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This is Archive 14 of my talk page. It is archived using the Cut-and-Paste method.

Below the line, you will find the talk portion of the page for January through December 2009.

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AfD nomination of Samba d'Or

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Leagurian Mountains

Thanks for deleting this article. Black Tusk (talk) 22:06, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

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Lt. Gen. Victor H. Krulak

What a great Marine and patriot. Is he in the L"ist of historically famous Marines"? Tony the Marine (talk) 22:53, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

• He is now (smile). Tony the Marine (talk) 23:01, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

To your first question: within a couple weeks. You'll see a header on my user and talk page before I board the plane. To your second comment: I'm not very well versed in the FA process. I've attempted to participate in a couple before, and I got lost in the nuances; debate over the capitalization of a single letter, the placements of commas, and other weighty issues that I know little about. I could attempt to assist you, but my research resources aren't going to be any better than yours, nor do I have the depth or breadth of experience you have in biographies. If you have any specific tasks you think I could handle, let me know. bahamut0013^words_deeds 03:40, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: USAF Portal

Military Barnstar

Copy all, thanks much. And thanks for taking on the portal when it was clear no one else was doing it. Please accept a Military Barnstar for your work on both the USAF and Marine Corps portals. Ndunruh (talk) 14:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I should be albe to, at least in the near-term. I anticipate my duties becoming a great deal more rigerious in about a year's time, so I'll have to re-assess then, but for now I should be able to take it on. Ndunruh (talk) 15:48, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Marine biographies

Could you do me a favor? For the next month or so, let me know when you create a new article or add one to Category:United States Marine Corps generals? I'm blowing through that category, adding ribbon racks, and I'd hate to miss one because it was added after I finished with that letter. I'm keeping my project status up to date in User:bahamut0013/ribbon workshop#Project Status, and I saw your most recent one (Gen Christmas). Thanks! bahamut0013^words_deeds 22:05, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello, may I please ask a few questions?

I read your comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephanie sarkis and I'd like ask a few general questions.

I've re-read the pages on deletion policy and notability guidelines. How would you suggest an editor go about handling an article like this one: Kent Stanley This is a new article written by a single author, likely autobiographical. It contains claims of notability, but no 3rd party sources. The only contributions by this author are on the article in question. Special:Contributions/HaroldKStanley

In a broad sense, how does one go about improving something like this? Do I need to gut the article and just make a stub saying something like:

Kent Stanley is the senior associate athletics director for development at Utah State.

and cite: http://utahstateaggies.cstv.com/genrel/071808aaa.html

He may have had a good coaching career at Oklahoma City University, but I am not sure this individual is notable. What do I do now? Do I just leave it? Should I Prod? Afd?

Thank you very much for your time. Liberal Classic (talk) 06:22, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

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badges

I've been placing ID badges to the side of the ribbons for a neater appearance whenever possible. Wings and other badges go above. I'm really not sure what I'm going to do when I get into the Army bios, they have a tednancy to have lots and lots of badges and tabs and other accoutrements... bahamut0013^words_deeds 23:20, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, and I appreciate the updates. Cheers! bahamut0013^words_deeds 23:29, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for George R. Christmas

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In transit

Just wanted to drop you a line. I'll let you all know when I make it to Al Asad. bahamut0013^words_deeds 15:23, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for William K. Jones

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RE: Andrea White

Thank You! --Obaidz96 (talk • contribs • count) 00:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

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You asked about references for Andrea White being a partner with Locke & Liddell (now Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP). What I can find online are various speaker profiles:

Red Rose Ball honoree, 2007, UH Downtown. "...went on to become the second female partner at the law firm Locke Liddell." Duchesne Book Fair, 2005. "...she attended the University of Texas Law School and went on to become the second female partner at the law firm Locke Liddell." HTH. — ERcheck (talk) 04:38, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

