and improvements very welcome! Zaian 11:21, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for calling the three articles to my attention. I've added the {{ WPMILHIST}} project tags to the articles, and put an attention tag on Matabele War. — ERcheck ( talk) 13:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, the references were in the external links, and I'm pretty sure what's in the article is about all that can gleaned from internet sources. -- Fang Aili talk 19:56, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
See my comments at its talk page - you read my mind! SP-KP 23:45, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
I saw you added yourself to the list of Eagle Scouts, which I don't mind since you are a poet of some note, but a bio I read on you said you grew up in Canada, so how then did you earn Eagle Scout? A google search did not turn up any verification you're an Eagle either. Please advise. Thanks. Rlevse 23:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't know. On July 13th, I think, VP 1.3 will be released - many bugs will be fixed then. Computerjoe 's talk 07:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Rlevse...believe it or not, I didn't do it for the Scouting project. I am sorting the User templates category and decided to sort out the Scouting ones into their own Category. Unfortunately, it didn't help much in cleaning out the parent as I had hoped.
Please stress to your Scouting contributors that all Scouting related user templates go into the more specific category from here on out. Put a link to it on the project page as well so that it gets more visablity.
TIA!
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Lady Aleena
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PS. I was a Girl Scout.
See the project page for new award info, I turned your sash design into a Scouting Tireless Contributor award. PS, aren't you an admin now? Rlevse 01:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I thought I copied the format of the template exactly as I saw it here. {{ScoutingWikiProject| ... | class=??? | importance=??? | ...}}
evrik 22:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Rlevse,
Thank you for the input. I've corrected them. I have a question for you on the format. Most Scouting in articles contain very little regarding past councils, camps and lodges. The suggested format that you list the council and include the camp and lodge makes sense until you hit Connecticut where I think I found every council, every camp and every lodge. Does it make sense to list the three as I did or combine the three together. If combined, Camp Sequassen could be listed under 4 councils and where would the history go? To the last council? I've asked other folks, on an informal basis for their suggestions but received nothing back. I have more info to add, hopefully over the next several weeks. Any suggestion would be helpful.-- dep369 23:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)Dep369
No, I think that's it. You'll find out for sure when it runs tonight, though ;-) Kirill Lokshin 00:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
You objected to the nomination of Architecture of Norway. I am working on the improvements you have suggested. If you could take a look, I think you will see promising progress. Please reconsider your objection, or let me know what more you would like to see to support it. -- Leifern 03:01, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
You were kind enough to offer comments on this article when it was a featured article candidate last December. I've completely rewritten the article and hope to re-submit it as a FAC. In the interim, I have posted it at Wikipedia:Peer review and hope you'll offer comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Bricker Amendment/archive1. PedanticallySpeaking 17:04, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I suppose there is a certain amount of common material between the two topics. (Whether this is because Scouting has been influenced by Baden-Powell's military background, or because Scouts are more likely to distinguish themselves in the military, or perhaps for some completely different reason would make a fine dissertation topic for some sociology student.) In any case, it's a pleasure working with you; I hope that the cooperation between the two projects will continue, to the benefit of both. Kirill Lokshin 04:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Because it is something that escaped my attention, so small it was :)
Thanks a lot for your support and for pointing this one out!!! ^_^ -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 21:09, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on the 'Feature' candidate Libya. I've fixed the inconsistent date format. I also felt as if I had already addressed Sandy's concern about the bibliography. Care to take another look and re-evaluate?
Thanks very much -- Jaw101ie 21:19, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I don't see the connection between this guy and BSA membership controversies. Certainly, the fact he was involved in Scouting would lead to some kind of reference in a Scouting article, but what would it have to do with membership policies? -- Habap 18:58, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your heads-ups. Please check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_18#July_18 Chris 02:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I know that only a few people commented, however, I hope that I won't get shot down. I just spent over an hour and a half working on that cfr. I hope that I won't be raked over the coals for this. Please don't be angry with me.
