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Hello, Dave1185! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Midorihana~iidesune? 07:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Midorihana^~iidesune? 07:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Variants

Dave, There is a manual of style we have been using for aircraft variants and operators. Please use the semi colon for listing variants and operators. With the use of the semi colon, one then uses the colon underneath to describe the details of the variant or operators. We use the asterisk for list items with info or data immediately following the item like on Survivor or Specification sections. Please follow these styles for all aircraft. Please peruse/read the WP:MOS and WP:AIR articles. Thank you. Cheers. Lance..... LanceBarber (talk) 07:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Lance, appreciate your pointers with regards to the matter. I'll read the articles and try to keep it in mind but I don't know if I can keep up with so much things in wiki. ;p Anyway, thanks again and cheers. -- Dave1185 (talk) 07:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Another Welcome

Hello Dave1185 and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your ideas for editing the Canberra articles.

Since you are interested in aviation articles. There is a group of editors here at Wikipedia who have come together to form WikiProject Aviation in order to improve aviation-related articles. You are invited to check us out and, if interested, join our Project Team. Our Outreach page has a lot of resources as well as article guidelines that you might find helpful.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Also, you can edit your user page and introduce yourself.

I went through the same "growing pains" last year to the month in trying to edit aritcles and other editors like User:BillCJ and User:Bzuk and others were helpful in directing my energy (and reverted my stuff too, lol). Patiences with nubies (me) and learning the ropes (you) comes with the territory. Hang in there!!

Again, welcome aboard! Sincere regards, Lance....LanceBarber (talk) 07:37, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Cripes

You need a star for the spacing removal alone :| as for the airport chaos of south east asia - probably should be a taskforce just to ward off the midgets or should that be the mosquitos :( SatuSuro 02:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry but I don't quite get what you meant by that definition of star and for what spacing removal? Gawd, I'm still trying to catch up with myself over so many corrections, edits and deletions which I've done over the past 6 hours... I need to catch some Zzz now! Don't worry about them mozzies, there's always a bug spray for any kind of 'em, eh? Now midgets... that is a whole different story, which I won't dwell into. Cheers! -- Dave1185 (talk) 02:24, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I think most barnstars are passe - so i figure the tedious space correction n the singers places art is worthy of some reward - so maybe just that - a star - sleep well SatuSuro 02:27, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

West Coast, Singapore

About the article, i indeed have some mistakes, or huge mistake I'ill say. So, feel free to help me edit my article. I created this article because i myself have live in West Coast. So, feel free to edit my article! Bossieboy (talk) 19:46, 19 March 2008 (SST)

Police Coast Guard

Hi Dave.

You reverted my avoid redir change to this article with the comment PCG doe not use the term "water police" to describe itself, proper designation is "Marine Police"; besides there is no redir here, see for yourself.

My change was to change the link [[Marine Police]] to [[Water police|Marine Police]]. This has no impact on the text of the Police Coast Guard article, but it lessens the load on WP servers by avoiding them having to do extra database accesses in order to follow the redirect.

Marine Police most certainly is a redirect. If you follow the link you will find yourself at an article called Water Police. Just below the article title, you will see the small text redirected from Marine Police. This shows that Marine Police is a redirect.

Whilst PCG usage has a bearing on the link text (which my edit did not change) it has no bearing on the link target. The whole puspose of the link is to provide a link to an article describing water based policing in a worldwide context, which is what Water police is. WP's manual of style suggests that the title of such an article should be based on the most common, non-ambiguous, name used by english speakers worldwide.

I hope this helps explain why I reverted your reversion. -- Chris j wood (talk) 12:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Roger that, got you loud and clear. Thanks again and cheers! -- Dave1185 (talk) 13:10, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Singapore Changi Airport

Please read up on Changi Airport's edit history and the related discussion last week at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports. Those words did not originate from User:Audude08, they were first used by the intended recipient. HkCaGu (talk) 18:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I did! I checked it out twice before sending that message over, User:Audude08 put it as "utter nonsense" in his edit of User:Huaiwei last edit, hence qualifying as an insult and thus a personal attack towards User:Huaiwei. -- Dave1185 (talk) 19:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

removing an image

Hi - just add {{db-g7}} to the image page, and myself or another admin will come along and delete it shortly. Black Kite 21:16, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Blackie! :p -- Dave1185 (talk) 00:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:111Sqn_shoulder_patch.jpg

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An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:111Sqn_shoulder_patch.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 05:52, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

It is a legitimate shot at the RSAF OPEN HOUSE and I've replied you at your talk page. -- Dave1185 (talk) 13:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

MHcabin image

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Dave, Sorry, just now got your message... both u and another editor left me a message at the same time. Looks like you got it deleted okay. Had to check my Talk history to figure out who added the note. Lance....LanceBarber (talk) 20:47, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

It's okay, someone got it pried out of wikicommons as it was a direct copyvio. But thanks for your help anyway, how's the missus? --Dave1185 (talk) 02:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Re Malaysian Army

