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Thanks for the answer in advance and have a good day.[[User:Adridos|Adridos]] ([[User talk:Adridos|talk]]) 06:52, 9 May 2013 (PDT)
 
Thanks for the answer in advance and have a good day.[[User:Adridos|Adridos]] ([[User talk:Adridos|talk]]) 06:52, 9 May 2013 (PDT)
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:Hello Adridos!  You do good work, and I also extend a welcome to you.  I don't have an answer to your first question as I too have wondered about why some Images are present, and others are not.  But for your second question, I might suggest making a page and titling in  ~ Capellan Defense Force (Age of War Era) ~ then when you have completed it, we can also make a disambiguation page  for CDF, pointing out there there are two CDF's, with separate links to both. 
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:This os just a basic idea, and perhaps one of he Admins can help refine this idea a bit more, but starting with a Capellan Defense Force (Age of War) would be a sound way to go, I think. [[User:Rebs|Rebs]] ([[User talk:Rebs|talk]]) 09:56, 9 May 2013 (PDT)

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Again, welcome to Sarna's BattleTechWiki!

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Casual Edit Award

Hi Adridos,
You're doing good work correcting incorrect references, adding new referenced detail and expanding on articles. I think you've definitely earned your first Casual Edit Award: Casual Edit Award, 1st ribbon - and I think you should keep an eye on the criteria for the various Edit Count Awards, because I have a feeling you're going to start earning those quickly!
One thing I wanted to mention is that some of the references you're correcting look like they were in the wrong format originally, because they had the name of the sourcebook set up as a wikilink within the reference itself. That's not how references are generally done here - the sourcebooks are highlighted in the bibliography section as italicised links, but are just kept as italicised text within references. If when you're correcting references you happen to find any more that are set up as wikilinks, can you change them to the correct format please? It helps make the wiki look consistent.
It's nice to have someone working on the more recent Capellan history detail - I've added a fair amount of detail relating to the various states in the pre-Age of War era that came together to form the Capellan Confederation and the various wars they were involved in, but there's loads of detail still to be added yet and I don't think anyone's taken a particular interest in the Confederation here on the wiki in a while.
Last but not least - welcome to Sarna, it's always great to see a new editor diving in! BrokenMnemonic (talk) 00:16, 9 May 2013 (PDT)

Good evening and Thanks for the award, sir.

I've already started redoing those references to fix the link problem. The thing is, it's not that I got that information from the original author of said pages, but instead, the root of the problem is the Help:References page, which is probably a bit outdated, since it clearly indicates every reference should have a wikilink assigned to it if possible. I'll leave it to you to do decide if something should be done about it.

Also, when we're at it, could I ask two questions?

Firstly, what should I do before I can add images from new material (I'm talking about XTRO: Succession Wars, vol.3) to corresponding pages? The text about the variants is there, but they all lack pictures, so I assume there are some copyright issues involved?

Secondly, I'm currently (as you have already noticed), trying to expand the wiki's library on the Capellan history and I've ran into a problem. The thing is, I want to write about CDF (Capellan Defense Force) created by Franco Liao which transformed itself into the modern CCAF. However, there is already a page about CDF that was created by Sun-Tzu centuries later and thus I have no idea how to proceed as they are two different organisations, whcih could technically have two separate pages, but both have the same name. Maybe adding some brackets behind the current/old one (whcih would in turn, screw up any links to it), or perhaps merging the information about the old CDF into the CCAF page?

Thanks for the answer in advance and have a good day.Adridos (talk) 06:52, 9 May 2013 (PDT)

Hello Adridos! You do good work, and I also extend a welcome to you. I don't have an answer to your first question as I too have wondered about why some Images are present, and others are not. But for your second question, I might suggest making a page and titling in ~ Capellan Defense Force (Age of War Era) ~ then when you have completed it, we can also make a disambiguation page for CDF, pointing out there there are two CDF's, with separate links to both.
This os just a basic idea, and perhaps one of he Admins can help refine this idea a bit more, but starting with a Capellan Defense Force (Age of War) would be a sound way to go, I think. Rebs (talk) 09:56, 9 May 2013 (PDT)