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Lady Aleena
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contribs 00:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Randy, could you please re-rate List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members? I added a couple of references and one external link. Thanks. -- jergen 07:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
What was wrong with my last edit on Scouting#Co-educational_Scouting ? ( Egel Reaction?)
What was wrong with Jergen's? You guys have been editing, even reverting each other. Pls sign posts. Rlevse 12:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I was mostly reverting myself. Hopefully this edit is better. (Sorry for not signing) -- Egel Reaction? 12:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your comment about the Medal of Honor article. It was added to the Military history WikiProject announcements, but it hasn't had a lot of edits to it. I agree that it would be a shame to see it lose the FA status. I am not an expert on the history of the award, so, I have more questions than answers; able to help more with form than with content. I appreciate your help on the article and hope that others will add their expertise as well. — ERcheck ( talk) 02:07, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Very nice; thanks for the help! (Unfortunately, US military history is pretty much completely out of any area of expertise I might claim, so there's little I can do for the article content-wise.) Kirill Lokshin 02:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
My dear Rlevse, as usual, it is a great pleasure to hear from you - and in fact, I ws planning to visit you pretty soon as I would like your input on a different matter. But first things first, so let's start by saying that your advice on the Comanche article is much appreciated, and I will follow it in detail - thank you so much! As I didn't write it myself, but rather I simply reviewed its historical and factual accuracy, it'll be kinda hard for me to add the needed footnotes. However, I have interacted with its main authors, and I can ask for their help in the task. There is no hurry - I'd rather have this article checked, doublechecked and improved as much as possible before even thinking about moving on to FAC stage.
At the moment, tho, I'm much more interested in hearing your thoughts regarding the Portal that I've built and currently maintain, Portal:Indigenous peoples of North America. I'm investing much of my time perfecting it, and I know it still has weak areas; the To Do and the Categories sections are not finished yet, tho I feel like the other sections look rather complete already. I've been updating it regularly for about the last month, and so far I've received good feedback from users who have become interested and learned about the subject through it. My main concerns are, do you feel it's ergonomic enough, decently designed, and so on? I've noticed that, for some reason, sometimes a section's frame doesn't display properly; as we speak, the Biographies one is out of shape. What do you think should be improved before moving on to Featured Portal candidates? Please, allow me to thank you in advance for your valuable time, your advices and your help.
As I said above, it is always a pleasure to see you, my dear Rl; please, drop by and visit me anytime you wish, even if there's no business involved and you just feel like saying hi ;) Big hugs, Phaedriel ♥ The Wiki Soundtrack!♪ - 13:42, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I believe you have inadvertently removed my support vote to Caroline Island. [1] =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:38, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
SO SORRY! I would never do that on purpose. I went to put it back, but see you already did. Rlevse 12:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note on Gideon Welles. I'll give it some attention.
I've noticed all the hard work you are putting into improving the Medal of Honor article. Thank you so much! It is an important article and deserves attention from an expert. (I've added a few refs where I could find them.) — ERcheck ( talk)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Portals#Philadelphia_portal FYI. -- South Philly 03:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
You were kind enough to comment on the previous FAC for the Bricker Amendment. I have now proposed it as a featured article after extensive revisions and would appreciate your vote here. PedanticallySpeaking 17:19, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, please merge. The info is already in there, Brian Duke was going to put the stub up for afd in a few days. It would look better if it was one of you guys than me. The order as far as I know is UK, Chile, US, then Thailand. -- Chris 00:11, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
ps-why are you changing the ratings on some of the national orgs?
No idea. I'm guessing the cluster it was on may have been down, though. Kirill Lokshin 15:11, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Could you lend some support here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lloyd Monserratt. I would appreciate it. -- evrik 16:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)]]
Thanks so much... I do appreciate that you are keeping an eye on articles and letting me know. Looper5920 tagged the articles before I saw your note. I did find another reference for the Calvin Graham article (the House Bill restoring his veteran's statues and backpay. The article on Carl Brashear deserves a bit more attention. I'm going to tag it for attention by the Project and see if there are editors who will work on it. — ERcheck ( talk) 22:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The reason I chose not to place the article on hold is because some of the concerns I had went beyond minor edits/clarifications. If you look at the On Hold section of WP:GA/N, you'll see that the Good Article process is not a substitute for Peer Review. That's why I failed the article instead of placing it on hold.
