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Samuel P. Moore

I've nominated the article at WP:DYK, but the wording threw me for a loop. Why improve doctors when the issue is the quality of surgeons? Wouldn't testing surgeons be the better move instead of promoting semi-trained doctors? If you have any tips for improvements to the hook, please let me know. - Mgm|(talk) 13:02, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done Kresock (talk) 02:04, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas Alfred Davies

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DYK for Samuel P. Moore

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Dravecky (talk) 13:01, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


US/British English

Thanks for catching a couple of my typos in the article Pescadores Campaign (1895). You have also 'Americanised' British spelling in a couple of cases. I don't mind in the least, as in my real-life job I am an academic editor at a university where articles appear with both types of spelling and often a mixture of both, and my only aim is to ensure consistency and compliance with the guidelines of whatever journal will be publishing them. But I'm interested. Is there a Wikipedia policy on US/Brit English? I had assumed, simply from reading various articles, that you could use either. Perhaps you could enlighten me.

Djwilms (talk) 04:08, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Good day sir! I had noticed this article was not assessed for MILHIST, and I did copy-edit it first. Sorry about mixing American and English styles, feel free to undo any of them. The only policy I know of is to be consistent within the article, either to use all USA or all Brit, for text as well as for dates. I saw the dates formatted as January 1, 1895, (except for the intro) and assumed the American style was in play. Here's the link to the style guide for MILHIST. Hope this helps. Kresock (talk) 04:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Aha, that explains it! My dates (intro) are in British style, wheareas Davidson's (the guy I quote for much of the article) are in US style, as he was an American. Interesting to discover that 'American' dating was in existence as early as 1903 . . .
Thanks for the link to the style guide. As I have written quite a few military history articles in the past few months, it's probably about time I consulted it.
Djwilms (talk) 06:08, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Confederate Army

Good day sir! I know you have been knee-deep in Chattanooga stuff, but I has wondering if you have the time would you look at two pages I've been working on. User:Kresock/sandbox/CS Regular Army‎ is my attempt on the ACSA in my user space, and List of Confederate Regular Army officers, on which I've done up to 'D'. I also plan to do the PACS afterward. This spawned from my overflowing disappointment with the existing Confederate States Army article, and perhaps a fresh start is the way to go. Any thoughts or suggestions are quite welcome. Kresock (talk) 03:10, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Well, in my humble opinion it would be better to improve the existing CSA article than to create two separate articles. Although our friends the Eichers have gone into a lot of technical detail about the formation of the Regular Army, there is almost no notice paid of this distinction in any mainstream literature about the war. (That is not entirely true on the Union side, however, since there were units organized entirely of regulars. Furthermore, the U.S. Army significantly preceded and followed the war, so is worth tracking separately.) As to the two articles you have started, my comments are:
  • It would be better to name the regular army article Army of the Confederate States of America. Using a rule of thumb in Wikipedia, no one would ever deliberately search on the term "CS Regular Army."
  • I think that a listing of every ACSA officer includes way too many non-notable entries. There are very few officers below the rank of colonel who are notable and it would be probably better to have a consolidated article that listed the status of the senior officers in both of the armies, rather than separating them.

Hal Jespersen (talk) 15:41, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I appreciate the input. I planned to name the regular page as such (just gave it a generic name in my user space) as I did on the listing page intro. I probably will have Confederate States Regular Army redirect to it. I found a book detailing the regulars and was inspired, and the CS Army page we now have really bothers me. Any problem with me linking the finished page in the Confederate States Army article for now?

I'm not done with the listing page yet; I plan to make it collapsible so it won't be too unwieldy. I believe if I can at least find out some info on them they should be listed, such as died in combat, last unit, etc. Once this is done I probably will prune out the non-notables as you suggest. Maybe I should have left it my user space, huh? Again thanks for the thoughts. Kresock (talk) 03:14, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

No problem from me, although you may eventually see someone slap you with a Merge Request template for the two articles. They really cover a very similar space. Hal Jespersen (talk) 15:02, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Joseph B. Palmer

No problem! I just created the dab page a few hours ago, so it would have been hard for you to add it earlier. :) — jwillbur 05:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Mark Perrin Lowrey

Thanks so much! Yes any information or pictures that you have, please add them as long as the information has references. Thanks and Have a Great Day! Lord R. Oliver I His Lordship's Court 00:11, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Stephen D. Lee

Good day Hal! Just finished adding to his article. If it looks good to you I'll flick him off of your to do - bios list on your user page. Kresock (talk) 08:00, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Howdy! Looks very good at first glance. You're doing very reliable work that I don't feel the need to watch closely anymore (unlike some of our other colleagues :-)). Feel free to update my to-do list without asking on efforts like this. Hal Jespersen (talk) 15:21, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Rodman article

