Help pages Tutorial How to write a great article Manual of Style I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes  this will automatically produce your name and the date If you need help check out WikipediaQuestions ask me on my talk page or place helpme on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions Again welcome   It looks like youve been very active in the last few days I have one request could you please provide your references for Zone of immunity Cheers    Well the main page describing citations is WikipediaCiting sources but its kind of geared towards experienced users You certainly dont need to insert footnotes into Zone of immunity In practice you can just replace the  tag at the bottom with a description of your source and dont worry about getting the formatting right I can always help with the cosmetics    Hi Ive replied on my own talk page    Hi Dad  sorry to be dim I thought this might be the only way to leave messages but it seemed rather rude somehow Have you seen the page on Jackie Fisher looks rather sparse on the details of the great man Perhaps youd like to have a go    Hello Ive replied on my talk page  I wasnt sure if this was the appropriate place    Actually it looks like my response has been preempted as most of those pages have been deleted Its a shame nobody else was as thoughtful as you since noone else asked why I created them Such speed    Hello Thanks very much for your messages I was rather upset about the roads thing so I decided to cool off and not login for a while I dont know whether the articles were worthy or not but appreciate the fresh perspective all the comments gave me I was too close to the project to really be objective Anyway I will continue to contribute  but in slightly less controversial and more complete ways    Spelling  Thank you for clearing up that rule of spelling variations for me I was unaware that such a rule existed However Im now curious as to why you changed favor to favour in the first place if as you explained to me such a change was unneeded    I didnt mean to give the impression that I wanted to fight over such a small and insignificant thing  I was merely curious Sorry for the confusion    HMS Valiant    Of course  feel free Stub articles are only placeholders anyway I feel here is a couple of lines summarising the article that will eventually replace it Good luck Incidentally I note you created Defence Class the standard form for naming these is Defence class battleship and Ive moved the article The link you had for Warrior class went to an article on some warrior caste somewhere       Ive given it a copyedit some explanations You dont need to link to the article itself inside the article this just gets confusing for editors The introduction should be in a broadly standard form X iswas a Y of Z before moving onto the history Ship names should be if possible italicised  you can do this with links like HMS WhateverHMS Whatever Otherwise looks good to me       Sure  no need to ask permission If you want to doing some from scratch weve almost none on the various Admiral class battleships  theyre weird enough they seem to deserve articles        HMS Royal Oak   You are more than welcome to rewrite the article and thank you very much for asking Have a nice day and happy wikiing    HMS Swiftsure   Hello Tony  Having chanced upon your recent post on  talk page I thought you might appreciate being informed of the existence of the HMS Swiftsure  stub This item has a curious history when I came across it a few weeks ago I discovered that the ship described in it was an entirely different vessel of the same name lanched in  I therefore created a new article and copied the existing text across From what you told Johann Wolfgang the  ship should be right up your street  Can I also take the opportunity to thank you for taking up the baton for ironclads and preDreadnoughts Coverage of these fascinating ships is sparse in Wikipedia I would like to work on them but I dont have the expertise I have added this page to my watchlist   Hope this is useful   Regards     Photo sources   Its always hard to tell quite when an old photograph is in copyright and when it isnt UK law is very confusing in this regard and theres no reliable rule as to whether or not republishing something affects it  The US Naval Historical Center has an online gallery of publicdomain images most of these are of course American but theres a few foreign ships in there This has the British ones which offhand seems to include about halfadozen ships of the period If you upload any of these mark them as   The Imperial War Museum has a photograph database but the copyright status varies Per this any of them listed as Crown copyright and dated to before  can be freely reused If you upload any of these mark them as  Not all of them have digital images attatched either  Those are the first two web sources that spring to mind  if you have any old books with images it may well be legal to scan these depending on the details Let me know if you have any trouble uploading images       Wikimedia Commons may also have some useful images commonsCategoryRoyal Navy battleships        Prince Albert   Come to think of it Im not sure why I linked Victoria there but didnt link through to Albert fixed now anyway Thanks for putting these articles up  its interesting reading and nice to see decent content going up        DYK     classmessagebox standardtalk   On   Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Ocean  which you created If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article then please suggest it on the Did you know talk page    Lorenzo   Hi Anthony You commented on the link that I removed from the Lorenzo de Medici page Yes I still think it served no purpose Even if the English translator decided to mention Lorenzos name in the title of the book of course the book is not really about him but the city If Machiavellis views on the Medici are important one could instead expand the article itself and summarize them in a few words In fact I could do this myself But it should be noted that Machiavellis views on Lorenzo may tell us more about Machiavelli than they tell us about Lorenzo  However if you think that the link ought to be restored I think that at the very least it should be changed to point to the chapter of the book in which Machiavelli actually talks about Lorenzo     Ettiquette   For metricimperial  WikipediaManual of Style dates and numbersUnits of measurement boils down to using either is no big deal Whilst the numbers were never used in the period it is more useful to many readers especially Europeans to give a size in metres  it should be given as a converted figure in brackets since its not the original source but theres no harm in leaving it in if its not excessive  This makes more sense when you consider say articles on classical antiquity  our articles would be very confusing for the reader if we avoided putting X miles after saying that something was however many stadia long  Unless the converted figures are wrong or just oddly misleading lik