That being said, you are of course free to re-nominate the article once you feel that the concerns I listed have been sufficiently addressed. Best of luck! -- cholmes75 ( chit chat) 17:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Hiyas. I wanted to let you know that I pointed out a timing question regarding your DYK submission (because I don't want it to accidentally be disqualified because someone thought we had more time before it disappeared off the 5 day timer), and another editor made a comment. If you can address those, I'd think it would help getting it into the dyk queue. :) Cheers. Syrthiss 18:30, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Not sure what the ethics/etiquette is, but I was impressed with your to do list template. So, um, I guess I borrowed it. I would be happy to credit you with it, but have no idea where or how. I'm just learning about templates so it came in handy.
-- Geneb1955 Talk/ CVU 03:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
If you want me to give your nomination attention before I leave... Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 22:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC).
I did nominate it for GA on 26 July, but forgot to put the GA nom tag on the article. Rlevse 01:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I've been re-reading the Medal of Honor article. I have a number of questions/comments. Would you like them here on your talk page or on its FA review page? — ERcheck ( talk) 20:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
This is only from the intro and the first section. All picky comments (though I can't imagine being more picky than the FAR). (Feel free to tell me if this is too detailed, too critical, or just more than you care to hear ;-)
Introductory paragraphs
- P1. What it is: It all works.
- P2. Uniqueness: The number of times it has been awarded doesn't fit in this paragraph. Perhaps the numbers should be put in another paragraph — not a long discourse. (Brainstorm — perhaps total numbers, number per conflict, numbers per service branch? )
- P3. Distinguishing it from other awards: There are two types of awards being mentioned here: (1) the other military neck award and (2) civilian awards. The paragraph needs a lead-in sentence to set the stage, rather than just jumping in:
- The Legion of Merit statement seems like it is missing context. First sentence says that MOH is a neck award, as is the LOM (the commander's degree distinction is not at all apparent in context; the reader could go to the LOM article, but they shouldn't have to.) Only neck award for "valor", then what is the LOM for? This needs to be clear. The general public will not immediately distinguish between valor and merit. Perhaps include in the sentence "... for valor — actions taken during combat operations at risk of one's own life that are above and beyond the call of duty — ...."
- Civilian awards — a short lead in. Presidential Medal of Freedom (highest); others with "Medal of Honor" in their name.
Origin section:
- P2, S2: "the idea of a decoration for individual gallantry remained through the early 1800s". What is meant by "remained"? Were there any awards made? Mentioned in the Congressional record or in miliary communiques? Reference. Could it be that: "Although the Badge of Military Merit fell into disuse after the American Revolutionary War, the concept of a military award for individual gallantry by members of the U.S. armed forces had been established. (Took out decoration as the next sentence talks about the Certificate of Merit and then the Certificate of Merit Medal.
- P3, S2: "such a medal did enter service in the Navy". Is "enter service" the correct terminology? Would it be correct to say that:
- "Scott did not approve the proposal for a U.S. Army award. However, such an award was established for the Navy when Public Resolution 82 that provided for a Navy Medal of Valor
, which came to be called the Medal of Honor,was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on 21 December 1861." ... put the name at the end of the paragraph, as both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army awards took the name Medal of Honor.- From some of the citations, it seems that the legislation for both had the terminology "medals of honor" in them, not as a title, but as a descriptor. When was the official name of "Medal of Honor" given? This reference indicates that the name was established within a year of the USN and USA medals being authorized. [1] Consider the inclusion of the "medals of honor" phrase of the legislation in the quotes about who is eligible.