Very, very nicely done!!! 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (talk) 14:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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Conclusion of the American Civil War

Thanks for the edits you made to improve the article. Since you are very familiar with these events related to the American Civil War, do you have any suggestions for an Alt hook for this article, that is at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on February 15?--Doug Coldwell talk 12:57, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Ping!--Doug Coldwell talk 12:23, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Ping! --Doug Coldwell talk 22:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Ping!--Doug Coldwell talk 12:33, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the recent tweaks. It looks like I have my work cut out for me in the next few days after that GA review. If you see anything else that needs tweaking I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks again! --Doug Coldwell talk 00:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Just now realized you marked "Done" on certain items. Thanks! I will start working on all this tomorrow after a night's sleep. If I really get stumped on something, I will ask you a specific question. AND thanks again for the all help. --Doug Coldwell talk 00:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
No problem! Kresock (talk) 00:51, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 Done It passed to GA status. Thanks for all your help.--Doug Coldwell talk 17:42, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Bennett Place

You have a far better understanding of the ACW and especially of the armies involved and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. What you have written on the section on Bennett Place is excellent. What is written in the article Bennett Place is the number 98,270 which certainly does not look correct. I think perhaps someone turned around the "8" and the "9". In Google Books I found this as they say in the Encyclopedia of North Carolina. ‎I really don't know and whatever you feel is correct, I will go along with. --Doug Coldwell talk 12:35, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

On 26 July 2008 at 17:19 it was User:66.57.79.84 that put in the number 98,270 into the Bennett Place article. Before this it just said about "90,000." Four days later this User stopped editing. Perhaps that person obtained a User name or lost interest in Wikipedia. That person edited a lot pertaining to ACW. Whatever you want to correct that to is alright with me - because I am the last person to know what is correct.--Doug Coldwell talk 18:52, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

John H. Winder

Howdy,

I really would do that, but I am terrible when it comes to ISBNs and giving the book information, I really do not know how to do it. Sorry :) Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 02:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Well I own the Book but I am almost 100% sure that it is online. I will look for it real quick. Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 02:30, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Yep I found it here is a link to the book [1] Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 02:31, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Yah I did it! Thanks for the Help. Have a Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 02:44, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Matthew Butler

Howdy,

I saw your edit, and Matthew Butler was in the U.S. Army he fought in the Spanish-American War as a Major General, it's okay though I know you didn't mean any harm. Have A Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 01:48, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi there. I noticed that and fixed it. Gonna add to his page now! Kresock (talk) 01:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I know you didn't mean any harm and thank you for fixing it. Thanks and Have a Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 01:51, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
P.S. Congrats on recieving your Rollback Rights! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 01:52, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Are you sure of Butler's mother being named Julie, as his father's page here and a book of mine give her name as Jane Tweedy Perry Butler? Kresock (talk) 02:03, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

And his place of death. I have him dying in retirement in Washington, D.C., in three of my books. Any thoughts? Kresock (talk) 02:34, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I will check that out, I seem to remember seeing that also. Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 03:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I have some references for it, and I have changed the information to Washington D.C. instead of Columbia, South Carolina. Thanks and Have A Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 03:18, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Charles D. Anderson

Howdy,

Do you know if there are any pictures of Charles D. Anderson? I have been looking and can't find one, could you help me? Thanks and Have A Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 19:05, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello.! I always include a pic when I write these bios, but could not find one online for this general. The only one I have ever seen is a tiny one in the book by Allardice I used as a source (got a scanner?) and they got it from: Georgia Department of Archives & Honors, Brown/Connally/Spalding Collection, AC. Hope this helps.
By the way, I don't nomally in-line cite each and every sentence if a cite covers more than one sentence, so I undid those changes to his page as redundant. Hope you don't mind -- lots of cite numbers clustered together is quite distracting to me, especially when they're all #1 repeated lots of times in a row. I noticed this on some of the other pages you've improved and condenced them often. Don't get me wrong citing is essential and keep doing it, please! Kresock (talk) 19:53, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
(Yes I do have a Scanner) I will try to get that picture and add it to the article. I'll try to calm down on the references :) Thanks and Have a Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 19:58, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
If you could get that pic at a reasonable resolution that would be awesome!!!! Kresock (talk) 20:00, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Howdy,
Hawkeye 7 assessed Charles D. Anderson as a B-Class article but doesn't want to override your opinion what would you like me to tell him or would you like to talk to him? Have A Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 21:43, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
See here for that request. Kresock (talk) 01:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)