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Infobox in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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Hi Dodgerblue.

Sorry to drop you this note. It looks like you have got a few. We all get these when we start out as a new Wikipedian, and are finding our way!

I refer you to Template talk:Infobox Law enforcement agency#Simplicity and readability which raises an issue in part related to your edits to the infobox in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

While the two templates {{Infobox Government agency}} and {{Infobox Law enforcement agency}} are similar, they are not the same. You need to check the relevant documentation for each template, which can be accessed by clicking on the links in the previous sentence.

More importantly, however, is that it appears that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is NOT a law enforcement agency. Accordingly, the infobox should be reverted back to {{Infobox Government agency}}. If, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation does have a law enforcement "division", and it is suitably notable, and warrants an article in it own right, then the {{Infobox Law enforcement agency}} template could be used in that article (with the parent agency set to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation).

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The two out of three edits you just made to Portland Police Bureau‎ are not "minor edits" as you marked them. See Help:Minor edit for clarification.

Also, an edit summary of "minor" is unacceptable. Please give the high-level summary of what you are doing. For this edit I would have written something like "upgrade from Infobox Police Department to Infobox Law enforcement agency; additional history". Otherwise, your edits look great! Thank you. —EncMstr (talk) 19:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop marking edits which add or remove content as "minor". —EncMstr (talk) 20:17, 30 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Please read template documentation

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Dodgerblue777,

I commend you for changing various deprecated templates to {{Infobox Law enforcement agency}} as you did in Portland Police Bureau, but PLEASE read the relevant documentation first. Unfortunately, your changes to the infobox in Portland Police Bureau were not fully compliant with the parameters for the new infobox. I have fixed the basic problems.

Please continue to replace deprecated infoboxes, but please read the relevant documentation first.

Cheers. Peet Ern (talk) 22:49, 30 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, I am writing to ask you make some corrections to our webpage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=14th_Armored_Division_%28United_States%29&diff=231747100&oldid=223978486

1. Please change the 14th Armored Division nickname back to all caps. That is the standard format for Special Unit Designations. 2. There has never been a 15th Armored Division in the US Army. The next division would be the 16th.

Thank you,

The veterans of the 14th Armored Division Association —Preceding unsigned comment added by 14th Armored Division Association (talkcontribs) 17:58, 26 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

December 2008

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Colors and contrasts

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Hi - the Columbus change looks interesting, but the 3 state templates weren't readable. You might consider running those choices past one of the automatic contrast evaluators (I used one in a template a while back). Tedickey (talk) 21:28, 16 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Peer review limits

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The guidelines for Wikipedia:Peer review ask that editors nominate no more than one article per day (and four total at any one time). While the rules say that two of the three requests you made can be removed, I will let it slide since this is the first time (although if you want to withdraw any, feel free). Take care, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:59, 1 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Template:Infobox WNBA Player

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Hello. I think something in Template:Infobox WNBA Player is causing the players' nationality to appear on the first line of their articles as well as in the infobox. See Helen Darling, Becky Hammon, Sandora Irvin for examples. I notice you've been working on this template recently and I don't want to mess with the code. Can you help? Thanks. Station1 (talk) 05:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

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You have removed a number of redlinks from 32nd Infantry Division (United States) during the past few days. While I appreciate your good faith efforts to clean up the article, please stop. Per redlink guidelines, red links are appropriate when "a red link should be allowed to remain in an article if it links to a term that could plausibly sustain an article, but for which there exists no candidate article, or article section, under any name." Red links should only be avoided if an article "will never be created, including articles that do not comply with Wikipedia's naming conventions." The red links I left in the article were purposeful and indicated articles equivalent in value and notability to similar, existing articles already linked to within the article.

You also joined several paragraphs together, obscuring the distinctive ideas present in each paragraph, reducing the readability of the article.

Lastly, it would also be very helpful if you added comments to the Edit Summary field whenever you make a change. I have reverted all of your recent edits. -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 00:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

32nd Infantry Division (United States)

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Hello. I noticed you were one of the users involved in improving the 32nd Infantry Division article. As a Wikipedian who focuses on US Army units, I thought I would lend a hand in improving it as much as possible. If you need anything, please let me know! -Ed!(talk) 23:03, 28 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

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1st Marine Division (United States)

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I note that there are a couple of citation needed tags on this article, which will cause problems when it is reviewed for GA status. Might I politely suggest that these are addressed. Jezhotwells (talk) 00:05, 8 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Gen. Barton

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I have a question about an edit that you made, see: Talk:Raymond O. Barton