See:
- ^ "Two Chief Engineers Were Medal of Honor Recipients?". Did You Know?. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved 29 July 2006.
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If you want more, I'll keep at it. — ERcheck ( talk) 23:27, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure who does the blessing. Rlevse 02:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping out. It's nice to get some fresh people working on these articles. =) -- AaronS 00:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
As a rule of thumb it is advisable not to close reviews in which you have participated. The Medal of Honor review was obviously successful and closing it was the right choice but it is better to let a neutral person close it. Take care. Joelito ( talk) 15:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I had been checking them but hadn't seen any white space. Which one are your referring to? Is it, perhaps, browser dependent? -- NThurston 16:08, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I use FF, but I do have IE installed. I'll check it out there, too. -- NThurston 16:27, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I compared the first versions with the template in IE and FF, and only IE had a problem with white space. Good to know that this could be a problem. I LIKE the shorter template (makes better use of space), but in the case of MB History, it doesn't make much difference because it is the long TOC that is causing the Right Hand side white space now. A longer template would just flow down alongside the TOC. I'll check the other pages to see what effect the template is having in IE. -- NThurston 16:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I see that you're making some progress with experimentation. You can use the samples as the logo image for the series template, but I haven't figured out how to include the caption and still have it look decent. I'll check back in a while to see what you have come up with. -- NThurston 16:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Seems logical to me to add the Eagle FA to the series under Advancement and Recognition. However, I have a concern about how it would affect the article. I have created a sandbox version. Please take a look, see what you think, let me know. -- NThurston 19:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
None of them junmp out at me. I vote for leaving the article alone right now. Rlevse 22:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse. Like all Wiki processes, you shouldn't close reviews you are directly involved in, as you did for Medal of Honour. I know it was meant well, as the consensus had moved to keep. Cheers, Marskell 19:18, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Great job with the Medal of Honor article. You put a tremendous amount of effort into it and it is much appreciated! — ERcheck ( talk) 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
In appreciation for your persistent efforts in improving the Medal of Honor article in its Featured Article review, I present you with this Barnstar of Diligence. — ERcheck ( talk) 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC) |
Hi Randy,
Why, thank you. -- Smack ( talk) 04:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Gadget850 ( Ed) 11:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind awarding of the Scouting Barnstar! I am just glad to be of service. -- NThurston 14:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks for the barnstar! I'm sorry I've taken so long to acknowledge it. I am taking a wikibreak as I was travelling during August and moving country. Now I'm back home, but I don't have an ISP yet, so the break will have to continue for a bit longer... Zaian 12:38, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Did you know that LL Cool J was a Boy Scout? — ERcheck ( talk) 03:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
No I didn't. Thanks. Since it only says he was in Scouts, not an Eagle, etc. I've only put him on our list of notable Scouts, not the project tag. Rlevse 09:52, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
If you want to add the Scouting categories to something, go ahead, but please don't remove them from any categories, we have them set that way for a reason. Rlevse 19:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
You put 2005 United States Grand Prix on hold for a GA nomination a few days ago. I've had a stab at it and think I've addressed your concerns. See what you think. Cheers. 4u1e 18:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, I think that I have done what you suggested to the article. I'll continue to work on it. As a relatively new user who is just learning the ropes, as it were, I also just want to say thanks lots for your help! Stevecull 14:07, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, could you please rerate the South African Scout Association article, I've lengthed the lead, added some more content and fixed a couple of minor formatting things. I didn't add any more refrences, cause to my knowledge there aren't any more (All information is available from the SASA official website - albeit with alot of effort)
Hi -- I've now been warned twice by you. Could you please check the diffs on my talk page of the links I reverted? Thanks -- Omicronpersei8 ( talk) 23:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