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Need some admin help

I've made a bit of a mistake that I need an admin to help fix. I created Category:United States Marine Corps in fiction to categorize Marines n media, but then i realized that I forgot the distinction between fiction and non-fiction. In haste to fix the problem, I created Category:United States Marine Corps in non fiction. Now, I've got two categories for an almost identical purpose... And I'm also having some trouble deciding whether some media is fiction or non-fiction (some are based on but heavily adapted from real events, or semi-autobiographical, or dramatized versions of real events). Would you be able to merge them or rename one to United States Marine Corps in media? Thanks. bahamut0013^words_deeds 07:45, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I personally think it'd be better to lump them all in together. Sometimes the grey area is bigger, sometimes it is so small that you wouldn't notice without some research. It also simplifies mantenance and its easier to find in a search (in the sidebar or when using Hotcat). bahamut0013^words_deeds 09:53, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Might as well, that way they don't get accidentally populated. bahamut0013^words_deeds 09:41, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

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Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 21:26, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Portal

I'll check it out right after the Super Bowl. Tony the Marine (talk) 02:58, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

• You did an excellent job. My team lost! oh well, there is alawys next year. Tony the Marine (talk) 03:30, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Bahamut0013's chevrons are in the picture? Amazing! You know something? I don't know Bahamut0013 personaly, but he is one hell of a great guy. There are some people here that you feel honored to have befriended and he is one of them. I always pray for his safety. Tony the Marine (talk) 04:08, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

A day late and a dollar short.

You're not going to believe what I just got in the mail... Five professionally printed photos from the 2nd MAW 2008 Marine Corps Ball. Golly, it took forever, and they are completely useless to me as far as Wikipedia is concerned, as I don't have a scanner. But damn, I look good, marching on as an escort! There is always that. :P bahamut0013^words_deeds 16:35, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, the works are in the public domain: federal government employees on duty were the photographers. It woud be nice to scan them in, however. And I don't suppose you have much to worry about me... Al Asad is quite safe, being out in the middle of nowhere. I'm not expecting to leave the base, really... just another staff puke. bahamut0013^words_deeds 05:10, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Elizabeth A. Okoreeh-Baah

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Orlando Antigua

Thank you. You know someone said that Orlando Melendez was the first Puerto Rican to play for the Globetrotters and I wrote about him, but I remembered that when I met Orlando Antigua years ago, he told me that he was Puerto Rican, so the curiousity made me research him and the result was my ending up writting about him too. Amazing situation that Antigua had to face, right? Tony the Marine (talk) 00:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

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New "GA"

Guess what? Hispanics in the United States Marine Corps just made "GA". Tony the Marine (talk) 04:29, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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Table sorting

I took a look at Help:Sorting, and made a few changes... but I can't understand how to get dates to work right. I might try again tommorrow, some sleep may help recharge the brain cells; but I think we are fairly limited in how we can sort the columns. bahamut0013^words_deeds 18:31, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Swing and a miss... that help page just confused me more, and I couldn't get it to work. Maybe the function works different at Meta? Sorry. I would recommend going to the WP:Help desk. bahamut0013^words_deeds 11:25, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks pretty good; I couldn't find any problem. Now go fix Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. :-D bahamut0013^words_deeds 15:32, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that on the CMC page... putting a zero in front of the single digits will work... 08, 09, etc. instead of 8, 9. bahamut0013^words_deeds 06:13, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, I simplified it... take a look. I used <span style="display:none">05</span>... as you can see, I skipped the "O" entirely. If you are referring to cases where the individual held more than one rank, then yes, adding an additional digit would help sort that. We humans usually read an integer from the base (decimal point) and left, but the software reads it from the first digit right. This means that the number of digits is irrelevant, but the precedence of the first digist to conflict are. For example, 09 and 090 are considered the same number as far as sorting is considered, but 092 is ahead of 0934560... I think. The best solution here is probably the decimals you tried elsewhere. But in reality, I really doubt it's worth this much skull sweat! How much functionality will this give a reader anyway? We have the basic mechanics in place, and it works well. Unless, of course, you are merely trying to expand your skill set; in which case I really don't have any more advice for you. Once we start getting into computational mathematics, I lose interest because I don't have room in my head for it. bahamut0013^words_deeds 14:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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A little confused

