Talk:Raymond A. Palmer/Archive 1

message: The Epic Barnstar
		I hereby award you this barnstar for your great work at Battle of Blenheim.  Excellent job! --JW1805 (Talk) 03:33, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Battle of Blenheim]] 

message: Thought you might like to know that I've put Battle of Blenheim up as a featured article candidate Shimgray | talk | 08:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem! It's nice to see a good well-written article, and the rather stringent review you get from WP:FAC can only help improve it further! You might want to leave talkpage notes for the people who commented earlier to let them know you've addressed their objections - I really don't see any reason this one won't go through. Shimgray | talk | 22:28, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Congratulations! I feel all midwifishly-proud :-) Shimgray | talk | 17:54, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blenheim 

message: No, please feel free to rewrite as much as you feel appropriate; much of that article is taken directly from the 1911 Britannica, and thus needs a lot of work.  In general, it's only at the very top of the scale (FAs, really, and perhaps A-Class articles and GAs) that major rewrites should probably be discussed beforehand; B-Class covers an extremely wide range of quality, and (unless you happen to stumble on a highly controversial article) people are unlikely to care about even wholesale rewrites if the results are good. Kirill Lokshin 22:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Rewriting 

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thread_title: Image tagging for Image:King James II, King William III, King Louis XIV, Leopold I.JPG

message: Hey, there. Just letting you know that I've updated the Cyrus the Great article, so hopefully most of your concerns have been addressed. Please drop in at the FAC page if you have more comments. Thanks! ♠ SG →Talk 08:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyrus the Great FAC 

message: Thanks for the link - I'm just adding a paragraph on the later confusion over the code based on that very page. Yomanganitalk 22:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: England expects...

message: Sure, we're always looking for more reviewers.  If you mean the project peer review, just make a heading with you name for your comments (to keep things readable); if you mean the general one, just comment wherever (as I don't think they've adopted any real organization of their reviews.  Hope that helps! Kirill Lokshin 18:51, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Peer review 

message: Please feel free to rewrite as needed; it's not nearly up to modern standards.  I would suggest proceeding somewhat carfully, though (e.g. rewriting part-by-part), to make sure that the other editors involved don't feel overwhelmed by a complete change and can make their way into the rewrite process gracefully, should they wish to. Kirill Lokshin 00:49, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Rewrite Trafalgar 

message: Yes, I think that would be fine.  Kirill Lokshin 00:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Schellenberg cultural reference citation 

message: There's an article on him at de:Johann Baptist von Arco. Let me know if you need a hand with translation. Choess 22:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, created at Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco, the French version of the name, which seemed most apt. Feel free to move it if you like. That's a good justification for the genealogy, but maybe the caption should be changed a bit to reflect that. (It is a nice picture.) Choess 23:40, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks great. Congratulations and thanks, by the way, on all your wonderful work on the War of the Spanish Succession — I feel Marlborough hardly receives his due in the popular mind, nowadays. Choess 02:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  d'Arco 

message: It's a hard find.  In my personal library, I have mainly Spectator stuff from Addison, as I, like many, prefer to avoid his poetry.  However, after much searching and lucubration, I found a book reference.  It was, as I thought, in an anthology (because there has been no central text of Addison, if you can believe it):
*Addison, Joseph.  "The Campaign, a poem." In Ronald S. Crane A Collection of Poems. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932.  pp. 281 - 291.
I hope that helps.  If you actually need the text of the thing, I can get that, too.  Geogre 00:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The campaign for "The Campaign" 

message: Hello Raymond
Seen that you have made your major rewrite of the war of the Grance Alliance (soon hopefully renamed Nine Years' War). I have a couple of changes I want to make, but I thought that it would be best to discuss them with you first because you have obviously put down a lot of work in it. So here is some of them: 
*Add War of the Palatinian Succession to names that are used occasionally. 
:OK. I change it to 
::The War of the Grand Alliance (1688–1697) - often called the Nine Years’ War, the War of the League of Augsburg or occasionally, War of the Palatinian Succession –
:: I was thinking more along this line: 
:: The War of the Grand Alliance (1688–1697) - often called the Nine Years’ War, occasionally
the War of the League of Augsburg or the War of the Palatinian Succession. Because there is two primare names and two secondary. I also hope the article will be renamed soon to the Nine Years' War. 
*Change the casus belli to dispute over Palatinian succession. 
:What about -  France's territorial ambitions in the Rhineland and the dispute over Palatinian succession.
::No, that is what the Background and Prelude section is for. The Casus Belli is to descripe the event that triggered the war, the fact that the ambitions of Louis XIV worried much of Europe should be explained in the background section. 
*Change commanders to only the leaders of nations, not field commanders (see the  World War II article)
:Yeah, I think that sounds good. 
*My understanding (and Wikipedias) is that “a Primary sources is a document or other source of information that was created at or near the time being studied, often by the people being studied.” A Secondary source refer to works of history written as synthetic accounts, based on primary sources and usually the consultation of other secondary sources. 
:I was meaning to ask someone about that. I assumed (wrongly) Primary sources meant the sources where most of the info came from. Therefore I shall merge all the sources together and delete the Primary and Secondary sub-headings. 
- Carl Logan 18:51, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am going to read the article thoroughly, but those problmes I noticed directly. I will try to make suggestions and make corrections. Carl Logan 20:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: War of the Grance Alliance

message: Just wanted to drop you a note to say how awesome your changes to the War of the Grand Alliance article are.  I'd been meaning to make some changes to it myself, but what you've done is better by far than what I was thinking.  Nice work!  --Coemgenus 19:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In response to your question on my talk page, yes, I still like it!  My edits are ony minor things like links and spacing.  I did have one quibble, though, and I don't know how to fix it: your chart of the Stuarts has a typo - the wrong date for the end of James II's reign.  It should be 1688.  That aside, I think the article is quite good - I especially like the shaded text boxes.  --Coemgenus 17:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: War of the Grand Alliance (more talk)

message: Just in case my comments on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history get lost in the churn, let me again apologize for any perceived slight or rudeness in Wandalstouring's remarks.  I'm sure it was not intentional; he's not a native speaker of English, and some subtleties of tone get lost in translation, I think.  Hopefully you'll be able to forgive us; I would certainly regret losing the participation of such a proficient article writer as yourself in the project. Kirill Lokshin 02:36, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  War of the Grand Alliance 

message: Hello there Raymond Palmer,
Please re-write this article.  I have read some of your previous work and I think that you are the perfect person to re-write this article.  J Dogg 22:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Go ahead and re-write the Seven Years' War article.  

message: Hey there Raymond Palmer,
This is J Dogg (Josh) and I would like to thank you for your reply.  I wish you good luck on the article and if you need any help, feel free to ask (although with your previous work that I have seen, I don't think you will need my help!)
Happy Halloween!  J Dogg 00:21, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks for the reply