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Hello there,

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Hi, I notice your interest in ships, and wanted to bring Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships to your attention if you're not already aware of it; we have quite a lot of material to crib from so you don't have to start from scratch. Stan 22:45 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

I put

09:13, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Since you've contributed in the

04:57, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

About the CERN article

Hello

Back in May, 2003 you wrote an excellent article about CERN. Still recall? :) Here is the original revision by you. The article has lived much since. I'm just troubled with this one sentence in the beginning of this paragraph. It has totally lost its context.

If you were originally referring to CERN as a whole, then I propose putting it in the second paragraph: "CERN currently employs just under 3000 people full-time. Some 6500 scientists and engineers (representing 500 universities and 80 nationalities), about half of the world's particle physics community, work on experiments conducted at CERN. CERN also has very impressive computer and wide-area networking facilities which are primarily used for experimental data analysis."

I don't dare to edit yet, if it's just about me missing some point. Anyway, a good article! ---Hydrox (8th October, 21:49 UTC)

Hi, I've

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New ship table template

I've spent the last few days working on a new ship table template to enable us to centralise the editing of things like weapons outfits for a particular class of ships in one template (so with the Fletchers or Gearings or other big classes you only have to edit in one place to alter a mistake rather than in dozens or hundreds). Please have a look at the WikiProject Ships page's talk section and see what you think. I haven't written the instructions for using it yet, and I want to see whether there are any table cells people would like me to include that aren't present yet. There are two example tables, one with all the optional cells present, and the other with some excluded. David Newton 14:10, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You contributed a number of articles on early

20:01, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)

Smallsword

Hi ! I have taken the liberty to detour you excellent Image:Smallsword.jpg and upload it on Commons. I was just wondering whether you would consider puttin the image under a Creating Commons licence as well, for instance CC-by-sa, which has basically the same properties as the GFDL, but makes it easier to use the image.

The images is available on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Smallsword.jpg

Thank you very much for your contributions ! Rama 16:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on this! It was in a pretty sad shape before. --Fastfission 19:02, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi! I thought the name in the literature is

Geiger-Marsden experiment, and so I would like to swap the article/redir setup. Since you changed it last, I thought I would ask what your rational was, so we can find consensus on this. Thanks! Awolf002 14:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Isle of May

Hi! I just wanted to say thanks for your edits to Isle of May. I have only visited the island once, but I found it very interesting to read the extra information that you added to the article. JeremyA (talk) 00:00, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi, you used a cut-and-paste move to move

PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!

No problem, and thanks very much for taking this time to check, and letting me know. Noel (talk) 18:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate the wording changes that you made to

COAS

I've added the "{{

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The NPG is slowly populating its site so this link will come good. I have emailed them about A H-W in the hope they'll buck up a bit. Nunquam Dormio 09:32, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Apologies for the belated reply. As you took the

Re: Vesuvius

You're most likely correct. I was staying in a convent described as "near the Bay of Naples," so I just put that as the closest presumption. Thank you for fixing it. RichardMarcJ 03:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

My dad decided to do a search for his old ship and found the Wiki entry you started. Was your choice of ship alphabetical or do you have a family connection? Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.146.66 (talk) 30 January 2007

No, I don't have a connection with the ship. I started the article because its unusual name caught my eye. Best wishes. Jll 23:10, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi MY father was on K358 I am looking to share photos and make contact with any one or knows of a family member that was on K358. I can be reached at [email protected]

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.202.14.220 (talk) 05:59, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jll, may I ask, what your source for this edit was? Was this operation carried out or just thought about? Best regards, --Flominator 11:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, It was a long time ago and I cannot remember. However it is mentioned in a modern reprint of a Victorian book on advances in technology, and I have updated the article to reflect that, and included a reference this time. The chapter on Torpedoes starts by explaining that (in 1890) the idea of destroying ships using submerged or floating containers of gunpowder is not new, and illustrates this with the sentence "Two hundred and fifty years ago the English tried "floating petards" at the siege of Rochelle." before mentioning that similar devices were used against the British during the American War of Independence. -- Jll 17:46, 5 March 2007

Thank you very much for these informations. Do you know anything more Operation Marine? Was it only an idea or was it done? --Flominator 17:51, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

It seems that it was actually done. I have added some more information to the article (and renamed it) -- Jll 01:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

This was very helpful and just in time: The German article already had a deletion request in it. Now I hope it will be saved. Thank you.--Flominator 08:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I am glad to have been able to help. Jll 10:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Can you please confirm the contents of an edit you made to

1811:

• http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_History/Reports/British_Lost/RN_Vessels_Lost_19th_Century.html
• http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/jcr/~vancouver2.html
• http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/PQ.htm
• http://www.iwight.com/council/departments/museums/Museum_of_Island_History/Past_Exhibitions/SHIPWRECK/HMS_POMONE/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A894224
• http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15301

Thanks for your help. Mmccalpin 16:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I have put the reply on your talk page. Regards, Jll 15:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi there; quite right, of course, about my error in entitling the article

Muzzle-loading rifles

Hi there; yes, i suppose that small-arms such as the

p.s. i cannot believe that those are red-links! I will go and check my spelling, and if i'm right start work on the articles.--

Dreyse

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I nominated this article that you created for the "did you know" wikipedia section. Diff is here [2] Chergles 23:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

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On Shrapnel Valley Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page .

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Just a courtesy note - I've nominated this template for deletion, as it seems to be spelled incorrectly (the articles report the class as "Astraea"), and someone has since made the same template with the proper spelling, at Template:Astraea class cruiser (1893). Just wanted to let you know. Maralia 01:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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Flower class corvette article for United Stated Coast Guard use of Flower class corvettes or Action class gunboats. Coast Guard crews manned a number of United States Navy vessels including some destroyer escorts and most of the Tacoma class frigates during the second world war, but relatively few of these ships (designated by a "W" prefix to the hull classification symbol) were actually Coast Guard vessels. Would it be more appropriate to note parenthetically "(some manned by U.S. Coast Guard)" if that was the case for these corvettes? Thewellman (talk) 12:30, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

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