I'm a little confused over the advice you left a user here. As far as I was aware, we didn't remove information simply because it is a "spoiler" or even warned readers about a potential spoiler. Even the guidelines for spoilers states that it is not acceptable to delete information simply because it is a spoiler, especially if it interferes with the article's completeness. It is only a "spoiler" by a few hours for only half the country. Do you really think it is necessary to remove information simply because one group of people haven't watched the show? If that's the case, we should probably remove all of the "spoiler" information until everyone's seen it. See? Slippery slope. Further, this isn't a work of fiction. It's a biography page. I didn't really think spoilers were possible on biography pages, so I found her suggestion and your permission a little...odd. I guess I'm just a little confused. I'd appreciate a little clarification about what is considered a spoiler and what constitutes removal of a spoiler. Thanks for any help. --13² 14:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

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Megee

I used the ref: Who's Who in Marine Corps History... I thought that the text did conflict with the image as well. I hadn't created User:bahamut0013/ribbon workshop/incomplete at the time, but he's listed there now. If we can find any more references, then we can try to sort out which ones make more sense... but I think the Good Cookie makes sense, he was enlisted for almost five years before geting a commission. As far as the order goes, I've noticed that a loto of older photos are out of order... I think the precedence rules for non-US awards have changed since WWII. I sort them by personal awards, unit awards, and then service & campaign awards last. This is the current rule, and unless I know of a specific change in the rules (such as the Navy Distinguished Service Medal being superior to the Navy Cross many years ago) that makes sense for the time period the individual served, I default to the modern regulations. bahamut0013^words_deeds 05:06, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

The photos aren't always up to date, however... that's why I use them as a guide only, and I usually trust the prose over the photo if it makes more logical sense. If you look at the incomplete page, you'll see a few instances when what appears to be on thier chest doesn't make a lick of sense, but the prose does. It doesn't help that often these photos are monochromatic, small resolution, or both; it's easly to confuse one ribbon for another, especially when we start adding foreign awards to the mix! bahamut0013^words_deeds 06:04, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Die Heuwels Fantasies

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Cibola High Politics

I'm not associated with the website in any way. I don't even know who they are. They just appear on Fox News and their website...I need help to make this article notable. IM A NEWB!(MANACASAREZ (talk) 04:47, 8 March 2009 (UTC))

And you didn't bother to help?? Geez (MANACASAREZ (talk) 04:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC))

See talk page response. Guidance has been provided in each message. — ERcheck (talk) 15:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

What? That's my website. Wow. I didn't see the popularity of our website getting this large. 1,800 hits a day and climbing.(Planecrash111 (talk) 04:52, 8 March 2009 (UTC))

See alexa.com — though 1800 hits seems high, it is low in terms of notability for a website. — ERcheck (talk) 15:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

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Feel free to go ahead and revert the deletion; thank you very much for asking. I deleted it aas a possible copyvio which didn't assert the notability. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:34, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

• No prob. Someone else tagged it for notability, but it looked like a copyvio to me. No Google hits, so it's OK. I'll go ahead and restore it for ya. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:50, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

need some more admin help

Need some admin help regarding a troublesome anon IP user who keeps re-adding an external link for a non-notable parody to 8-Bit Theater. See discussion at Talk:8-Bit Theater#Flash movies. I origionally assumed this was a simple good-faith error, but the anon has repeatedly ignored attempts to communicate, even undoing one of User:XLinkBot's many warnings. We would appreciate your thoughts on doing a short block to spur the user into communicating with us. bahamut0013^words_deeds 09:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you sir, hopefully this will get him or her to talk to us about this issue. bahamut0013^words_deeds 05:03, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Richard C. Mangrum

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Bio needing your assistance

Good stuff on the DYK for Richard Mangrum. He was a big time part of USMC Aviation history and one of the four iron horses of Guadalcanal. I came across this article, Charles Tatum, while looking at info for the upcoming miniseries The Pacific. I was hoping you might be able to do some of that voodoo you do. Hope all is well. --Looper5920 (talk) 13:01, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

