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Robin not sure how to get a hold of of anyone. I have a book from this ship thst the person drew pictures off ship and other things. It is written in French I think.wondering what's it's worth?
Acad
Glad to help. Feel free to ask for help anytime, and if you fancy a guide to how to easily pop the pictures in, I would be very happy. Please don't feel I'm ignoring you if I take a long time to reply; my job takes me away a fair bit!
Yours, Shem (talk) 22:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
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I have noticed and appreciated your work for some time already, so I size your excellent contributions to HMS Calcutta (1795) to congratulate you. Cheers! Rama (talk) 12:26, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Ah ok. Thanks. Actually, about half of the links to Halifax that I disam every day go to the West Yorkshire one. Who knew? :) I didn't know about it either. --User:Woohookitty Diamming fool! 13:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
"I have borrowed a copy of Winfield, unfortunately only on short term loan, also, pbenyon :http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/C/01247.html He doesn't list commanders though. Winfield has three. When there is a conflict between Nelson and Winfield, I go with Winfield, though I have caught him in mistakes too. If you have Lavery or Colidge, do they provide any light? Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 18:36, 30 August 2009 (UTC)"
I never claim to be perfect, although I think I'm a lot more accurate than most alternatives. It also helps that my books, being more recent, have been able to take account of the research done on Admiralty and other records in recent years. Brian Lavery's The Ship of the Line is unbeatable for its analysis of the history of that type of vessel - but it was written more than a quarter of a century ago (subsequent republications have been simply reprints, not revised editions) so some data is not up-to-date with subsequent research, as Brian himself would be the first to confirm. It also - by definition - doesn't cover vessels smaller than ships of the line.
I catch myself in mistakes, too, which are too late to correct in my books once published; and I do also rely on others keeping me advised of errors spotted. So I would ask, when you do spot any errors or omissions (and there remain some among prizes taken and retained for a short period), if you would email me details on sailing.navy@btinternet.com - thanks. Rif Winfield (talk) 06:45, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi!
The value for the magic word ((DEFAULTSORT)) determines where the name of the article will appear in any of the categories to which it has been tagged. If there is no explicit sort value given the page is sorted by its name. Only one sort value is permitted for each page. (There is an exception but it does not apply to this article.)
The sort value does not affect the appearance of the name of the article. In Category:1790s ships the article appears as "HMS Howe (1805)" between "French ship Hercule (1798)", sort value=Hercule, and "HMS Hydra (1797)", sort value=Hydra (1797). If all the ships were sorted by the page name this article would appear between "HMS Furieuse (1809)" and "HMS Hydra (1797)".
In this case I should have included the date in the value so that this article will appear above the later versions of the HMS Howe. I have now fixed it. The "HMS' at the end of the value is probably superfluous but I left it.
What I think I would do about the multiple names is to create articles for the other names and either put a brief description of the name change or simply redirect the other articles to this one. The only reason I can think of for the former is that I do not think that a redirect page can be categorized and people may be confused if they click HMS Dromedary and HMS Howe (1805) popped up. I do not think that they would notice that "HMS Dromdary redirects here."
I hope this has helped.
The exception I referred to in the first paragraph is the value of the pipe in category tags. It is used when the normal sort value is not appropriate for a certain category. I have most often seen it used for large family name categories and Icelanders. The latter use is because very few people understand and what appears to be a surname / family name is really a patronym. For many Icelanders, such as the current President, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the page's general sort value is "Grimsson, Olafur Ragnar" but for Iceland-specific categories the tag adds the correct form of the name, like this [[Category:Presidents of Iceland|Olafur Ragnar Grimsson]].
Now you know more about article sort values than you ever wanted or, probably, needed to know. JimCubb (talk) 23:54, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Acad, I saw you moved the title of HMS Egyptienne (1799) to French frigate Egyptienne (1799) using a cut and paste move. These are problematic in a number of ways (see the link for some details) and if you find you cannot move an article through the usual channels you need to go through the 'requested moves' function to ensure elements like the proper accreditation is retained, and the move is made correctly. Hence I've reverted it for, retaining some changes, so that the task does not become too complicated. This may need proper discussion as to which potential title is better (as it stands the majority with her service was as HMS Egyptienne, and there is precedent if there is a substantial career under both flags for separate articles to exist under both names. In this event one article under the British name seems adequate, for example HMS Malta (1800), so I think this would need discussing before a move). Benea (talk) 01:37, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for adding and applying better formatting to the HMS Basilisk (1801) article that I started. Interestingly, at least some were on board this vessel for a long time. A Royal Marine ancestor went aboard at the end of May 1802 as a corporal, and remained SEVEN YEARS, until mid-1809, the last two years as a Sergeant. He then went to HMS Nyaden 36, one of the Danish vessels captured at Copenhagen in 1807. - Tom Moffatt —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tfmoffatt (talk • contribs) 15:53, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Acad, at HMS_Boadicea_(1797)#Post_war the article suddenly starts talking about Pomone without any context - is this a typo? You're a major contributor - can you clarify? Shem (talk) 18:35, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Acad! I wonder if you can help pull an article on Seagull into shape? Currently it is at User:Viking1808/HMS Seagull (1805) and although I have not yet entered any references, I do have them!! It seems to me that this ship is truly international with British/Danish/Norwegian and even Swedish connections. How does one stick one of these banners on the top, saying "editors- please improve this article".? Please comment freely!Viking1808 (talk) 18:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Here are a few points
As many a commander must have said, the thrill is in the chase!! Many thanksViking1808 (talk) 16:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
You suggest I should try a page on Lougen - such would probably be a rehash of the excellent page in English already referenced in Seagull from Lt Wulff
More likely is that I may try to expand on the Najaden wikipage, from some Norwegian I have come across. Thanks for your support and tutoring. Viking1808 (talk) 18:47, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Nice edits on the Perkins section, thanks. Corneredmouse (talk) 12:27, 10 February 2011 (UTC) ditto Viking1808 (talk) 15:02, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there - I saw the edits you're making to HMS Fly, and wondered if you knew about our collaboration with the National Maritime Museum? You can read more at Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM - drop me a line if you have any questions. The Cavalry (Message me) 15:32, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Interesting!! This looks like a larger version of the Danish "Sorte Registrant". I see there was a tender to Anholt, called Anholt in 1811. Viking1808 (talk) 17:34, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Acad - here is a link to the next Grinder which is sitting on my User Space. Also see the comments page for this. I am having problems positioning the ship info box, so have left it out for now (not that I have much other than launch date and decommissioning year). Do you have anything more that can usefully be added, or is it too far outside our normal working time periods?
Incidentally, I need to look up all the Danes mentioned in the Manly article, to see if Topsøe-Jensen has anything of value (but that will take some time) Viking1808 (talk) 19:07, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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