User talk:Wally L. Larsen

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Are there subject areas where you especially need content at the history website? I'm a History and Military (and other things) Editor, with my historical interests in military, intelligence and special operations, and contemporary U.S. politics. There's a substantial amount of Vietnam wars and Vietnam War material here, for example, which I believe does a decent job of showing the complexity and the context, not just something unilaterally U.S. With other History Editors, we've been cleaning up and adding to things in the World War II in the Pacific article (help welcome). There's also a good deal on Afghanistan, Iraq, and transnational insurgency. Howard C. Berkowitz 05:01, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

CZ: Ready for approval

In case you hadn't worked it out, the reason it didn't work is because you put *{{p1|Theory of multiple intelligences}}. You actually need to put *{{pl|Theory of multiple intelligences}} - note the lower case l instead of the number 1. --Chris Key 20:55, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Constitutional delegates

Hi Wally,

we are running into formatting problems with these pages. Can you give me a list with all the names (and possibly brief descriptions) of all (or some) of the remaining ones you intend to start? I can then walk you through the standard way of doing this, which should be less cumbersome. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 19:45, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I'm created pages for all the members of the Constitutional Convention, so I can later work on an article entitled "Founding Fathers" and link to them. Here are the others that I have yet to do:

James Wilson Gouverneur Morris John Rutledge Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charles Pinckney Pierce Butler John Blair James Madison Jr. George Washington George Mason James McClur Edmund J. Randolph* George Wythe I appreciate any guidance I can get as I'm new to this! ...said Wally L. Larsen (talk)

OK, give me 5min, and I will set things up. --Daniel Mietchen 19:57, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Here we go:

• James Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gouverneur Morris [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Rutledge [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Charles Pinckney [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pierce Butler (Founding Father) [r]: (1744-1822) American military leader and politician; one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S.A. ^[e]
• John Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
• James Madison Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• George Washington [r]: (1732-1799) First U.S. President (from 1789 to 1797) and commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. ^[e]
• George Mason [r]: Add brief definition or description
• James McClur [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Edmund J. Randolph [r]: Add brief definition or description
• George Wythe [r]: Add brief definition or description

Please click on the "Add brief definition or description" link first (preferably such that the page opens in a new tab or window), fill in the brief description (formatting guidelines are at CZ:Definitions) and save the Definition subpage. You should then see the article page as a redlink. Click to open it and simply save. When you then return here to this page and reload it, the article name and the brief description of the corresponding person should appear in black here. If you have any problems on the way, just report them here. If you give me a simple list of those you already created, I can fix their formatting in the meantime. --Daniel Mietchen 20:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Here are the ones I've already created...

William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth, George Read, Gunning Bedford Jr., Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Houston, William L. Pierce, James McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll, Luther Martin, John F. Mercer, Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King, Elbridge Gerry, Caleb Strong, John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman, William Livingston, David Brearly, William Paterson, Jonathan Dayton, William C. Houston, John Lansing Jr., Robert Yates, William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson, William R. Davie, Alexander Martin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons,

Jared Ingersoll

For future reference, how would I properly create new articles like these (placeholders)? Thanks again. ...said Wally L. Larsen (talk)

OK, thanks. I have set up User talk:Wally L. Larsen/Founding Fathers with all the names. The list is copied from Wikipedia, so you may have to check for inaccuracies. Most of the ones you already created show up with black article titles and without a definition. Will go through them now.

We call these placeholder articles Lemma articles, and they are explained (hopefully) at CZ:Lemma article.

Please remember signing your comments: while in edit mode, click on the tenth icon from the left, which will give you a --~~~~, and if you save the page with that, this will be converted into your signature with time stamp, just like mine: --Daniel Mietchen 20:26, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm done with reformatting. I suggest you continue on the basis of User talk:Wally L. Larsen/Founding Fathers. Cheers, --Daniel Mietchen 20:59, 1 August 2010 (UTC)