After a second look I am not even sure if this guys notability rates a bio. What do you think?--Looper5920 (talk) 13:35, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

truthout in references

Hi, i was reviewing some edits and i noticed you referenced truthout.org as t r u t h o u t, which is unusual to say the least. What is the thinking behind this special formatting? Thanks in advance. Bonewah (talk) 18:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

here's the diff on that edit. Bonewah (talk) 18:52, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your clarification on that, makes total sense to me. Bonewah (talk) 18:15, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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Help

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I would like to withdraw my article on Germ Out from Wikipedia. How do I do it? Thank you.--JSHibbard (talk) 20:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Needs some work

Any interest in sprucing these up a bit? Melvin Maas and Charles Tatum?--Looper5920 (talk) 13:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

• I started a bio for John F. Bolt in my Sandbox. take a look and see if there is anything you can add if you ge tthe chance.

Another one for good measure...Archibald H. Gillespie.--Looper5920 (talk) 21:51, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

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I have read the conflict of interest definitions and the reasons why other companies (sic Purell and Germ-X) qualify for Wikipedia articles and J & A Companies, L.L.C. (Germ Out) may not qualify. Since I was the only author for the Germ Out article, I would like to request a speedy deletion of the Germ Out article from Wikipedia. Thank you for your help and cooperation.--JSHibbard (talk) 16:39, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

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new image

Take a look: {{USMC-stub}} {{USMC-bio-stub}} bahamut0013^words_deeds 15:40, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Question 1 2 (the first one): Not particularly. When loading an image that is smaller than the full resolution, I believe that most browsers will load the full image size and shrink it for the thumbnail (not 100% sure, and I'm sure it varies from browser to browser). I just didn't want to make the image so tall that there is a large amount of white space above and below the text. If there was a gain, it would be negligable anyway.

Question 2 (the second one): The image in question is a .SVG file. The nature of a Scalable Vector Graphics means that larger or smaller images are completely unnecessary: the image quality and size are the same at every conceivable resolution of the thumbnail. Not to mention that manually swapping them out would take months, even a bot would take many days to complete such a task.

Question 3: We could, but I'm not at all convinced that it would be worth doing. The current solution works perfectly fine, and I don't see any potential gain for the amount of tedious man-hours it would take to replace the current usage. Of course, if you know somebody who would be willing to program a bot, then I might make a template for it to use; but I would expect your help in fixing any false positives the bot mindlessly created. bahamut0013^words_deeds 16:49, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, sure, that seems like a good shortcut. But you've demonstrated sufficient knowledge of templates that you don't need my help with that. :P Just keep in mind that {{USMCportal}} is already in use, you'd have to find a different name. bahamut0013^words_deeds 19:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm suprised, this is as simple as a template could get. Anyway, take a look at {{USMCportallink}}. bahamut0013^words_deeds 08:26, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

The administrative junk has been resolved. If I missed anything, let me know. I also forgot to note earlier that {{US Marine Corps navbox}} also links to the portal; it won't be necessary to duplicate this unless you really desire to have it under the "See also" section of an article. bahamut0013^words_deeds 13:10, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

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List of U.S. Marines

You have truely done an excellent job with the referencing in the list. I am amazed, I only wish that I could have pitched in, but real life issues have overwhelmed me. Semper Fi, Tony the Marine (talk) 03:50, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey

Thanks for deleting his page! JMS Old Al (talk) 04:37, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Question

What would you say to an "FLC" nomination for List of Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients? Do you think that it may have a chance. Tony the Marine (talk) 05:23, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Charles Heywood

I thought you might be interested in this: Heywood was not a Medal of Honor recipient. Cheers! bahamut0013^words_deeds 06:30, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to write it off as a good-faith edit. If you look at the history, I changed my mind twice. :P I dunno what that award is, but it does look remarkably similar to the Civil-War era MOH... but as I can tell, it wasn't unusual at all for the period to have officers wearing strange awards, whether foreign or commemorative, that weren't authorized for wear in the US. The question is how I missed it the first time; I'm going through Category:United States Marine Corps generals again to cleanup any mistakes I've made. If you get some spare time, it'd be cool if you could take a look at User:bahamut0013/ribbon workshop/incomplete and see if you have any info on those names there.

