General Lafayette

August 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at User talk:Lordoliver, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -- Scjessey (talk) 02:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Barack Obama

Welcome to Wikipedia! Regarding your proposed changes to Barack Obama, please visit that article's talk page, where the FAQ indicates the following:

Q2: The article refers to him as African American, but his mother is white and his black father was not an American. Should he be called African American, or something else ("biracial," "mixed," "Kenyan-American," etc)?

A2: Obama himself and the media identify him, the vast majority of the time, as African American or black. Thus we use this term in the introduction. We could call him the first "biracial" candidate or the first "half black half white" candidate or the first candidate with a parent born in Africa, but Wikipedia is a tertiary source which reports what other reliable sources say, and most of those other sources say "first African American." Readers will learn more detail about his ethnic background in the article body.

Lastly, we encourage you to be bold when editing (it's a core principle of Wikipedia), but also know that Wikipedia is built on consensus, another of our core principles. One key method of developing consensus is the bold, revert, discuss cycle, which means that if you make a change to an article, someone else reverts it and you disagree with that revert, you should not revert again (this may be considered edit-warring), but rather go to the article's talk page to initiate a discussion of the change. Thanks, --Clubjuggle ^T/C 11:10, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank You

You were very lucky to catch me like this I have been traveling and have barely been checking Wikipedia, but I felt like I should today and saw that you have left me a message. Thank You for thanking of me. --McCain's Man (talk) 18:27, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Howdy

Oh thank you, i am glad to see that you are back! Lord R. Oliver I ^{His Lordship's Court} 18:29, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for the comment about me leaving I just needed a brake. i'm back now though!--McCain's Man (talk) 02:58, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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were you aware that User:Lordoliver was running for coordinator for the MILHIST wikiproject, i just recently found out. --McCain's Man (talk) 15:12, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

C-Class

It is great to see such diversity in the Military History WikiProject. Even though we don't agree I still respect your opinion and it seems that one of us will have to bow to the consensus of the WikiProject. I am so glad to see that people are really showing that they care about the future of this WikiProject, keep up the good work! Have A Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver ^{The Olive Branch} 16:12, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

		Milhist Coordinator elections
		I wish to thank you for your gracious support during my bid for a position as Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject in the recent March 2009 elections. I was initially apprehensive to stand for election as I was unsure on how well I would be received, but I am pleasantly surprised and delighted to have been deemed worthy to represent my peers within the project. I assure and promise you, I will strive to do my upmost to justify your trust in myself with this esteemed position. Thank you, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 01:40, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Soldiers of the 4th Australian Division crossing a duckboard track through Chateau Wood, Ypres on 29 October 1917.

Thank you

	I seem to have drawn a crowd of support!
	I'm honored to have been elected as a coordinator of the WikiProject Military history and most sincerely thank you for your vote of support. I will endeavor to fulfill the obligations in a manner worthy of your trust. Many thanks. — Bellhalla (talk) 14:23, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
	A World War I U-boat draws a crowd after grounding on the Falmouth coast in 1921.