as for the merge stmt, I have to say is something to the idea that reservations that are or were national should not go into a state article...? Rlevse 21:49, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Actually there is a reason I reverted the Simpson article. If you check the edit history, the article has been mercilessly edited by someone adding tons of vanity entries and essentially unimportant information based on his stint on the ship. Because of this, I reverted to a version prior to his edits, so that I can go back later and re-add info that is actually relevant. Because of his editing style, it is simpler just to get rid of his edits and start again. For instance, you have reverted to a version where the editor has inserted his own name into the article and the format is completely wrong.-- Nobunaga24 01:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I merged these into Scouting in Rathfarnham as the article on 14th Dublin is copyed and pasted from the article 13th Dublin. This seems to have touched a nerve and I have now been accused of vandalism (?!) by User:Jorgenpfhartogs when I am merely trying to ensure that there are no Scouting articles with identical content! Can you offer advice on the subject? Thanks Stevecull 23:58, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
The 14th and 13th units are two complete separate units. They are both based in Rathfarnham and the 14th was established by leaders of the 13th but since then they have very different histories. There are 4 more units in Rathfarnham so an article about Scouting in Rathfarnham should not include the history of the 13th and the 14th but should be a more general artical. Merging 14th Dublin and 13th Dublin would insinuate they are thesame unit, which they clearly are not. I'm an active leader in the 13th Dublin unit and therefore do not know anything of the history of the 14th Dublin since it was established. I also can't tell you more about the other 3 units, but I've requested info from them as to write an article about Scouting in Rathfarnham.
I've rewritten the page about
Scouting in Rathfarnham a bit since the history of the
13th Dublin is not the sole history of Scouting in that area. I'm looking for more info on the other troops. By my knowledge there were/are 6 troops:
13th Dublin,
14th Dublin,
31st Dublin,
68th Dublin,
Rathfarnham Girl Guides and a troop in Ballyboden that no longer exists. I've contacted the leaders I know of all troops in the area (
Mountpellier Scout County and
Three Rock Scout County) to enlighten me with any info they might posses. I beg all of you to leave the
13th Dublin and
14th Dublin articles intact.I will receive more info about the 14th soon so I'll be able to continuee their history from the moment they became a separate unit.I also started articles on the
Scout Provinces in Ireland.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Jorgenpfhartogs
Jorgenpfhartogs's plan sounds very amibitious but I am very interested to see how it will turn out. Thanks for your input as always
Stevecull 20:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
The 13th has a very long and interesting history and we have enough material two fill 2 books In fact, there are already 2 books written about the history of the unit and the unit is mentioned in a lot of local history studies. I could write at least 200 pages about the history but I do agree that is not the case for each unit. In some cases an article for each unit would not be appropiate but in this case is fully believe that the history of the 13th does not belong in the article Scouting in Rathfarnham. I believe a separate article IS useful in this case. I will rewrite the articles. Jorgenpfhartogs 02:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I've rewritten the articles 13th Dublin, 14th Dublin and Scouting in Rathfarnham in a way that (I hope) all of us can live with. Jorgenpfhartogs 06:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I just talked to some people in Baden Powell Scouts Association and they asked me to edit the articles in accordance to their wishes. The IT-officer of Baden Powell scouts Ireland and UK lives close to me so I regulary meet up with him to see how I can edit it to a good article that is approved by Baden Powell Scouts. They wish it to be more like an advertisement while Wiki's policy is NPOV. I just edited the articles and I'm waiting for approval from them and wikipedians. Jorgenpfhartogs 05:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm in contact now with all 5 organisations (UK & Ireland, US, Canada and Australia) and they all seem to have their own ideas and except for Ireland and UK have no contact with each other like WOSM organisations do. They feel as if the WOSM organistions see them as a competitor and most seem indeed to have negative tendencies towards BPSA. I'll try to make the article more wikipedia while maintaining respect for the wishes of BPSA. You can contact BPSA UK and Ireland via [email protected]
Jorgenpfhartogs 11:54, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Jorgenpfhartogs 11:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Jorgenpfhartogs 12:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Jorgenpfhartogs 10:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Just adding Canada, Australia and US later and President's view will be in separate article as founder of BPSA and WFIS. Jorgenpfhartogs 17:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
The BPSA is happy with the article and I'll just tidy it up a bit and add the other nations.