You know, its amazing how much I've learned in two years by editing Wikipedia. I had absolutley zero biographical experience, and knew so very little about the awards and decorations of the United States (aside from my own meager ribbon rack). bahamut0013^words_deeds 16:24, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

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talk pages of redirect articles

I have a question about policy, and I couldn't find the answer at WP:redirect. I've recently found a few stub articles that are unlikely to ever grow past start-class at best, and merged thier content into a very closely-related article. However, there has been a little bit of content discussion on the talk pages. Should I leave the talk pages alone, or copy the content into the main talk page and redirect?
For example, Platoon Leaders Class and Officer Candidates Course seemed unlikely to grow beyond what they were, so I merged them to Officer Candidates School (U.S. Marine Corps), and the combined article makes for a much more rich understanding. However, the talk pages have some discussion, and they are still into Category:Stub-Class military history articles and the like because of {{WPMILHIST}} being on the talk pages. bahamut0013^words_deeds 06:02, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Addendum: I am done building ribbon racks for Category:United States Marine Corps generals. Can I get an "amen"? Now I get to move on to an even bigger category with less useful references! YAY!

In seriousness, please let me know when you create a new article for this category and I will do my magic on it, if I can find a suitable reference. bahamut0013^words_deeds 14:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Have a look

I just created a page for John F. Bolt. Take a look and have a crack at any corrections you think could be made. Thanks--Looper5920 (talk) 00:40, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Do you think Bolt might be a god DYK candidate?--Looper5920 (talk) 00:59, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for John F. Bolt

On 18 April, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John F. Bolt, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Bea Arthur Part2

• Attention my fellow comrades. User:Chrisrus, has provided us with the site: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2PUgDa1jy4) in which Arthur is supposed to have stated (I say "supposed" only because my internet connection is so slow that I haven't looked at it) that she was never a member of the United States Marine Corps. We "must" look into this because if it true then her name must be removed from the List of U.S. Marines. Please take a look and make recommendations. Tony the Marine (talk) 00:36, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

You've made a really good point. It seems as if Bea has always been a tough subject in regard to her USMC sevice, only if she would come out and strighten things out. Right now there is discussion going on the article's (Bea's) talk page about that. In regard to the list, I am not going to act on it, but I think that our other comrades will also agree with your observation once they read it. Tony the Marine (talk) 03:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Jim McIngvale

Nice work cleaning up. I did some tonight, and did some a while ago (I happened to "random" into the Gallery Furniture article, which I've merged and redirected). I still can't decide if the article should be brought up at AfD--there is coverage, but it's all disparate, just a bunch of single events. Any thoughts? Drmies (talk) 02:20, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Some planned moves

I've been slightly irritated by some of the haphazard naming conventions used for a year or so, and I'm thinking that I might work my way through Category:United States Marine Corps and change all instances of "U.S. Marine Corps" to "United States Marine Corps" for article titles. I'm big on consistancy, especially since I have a hard time remembering which version to type in to get to a specific article (for example, in trying to reach List of U.S. Marines‎, I always goof and type "List of United States Marines" into the search bar). Can you think of any reason why I shouldn't perform these moves? bahamut0013^words_deeds 05:55, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Picture of the year in commons

Thought you might be interested in taking a look at the Picture of the Year nominations in Wikimedia Commons. It contains a USMC picture. Commons:Picture of the Year/2008/Finalists. s/f, FieldMarine (talk) 16:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Expand?

• Bruno Hochmuth —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.162.140.53 (talk) 21:40, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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Haven't seen you about much lately. Hope all is well. bahamut0013^words_deeds 14:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Remember when we were looking at images to use in the USMC portal for War dog?? You mentioned you were a canine aficionado, so you might appreciate this link. Cheers! bahamut0013^words_deeds 07:15, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I also thought you might be interested in this quote from the Marine Corps Times (May 11, 2009, page 7):

“ STAR ATHLETES RECOGNIZED

Commandant Gen. James Conway will induct [into the United States Ma­rine Corps Sports Hall of Fame] Ernie Cheatham, Andy Philip, Morris Fisher and Jo Jo White during a ceremony at Marine Corps Base Quanti­co, Va., on Aug. 14, Marine officials said.

