User talk:Dank/Archive 18

Congratulations!

		The Epic Barnstar
		Awarded to Dank, as part of AustralianRupert's New Year Honours List, for their copy editing contributions to the Military History project over the course of 2010. Keep up the hard work! AustralianRupert (talk) 02:46, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, that's thoughtful. I'll try to keep earning it. - Dank (push to talk) 03:26, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Milhist A-Class and Peer Reviews Oct–Dec 2010

		The WikiChevrons
		By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews for the period Oct–Dec 2010, I am delighted to award you the WikiChevrons. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:02, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! - Dank (push to talk) 23:08, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Military historian of the Year 2010

		The WikiProject Barnstar
		I am delighted to present you with this WikiProject Barnstar in recognition of your extensive contributions to the Military history WikiProject, as evidenced by your being nominated for the 2010 "Military historian of the Year" award. We're grateful for your help, and look forward to seeing more of your excellent work in the coming year. Kirill [talk] [prof] 22:22, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I like all these end-of-year barnstars. Every month should be January. - Dank (push to talk) 22:39, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Bowling Alley FAC

Per your request, letting you know that my latest FAC is nearing completion. I'll be nominating Battle of the Bowling Alley shortly after it closes, which will probably be before the end of the week. I just finished a close copy-edit on Bowling Alley (along with Battle of Yongdong.) —Ed!^(talk) 06:55, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Sure. Since I've been spending a lot of time on your articles lately, I'll have a look at these after I get to the end of the AmEng articles on the current A-class list. - Dank (push to talk) 16:21, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Copyediting

Hello Dank. If you have a particular article, military or otherwise, that is sobbing aloud for a copyeditor, please let me know. Rumiton (talk) 14:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks much. Pull up the MILHIST A-class list, and take your pick. Generally, it works better if the Australian copy editors work on articles in Australian or British English, which is about half the list ... you can check the userpages of the nominators, or sometimes I just search for "-our" spellings. User:Ian Rose and User:AustralianRupert, both Australian, have offered to review the Australian and British articles, and they're doing an excellent job. - Dank (push to talk) 16:19, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

OK, I started. I am a partly German Oz and speak fairly fluent Pom as well, but I will try to be aware of cultural and linguistic differences. When in doubt, leave it alone. I think that should work. Cheers. Rumiton (talk) 14:33, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Nice job at SMS Rheinland. I don't think I've seen that objection to "UTC" before. - Dank (push to talk) 13:20, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. I do have a couple of other small queries, but I'll wait to see how things go so far. Rumiton (talk) 14:40, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

My .02: if you're looking for feedback, you're more likely to get it at our A-class review than in a FAC that's been around for a while. Often, nominators are not looking to start up new discussions, especially on issues where they know editors will be divided, at a time when the delegate is trying to decide whether the conversations have come to an end and the FAC can be promoted. I don't know what Parsec's preference is here, but I'll defer weighing in until this FAC is done. - Dank (push to talk) 14:51, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Block of BokFu

I don't understand why this user was blocked, could you elaborate? I don't see any username policy violations. Prodego ^talk 02:12, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Doing this from memory: my first reaction was "it's okay", but then as I skimmed down the page, BokFu seemed to be a name being used to promote just one business. Is that wrong? - Dank (push to talk) 02:15, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Following up ... the edit summary when Bak Fu Pai was deleted by another admin says, "This appears to be a marketing creation utilized by a small number of groups - non verifiable". I didn't see evidence of more than one group IIRC for "Bok Fu"; note their edit summary on their first edit. - Dank (push to talk) 02:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC) Tweaked 20:41, 18 January 2011 (UTC).

The Bugle: Issue LVIII, December 2010

Your military history newsletter – Volume LVIII, December 2010 From the editors • "Military Historian of the Year" • Discussions • The month's new featured and A-class content • Review awards Contest results • A-class medal recipients • bahamut teaches us proper usage of "Jargon and acronyms" To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here. BrownBot (talk) 20:33, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Shapley-Folkman lemma: Copy-editing?

Hi Dank!

I am impressed by your copy-editing review of mathematical economics. The article Shapley–Folkman lemma just received GA status, but we were directed to seek help with copy editing, and you seem to be an excellent candidate to help.

:-)

Keep up the good work! Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 00:49, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I only had time to copyedit the lead; I've got a long list of history articles I'm responsible for. Readers will probably want a clue somewhere in the lead to the meanings of "sumset" and "convexified". - Dank (push to talk) 03:03, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dank!

I've completed several revisions of the article in the last weeks. Your copy-editing and economics expertise would be most valuable.

Since you are on the military history project, you may be able to suggest whether the article should aim for A-status or FA-status next.

Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 15:14, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Best of luck with that. I'm not familiar with economics articles. - Dank (push to talk) 17:02, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

TPSing here, I'd aim for A-class just because you can get helpful comments that will make a future FAC much easier. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Review feedback

Thanks for the helpful feedback at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Adenanthos cuneatus/archive1. I found my first FAC review interesting, and I'll try to keep your points in mind next time. I appreciate the opportunity to get involved in this. Omnedon (talk) 22:24, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Sure thing! - Dank (push to talk) 22:37, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Humour

Hi, Dank, regarding this diff [1], don't worry, I'm a pretty unassuming bloke and I like to think that I have a sense of humour! :-) Of course, on Wiki it is sometimes hard for people to know when one is joking or not, as I have found out on more than one occasion in the past two years here. Anyway, thanks for the feedback on the reviews, I appreciate them. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 03:31, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Good to hear, I'll keep it coming. - Dank (push to talk) 03:39, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

BTW, I just saw the "I'll reply to your message here" device on your talk page. That's a great little thing. I've added it to my own talk page. I hope you don't mind. Just let me know if its an issue and I'll remove it. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 03:37, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

You'll be hearing from my patent lawyer. Cheers, - Dank (push to talk) 03:39, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

;-) AustralianRupert (talk) 04:18, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Almirante Latorre-class battleship/archive1

Dan, as always, thanks so much for wielding your magic on this article. I really appreciate what you do! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 08:17, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

The payoff is seeing everyone walk away happy. You put an enormous amount of work into these articles, and it really makes a difference. - Dank (push to talk) 13:35, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Iowa class battleship Peer Review

The Iowa class battleship Peer Review will be closing in the next few days. If you have any additional comments, questions, suggestions, complaints, or advise on how to improve the article, or if you wish to strike any comments you believe to have been addressed, please do so now before the review closes. TomStar81 (Talk) 23:47, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

SMS ship names, again

Hello
I raised this with you a while ago: Just to let you know, I’ve requested comment on the matter, here. Xyl 54 (talk) 23:41, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, replied there. - Dank (push to talk) 00:15, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Robot competitions

Hi

I realise it is quite a while ago, but can you help me determine exactly what the state of affairs is on the material you (? I think it was you) moved from the Robot page and what, if anything, still needs to be put into Robot competitions article? Talk:Robot_competition#Material_moved_from_Robot

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 20:16, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't remember. - Dank (push to talk) 01:04, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

K I suppose I will have to go through it then...I hate merges lol :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 04:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

A question on commas

Hey Dan, a GA-reviewer of one of my articles questioned a few places where s/he thought I should add commas. I thought I'd ask you to take a look if you have the time. The review is here. Thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 03:59, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

It looks like the article has now passed GA. - Dank (push to talk) 19:26, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

The Roses come for you

		The Wars of the Roses Barnstar
		Thank you for your comments and suggestions on the Battle of Towton. They have really helped to improve the article and be recognised as a Featured Article. Jappalang (talk) 22:01, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Much appreciated! - Dank (push to talk) 23:56, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject United States

Welcome to the Project. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. --Kumioko (talk) 19:09, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Help request

The Guild of Copy Editors needs your help! The Guild of Copy Editors has a Requests page where editors can list their articles to request a copy edit. During January and February, the requests have been arriving at the rate of several every day, and we are getting a bit behind! We are putting out the call for a little help to get caught up. If you are interested in lending a hand, please select one or two articles from our Requests page and do a copy edit. Help a little or a lot; it's good karma! Thank you very much for any assistance you can offer. Your GOCE coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), The UtahraptorTalk to me, and Tea with toast (Talk)

Reference formatting question

If I have a digest of book reviews and I want to cite those in an article, how should I go about doing it? The same as an article in an edited volume? Or is there a way for me to show that I know the original source, but I want to indicate where I got the exact material (e.g. a "reprinted in" field). thanks. Protonk (talk) 21:09, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Per my standard disclaimer, I stay away from issues involving the endsections on Wikipedia, including references. There's a lot of disagreement, and if I start handing out opinions, someone will say "But Dan was the copyeditor on this one, and he said ..." It's better to ask the relevant wikiproject how they want to handle it. - Dank (push to talk) 19:34, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Haha, fair enough. I'm less worried about a locally correct solution than I am one which doesn't look ugly, but I respect your caution. Protonk (talk) 19:52, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

User:R3ap3R.inc

Hey Dank. There's currently an unblock appeal at the above user's talk page, and I'm inclined to agree with the general principle of his request. He's been around for ages, and was blocked and unblocked earlier. I can understand his frustration here. Would you be willing to overturn the block, or at least submit this for review? He's clearly a good faith contributor and personally I don't see grounds for an immediate indef block. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks! PeterSymonds (talk) 18:34, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Just an update: After a discussion, he agreed to a rename, which he'll request immediately, so I've unblocked him to allow that. This should solve the username problem. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 18:56, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

A rename works for me. Thanks Peter. - Dank (push to talk) 19:02, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

As a matter of future reference, I do think that (particularly in the cases of an established user), you should discuss the matter with them first rather than blocking outright. I don't think a block has accomplished much more than what a quick discussion would have in this case. In terms of when policy permits a block for company usernames, the block was only authorised if the editing behavior appeared promotional. Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:12, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry. - Dank (push to talk) 19:25, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

'Tis okay; all sorted quickly without a fuss and lessons have been learnt...can't really ask for much more than that. If only all issues on Wikipedia were that easy to sort out! :) Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:33, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Manhattan Project

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to note my appreciation for being one of the people that helped to raise the quality of the Manhattan Project article.