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Glider Infantry Regiments

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I noticed you edited 101st Airborne Division article. Several units from the Second World War that served in that division and with the 82nd and other US Army airborne divisions were glider infantry regiments that currently do not have articles. I was wondering if you would be interested in starting those articles? You can find find the insignia for the regiments' infoboxes here [1]. If you need help with references, I'll be happy to help out later in the month. (please answer here) Mrg3105 --121.216.53.87 (talk) 03:58, 12 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I am not an expert and do not have the time necesary to develop new articles at the moment. I can create them, but I suggest that you go to a member of the United States military history task force in order to get help in developing new articles on this subject Dodgerblue777 (talk) 02:56, 18 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Baltimore

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Hello, I see you made a request at WP:FEED a long time ago, but have continued to be active on Wikipedia and made good edits to the encyclopedia. Since you have posted on WP:FEED in the past, I would like to suggest that if you want please try and help out at the page, as we have a massive backlog. It'd be really great if you provided some advice to other, new users on their articles.

To do this, you'll just need to take a look at their article, which they'll post the link to, and maybe see what perhaps can be improved, like adding sections, references or links, much like you would do with any other article, except you are giving feedback rather than making actual edits. After getting some idea of what needs to be improved, you just need to tell them briefly underneath. It's really simple but incredibly useful to new users and their articles, and helps to overall increase the quality of these new articles.

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Goran Visnjic

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Hey! I did a friendly revert, to coin a phrase, of one of your edits to Goran Visnjic. His military service for Yugoslavia was from late 1990 to late 1991, having turned 18 on 9/9/1990, so the statement about the Dissolution was necessarily vague, as iit was a process over a period of years. If you've read any interviews with GV he talks about being trained to do crowd control as a result of the country's tenor in the early days of the dissolution, then when Slovenia pulled away in late 1990 found himself retrained as a special forces paratrooper and sharpshooter, fighting against what he saw as his own countrymen. He later did service in the new Croatian army as well. (It's no accident the guy was once considered as James Bond -- he literally has nearly every skill Bond would have were he real.) Drmargi (talk) 17:40, 12 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Japanese air groups

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[2] You may already know this, but numbered Imperial Japanese air groups formed on or after 1 November 1942 weren't called "252nd Air Group" or "305th Air Group" as in being a result of sequential numbering. The individual numbers in each air group's name were actually discrete indentifiers with each digit representing separate information. Therefore, a more accurate rendering of their names would be "252 Air Group" or "Air Group 252." We probably need to place hidden messages in the article texts to let readers know that this is the case. Cla68 (talk) 07:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Suns info box

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Was wondering if you could help with a small edit to a season info box here. The bottom of the box has a directional arrow to the preceding and proceeding seasons, however, since the article is that of the inaugural season, there's no season before it. Wondering if you can get that show up deleted or "none" as I've seen in other pages. Thanks in advance... Zepppep34 (talk) 20:04, 14 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Fine Art Edit-a-Thon & DC Meetup 26!

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Hi Dodgerblue777!

Saw you added back in the infobox on the 1st ID to the article on the 745th Tank Battalion that I had deleted a while back. When I deleted it, I mentioned in the Talk section for the article that the 745th was an attachment and not an organic unit to the 1st ID. I also added that if we were to include all attachments and detachments for the 1st ID, the official order of battle published right after the war listed attachments and detachments for the division that ran to 4 pages! Thus, I thought (and think) the infobox is not relevant to the 745th.

Having said all that, I get your point. I think (hope!) I have found a solution that will keep us both happy. I have deleted the infobox again BUT in the summary paragraph I added in that the 745th was attached to the 1st ID for the duration of combat in the ETO, and pointed out that it was unusual for an independent tank bn to be attached to only one unit. Most developed habitual relationships with one division or other, but rarely to the exclusion of any other unit. This was particularly true of armor units, which were assigned to armored groups (The 745th was assigned to the 3rd Armored Group), but almost never fought organically to them; they would usually at most spend a few days back under group control them when they were relieved from the line to refit, perform maintenance, and integrate new replacement personnel. My proposed solution highlights the closeness of the relationship to the 1st ID, but keeps details of the assigned units (which the 745th was not) off the page. Readers are free to link to the article on the 1st ID to see more details of assigned and or attached units.

Full disclosure: my first assignment in the Army was to the 1st Inf Div (Fwd) at Panzer Kaserne in Böblingen, Germany. I was proud to wear the Big Red One, so this is no grudge against the 1st ID.

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