User talk:Roy Al Blue: Difference between revisions

Battle stubs

Hey! Fantastic work on getting so many stubs on battles started! If I might ask a favor of you, however—if you could add any applicable categories of Category:Battles by country (for example, Category:Battles of the Roman Republic) to the stubs when you create them, it would be a great help. Thanks in advance, Kirill Lokshin 02:54, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to add those fleebish category tags; it really is a huge help! Kirill Lokshin 04:24, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Categorization

Another request, if I may: the sub-categories of Category:Battles by country are usually labeled by (quite specific) historical states or groups. This becomes particularly meaningful in the Middle Ages; for example, Category:Battles of Turkey versus Category:Battles of the Seljuk Turks, or Category:Battles of Italy versus Category:Battles of Venice and Category:Battles of Genoa. If it's not too much trouble, could you check to make sure that you're using the most specific categories when adding them?

Great work on creating so many needed stubs, by the way; you'll be done with the list of battles (which, unfortunately, is not quite complete) in no time. There's also a list here that might interest you. Kirill Lokshin

Battle stubs

Roy, while I find your project of battle stubs commendable, can you please inform me when you create new stubs on topics from Russian-Ukrainian history, such as Battle of the Tanais River or Battle of the Sit River. The latter article was rather inaccurate, stating that the battle was fought by Kievans near Kiev, although in fact it was fought several miles from my home, and I live farther from Kiev than Rome is from London. So please let me know about new Russia-related articles you start, so that I could fix the possible errors. Thanks, Ghirlandajo 12:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

You know I don't like battleboxes in stubs, especially on the battles where neither the casualties nor any other details were recorded. I'd better put the extant data in words. Battleboxes are good for long and detailed articles, for they represent the most important details in a nutshell. But that's just me. --Ghirlandajo 13:45, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Date stuff

Are you sure you wanted to talk to ME? olivier 17:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

kindly state in detail what you are refering to...

This is in regard to the article Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. I have removed two words from a sentence in that article due to blatent POV. Please be aware of Wikipedia's NPOV policy, and stop adding bias to articles. Thanks. Roy Al Blue 20:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Have commented out the warning. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:42, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Siege of Edo

Hello, good work on Siege of Edo, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Siege of Edo? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? You can simply add links, or there are several different citation methods list at WP:CITET. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 20:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppets

Short answer: No way to know, really, unless you ask one of the ArbCom members with Checkuser abilities.

Long answer: The IP is registered to SBC Internet Services, a California ISP, so it's probably somebody in California with a dialup account. Since their IP address may switch every time they connect, there's no way of tracking which edits belong to which user; this is the same problem we have with AOL customers. It could be a long-time anonymous user, or a user who isn't logged in, or just somebody making things up—there's really no good way to tell.

In any case, I don't think he's being particularly obnoxious yet, so there's no particular need to be concerned about it ;-) —Kirill Lokshin 02:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

War of 1812

You seem to be inventing names for occurences during the War of 1812. Please provide your references when you are citing a battle. I don't believe these are the correct names for these conflicts.

• Battle of Nova Scotia

 Battlefield 02:43, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Question

Pardon me, but you seem to be suffering under the misapprehension that I vandalized a page. I did not (see explanation for why on my talk page). Please remove the warning you put on there because it wrong to give someone a warning simply because the one giving the warning is a quibbler with admin power, but not the ability to use it correctly. sophysduckling

If your purpose was just to find some vandalism, here is an article that could do with deletion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesh_Devarasetty

Thank you for removing the warning. I will be more careful with regard to making sure my edits are correct before I click "random article" again.

Warbox

I want to say that I have not vandalized any page on Wikipedia...I am confused as to why people are saying that I have. I have never even made a post to it and noticed today that I have messages and was shocked to find what I did there.

Please, remove this warning from my page and if you could explain to me what is going on, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you. We now use the "Warbox" rather than the previous various boxes used; see link below: Warbox

Cordially Battlefield 22:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

St. Petersburg

Hi, Roy! Just wanted to comment, that the user changing spelling in this article seems to be a newbie, so I wouldn't bite him/her too hard. This person is most likely not aware of our policies yet. I provided a link for him/her to peruse. Should have probably mentioned a preview button, too. Take care!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 18:43, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks!

Thank you very much for the barnstar! It's not all that much trouble for me to add the notices, since you and Gsl have been keeping the new articles list updated :-) Keep up the great work! —Kirill Lokshin 01:07, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Battlebox no campaign

Just a quick note: {{Battlebox no campaign}} is up for deletion, so please don't use it on any more articles. We've been changing over the battleboxes to {{Infobox Military Conflict}}, so you could either do that or just leave it for somebody else; they'll all be done in a week or so anyways ;-) —Kirill Lokshin 02:50, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Battle of Ciuna

Hy Roy! I'm Horatius of it.wiki. I think you wrote the stub about the battle linked above. Could you please write me where to find some more info about this battle? I think I read all Titus Livius but no sign of this battle!! I found some "battle of Cluvia" (Liv. IX,31) a very small one in the Samnites Wars. Thank for any help you (or other friend) can give! Vale! [1] --151.46.228.91 20:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I need to know

Where did you get info about Battle of Saintes? It seems to be completely absent from the web. I would like to know that in order to enhance the es: stub. If you don´t mind, please answer me here. Thanks a lot, Emilio 18:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)