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It looks like you've been very active in the last few days! I have one request: could you please provide your reference(s) for Zone of immunity? Cheers, Melchoir 05:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, the main page describing citations is Misplaced Pages:Citing sources, but it's kind of geared towards experienced users. You certainly don't need to insert footnotes into Zone of immunity. In practice, you can just replace the {{unreferenced}} tag at the bottom with a description of your source, and don't worry about getting the formatting right! I can always help with the cosmetics. Melchoir 18:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I've replied on my own talk page. Melchoir 00:39, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dad, sorry to be dim. I thought this might be the only way to leave messages, but it seemed rather rude somehow! Have you seen the page on Jackie Fisher? looks rather sparse on the details of the great man. Perhaps you'd like to have a go? Davidelit 16:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

HMS Valiant (1863)

Of course - feel free. Stub articles are only placeholders anyway, I feel; "here is a couple of lines summarising the article that will eventually replace it". Good luck! (Incidentally, I note you created Defence Class; the standard form for naming these is Defence class battleship, and I've moved the article. The link you had for Warrior class went to an article on some warrior caste somewhere...) Shimgray | talk | 21:31, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

• I've given it a copyedit; some explanations. You don't need to link to the article itself inside the article; this just gets confusing for editors. The introduction should be in a broadly standard form ("X" is/was a "Y" of "Z"), before moving onto the history. Ship names should be, if possible, italicised - you can do this with links like ]. Otherwise, looks good to me. Shimgray | talk | 10:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Sure - no need to ask permission. (If you want to doing some from scratch, we've almost none on the various Admiral class battleships, & they're weird enough they seem to deserve articles!)... Shimgray | talk | 18:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

HMS Royal Oak

You are more than welcome to rewrite the article, and thank you very much for asking. Have a nice day and happy wiki'ing! Johann Wolfgang 03:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

HMS Swiftsure (1870)

Hello, Tony!

Having chanced upon your recent post on Johann Wolfgang's talk page, I thought you might appreciate being informed of the existence of the HMS Swiftsure (1870) stub. This item has a curious history; when I came across it a few weeks ago, I discovered that the ship described in it was an entirely different vessel of the same name, lanched in 1903. I therefore created a new article and copied the existing text across. From what you told Johann Wolfgang, the 1870 ship should be right up your street.

Can I also take the opportunity to thank you for taking up the baton for ironclads and "pre-Dreadnoughts". Coverage of these fascinating ships is sparse in Misplaced Pages (I would like to work on them, but I don't have the expertise). I have added this page to my watchlist.

Hope this is useful.

Regards, John Moore 309 16:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)