User talk:Supersquid
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[edit] Welcome!
Nice to see someone else monitoring ship articles for vanity references (USS Simpson, for example). If you really enjoy working on military articles, you'd probably really enjoy joining the Military History WikiProject. Just sign your name as a participant on the main page and if you like, you can choose from the ever-growing list of different task forces (Maritime, US MilHist, WWII, etc.) and add your name to those, too. You don't really have to do a whole lot if you don't have the time, but participation in the discussions is always helpful. And we don't cover just history--we do everything up to the present. Pretty much anything to do with military (other than fictional stuff I think) is in the pervue of the Project. I don't know that we have a whole lot of Naval personnel on this project, so your inclusion would be an asset. Plus, it'll give you something to do if you're ever bored while sitting in the desert. :-) --ScreaminEagle 22:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Hey, great that you joined. And let's hear it for Msties everywhere! I saw one a month ago that made me laugh so hard I cried: The Girl in Gold Boots. I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.
- Yes, you're right about the individual editing the USS Simpson article. Another WPMH member, Nobunaga24 (who is also up for assistant coordinator for the Project right now--feel free to vote for him if you think he'd do a good job), has been battling this particular editor for some time now. Here's part of the advice he gave to me when I ran across this fellow's edits:
- "The USS Simpson - the greatest, most important warship ever." I see you are taking on David Jason Silver, amateur wrestler extrordinaire, super-duper Balkan War veteran (who never left his ship while monitoring a peace treaty, so how he is a veteran of a land war I have no idea). Be prepared for tons of frustration - he is absolutely oblivious to any suggestion you make to him. He is living in a fantasy world where his naval service (2 years apparently) was the most important thing that ever happened in the history of the United States Navy. He has made a mess of articles by not ever using the preview button - he literally (I counted) had over 100 edits in a row on the USS Simpson article. Every time he changes the location of a comma, he hits "save page." He has made a mess of every article he has touched."
- I think we may need a David Jason Silver Task Force before too long, given the time and effort it takes to follow him around and correct his edits. He's usually uses the same IP addresses, but he also uses the handle Harvardlaw (I have no idea why he picked that since he never went there and is certainly not a lawyer). Oh, and be careful--he's been known to vandalize user pages, too. So good luck with that, and welcome to the club! --ScreaminEagle 16:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] re:Doug Basham
A few things:
- Discussion forums are not reliable, and are often breeding grounds for vandalism, misinformation and rumors.
- I'm not sure if a yearbook has enough verifiability. There is no picture of this yearbook or any other website outside Wikipedia (other than that one discussion forum) that could say that it was his name.
- I'm not saying your lying, but Wikipedia has to be sure of things being properly cited and/or copyright approved.
- I think if you ask for a response on this particular situation at WP:AN, you could get a more accurate response from our administrators. — Moe Epsilon 21:44 September 14 '06
[edit] List of unincorporated towns in Virginia
Just curious, but where did you find references regarding the unincorporated towns? I live in the Hampton Roads/Tidewater area (Chesapeake for the last two years), and I cannot find any references to these being unincorporated towns. All real estate deeds, maps, etc etc ad infinitum refer to the city proper (Chesapeake vice Great Bridge, Virginia Beach vice Kempsville). Locals refer to the area by community name, owing back to the days prior to city incorporation, but that is for historical reference and community pride vice any legal entity. Even the wikipedia entry for Great Bridge lists it as a community. I wanted to touch base with you first before I remove those entries.
Supersquid 23:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- By definition, unincorporated towns are not legal entities. None of the other towns on the list are legal entities either. You are correct that they are communities and as Wikipedia notes, a town is a "a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands." It's just that the word community is extremely vague ("a group of people who interact and share certain things as a group") and the word town narrows the scope of the list to populated places that are not in the incorporated places lists at List of towns in Virginia and List of cities in Virginia. - AjaxSmack 23:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Ehhh that seems like a really slippery slope... if it isn't a city or incorporated town, then it's an unincorporated town, is what I take from that. Heh, then that list is woefully incomplete, because it leaves out places like Pungo, Blackwater, Uniontown, Back Bay, North Landing, Centerville... and these are just the places around where I live :-)
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- But I disagree that they're towns. They may have been (I know Pungo was) but in 1963 the entire county of Princess Anne was consolidated as the Independent City of Virginia Beach. In fact, if you read further down on the definition of town, in Virginia it states
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- In Virginia, a town is an incorporated municipality similar to a city (though with a smaller required minimum population), but while cities are by Virginia law independent of counties, towns are contained within a county.
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- By that definition, since Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Newport News, Hampton, and Portsmouth are all independent cities with no corresponding county, the communities in the list are not unincorporated and therefore shouldn't be on the list.
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- Supersquid 00:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
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- The passage you cite above refers to incorporated towns, i.e. those on the List of towns in Virginia. You're right that the list is woefully incomplete. That's why there's a {{Virginia-stub}} tag at the bottom. The solution is to add Pungo, Blackwater, Whaleyville, etc. to the list. Otherwise, by your reasoning, the entire list should be deleted because none of the places on it are incorporated. (If you're worried about the list becoming too long, note the dearth of editing activity since its creation. If it does become a problem, the line "list of important population centers" is a green light to cull.) - AjaxSmack 00:40, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
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