The article on WFIS however seems to be laregly incorrect and I'm in contact now with the 4 instigators and the Pfadfinder Deutschland to correct it. A nice chance to brush up on my German and French ;).
Jorgenpfhartogs 11:28, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Rlevse, I've added a useful book reference to the Sparty article and fixed the existing web citation. Let me know if it needs anything else to get up to GA status. Thanks for all your help! Lovelac7 02:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Randy, I hate that I have to keep having this conversation, especially with our regular contributors. Please check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Evrik#Resica_Falls_Scout_Reservation and weigh in. Chris 17:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
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Jeez, That was a minute ago, give a guy a chance. Rlevse 15:06, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if you'd be able to comment on a proposal I've just started on. It's obviously quite inchoate at this point, but I'd at least like for someone to tell me whether I'm totally insane for even suggesting it ;-) Kirill Lokshin 18:08, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
I think this is an excellent idea. The PR process is dying IMHO from lack of input as a lot of people seem to use FAC for a PR now. I also see the need for V1.0 interproject issues being handled in a more orderly fashion. Rlevse 18:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Could you stop back by the FAC and let us know your reasoning for the continued objection? Since it's not based on the FAC criteria in any obvious fashion, the objection will be dismissed if it remains unexplained. Ryu Kaze 04:22, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
You recently reviewed this article doing some small edits and leaving a mild objection as the lead was too short. We have rewritten the lead and would appreciate if you have the time to pass by again. Thank you for your help and suggestions. Gnangarra 07:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping with this article (semi-protection). See edits by user Khompat, IP 129.125.7.116, user Tuleeprabaht. I think they may be the same. Khompat keeps putting his fac comments at the top and slandering legit editors. Please investigate and advise/take action on this. Thanks for helping. Rlevse 16:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed you approved GA status for this article. I think that might be a little premature. It has some rather serious NPoV issues, which I thought were not in accord with "good articles." Would be better to put it on hold hoping it gets fixed in a week. (It might, there are quite a few people working on it.) Putting your talk page on watchlist; you can respond here. Gimmetrow 00:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I liked the article too, but some editors find it a bit hagiographic. Gimmetrow 08:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Would you be so kind as to go to the discussion about the Islamic Wikiproject Award? This has been a proposal that has lingered for donkey's yonks. I think the image is acceptable as a WP:PUA, but don't think the image is in line with most of the images at Wikipedia:Wikiproject awards. The design is not well supported, and right before I was going to archive the debate for lack of support, someone else moved it to the Wikiproject awards page.
The current discussion is going on here: Wikipedia:Barnstar_and_award_proposals/New_Proposals#Another_image. Your input is appreciated. -- evrik 03:17, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
OK, thanks. Maurreen 04:41, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Yep. VP 1.3 and VP 2.0 are all under development! Computerjoe 's talk 12:00, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
See also Talk:Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique
Please change the name of this article to The Guides and Scouts Movement of Belgium instead of giving it the French name. The national Movement in Belgium officially has 3!!! names and not just the French one. Maybe we should use the English name (since this is the English wikipedia) or rename it Scouting in Belgium. Jorgenpfhartogs 06:52, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
... removed multiply duplicated text for brevity
Check Template:Portal. CG 11:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey Rlevse, can you see if your concerns on Ladakh FAC have been addressed? Thanks, deeptrivia ( talk) 17:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Tuleeprabaht is at it again. I reported him on a vandal notice page but not sure anyone will do anything. We'll see. Rlevse 11:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Do you have any sense of civility? Not only do you refuse to be civil in your comments, you remove my comments as "VANDALISM." It is indeed SAD that an author of FAs and a featured portal finds it so easy to be rude, malicious and lame. Rama's arrow 23:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the helpful critique on the Larrys Creek FAC page. Per your comments, I have expanded the name section, removed all footnotes from the lead section (and I believe corrected all errors resulting from cutting and pasting the references), and made a new subsection on "Water quality and pollution" incorporating some material already in the article and adding one reference. I also added the list of tributaries recommended by the Rivers WikiProject. I have not been through the FAC process before, so I hope it is OK that I put this reply here as well as at the Larrys Creek FAC page. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch 02:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hello! Can you please check the article now and see if your concerns have been addressed? Thank you!-- thunderboltza.k.a.D eepu Joseph | TALK09:38, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Why are you proposing to merge Wordl Cons. Award with Green Scouting? The WCA is a BSA award. I don't get the connection. Rlevse 15:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, I wondered if you could take a look at my recent post and give me some feedback? If you have time, some comments on the rivers and the Lakes and Seas set noms. Thanks! Walkerma 05:45, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen that you requested a translation of the german wikipedia article Sangam which I created there. I also created articles for:
I can do the requested translation if you wish. But let us made a deal. The german World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts article needs your map of the world regions, the german World Organization of the Scout Movement article too. Please load it up to the Wikipedia Commons.
