Stan Shebs

Medal of Honor

You wrote on Talk:Medal of Honor that it's called "Cong'l"

because Congress has to approve the awards specially, unlike others which need only be approved by SecDef or lower

If you have a ref for that, plz visit Talk:Medal of Honor again. --Jerzy 20:19, 2004 Jan 5 (UTC)

It misses some. I've always been of the opinion that to be a town, a place requires a) a post office, b) a church, c) a bar. :) - Hephaestos 22:20, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

We're voting on naming conventions for peers at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peerage, if you want to participate. john 06:22, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Ships of the US Navy

Oh no trouble at all... I was eating and Wiki'ing at the same time, while at work. I'm gonna do a bunch tonight. - UtherSRG 22:06, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Well I finally finished them. Thanks for the help, but I still had to go through each letter and look at all the 'disamb' pages and grab more data form them (as well as update a few of them. Wheee! *grins* - UtherSRG 04:46, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Sorry on the consuls. I'll revert if it's not been already reverted. john 02:48, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Yeti disagreement

I would appreciate your input on talk:Yeti. Thanks! - UtherSRG 01:31, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Fishes

Curse you Red Baron! *grins* Stop adding things I want to then go look up and add more info to. I want to go to bed!!! *grins* Ah... the fun I'll have tomorrow.... - UtherSRG 06:22, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Appius Claudius

Hi Stan, I was just wondering what the "PW 132" (and the other PW numbers) mean in the Appius Claudius article. I'm sure I've seen them somewhere else too, but I forget where...and I couldn't figure out what they were referring to. Adam Bishop 00:56, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! My university's library seems to have the whole PW, although not in English, unfortunately. By the way, I noticed you had List of ancient Greeks on your page, I'd be interested in helping to start that...I'm not sure what you would want to include as "Greek" though...it seems much more complicated than a list of Romans! Adam Bishop 23:40, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Lupin/lupine/lupinus

Hi Stan, I have just been adding a bush lupin page, and searching for things that might need linking, I see you have lupin/lupine/lupinus down on your to-do list. You might want to have a look at that page (and at lupin) to see if I have made things any better - or worse. seglea 09:06, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

RN Ships & Stations

Stan- Thanks for the content on HMS Halcyon. Some kid is posting stubs to various RN ships. I came across a few of them and used Google-searches to make some sort of minimal improvements. Thanks for your efforts. I suggest this area might need a lot more of your help. Also, your talk page is getting too big. Propose you prune it a bit.

Paul, in Saudi

Stan-I discovered this unknown (and unregistered) contributer has started a stub on HMS Gibraltar. I added a darn little to it an appeal to you for help. I also, for the first time included a photo which came out overlarge. Could you give it a look?

I am about to retreat from the realm of RN Ships and retreat back to military codewords. Thanks,

Paul, in Saudi

Can you please delete Awolf002? I accidently created it instead of his userpage as a new user linked to it on my talk page. Sennheiser!

Cetomimiformes

Thank you! One could say I'm building upon the framework you and others before me have already laid down. I tend to be wordy in my writeups, it seems, so I'm glad you've enjoyed them.

I noticed the problematic placement of the Cetomimiformes while researching them (very scant info available online, sadly) but decided FishBase's placement must be the most current one(?). I've done as you suggested and made mention of the alternate placement within the Stephanoberyciformes, so hopefully potential confusion has been mitigated. I don't know if it's just Nelson who places the whalefishes that way, therefore I've gone with the safe phrasing "Some authorities...". Taxa is rather fun, in a befuddling sort of way. ;) Hadal 05:19, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Arcade

Thanks for writing the Arcade article. I've been meaning to get to that for a long time, but never quite managed to do it. —Mulad 19:08, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

172

I've been having a little back and forth with User:172 in [[History of the United States (1980-present)] regarding NPOV. Do you have any words of advice on how I may settle this in a friendly and civil manner with 172? --Hcheney 23:11, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ancient Greeks

Hi Stan, I made up a List of ancient Greeks...hopefully it's close to what you had envisioned. I'm sure there are hundreds of people I missed...I also wasn't sure whether to include really ancient semi-mythological people, or all the kings and archons of Athens who are nothing more than names. But there is now a list to work with, at least! Adam Bishop 03:45, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sure, extending it to later antiquity is fine, I just arbitrarily picked 200 or so to give myself less work :) Adam Bishop 05:30, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Also a good point...I cut and paste most of the descriptions, which is why they are usually linked. Ah well. Anyway, if we include people up to about 600, that would bring in a lot of Christian writers, and even some very late Roman/early Byzantine people, would it not? Adam Bishop 05:44, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

