User talk:Catalan

User Page User Talk Travels Gallery Sandbox DYK's Library Awards Publications Commentary Thanks to Mzajac for this lovely talk template! Please sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~) and add comments on a new topic in a new section. I will respond on your talk page unless you request otherwise. Questions, requests, criticism, and any other comments are always welcome! Archives 2004-2006, 2007, 2008 Talk     Greetings (and some Milhist business) First, happy new year! Second, I've raised a couple of things here which could use swift responses. May I trouble you please to check them out? Thanks! --ROGER DAVIES talk 19:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC) Thoughts for collaboration on Little-Saturn & Uranus Ok, so here's my thinking for Operation Uranus and Operation Little-Saturn and the process for it. I've already started adding to Uranus, and I have less information on Little-Saturn. My thinking is that I'll start with Uranus, while you start with Little-Saturn, and then we'll switch and add anything the other misses on the article we didn't do. That way, there's some method to the madness (and we won't drive one another nuts by continuously adding over one another and reverting each other's edits) and we can build on one another's work. One more thing, how will we work this for the wikicup? Are we both able to claim an article we jointly worked on, or does that not work? Happy New Year! Hope everything's warm down there in San Diego! Cam (Chat) 05:50, 2 January 2009 (UTC) sounds good to me. Cam (Chat) 05:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC) Would I be correct to guess that I have the liberty to make slight modifications afterwards as well? Cam (Chat) 05:54, 2 January 2009 (UTC) sounds good. Cam (Chat) 17:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC) Holy crap! Very impressive work so far. Cam (Chat) 00:00, 4 January 2009 (UTC) Excellent work - once again  The WikiChevrons  For continually-excellent FA-Contributions in the field of Military History (now ranking you 28th all-time at WP:WBFAN), I am pleased to award you another set of Wikichevrons. Best regards, Cam (Chat) 21:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC) And no worries about the Uranus/Little Saturn. Take your time (I've gone off and am now working on Operation Windsor in the meantime). Cam (Chat) 21:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC) Cam's rfa and articlehistory Hi, I noticed that you didn't sign your support in Cam's RFA. Would you mind signing it? It is number 41 at time of writing. On another note, if you ever need any help with the articlehistory template, just leave a note on my talkpage. Once you get the hang of them, they are easy. The hardest part is finding the oldid, the rest is on Template:ArticleHistory/doc. So, if you have any questions, just leave them on my talkpage, regards. Woody (talk) 20:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC) Operation Winter Storm I'm impressed (as are others I see here) with your work - so much so I'm a little intimated to note that the lead section of Operation Winter Storm seems longer than I would expect on a Wikipedia article. Do you think that much detail is necessary in the lead in this case? I've seen campaign article's much shorter. I'll look for a reply here - not need to travel to my talk page. (John User:Jwy talk) 20:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC) My leads tend to be rather long; for example, Third Battle of Kharkov, has a fairly long lead (although shorter than Winter Storm). It will be shortened as I copyedit it to make sentences simpler and all of that. Basically, what I do is I make a lead by taking information from each section. Then I go through it many times over and take out what I think isn't really necessary. Thanks for the comments and for your compliments, JonCatalán(Talk) 20:28, 6 January 2009 (UTC) Sounds good. Keep it up! (John User:Jwy talk) 20:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC) Sure. Ping! me when you are ready for Operation Little Saturn to go through GAN, and I'll review that. Cam (Chat) 23:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC) DYK for Operation Winter Storm On January 7, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Operation Winter Storm, 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. --Dravecky (talk) 21:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC) Conversion templates As I said, I really think that putting a conversion template in every time "12-inch" is mentioned in a section in dreadnought is rather over the top. The MOS agrees in respect of science articles, why not military history ones? The Land (talk) 13:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive The article Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Terrakyte (talk) 14:53, 9 January 2009 (UTC) You're very welcome. :) Terrakyte (talk) 16:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC) Wehrmacht Hi, I just went to do the review you request and found that it had already been done! I think the article is excellent and would also have passed it would significant comment, but I do have a query about the title: its a little confusing grammatically. "Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive": Does this mean German forces in the Ardennes Offensive or German forces prepared for the Ardennes Offensive. The article seems to cover both and my immediate reaction is that "German forces in the Ardennes Offensive" is probably the most grammatically correct title. I could be wrong, and it might be worth gathering further opinions on this, but it is the one thing that stands out from the article as a potential problem. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:08, 9 January 2009 (UTC) Reading the discussion you link to, my preference is probably "deployed for", although its current position will do until wider consenus can be developed.--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:16, 9 January 2009 (UTC) DYK for Operation Uranus On January 9, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Operation Uranus, 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. Keep up the good work! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:00, 9 January 2009 (UTC) The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXIV (December 2008) The December 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 02:15, 10 January 2009 (UTC) Request for involvement Dear Catalan I was hoping I could get a return on that GA nomination I passed. ;) In all seriousness, I noticed you are a coordinator for WP:MILHIST, and I was hoping I could employ your expertise. Would you mind if I ask for your input on a discussion I've started regarding the Iran-Iraq War article? Recently, text on the prosecution and aftermath of the war was moved to other articles to cut down the size of the main one, but there still remains a huge amount on how Iran and Iraq were supported by foreign powers. I have cited the MOS on war articles to argue that the text on the prosecution and aftermath should be moved back, and that the text on foreign support should be trimmed instead. The discussion can be found here: [1]. If you do get involved, thank you very much. Terrakyte (talk) 22:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC) Thanks for your comments. Terrakyte (talk) 22:32, 10 January 2009 (UTC) Request Hey, would you be able to GA-Review Yamato class battleship for me? In exchange, I'm more than willing to GA-Review Operation Little Saturn when it gets to that stage. Cam (Chat) 21:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC) WikiCup Newsletter Delivered by The Helpful One for Garden and iMatthew at 00:07, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Response to A-class review comments I've responded [2]. I appreciate the feedback. Cla68 (talk) 01:14, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Golden wiki 2008 "Military historian of the Year" By order of the Members of the Military History WikiProject, for your "extensive contributors, including 12 featured articles as well as a featured topic and a featured picture" I award you this Golden Wiki. --ROGER DAVIES talk 03:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Congratulations! –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 03:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Thank you very much indeed for the barnstar and kind words :) Much appreciated, --ROGER DAVIES talk 12:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Possible images for Operation Uranus While looking through other Wikipedias' articles on Operation Uranus, I found some exceptional Bundesarchiv images on the Russian version of the article. I just thought to let you know, in case you thought any would make a worthwhile addition to the article. And congratulations on your MILHIST award! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emw2012 (talk • contribs) Portal:Tank Hi, Congrats on ur latest award, and may you continue to get many more. The commons link on The portal page links to Italian Wars on commons. I wonder if you were wanting to link it to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tank and not the Italian Wars?? CHeers. Sniperz11@CS 12:36, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Suggestion Hi Jon, in light of your work for MILHIST would you like to collaborate on restoring some material from the Spanish Civil War? A reasonable amount of it may be public domain under the life plus 70 year rule by now, but I'm not sure which items that would be. There's a handful of material at the Library of Congress (the best online source for high res. historic graphic files), and probably more at your disposal. Ping me at my user page and let's talk. :) DurovaCharge! 22:53, 12 January 2009 (UTC) As I saw that you were getting interested in restoration, Jon, I was just about to leave a message that you might want to work with Durova. I've seen some of her excellent restorations over at Portal:Feminism. Awadewit (talk) 16:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC) I have actually been looking up Spanish copyright laws. I think protection of Spanish images extends until 70 years after the death of the author; I would have no idea when the author of any given photograph died (let alone who the author is). So, arguing PD is going to be difficult. :( Like I said on Durova's talk page, I also lack a scanner (mine broke). Well, actually, maybe I could do it at the university. JonCatalán(Talk) 16:27, 13 January 2009 (UTC) List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War Hot damn you're actually doing it. Suh-weet! Gary King (talk) 04:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC) Spanish images There are certain people responsible for images who can be contacted directly. My experience with the German military is that you always find a nice bored bureaucrat. The problem is finding this wo/man. I suggest to first establish contact for a small scale transfer with a limited purpose. The smaller and easier to handle the task seems the more likely is our bureaucrat to do the job. If we have established precedence it's much easier to launch the next request and refine the way we ask. After a series of successful requests from the different institutions we can launch a big deal. So, for getting starting, you have to provide me with some small tasks and a bit of background information on them. Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 13:22, 13 January 2009 (UTC) You did that before and it didn't work. The fact that you're Spanish doesn't help. The problem is how you write the email and what you ask for. As I said, give me a list of small topics and some background information. Wandalstouring (talk) 09:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC) Congratulations!  The Milhist A-Class medal  For prolific work on – Panzer IV, Third Battle of Kharkov and Tanks in the Spanish Army – promoted to A-Class between August and November 2008, by order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the Milhist A-Class medal. -MBK004 19:48, 13 January 2009 (UTC) DYK for Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive On January 16, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive, 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. --Dravecky (talk) 05:42, 16 January 2009 (UTC) Congratulations - it's a great article. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 19:02, 16 January 2009 (UTC) RE: Messines You've got yourself a deal. Cam (Chat) 06:21, 16 January 2009 (UTC) P.S. Best of luck with the semester, the course-load you described gives me nightmares just thinking about it. IS Tanks I can't think of much else. I also have Zaloga (1984) Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two, and the less-useful Perrett (1987) Soviet Armour Since 1945. Glad to look up anything for you in these. —Michael Z. 2009-01-16 19:38 z Congratulations!  The Military history A-Class medal  For prolific work on Arena Active Protection System, Operation Winter Storm and List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War, promoted between December 2008 and January 2009, you are hereby awarded the military history A-Class medal, by order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject. Kirill 00:57, 18 January 2009 (UTC)