Pearl Dragon

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Anna Lincoln 15:49, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

I need help from experienced editors, please.

{{helpme}}I found an experienced editor who had visited the first page I started working on but was hesitating to publish my work, so I sent the following, but then the next post by "Tony the Marine" made me think twice. Maybe I'd better ask for your help, too, Anna Lincoln, in guiding me? Anyway, here are the posts from the last couple of days on Kumioko's talk page:

Tony the Marine's message is irrelevant, he is simply saying goodbye to the person whos talk page you posted this on. Give the person some time to get back to you regarding your proposals, otherwise just be bold and make the changes yourself. You might also try posting your suggestions on the article's talk page. Wexcan  Talk  05:41, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello from Nagasaki, Japan ^.^

Hello, Kumioko, I noticed that you edited a page I've suggested some changes to. Since I'm very new here whereas you have great experience, I hope you'll look over my suggestions & use whatever is appropriate. Also, since you have interest in military pages, I have similar suggestions about quite a few more (over a hundred, some of which may not exist yet) so perhaps you'd be interested in those, too.

The one I need your help on is: Talk page of Eugene P. Wilkinson

Examples of two more military pages I've finished adding oral-history links to are: Elmo Zumwalt & Paul A. Yost, Jr.

I'm trying to write a page on Paul Stillwell (Just playing in the sandbox with it & studying various Wikipedia articles now, but ...) I believe the work he's done is so useful for other military pages that you and other interested editors should look at what he's written: List of 161 books from WorldCat

Amazon.com's editorial review and author biography:

Submarine Stories: Recollections from the Diesel Boats

Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The story of these boats, their technological evolution and tactical value, is also the story of the men who went to sea in them. The accounts illustrate the human aspects of serving in diesel boats: the training, operations in peacetime and war, liberty exploits, humorous sidelights, and special feelings of bonding and camaraderie that grew among shipmates.

Included here are some familiar names. Slade Cutter, who earned four Navy Crosses as a skipper in World War II, describes the process that made him a capable submariner. Dennis Wilkinson, first skipper of the nuclear-powered Nautilus in the 1950s, tells of being in the first missile-firing submarine in the 1940s. Robert McNitt recalls his experiences as executive officer to Medal of Honor skipper Gene Fluckey. Among the other submariners who present their personal memories are Jerry Beckley, contemplating the possibility of firing nuclear missiles during the 1962 Cuban crisis; Hosey Mays, describing what it was like to be a black man in a boat with a nearly all-white crew; Paul Foster, discussing the sinking a German U-boat in World War I; and Wayne Miller, explaining the enormous satisfaction he felt when he earned his silver dolphins.

PAUL STILLWELL, an independent historian, is the editor or author of nine previous books, including one on submarines titled Sharks of Steel, which he coauthored with Vice Adm. Robert Y. Kaufman. Other books include three collections of oral histories: Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! Recollections of a Day of Infamy, Assault on Normandy: First-Person Accounts from the Sea Services, and The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers. In addition, he wrote three illustrated battleship histories of the USS Arizona, New Jersey, and Missouri that are filled with stories of crew-members. All of these titles were published by the Naval Institute Press. The Golden Thirteen was named by the New York Times as one of the notable history books of 1993. Stillwell has been a frequent guest on network and cable television programs, including NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, the Discovery Channel, A&E, and the History Channel.

Stillwell was director of the U.S. Naval Institute's history division from 1993 to 2004. Prior to that he served as the first editor-in-chief of the Institute's Naval History magazine and earlier was managing editor of the organization's Proceedings magazine. From 1982 to 2004 he served as director of the Naval Institute s oral history program, one of the oldest and largest in the United States.

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Stillwell is a retired Naval Reserve commander who served in the late 1960s on board the tank landing ship Washoe County and the battleship New Jersey. He and his wife Karen live in Arnold, Maryland. They are the parents of three sons, James, Robert, and Joseph.

I'm just a beginner at Wikipedia and have one full-time job (about 12 hours a day five days a week) plus a part-time job on weekends, so ...

Best regards,

Pearl Dragon (talk) 20:25, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

To all my friends in Wikipedia. After so many years I have decided to take an extended leave from the project. My continued participation in the project has become less enjoyable as I have explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts#User:Damiens.rf_should_be_told_to_stop_his_rudeness_and_Wikihounding here]. I thank God that I became involved in the project in the first place because not only have I used it to educate others, but I have also learned a lot from friends such as yourself. Try to maintain a high standard in your contributions and make sure that the truth is always told in what you write. I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year, may God Bless you and thank you for your friendship. Tony the Marine (talk) 02:33, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Pearl Dragon (talk) 04:26, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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