They are MS Word dashes...they probably should be regular hyphens. To fix that I think you'd have to copy the whole thing to Notepad or something, find/replace them all, and copy it back into the article. Adam Bishop 05:55, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I was thinking of not editing the page for awhile - everytime I add 8 or 10 new people, I almost immediately find another 8 or 10 and have to edit it all over again. I was going to make a list of all the new people I find, and add them after a couple of days. So, you can do what you want to it until, say, Friday afternoon :) Adam Bishop 19:21, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Bureaucrat status

There's a new class of users who can turn other users into sysops. This could previously only be done by developers (such as myself). These users are called "bureaucrats". I've picked a few users from Wikipedia:Administrators who I think would make good bureaucrats, and you're one of them. Please don't take that as an insult. ;-)

Do you want to be a bureaucrat? If you say yes, I expect you to keep an eye on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship and turn users into sysops in accordance with community consensus.—Eloquence 04:24, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

query

Stan, I would be interested in your opinion on something. On the page Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions Eclecticology declared that holding a vote on the matter of formatting initials was "an abuse of the voting process to attempt to impose the Tyranny of the Majority." On the one hand I appreciate that not every issue can be settled here by means of a vote, but it would seem to me that people are well-qualified to judge an essentially aesthetic matter. What does this "tyranny of the majority" argument imply? That people as a rule are too ill-informed to make "correct" judgements on such matters??? Troubling implications... -- Viajero 09:45, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Suwannee

Ack! I usually do include a link to the source; you'll notice I do it with all my other images. I simply forgot to this time round (I've since included it). The image is from the Gainesville office of the USGS, so I just assumed.. which, I know, is a dangerous thing to do. I've removed reference to the town. Sorry. :\ -- Hadal 05:43, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Whew.. I'm thankful we've vigilant factcheckers like you around to catch my blunders. :) Cheers, - Hadal 05:58, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Disambiguating Rivers

We are having a discussion on river names at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers. I would appreciate any comments. Rmhermen 21:22, Feb 21, 2004 (UTC)

OEDs

Ever get the urge to put ancient usage notes from the OED in wiktionary? I know I would if I had one handy... I figure anyone with his own OED can't be all bad. +sj+ 23:28, 2004 Feb 21 (UTC)

Yellow Pigs

I figure anyone with his own OED can't be all bad. Come vote on YPD on Votes for undeletion so it can be restored and we can put up a proper YPD page; there isn't a page anywhere online that gives a back-history more than 25 years old... and it would be an excellent place to put some of the extensive 17 trivia that might not be 'important' enough to go on the official page. (# of trees Dosteovsky could see out of his window while he was in prison, &c.) +sj+ 23:28, 2004 Feb 21 (UTC)

invitation

Please see Talk:American twenty dollar bill. You get this invitation because your name appears in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (US vs American). Feel free to ignore if you are disinterested. - Optim 05:14, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

MediaWiki Messages for Ships

I've put a couple of new MediaWiki messages into circulation. One of them is for DANFS, and the other is an experiment with the Iowa class battleships. Please let me know what you think. David Newton 23:09, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I've now gone way beyond the Iowa class ships with new messages. I've covered all the US battleship classes except for the abortive South Dakotas that were terminated by the Washington Treaty. I've also dealt with the Alaska class large cruisers and imported DANFS text for those that didn't have it already. BTW, did you know the the NHC now has a complete copy of DANFS online? David Newton 07:44, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The Epopt, who I also let know about the MediaWiki messages seems to approve of things. He's created one on the Tang class submarines. He's also suggested that we leave off USS from the ships to save space. I can't see any enormous problems with that from a practical point of view. David Newton 19:57, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

How's the work on the Reagan years coming? Do you want me to list some more sources at Talk:History of the United States (1980-1988), or do you have enough for now? If you're seeking quick access to data online, my user page might also contain some relevant links. 172 06:38, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

New Table Markup for Ships

Stan, I'm not sure whether you're aware or not, but recently a new table markup system has been introduced. I have altered the two standard tables for the RN and USN on my page so that they use the new formatting. From now on, whenever I add a table to an article, I will use the new format. It is a good deal easier to use than the old one I would say. David Newton 23:41, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Lenin tomb

Thanks for raising the issue Mrdice 22:03, 2004 Feb 26 (UTC)

USAF Museum

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/warn.htm . If you've secured permission via their process, then the image page should say so. In practice, many photos of experimental planes are also at NASA sites, you can get them from there.

I seemed to me it they said it would be okay in this context. However, I'll take the images off the article until I can get specific clarification from them. Thanx!!! !!!!