Hello "SoLando" and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:
Hi, saw your request for Royal Navy pictures and thought I should mention that I've tracked one down for the second HMS Colossus from 1890; due to its age it should be public domain but of course I can't upload it yet because uploads are disabled at the moment.
Surprisingly, there are quite a few public domain photos of Royal Navy ships on the US Navy history site, I found a couple of the Dreadnoughts there. - Hephaestos 17:33, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks very much. I'm very pleased about that. At the moment i'm writing the HMS Cardiff article. It will probably take me a few hours due to me being easily distracted :-( I'll check the US Navy site out, save a few pictures and then go trawling google. Thanks again :-) SoLando 17:39, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi, you've been adding some great RN stuff! (I would do some, but I have no detailed sources :-( - what have you been using?) For the articles that get big, like HMS Colossus, it's useful to break them up by specific ship, a la HMS Warrior or the US Navy ships, that way links from battles and such can go directly to the right ship. Otherwise the reader has the disconcerting experience of clicking on a link in Battle of Jutland and seeing text on an 18th-century SOL - they may not realize that they need to click down. Also it will be quicker downloading when the pictures get added - won't get irrelevant pics. Stan 19:33, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks :-) Ok i'll try and do the one ship one page thing. Have to try and get used to that. Basically i've been using various sources on the net, digesting the info' and then using my own way of writing the article. I'll try and keep adding more RN stuff, hopefully my fingers won't drop off :-) Oh by the way, I was kind of perplexed by the article NAeL Minas Gerais. In this BBC link HMS Vengeance it says that it could be docked at Falmouth. It's dated 21st December 2002 so it quite new. Friends of the Vengeance Campaign kind of contradicts it as well so has anyone got any new info' on HMS Vengeance? SoLando 19:51, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi SoLando, you said you've lost your image editing CD. There's a freeware program I use for resizing or converting images. It's easy to use and does even allow batch conversions. It's at http://www.irfanview.com/ (It's free for non commercial use, despite being at a .com address). -- JeLuF 20:52, Jan 6, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll check it out now. That should really help :-) And Stan, i`ll try that and I`ll see if I can trawl the web for more news. SoLando 21:47, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hello. I liked the article you wrote on the King Edward VII class battleship . It is very informative and compact. The image table was broken, so I fixed it, and reworded the intro a little. Thank for you enlightening me on this important part of naval history. -- Decumanus 02:46, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Amazing your depth of knowledge on military history. The Duke of Wellington's Regiment has been listed on the main page, as Wellington's Regiment, because that's all that could fit. Great work. -- user:zanimum
I'd like to second Stan's appreciation for your work on the RN. I have contributed some articles on that myself, but I don't have sources for quite a lot of the older ships beyond very general knowledge. At the moment, I'm making stub articles, with the standard table for RN ships, if I've written it and if it's necessary, a link to the appropriate MediaWiki message, a link to the MediaWiki stub message, and recently, a standard text hopefully linking to the general article on the ship name.
BTW, I've done a list of RFA ships, which includes similar stub articles, and also includes data on pennant numbers, which can be very difficult to find for RFA ships. There's a site hosted by BT Internet that, whilst not updated for a couple of years, is a fantastic sources on postwar RN and especially RFA ships. There's virtually nothing else like it on the internet for RFA vessels. David Newton 21:08, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Sorry about that delay. You've certainly been a prolific contributor to Wiki, i'm rather slow at it, but nevermind. It's certainly good that people are getting info' on the British armed forces onto Wiki', as a lot of sites that do have information on them are disapearing from the 'net, sadly. So Wiki' really is becoming a good source of information for the British, indeed other nations armed forces, for people wanting to find out about them. Keep up the great work your doing SoLando 06:21, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi, SoLando. Thanks for doing these regiment histories. I've created Template:Kings_Regiment_history which can replace the tables on each of the articles. Do you have any objection to using it? Geoff 06:56, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've no problems about you replacing the tables. Thanks for doing it. You've been doing fantastic work on WWI articles. Many of them have been a great help when trying to expand battle info' in ship or regimental histories. SoLando 07:09, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I've made some changes to the Formidable class battleship article, noting the London subclass. I'm no expert on ships so hopefully I haven't made a mess of it. Geoff 04:29, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Re: HMS Finsterre: it's done. I made it a redirect instead of deleting it, since linking to a ship by its year of launch is also correct. David Newton 02:20, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)