User talk:Neuling

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Placeholder articles

Hi Neuling, and thank you for the mercenary command articles. Two points though: You have inserted a "cleanup" tag, but I think the template you really want to use is "stub". Which brings me to the second point, do you intend to expand these placeholders into full articles? If so, great; but if not, then be advised that we have the List of minor mercenary units article specifically for the purpose of putting down such data. If and when you have enough material on a merc unit to warrant their own article, go ahead and create the article (deleting the unit from the List article). But please do not create essentially empty placeholders. Frabby 09:09, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

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Use NEW Merc template

Hello Neuling, there have been recent changes to Sarna's website. As you are placing high number of mercenary articles on line. It appears your still using the OLD template that has problems. Recently a new ones has been made, please use; Help:CreateMercenaryUnitArticle. -- Wrangler 12:09, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Operation Guerrero changes

Hi. I'm the guy who wrote the Operation Guerrero page, and I was wondering why you removed so much of the article. Several of the elements that you excised, particularly the Capellan operations, were needed to properly set the stage for the invasion in my opinion. --Mbear 13:08, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I've restored most of my original article text. I've also included the summary tables you created. I did this for several reasons:

1. You removed information that was important to the article. (Pre-Guerrero Capellan operations)
2. The text you included was confusing.
3. Some of the text you had (units, etc.) was incorrect.

I really like the tables you created and wish I had thought of them first. I think that between your summary tables and my original text the article is great. I hope you agree with me once you've reviewed the article. --Mbear 22:09, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Image Question

Hy, Neuling, weist du zufällig wo ich Unit Emblems etc. in farbe finde, hab zwar alle Sourcebooks und etc. aber das meiste in pdf. also keine farben ;), ich möchte mein Image project aussweiten, währe nett wenn du mir da weiter helfen könntest.GrüsseDoneve 18:40, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

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DCMS Unit tables

Hey bro, Not to be a killjoy or anything but looking at your new unit tables in the DCMS article I think we should possibly consider rolling them back to the old way as IMHO they are a little "squashed" looking now. --Dmon 15:45, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

and looking at it again it also removes the individual brigades from the contenst at the top of the page. --Dmon 15:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Clan Goliath Scorpion page update

Neuling, I finished making the Goliath Scorpion rank insignia. After I put them on the appropriate rank pages, I also updated the Clan Goliath Scorpion page with to use the images. I've also moved the Rank insignia to near the bottom of the page so the unit organization information can stay together. Hope you like it!--Mbear 18:32, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Mbear, I overworked the clan articles for you. You can put your images/files direct in the table. The ranktable is only a shell for your work. Great that we can work together and yes I like your work. Neuling 00:29, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Award: Image Import

Neuling, normally I would wait to see how someone uses the images they imported before providing this award, but I have confidence you'll be placing them all in their respective articles or a gallery very shortly. So, in light of the sheer amount of uploading of new imagery you did today (95 at current count), I award you the II ribbon:

Congratulations and keep working on your project. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 02:23, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Also, you might want to take a look at the Automatic Awards. I see you are entitled to two of them, already. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 02:31, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Warrior House logos

Why did you upload the Warrior House .png pics when there are .jpg files available already? Frabby 20:36, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

This fact was unknown to me. Where can i see which logos are availabe? Neuling 20:44, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Regarding the Warrior Houses, they can be seen in the individual House articles (i.e. Warrior House Imarra, Warrior House Kamata, Warrior House Hiritsu, etc.). Frabby 21:54, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

All Purpose Award

You get the All Purpose Award for your work on improving the listing of the armed forces of the succession states:

Keep going! --Neufeld 11:29, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Clean-ups

Good morning, Neuling. Please review your recent contributions, such as those for Word of Blake ROM‎‎ and Tmi, as well as others. Other Editors have noted that the articles don't meet BTW's standards for informative articles and don't have the criteria for proper formatting. I'd prefer you complete some of these articles, by providing wikilinks and references and describing what they are [what is 'Tmi'? I've never heard of it.], before adding more articles. Since they are notable enough to be included by you, I hope they're notable enough to be saved by you, as well. Thank you. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 11:28, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Tnx for your advise, I will rework my articles and add more information + pictures to them. The evidence with the reference will also include in my work. Give me one day and post me then your thoughts about the rework. Neuling 01:57, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Looking forward to it! --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 03:01, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Revanche, I hope you are satisfied with my workover. The other articles wil have the same layout and extend. Neuling 13:06, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

I think you have met the minimum requirement of information for making stub status, yes. I made some comments on 2 of the articles, for areas other Editors could fill in. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 20:13, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

ComStar ROM

Evening, Neuling. Please consider merging Rom comstar‎‎ with the pre-existing ROM. Its been decided that there shall only be two articles: ROM (which deals with ComStar ROM from its inception, thru the Schism, to the current Jihad era) and Word of Blake ROM, which starts at the Schism. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 01:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I have no problem with your decicion. I put the two articles from me in to the existing ROM article. I can't decide which information are useful for the community and I have uploaded the logos for all agencies. It is your decicion now. Make it a hole cohensive. Neuling 07:05, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

The WOB ROM article was fine. We just didn't need two different articles about ComStar's ROM. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 10:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Images

Good morning Neuling! I took the liberty of updating the DMI and FIC pages to move the insignias into a gallery. I did that because the images were breaking the layout of the article and making it harder to read. By putting the images into a gallery, the flow of the article remains intact and people will still be able to see what branch uses which insignia.