As a Marine, Cheatham rose to the level of lieutenant general, receiving a Navy Cross for his leadership dur­ing the Vietnam War. A standout defensive tackle at Loyola Marymount Univer­sity in the early 1950s, he played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Colts before deciding to pursue a career in the Corps. Philip joined the Corps after starring as a point guard on the University of Illinois basketball team in the 1940s, and served as a first lieutenant before re­turning to professional sports. He went on to win a championship as a member of the 1957 Celtics. White, a former Marine private, served as a corner­stone for two Celtics cham­pionship teams in the 1970s. He also won an Olympic gold medal in 1968 with the U.S. men’s basket­ball team. Fisher retired as a sergeant major and won five Olympic gold medals with his rifle during the 1920 and 1924 Olympics.

”

I know you've not been around much lately, but I thought it might pique your interest in adding them to List of notable United States Marines. bahamut0013^words_deeds 07:26, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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I've taken care of this. bahamut0013^words_deeds 07:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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Patrick M. Novack Article

As a person that was largely involved in the "Silver Star Debate", I would like your opinion on the deletion of the article for Patrick M. Novack. I believe that there is enough there (Law Enforcement commendations, Communtiy Service accolades) that when combined with the Silver Stars he earned in Vietnam (and the fact that he was the Team Leader of a Special Forces LRRP Team), he should be considered notable. Fair disclosure, I am the man's son. Please comment if you would. Rapier1 (talk) 17:27, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

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Portal

Thought I'd give you a heads up: Portal talk:United States Marine Corps#new section. bahamut0013^words_deeds 16:08, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Take a look at all of the months if you get some time and make your usual tweaks: Portal:United States Marine Corps/history. You're pretty good at the polishing-off of portal items. bahamut0013^words_deeds 10:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

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I wanted to throw this up on your admin radar: User:Doodoobear1856 is a vandalism-only account, and has thrown some nasty comments on my talk page. Tony said that he would take care of him if he did it again, but I think he (Tony) is done for the night, and I was hoping you could get to it before he does. 'Twould be much appreciated if you can help in some way. bahamut0013^words_deeds 16:28, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

The above matter has been settled. Here's something else for you though: Archibald Sommers is in desperate need of your biography magic. bahamut0013^words_deeds 17:36, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

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AFD

There is an AFD on page you edited, Brian D. Beaudreault.Historicist (talk) 21:39, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

ACN Inc.

Nevermind, ERCheck! I saw that you hadn't been around for several days, and that I needed to take matters into my own hands. I reported the guy for edit warring (and sockpuppetry, too), and the matter is apparently resolved. So, we're good to go. Mike (talk) 04:50, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi ERCheck. Since you've been involved with the article on ACN, I am turning to you in the hope that you could possibly have a look at what a brand-new user going by the moniker of TheEditor22 is doing to it? Have a look also at what he's been saying on the Talk page (and my own user Talk page. He seems to be a bit ... odd. I'm not experienced in it, but it appears there needs to be some kind of dispute resolution needed, and talking with him isn't going to do it, as he seems to think he's acting according to some kind of Wikipedia consensus. Mike (talk) 16:07, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

May I present the following, written not to me but to another editor:

An Amyway presenter says "this is the best opportunity in the world, that exists, period". This article just clafifies how deluded you are, or indeed, how incredibily biased you are. I am almost certain that you are in some way renumerated by presenting this MLM companies as being legitimate. Yes...I've looked through your history. You are a truly evil character, to want to deceive somewhat naive people into believing that these MLM companies are a good opportunity. In fact, you truly sicken me. --TheEditor22 (talk) 20:42, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Mike (talk) 17:34, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

This in fact continues on the RS page: When a reliable source clearly is not. Mike (talk) 17:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I am wondering if this user TheEditor22 has a sock puppet named Martin Ford which has also weighed in on the discussion. Both users edited for the first time within an hour of each other (TheEditor22 - 17:56, 28 June 2009 and Martin Ford - 16:56, 28 June 2009) and have concerned themselves solely with this article. Since he seems to be well-familiar with Wikipedia editing, I wouldn't be surprised that TheEditor22 is a sock puppet himself.