Please answer on my german User talk! -- User:Manuel Heinemann 09:30, 29 August 2006 (CET +1)
The 3RR should limit the chaos he can cause, if he's not willing to negotiate. Otherwise, I would suggest opening an RFC on the article; his motivations are seriously misguided, but not obviously bad-faith, so going down the disciplinary route is a little premature at this point.
On a rather unrelated point that ocurred to me as I was looking through these article: I'm a bit surprised that Scouting doesn't have a disambiguation link to Reconnaissance. ;-) Kirill Lokshin 02:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Thank you, but I rarely vote if I don't have much knowledge about the subject. Anyway, WP:FAC is not a voting process, it's a discussion ground, as FA status does not rely on the number of support votes. CG 20:01, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
User:Taykid41 asked me to check his work in Scouts Canada Scout Badges. Could you please do this instead of me? I'm not experienced in badge programs - my association doesn't issue this kind of badges (like most German associations). Thanks. -- jergen 21:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Rlevse, I have added more refs to the appearances section of Palpatine if you want to check this out and amend your comments at FAC. Thanks for your input. Dmoon1 19:55, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for all those FA article reviews, now we're over 1000 articles! Now we only have about four weeks left to review articles for Wikipedia:Version 0.5. I was wondering if you could take a look at Wikipedia:Version_0.5/To_do and sign up for something? I'd like us to make sure we don't miss anything important. And once the end of the month rolls around we can take a well-deserved break...! Any help you can give would be most welcome. Thanks, Walkerma 20:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Rlevse, can you read this? Χριστὲ Κύριε, τομ δουλος с уважением William Bailey 20:17, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Rlevse, thanks. Moved the fish above the flag. The edit page resembles a scrip file. William Bailey 01:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
I changed the source image to 22 px, so the size tag is now redundant. -- Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you're quite the keen scout with your Wood Badger and Eagle. I'm a scouter myself, and have been for 6 years. I'm now doing leadership, and as of next March I'll be bumped up our hierarchy to an assistant leader officially. I'm with the 27th East Belfast scouts, UK. How did you receive both your awards? They're both very prestigious and a goal for myself. I'd also love someday to receive my Queen's Scout, but that takes a lot as I'm sure you know. -- Dom0803 14:38, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm actually from Northern Ireland, which is the United Kingdom, so I'm not sure if it's done differently in Ireland. Two different countries ;) -- Dom0803 21:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Dom, I think NI is the same as the rest of the UK - for the Queen's Scout Award, you need to just work on it, it is designed to be a self-motivated award. Still, I'd try and track down a Scout Network to work with. As for the Wood Badge - you are registered for that as part of your Adult Leadership Training in the UK. Hope this helps - another place to go and ask about this is Scout Forum. Cheers, Horus Kol 08:49, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
this guy really wants to delete my recent additions for illustration- Image:LaszlonagyU.jpg, Image:Laszlonagycarlgusta.jpg; and Image:BoyScoutsofNippon.jpg, please help me save them from him. I hate having to do this all the time. Chris 22:06, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
-- Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 08:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
You're quite right, I do. And I've been completely blanking on how best to thank you for honoring me, especially with as MUCH work as you've been putting into the Scouting WikiProject. All the best, -- JohnDBuell 02:01, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
...on your FA success with Bhumibol Adulyadej. I kept meaning to look it over and forgot every time. Good work. Ryu Kaze 13:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I converted your DESA list to wikimarkup User:Gadget850/Sandbox5. We might get a few more names from this. -- Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Gilwell Park is in Chingford, Essex, but right on the border of Greater London... Gilwell Park Site Horus Kol 15:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I noticed the article nomination was going all over the place and I was going to put some unsigned tags for some comments when i ran into some confusion with your edits.
