User talk:Donner60

Please put new messages at the very bottom of the page.

To clarify:

• The new item should not be below this message and not below the message about this in the collapsible section but at the very bottom of the page after every other item on the page.
• Add a section heading, identify the article you are concerned with (if your question or comment refers to a specific article), use a link so I can find it more quickly.
• Sign your edit with four tildes (~~~~) so I know to whom to reply.
• Keep an eye on this page. You should be notified here and continue any discussion here if I click the reply box when responding - which I will do unless there is something unusual about the post. I will add a ping if I think it is necessary. I may respond on your talk page if I think that would be helpful to expedite communications.
• Note that as far as I know, IP addresses/temporary user accounts (which are numbers), can not be pinged so checking back here will be necessary to continue communications.
• When I notice an out of order question or comment, I will move it to the bottom of the page and provide a heading if there is none already.

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If you have come here for information, or to complain about something in a civil manner, please read the information at the pertinent links in the collapsed sections, which expands some on the points mentioned above - at least if you are unfamiliar with posting talk page messages.

I will not respond to vandalism, disruptive, uncivil, insulting, abusive or nonsensical posts. I will simply delete them but depending on their nature, I may post a vandalism warning on your talk page. This was especially pertinent when I was doing more vandalism patrolling since such messages occurred from time to time. I suppose such a message could possibly still be left for any number of other reasons.

If you send me an e-mail please leave a talk page notice in a new section at the bottom of the page. Note: I am not always prompt at looking for new e-mails at the listed address so you are more likely to get a reply, or a quicker reply by notifying me on this page that you have sent an e-mail to me. In most cases, unless the message is confidential, I am likely to be informed the fastest, and reply more quickly if the message is left as a new section below. Thanks.

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Barnstars and awards before July 6, 2025 are at User:Donner60/Barnstars. Some of the earlier ones kept here may be shown there as well.

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you, Donner60, for your straightforward review of the “Charles Thau” article. Your expertise (and time) to help get my 1st wiki article to B‑class status are deeply appreciated.

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Thanks for your comments and help a few months earlier. I finally made some more edits and submitted it for review if you have time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Battle_of_James_City

I think James City might be added to the Bristoe campaign now. I'm not familiar with the term for the Wiki "grouping/name" for a campaign.

I really appreciate your help and comments earlier. Qstor2 (talk) 13:55, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I will take a look at the article within the next day or two unless something delays me. I want to be more careful than I was with another reply recently which I did not get exactly right. "Grouping/name" does not ring a bell with me, but I may have forgotten it or think of it under another term. Did you see it on a page you can point out? Campaign may be described or defined on a project page but I would need to think about where to look for it. Closeness in time of the progression of battles and movement of armies may have something to do with it. I am reasonably sure that most, if not all, Civil War campaign names have been placed on a series of battles and movements by historians, and possibly contemporaries, for quite some time and they probably used names of a major battle within these movements. A few such as Peninsula, Antietam, Gettysburg and several others come to mind. Donner60 (talk) 07:20, 14 March 2026 (UTC)