User talk:Brother Officer

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Hello Brother Officer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some recommended guidelines to help you get involved. Please feel free to contact me if you need help with anything. Best of luck and happy editing! BusterD 22:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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No kidding: Welcome!

But that doesn't mean that we won't revert everything you do. Just kidding now. I noticed you had made good faith changes to Fort Lafayette (I reverted) and to Battle of Cold Harbor (Hal reverted), but that doesn't mean we don't value your participation and contributions. In the case of Cold Harbor (as Hal told me when I was a new editor), when you choose to edit something that's a the top of a major page, expect others to be resistant to major change (he was more eloquent). If you're an ACW buff (like me) you may consider looking at and joining the ACW task force. No hurry, if you need any help, feel free to write in my talk page. Have fun and don't let reversion keep you from making bold changes. BusterD 23:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do not understand. Why was the accurate information I contributed reverted? Will this happen to everything I write? Is it your "turf" so nobody else can add information you did not have? Could you not have simply placed the information in another position without removing it? La Fayette is correct over Lafayette as was shown in the rest of the text. I think ette in French indicates small.

What exactly is the ACW task force? Which side do you think was in the right? I understand we are supposed to be neutral but I believe few people ever are.

Exactly why I posted this second welcome. No turf here, though some editors who've been working on a page might take unkindly to seemingly random changes (especially from unregistered or brand new editors, which as a class tend to be more inclined to vandalism). I can't speak for the Cold Harbor reversion (I think Hal did expalin his change in edit summaries), but in the case of the fort, the correct spelling for the marquis, La Fayette, was never used for the fort Lafayette. I explained this in my edit summary, and gave several sources for my position. An appropriate reply from someone who holds your position strongly, would be to provide contrary sources. Disagreement is kinda normal in Wikipedia, you gotta defend your position if at all controversial (and everything can be controversial).
As to which side is in the right, I'm not sure that's the correct question. Instead, "which position is better supported by provided evidence?" seems to be the current wiki standard. Here's the link to the task force. BusterD 15:12, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of William Lewis Maury



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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on William Lewis Maury requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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William Lewis Maury was the captain of the CSS Georgia.

Source was and remains: http://archive.org/details/recollectionsofr4980morg

I've recreated this but it could use a lot of help. BusterD (talk) 01:38, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
BusterD, it has been added to including the information (I think) you placed there and added to WP's CSS Georgia article. With that, is there anything specific that is needed now? Many articles carry immediate family information and further back, genealogical information, is that something you would want? Respectfully, William Maury Morris II (talk) 19:58, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There's a fair amount of information available through search engines. I'm a little busy at this moment, but I'll beef the page up a bit with sources this weekend. Nice to see you're still alive and editing. BusterD (talk) 23:33, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year Brother Officer!

Happy New Year!
Hello Brother Officer:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, BusterD (talk) 05:59, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]



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Southern Historical Society

Hello. I added some in-line referenced info to Southern Historical Society. Let me know if you are still interested in this page, and if you would like to expand it. I think it has the potential to reach at least C status, as long as all the content is referenced. There must be a lot of scholarships about this organization. Please reply on my talkpage. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 11:11, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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