If it sounds like I'm frustrated and not sure what to do about all this -- and trying to stay out of the edit war, too -- well, that's what it is. If you cannot assist in taming this situation, can you suggest how to go about it? Thanks! Mike (talk) 18:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

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A person who has never before been involved in the management of the "List of U.S. Marines" has expressed him/herself here: Talk:List of notable United States Marines#Remove edit warning. Since you have been actively involved in the management of this list, please express your opinion. Tony the Marine (talk) 20:16, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

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Notice: BLP written like a resume

Take a look at Steve Brozak, if you get the time. There are a number of SPAs dedicated to making sure the article looks like a resume and advertisement for the companies he runs, with no references. It didn't even take 12 hours for one of them to remove the cleanup tags I added. I'm not very knowledgable in the notability of businessmen, so perhaps you can make the judgement on whether or not he's notable enough for inclusion. He certainly doesn't have any notability as a military person. At the very least, I hope you can take a swing at removing some of the POV wording. bahamut0013^words_deeds 04:58, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

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Editnotice discussion

If you haven't noticed the discussion at Talk:List of notable United States Marines#Remove edit warning, then please take a look; we are considering using template:editnotice, but it requires an admin to use it in article space. Tony and I have been conversing back and forth a bit on our talk pages as well, but here's the gist: we both agree it might be good for a trial run, but he's not confident in his tech skills to make it work right the first try. I'm uncomfortable with doing trying it through a proxy, since that necessitates periods of time (possibly lengthy ones) where a flawed template is viewable by the public, and I can't really think of how to do a trial or sandbox with something like that. I figured you had a good enough grasp of coding and formatting that you could handle it, if you are interested in getting onvolved. bahamut0013^words_deeds 09:26, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

I figure that the text that's already in the lead paragraph would do fine. As far as implementation goes, I think WP:edit notice covers it all. However, if you don't have the time to fiddle with it, I think that defeats the purpose of getting you involved, because surely we will have to tweak it a few times. bahamut0013^words_deeds 10:13, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

I think we have to have the entire warning there in the template. Directing a casual editor to read a warning on another page will probably get disregarded, but having the warning there is more likely to work. You should add your tweaks, then get Tony to read it, and if he doesn't have any modifications of his own, we can post a preview on the talk page to see if anyone else has a comment. Then, we can agree on a time to implement where we would both be available to make any quick mods if the thing doesn't work/look right. bahamut0013^words_deeds 16:02, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

• • I looked at "editnotice" in your Sandbox and it looks real fine to me. By the way ER, I wrote an article about the last uprising in Puerto Rico against Spanish colonial in 1897 one year before the Spanish-American War. The cool thing about the article is that this event, where the Puerto Rican flag was unfurled in Puerto Rican soil for the first time, has been omitted from the history books and almost no one knows about it. You can't even find it in the internet and my descentdents on my mothers side, the Mattei's, where protagonists. Check it out when you time: Intentona de Yauco. Tony the Marine (talk) 07:42, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

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Re:Edit notice implemented

Looks good! Did you check out Felix Rigau Carrera? Tony the Marine (talk) 02:37, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

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Good bio

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General Nyland

I finally found the photo we discussed last year, and added it to General Nyland's article. I was surprised to discover there is a second general in the photo -- Lieutenant General Bruce B. Knutson. It may be rather rare to find a single photo of so few midshipmen (5) including more than one future Marine Corps General. Thewellman (talk) 06:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

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Haven't seen you around much lately. Hope all is well with you. bahamut0013^words_deeds 16:29, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

'Bout time, doncha think? :D bahamut0013^words_deeds 15:26, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

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