In case you want to start using galleries, you can find the info on the Policy:Images page, but here's a quick how to:

1. Create a header that reads Agency name insignias.

2. Paste this code underneath your new header

<gallery>
Image:filename.jpg|Descriptive caption of image.
Image:filename.png|Descriptive caption of image.
Image:filename.gif|Descriptive caption of image.
</gallery>

3. Replace filename.jpg with your file name.

4. Press the Save Page button, and you're done!

You can also insert a gallery from the image based toolbar. Press the fourth button from the right side to have the editor insert a gallery tag for you.

Thanks, and keep up the good work with importing images!--Mbear 15:30, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Princfield Military Academy

Hello, Neuling. Your (slightly misspelled) article is duplicating information. Is possible to move your content to REDIRECT that has correct spelling. Right now its just re-direct to FWL list of schools with Princefield Military Academy listed.— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by Wrangler (talk • contribs) 06:47, 2 April 2010.

All-capital letter article titles

Hello Neuling, please do not create articles with all-capitals titles, like AITUTAKI ACADEMY‎ --> correct title Aitutaki Academy, NAIS COLLEGE OF MILITARY SCIENCES (NAMA) --> correct title would be NAIS College of Military Sciences (NAMA).

I do realize that the BattleTech font often appears to be all capitals, but that is not the style we use here on BTW. There are only a few cases where the correct article title spelling would call for all-capitals, usually in abbreviations/acronmys such as NAIS, AFFS or MIIO. Frabby 09:48, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

AITUTAKI ACADEMY‎

Hi Neuling, Can you changing the name from AITUTAKI ACADEMY‎; to Aitutaki Academy. Nothing on Sarna, has itself spelled in CAPs. Thanks! -- Wrangler 11:39, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

(I moved this into my All-capital letter message because it covers the same general issue.) Frabby 09:48, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Good Humor Award (a.k.a. "We're not picking on you")

Neuling, I know you've been getting a lot of comments recently about changes to your articles and requests to modify them. As one of those people, I'm giving you a Good Humor Award for listening to us make these comments and not throwing a temper tantrum.

We're not picking on you or saying your work is poor when we make these suggestions. Speaking only for myself (but I think the others would agree) your articles are adding a great deal to BTW, and I'm trying to hold you up to a higher standard so your articles become even better.

Keep up the good work, and remember: Keep smiling.--Mbear 14:25, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Can you do me a favor?

Neuling, can you please start putting references in your articles? You have a lot of good information, but I can't find it in my source materials because I don't know where to look. Thanks!--Mbear 14:52, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

No problem can you make me an overview please, were I have forget the source of my information to put on. Tnx Neuling 15:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Most of it appears to be in the AFFS unit pages. I've split each command into other pages, so you'll have to follow a few links to get to the pages. One example is the Avalon Hussars page.

"At its zenith, the Avalon Hussars defended the entire Combine border with 26 BattleMech regiments and 32 conventional regiments."

Where did you find this fact? That's interesting, and I want to know more. Stuff like that appears in a lot of the AFFS military units you've created.

Thanks!--Mbear 15:35, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Good Work!

Neuling, I just logged in with the intent of continuing to replace the tables on the FWLM page with a heading and list when I discovered that you'd beaten me to it! Way to go! These look good and make the page flow a lot better.

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent work! Keep it up!--Mbear 12:47, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Operation Odysseus

Guude mal wieder ne gute arbeit von dir, ABER mal wieder keine references, oder bibliography, denk mal bitte dran ansonsten good job.--Doneve 21:20, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Thumpers Reference.

Vielen Dank für den Hinweis. (Automatisch von Google übersetzt, so dass, wenn es nicht sinnvoll, eine Entschuldigung.)--Mbear 16:55, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Operation Ice Storm

Hi Neuling, I like some of the improvements to the article. However, i think that listing Ice Hellion's Clutters with the Galaxy in beginning of the article is un-necessary since there are already wiki-links through Galaxy wiki-links, it just makes the page more clustered. I'm uncertain listing all the naval assets on the top is good idea either. I listed them as they appeared in the campaign, that should enough without being too cluttering. -- Wrangler 19:04, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Neuling, I love how you colored map for Operation: Ice Storm. Do you think you can make a second picture? Namily one that high lights (lightly, like faded yellow) the area where the fighting was happening? The map you colored has borders for where Ice Hellions were fighting with Falcons and Horses. -- Wrangler 00:05, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

I can make another 2 pictures, 1 with border of 3067 and 1 with the invasion corridors. Sometimes the planets were conquered and reconquered several times but this is difficult to integrad it in my work... Neuling 17:35, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

We only need the Ice Hellion's Invasion corridor version, from Jihad Secrets. I thought if you can take your map you already made, just highlight the invasion area of Ice Hellion's fighting in yellow or light color, it would help reader looking at article get idea where the invasion happened. If its too much, don't worry about it. -- Wrangler 18:30, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Nice Job! Thank you so much for making those maps! I'd like present to you the [[ All-Purpose Award, 2nd ribbon. I would like give you one that better. Its what all i can do thank you for enhancing the article! -- Wrangler 19:50, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Tried to answer your question.

Neuling, I tried to answer your question.--Mbear 20:41, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

CCAF Actions during Operation Guerrero

As promised, I will now post what little I found on CCAF actions during the Guerrero. Aldous 02:15, 25 April 2010 (UTC)