Here is how i see the history:
Now those last two... what was that about? Was that a mistake or what? sorry just curious. - Tutmosis 16:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
That is the number of articles you have now helped bring to FA status. Congratulations. Anagnorisis 18:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Yeah. Durin already hit the Eagle box that we had been working on and I figure he'll get here eventually. He's actually right on this one. The image shouldn't be inside the template. I am working on a work around, but it's a little tricky. I thought I had it, but am still fiddling. If I can't make it work in the next little while, I'll rv it back to the image-included code and work on it later. -- NThurston 19:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
So, what happens now? Horus Kol 09:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey Rlevse, could you look at Ladakh's FAC nomination, and see if you have any more issues. Anything else that should be fixed? Thanks, deeptrivia ( talk) 17:30, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
On Greek letters in notes: I did that since numerals were already used for references. I took the cue from an article that recently got featured status, Pericles. deeptrivia ( talk) 18:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing this out. I've added an infobox and tagged (w/assessment) the article for WPMILHIST.
Question: Is there a record of the project that he worked on to earn Eagle Scout?
— ERcheck ( talk) 03:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Randy, I just put up the article on The Scout Association of Hong Kong on WP:PR for a peer review. Would that warrant an announcement on WP:Scout? And the proposal of the new structure? That is at least important! Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 20:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC).
I was just wondering how you made those infoboxes for articles like Gilwell Park - I want to knock up something similar for the World Jamboree articles. Horus Kol 13:21, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Randy, you added it to the list on WP:Scout, but I can't find the line. What was it? Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 08:37, 16 September 2006 (UTC).
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! ARRGG! Darthgriz 9 8 15:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
This is for real. LOL. Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 19:43, 19 September 2006 (UTC).
Good morning. I've reviewed and tagged USS Firebolt (PC-10).
(Sorry to miss out on assisting on Bhumibol Adulyadej, but it seems that all worked out.)
— ERcheck ( talk) 13:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
We really have to stop editing at the same time ;-) It did make me take a look at the youth positions in the Boy Scout article , and I saw some stuff that crept in. I need to figure out where to put bugler since it is not considered a leadership positon. -- Gadget850 ( Ed) 00:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC) Whoa! The toolbar got updated.
Hi - recalling that we had a brief tiff in August, I would like to apologize for any uncivil or rude conduct on my part, even though I stand by my rationale and core message. Please do me the kindness of visiting and sharing your views at Wikipedia:Editor review/Rama's Arrow 2. I need your advice and criticism, and I would be immensely grateful if you could spare a little time on this. Thank you, Rama's arrow 15:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I've made some edits to the article, including adding his Navy Cross citations. In addition, in the infobox we usually put the medals in order of precedence down to the Purple Heart. Since the Air Medal is after the Purple Heart, I removed that from the infobox.
Thank you for creating an article. A hero with two Navy Crosses certainly should have an article. I hope you can obtain permission to use a photo.
— ERcheck ( talk) 02:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Wow! That was quick — Harry Brinkley Bass making DYK. It's great that you were able to get permission for the photo in time for the DYK promotion. — ERcheck ( talk) 01:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)