User talk:Burruchaga

Welcome!

Hello, Burruchaga, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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PS Duchess of Montrose

Burruchaga

Great article on Duchess of Montrose. I personally think your best chance of getting it to B-class is to add a bit more in the gaps, as Benea says, about her career before being requisitioned, and then to ask somebody else (apart from Brad101) to re-assess it. Brad101 may not know that much about your subject, and has thus given it a safe-and-easy B2 fail; he will no doubt want somebody more au fait with the subject to take responsibility for moving it up to B-class. I hope this helps.

On another subject, perhaps I can pass on some tips that have taken me a while to pick up? Well, here they are:

Dates are given (on UK/Commonwealth subjects) as dd mmmmmmm yy (eg 12 December 1991) - see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates
Be careful what you link - for example "amidships" is self-explanatory and does not require a link, but Meg Marrilies is an article in the making, and should have a link. Red links are good - editors follow them to new articles. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Wikilinks
Remember that your references appear at the bottom of the page - please avoid over-capitalisation and remember to italicise ship names. Check out Template:cite book.
Have a look at Template:convert - I use it all the time.
When using categories (and this took me a long time to understand), use the DEFAULTSORT template (see PS Duchess Of Montrose for an example) and enter the name you want it to be indexed under. In this case it would appear under D, because I've put in DEFAULTSORT:Duchess of Montrose, but the name shown will be the name of the article (ie "PS Duchess of Montrose"). If you want an individual category to be indexed differently, you can always write [[Category:Ships of Scotland|Mickey Mouse]] - it will now be indexed under M (before Minnie, of course), but the article name will still appear as "PS Duchess of Montrose".

Am I going on rather too much? Enjoy your editing, and if you need a hand, just leave a message at my talk page anytime. Yours, Shem (talk) 21:18, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Burruchaga/Duchess Of Montrose

Dear Burruchaga

What I did was to move the old page to User:Burruchaga/Workbox1 and leave a link on your user page - It was simple and elegant, I thought! To get it deleted, you would need to add a Speedy Deletion Tag, and an Admin could then remove it for you - see Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Speedy Deletion. It seems a lot of effort to go to!

Yours Shem (talk) 21:08, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A real pleasure! Top tip: don't change other people's talk pages, add to them (a colon indents you latest comment). I don't mind, but other editors might get a bit upset, especially if the topic is controversial. Nevertheless, whatever you do, it's good to have you "onboard", so to speak. Yours, Shem (talk) 21:38, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Duchess of Montrose

Dear Burruchaga

I would rate Duchess of Montrose as B-class on one condition; it ends rather suddenly, and if some mention of her replacement were made, I think the article would make a more complete whole.

Shem (talk) 12:07, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First up - You lost me when you suggested I should add a comment rather than change your talk page - hopefully I've got it right here?

Secondly - I'm delighted with the recent changes you made to Duchess of Montrose. Thankyou. I've taken on board the comment about the article ending suddenly but I believe she was never truely replaced (I'll check my sources at another date). There was a further Duchess of Montrose but she was built in 1930.

Thanks again - Burruchaga (talk) 21:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - I'll try to be clearer, but you've obviously got it! It's a pleasure to tidy up such a well-researched article; normally it's the research on other peoples' articles that takes the time. Putting the finishing touches to yours was a real relief. I've had a look myself for a replacement, and as you say, there wasn't really one. The railway connections must have been served after the war, but I'm not clear how that happened. I'll make the article B-class anyway, and if you think of a better way to round it off, all the better. I hope you hang around at Wikipedia when you've finished the work on your Great Grandfather - you're the right stuff for an ideal editor, and I'd be glad to collaborate anytime. Yours Shem (talk) 21:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]