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CAP/Member Owned Aircraft

With regards to your revert, I agree with removing if for no other reason then such calls to regulations should be cited, but I have a question regarding your personal experience on this. If I remember correctly, you are no longer active in CAP. How long as that been true? Some of the different attitudes regarding member owned aircraft have come in somewhat recently. For example, when I joined as a cadet in the late 1990s, I often did o-flights in member owned aircraft in addition to CAP aircraft. Both would be present at fly days to increase the amount of airtime available for cadets. Over at least the last half decade to decade, use of member owned aircraft has become virtually impossible to request, at least in my neck of the woods. Now, o-flight days here are corporate aircraft only. --OuroborosCobra (talk) 22:50, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

It's certainly been a while, though I believe two of the local squadrons regularly use member aircraft. It may be they just aren't following the national game plan, though. — Huntster (t @ c) 23:03, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Ched

Ched is walking around his neighborhood in his underwear again...he said something about Man on a Ledge. You're the only one he will listen to. Good Luck!```Buster Seven Talk 06:19, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for MV Delta Mariner

On 10 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article MV Delta Mariner, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the cargo ship MV Delta Mariner (pictured), which struck a bridge over the Tennessee River in January 2012, transports rocket parts from the manufacturer in Alabama to Cape Canaveral? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/MV Delta Mariner.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Rs chen 7754 01:38, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Huntster,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

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If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at [email protected]. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

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Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:00, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

An important project WP:WEaPOn (about Paid Operatives) I have initiated is up for speedy. Can you assist? I want to play by the rules but they seem stacked against an honest effort to record a history of an event as it happens. Urgent. TY. ```Buster Seven Talk 06:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Email....

So I just emailed you at the only email address I have of yours, an ancient Yahoo account. You still use this? Please do forward me the one you actually use if this isn't right. My email address is my first initial, last name (all one word, of course), at gmail. nf utvol (talk) 00:22, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

User:69.245.39.156

Looks like this guy comes around once a month or so and does a lot of disruptive edits. I see you already reverted some of his things on the Nashville page, and Snoozlepet knocked out some on the BNA page. Edited BNA saying Delta Connection was now flying to Paris from BNA. Right. They seem to particularly enjoy doing this, as they were warned about it back in November. nf utvol (talk) 16:36, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Looks like this user created this account, User_talk:Bennettdevlin98, which was subsequently blocked, and now they may be back as the user you just reverted on the Nashville page, User_talk:Emma_mary_devlinemma_devlin. I popped a message up on their talk page gently warning them of sockpuppetry, but an eye should be kept on their account. If it turns out to be the same person, an IP ban may be in order. nf utvol (talk) 20:12, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

File:Evanescence at Nobel Peace Prize.jpg

Hola. I've started a discussion with Armando12 on his talk page about the copyright status of the image he uploaded. It seems as though he's really trying to get this image "legal" for use on Wikipedia but going about it the wrong way. I'm not sure if you know the rules and policies about this any better than my quick search resulted in, but if you could give me a hand with the discussion to see if we're going about this in the right way, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! =D ~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 01:48, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Template:ISSIB

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DMY in Genisis I & II articles

I converted the dates to DMY, because the majority (very large majority) of space articles are in DMY. If you check all Space Shuttle, International Space Station, and ISS Expedition articles, that are all in DMY. Since these are space stations, it should follow the date format of other space stations, and they are all in DMY.--NavyBlue84 01:12, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

And where is it specified that it should be this way? Last time I checked, consensus indicated that dates should be set based on region, not based on the preferences of individual projects. — Huntster (t @ c) 01:16, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Well here is my interpretation of the two rules that apply in this situation;

Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking country should generally use the more common date format for that country (month-day for the US, except in military usage; day-month for most others; articles related to Canada may use either consistently). - Most space agencies are considered military, and therefore DMY is correct (ie. MIR is Russian, so DMY is used).

Otherwise, do not change an article from one form to another without good reason. - Pretty much all articles had both DMY and MDY when I joined. So I picked one (DMY) and started fixing articles for consistency.

Under section 2.4.1.1 of the MOS it reads Dates in article body text should all have the same format: - I was just trying to follow the MOS.--NavyBlue84 11:47, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

I understand you were just trying to follow MOS, but I think your interpretation was incorrect, especially the part of space agencies being considered military. Neither NASA, ESA, RKA, ISRO nor JAXA are in the military chain, and I don't think even the Chinese space agency is technically military. Bigelow is a U.S.-based private company. See where I'm going with this? U.S. space articles, except those which are military programs, should be MDY. — Huntster (t @ c) 19:59, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Ok, but since the other articles are already in DMY, they should not be changed. Unnecessary date changes should be avoided. Plus, I don't think you will find much support to go changing all the dates from DMY to MDY. There hasn't been any objections to the changes until now.--NavyBlue84 23:48, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