What do you mean? I don't quite get the message you sent me earlier. Regards ChowHui (talk) 01:54, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Well what I don't understand is the purpose of sending this message as I in fact deleted the false "Royal" prefix few days ago. Anyways I hope your message is to inform me that you had take care of it instead of "warning" me. Regards, ChowHui (talk) 02:06, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

OK, got it. Thanks for the information. Regards, ChowHui (talk) 02:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:CF 001015.jpg

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 – troll

Image Copyright problem

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 07:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Dumb bots... don't I know that? I'm searching for the appropriate license tag for it, you ~!@#$%! -- Dave1185 (talk) 07:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:TengahTimes029.jpg

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 – troll

Image Copyright problem

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 14:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

No words to describe this kind of senseless bots with no patience to wait for the uploader to find the appropriate license tag for use with their uploaded images. Anyway, both images are now tagged with their own appropriate license tag and I stand corrected. --Dave1185 (talk) 14:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

RE:Huaiwei

Thank you for your suggestion and encouragement. I would just like to reassure you that my zeal to improve this project remains as strong as ever, unlikely to be wavered even if I a strict minority concerning some aviation-related issues. I hold strongly to my editorial philosophy, one of which is to not allow personal grievances and prejudice influence my editing actions against specific articles, including targeting any one article for no better reason than having a personal issue against them. And it perhaps for this reason that I work extra hard to ward this evil off affected articles, of which a few Singapore-related articles had been a target of. I can only appeal for fellow Singaporeans to patrol these articles and evaluate each case with reasonable logic rather than by pure nationalist or emotive sentiments, the former of which I feel is sadly lacking amongst many I have encountered here.--Huaiwei (talk) 21:30, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Singaporeans are pragmatic people, we have always been so and we always will be. We are not "kia-see", more like "bo-chup". Having said so, there are various degree of "bo-chup" in us... heck, if that thing might burn down my neighbour or my house, you have my guarantee of us acting in unison and in record speed to snuff it out. Also, I have replied you on your talk page. Cheers. --Dave1185 (talk) 02:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

137.132.3.7

This IP address resolves to bluewhale-ext.nus.edu.sg which should suggest that it is a NAT router that is shared by the entire National University of Singapore. Please turn down your rhetoric on that talk page because there's no need to brand every student behind that router/firewall as a vandal and no administrator will ever block it indefinitely. If you suspect a sockpuppet is operating behind that firewall, file a request at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser and let them handle it. --  Netsnipe  ►  15:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

And for crying out loud, take a closer look at Special:Contributions/137.132.3.7, some of those edits that you accused them of being vandalism were test edits that were self-reverted. Install Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups so you can preview EVERY diff. --  Netsnipe  ►  15:27, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

My bad. What can I say? That sneaky bastard snubbed me on his email hence me ranting here now like a mad man. Sorry and I've replied you on your talk page. (You did see my "RUN FOR COVER" sign above, right?) --Dave1185 (talk) 15:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

RE:Jurong Junior College

Sorry about that. --Optimus91 (talk) 19:22, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:120Sqn shoulder patch (new).jpg

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ALL FIXED! I hate bots%$#@! --Dave1185 (talk) 17:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Black Knights 2000-2.jpg

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 – Read User talk:Polly

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Replaceable fair use Image:Black Knights 2000-1.jpg

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 – Read User talk:Polly

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Sembawang Hot Springs (AGAIN?!?)

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 – asked Rifleman ownself go write the article!

I deleted this article per WP:CSD#G12 - blatant copyright infringement. It is a near-verbatim copy of the one listed at the National Library website. I don't doubt it is a worthwhile article to have, but there is no value in a copyright-violation article.

If you are still interested in this article, you can write an article from scratch, using the various available sources, and properly citing the sources used.

Do take a look at WP:CITE, WP:COPYRIGHT. In particular, from WP:COPYRIGHT:

Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt the project. If in doubt, write it yourself.

Thanks.--Rifleman 82 (talk) 21:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Buay tahan you la... do you know how many sources I went to re-search in order to set it apart from the NLB version? Plus, I only used like 35% of the original NLB version, the rest I took from MINDEF, old ST article from NLB and the Chinese version ley, some more I put in external sources for the images woh. KNS la... you write this article then, I quit! --Dave1185 (talk) 21:37, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I examined both articles side by side, and they were, as I earlier commented, near-verbatim copies. If you still disagree with my judgment, take them up to Wikipedia:Deletion_review. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 21:42, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm too tired, panda eyes now. Don't wana waste my energy on senseless article no more. BTW, the NLB version also used some text from that old copy of Straits Times... talk about plagiarising, sheesh! --Dave1185 (talk) 21:48, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Troll talk

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 – asked peep to read his own talk page

Hey now, I wouldn't say that, wouldn't say that at all... I live a bit away from there. Nice try though! - "state college" peep —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.158.221.232 (talk) 20:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC) When did I say anything about living in State College, or in that ZIP code in the first place? Perhaps you should read your own talk page also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.158.221.232 (talk) 21:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)