This user helped promote Manhattan Project to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:47, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't recall working on it back in December when it was promoted to GA; I've worked on it more recently, though. Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 20:46, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Karen Wazir Scholarship

Hi, I was just trying to ask you why the Aisha Karen Wazir Scholarship page was deleted on June 5, 2009. I looked at the history page and saw that you and Jamie593 flagged it as A7, meaning the content of the page wasn't credible. My dad created the scholarship in my mother's name and I just stumbled across the wiki page my little sister made, so I figured I'd try my hand at rewriting it. The problem is that other than a few websites documenting the Scholarship as tax exempt, my parents haven't seen the need or reasoning of publicizing the Scholarship in the states. The only real coverage on it has been in the tribal regions of Pakistan, where articles are written in Pushtu and not usually available online. This leaves few websites which could actually be considered reliable sources. Honestly, this is probably pretty easy to figure out, but I'm a noob, so if you don't mind, just let me know what I can do to fix it (or if it can be fixed to meet Wikipedia requirements) and I'll get right to work. Thanks! - owazir 15 February 2011

I recommend posting this request at the talk page of the Pakistan Wikiproject. Best of luck. - Dank (push to talk) 13:58, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

I would just like to thank you for seeing and doing my request. I'm not an admin so I cannot do it. Thanks!!!

~~Awsome EBE123~~(talk | Contribs) 18:57, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Sure thing. - Dank (push to talk) 19:11, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Main page appearance

Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on February 24, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 24, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article director, Raul654 (talk · contribs). If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch* ^{۩ ۞} 19:36, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

HMS Indefatigable was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy and the lead ship of her class. Her keel was laid down in 1909 and she was commissioned on 24 February 1911. When the First World War began, the ship was serving with the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS) in the Mediterranean, where she unsuccessfully pursued the battlecruiser Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau of the German Imperial Navy as they fled towards the Ottoman Empire. The ship bombarded Ottoman fortifications defending the Dardanelles on 3 November 1914, then, following a refit in Malta, returned to the United Kingdom. Indefatigable was sunk on 31 May 1916 during the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war. Part of Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty's Battlecruiser Fleet, she was hit several times in the first minutes of the "Run to the South", the opening phase of the battlecruiser action. Shells from the German battlecruiser Von der Tann caused an explosion ripping a hole in her hull, and a second explosion hurled large pieces of the ship 200 feet (61 m) in the air. Only three of the crew of 1,017 survived. (more...)

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Email from User:Ijmededuc

Dear Dank

I have been attempting to create a page for International Journal of Medical Education. The page has not been established yet. I have tried to improve the page based on your comments. Another message is that they want to block my account. The account that I have provided is a genuine account although it close to our journal. I am happy to provide another account. Please advise me, I really need your help. If I cannot create a page that's fine, please simply inform me as I have spent a lot of time to create and reply your comments. Looking forward to hearing from you soon,

Kind Regards, Dr Mohsen Tavakol, Editor in Cheif, International Journal of Medical Education

Thanks for your email; my reply is on your talk page. - Dank (push to talk) 17:24, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Email from User:Topsourceindia

Hi Dank, For following reason our IP adress has been blocked by wikipedia, and we can't edit pages anymore: {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} The reason we have changed our username was our Aricle was rejected due to copyright violation rules. 2nd time when I logged in and created new article, that also got declined for the above reason. We are almost new to Wikipedia Articles. Could you please help out in above issue? Thanks and regards, Topsource

Thanks for your email, I'll reply on your talk page. - Dank (push to talk) 16:38, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

National Maritime Museum Collaboration

I just wanted to let you know that I am having discussions with the National Maritime Museum about them releasing a large tranche of information about Royal Navy warships to us. Your input as a Milhist coordinator would be particularly welcome at Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM. Regards, The Land (talk) 19:51, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Hughes Airwest Flight 706

Hi

I don't know if you are aware but the article is on the GOCE requests page - If you have finished it can you add something to that effect so we can wipe it off the requests list?

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 00:24, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

I'll ask Mukk if it's copyedited to his satisfaction. - Dank (push to talk) 00:30, 27 February 2011 (UTC)