User talk:JohnnyReb1977

You recently created List of Korean War veterans who are recipients of The Bronze Star.

Is this intended to be a list of veterans who received the Bronze Star medal for actions during the Korean War; or, more generally, as the name implies, Bronze Star medal recipients who are veterans of the Korean War (could have received the award for WW2 actions, not Korean War actions)?

Please add a lead paragraph to the list to explain the scope of the list.

A comments on formatting:

• See also sections are intended to be bulleted lists. So, when you add this article to the section, please include a bullet.

— ERcheck (talk) 19:47, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One other comment, before you get too much further: On titles — "the" in the article title should be lower case. In particular, "List of Korean War veterans who are recipients of the Bronze Star". — ERcheck (talk) 20:02, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you made significant contributions to the GGA article. (Thanks, BTW!) However, I also noticed that you hadn't referenced any of the content. If you were meaning to at some point in the near future, then great (I understand how referencing everything after writing so much can be a pain), but if you're unfamiliar with the policy and practice of citing your sources on Wikipedia, I suggest checking out WP:CITE for pointers. I'd also be willing to help if you can at least remember where you got some of your info. You can reach me on my talk page. :) LaMenta3 06:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, I noticed your contributions around recent changes, and wanted to ask: I need some help with a wiki, it's called the Gun Wiki, and it is a wiki all about firearms (and other stuff related to them...) and it needs to be more active, so, would you mind coming over there and helping out if you know about firearms? Sorry to sound kind of pathetic, but I've been looking for more contributers. By the way, my name's Brain40, and is there a WikiProject for the Confederate States of America? Brain40 talk—contributions

• Okay. Cool. Thanks! Good to see a fellow Civil War fan. Brain40 ^{[talk] [contributions]}

Hello, I have moved your user template from the category for Wikipedians from Georgia, the country in Eastern Europe, to the category for Wikipedians from Georgia, the US state. Hope you don’t mind. --Philip Stevens 15:44, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Looks good so far! Made a couple of quick changes. I've been somewhat inactive as of late; when I get on an editing spurt, I'll try to add some to it.--HowardSF-U­-T-C- 14:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 07:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you remove a large section of text from an article - even if it's not really very good text - it's very important to use an edit summary explaining what you did and why. I saw you remove a huge load of text from the History of Georgia article, and I reverted that... then I was going to warn you against vandalism, and I saw that you'd done a lot of good work... so I looked more closely at what exactly you had removed from the article, and I saw why.

(I've restored your removal.)

No harm done; this is just so you know for next time. DS 02:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Johnny,

That was great work you did on Portal:Georgia (U.S. state). That was exactly what I was talking about. I'll try and add some more articles to the list. Then I want to do the same thing with the South Carolina Portal.

I just looked at your main userpage. You're from Claxton and a graduate of GSU? Cool. My mom lives a few blocks from GSU and teaches there. She also has a good friend who lives in Claxton. I can't think of her friend's name, but I have heard my mom talk about going to Claxton often. Rocketmaniac (talk) 02:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More great work on the bio section. I'm going to remove the little box near the top that says "The current selected article and biography are placeholders until the articles can be decided on formally". Your work has clearly made those sections not placeholders anymore. I've also added this portal to the portal directory. Portal:Contents/Portals and Wikipedia:Portal/Directory I listed the creator, but did not list the person that maintains it. Do you want that honor? Rocketmaniac (talk) 18:42, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done, both names have been added. Rocketmaniac (talk) 19:49, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another question, should we (or can we) do the same thing with the Featured Picture section as you have done with the Selected article and Selected biography? I've found another picture I think will be good. The "code" is here User:Rocketmaniac/Sandbox3. Rocketmaniac (talk) 03:24, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to work on the selected articles section. I just noticed that there are no links from the portal to the each actual whole article. A reader should be ablle to easily go find more info on each of our selected articles. I'm going to also try and find a few more articles to add.

On 21 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Climate of Georgia (U.S. state), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 06:21, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]