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IMO number

Hi. Thanks for fixing the cut and paste move of IMO ship identification number → IMO number. Would you restore this Old revision of IMO number, one of the revisions that you deleted G6? If one examines this diff (it should work after the restore), User:Dandv changed a few sentences to fit the more general title. Flatscan (talk) 04:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take care of it when I get home. This is, of course, yet another reason why copy and pasting is a bad thing! — Huntster (t @ c) 04:57, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

WP:WikiProject Stargate

I propose a conversion of this Project into a task force. You may improve a consensus by clicking WT:WikiProject Stargate#Turning WikiProject Stargate into a task force? and discussing a proposal. --George Ho (talk) 17:17, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Pennant numbers in ledes

You reverted a series of my edits to re-insert a ship's pennant number into the lede (eg here). This directly contradicts Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ships/Guidelines#Introductory_sentence. Since I pasted the link into the edit summary, I assume you actually bothered to read it. There is very little ambiguity, since the section header is "introductory sentence", but since you have mis-interpreted it, allow me to signpost you also to WP:BEGINNING, which talks in general about lede paragraphs and says "Similarly, if the title has a parenthetical disambiguator, the disambiguator should be omitted in the text". Don't bother replying - every time I turn my computer on I get a new IP address, and I'll never see your response. 212.139.253.62 (talk) 21:35, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Handling an issue...

Heya...got a question. How do you normally handle users who, while they try to make productive good faith edits, continually make edits that fly in the face of the style of the article and do not make useful citations, but just get defensive when you ask them to do such things (and continue to make edits that eventually start to detract from an article due to the lack of proper verifiable citations)? There's been a bit of a, ahem, discussion over on the Nashville International Airport page about this... Feel free to chime in if you have anything to add. :) nf utvol (talk) 03:48, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Civil Air Patrol

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		Thank you for a simple and elegant solution. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 14:22, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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Hi Huntster. Wonder if you might take a look at a photo request and see if something might be done. Cheers. N2e N2e (talk) 04:01, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

hey ...

OK ... I need some advice and someone to talk to. Would you have time to exchange a few emails over the next few days? Chedzilla (talk) 04:36, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

You know it. You've got my email, so fire away at your convenience. Forgive me in advance if I'm slightly tardy with responses, though. — Huntster (t @ c) 09:09, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

For that matter, I'm pretty sure you have my phone number, so you're welcome to use that as well. — Huntster (t @ c) 09:09, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

I promise .. I'll explain. Chedzilla (talk) 21:22, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Allure and Oasis

Hi. While you're working on the articles about Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas, could you move the inline citations from the infobox to the article body whenever it is possible (e.g. general characteristics)? There's no need to cite them in both places as it would make the infobox look clogged. Thanks. Tupsumato (talk) 05:12, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

While I do plan on replicating all infobox material in the article body when I have time, I see no reason to not source the infobox material as well. It's just as important to do so there, as it makes any inappropriate changes made in the infobox more transparent (vandals love to hit an infobox for just this reason, in my experience), and I also believe all pieces of information need to be backed up, no matter where they are placed. I also do not see a clogging occur, especially since I limit to a single citation per data point. That said, I can examine methods to minimise any such clutter, since greater efficiency can always be found. — Huntster (t @ c) 06:34, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

According to the guidelines of WP:SHIPS and consensus stemming from past discussions (e.g. here), the ship infobox should generally be treated like the lead section of the article for purposes of citation. This means that, by default, information cited elsewhere in the article should not be cited again within the infobox. It's okay to keep the citations in the infobox until you finish adding the information to the article body, but after that duplicate citations should be purged.
Also, on a completely unrelated note, I think you should check some of the terms you've used in the infobox (like "max moulded") and perhaps weigh different sources — personally I consider a classification society database to be a more reliable source for information than the company website which might have been made by someone not intimately familiar with the ship in question (or even ships in general).
Anyway, keep up the good work. The quality of cruise ship articles varies considerably and is generally weighed towards "not very good at all", so it's nice that someone is, for once, improving them. Tupsumato (talk) 07:47, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

possibly need some assistance

The user "Veriditas" seems to have begun following my comments on the 2012 Aurora Shooting article Talk Page, inserting some sort of personal ... vendetta? ... into other sections of the TP that are not discussing his gun-control agenda, and also constantly leaving TP-discussion comments on my (almost unused) User Page TP - which I delete immediately w/o comment, as the editor seems to be assuming a level of Wiki admin-like authority that he does not have. I'm asking that you have a look, and perhaps nudge him to keep the comments impersonal, and within the proper section of that article's TP. I've not had any interaction with him before. He seems to be a bit testy. :-) Thanks. HammerFilmFan (talk) 23:17, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

I think you are mad because he has given you advice. United States Man (talk) 23:51, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

No, I don't let Wiki get under my skin. :-) I would like the personal asides to stop on that article's TP, and to focus on the discussion of the information itself.HammerFilmFan (talk) 01:44, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Huntster, a simple look at all of his reverting lately will show that something sure is under his skin. United States Man (talk) 01:48, 31 July 2012 (UTC)