User talk:Farawayman
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Tip: Categorizing images
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- Image:SAS Somerset.png was uncategorized on 10 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
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- Fixed I hope! Farawayman (talk) 18:33, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Rank Structure
[edit]Hi Farawayman. I enjoyed finding the SA badges of rank. However, there are slight errors in those of senior rank. The shoulder board of a brigadier would have the castle at the top (nearest the shoulder) and the three small stars below. Likewise the castle would be above the stars of a colonel and lieutenant-colonel. As an example please see my contribution at the Wikipedia article entitled "Commandant" Kind regards. Whoosises (talk) 00:44, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
- Hmmm, I need to find the original source files, because they were done in JPG format before I got to know about SVG! Will see if I can find them and correct accordingly. Thanks. Farawayman (talk) 17:41, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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High Contrast (talk) 11:21, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
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129.215.149.98 14:16, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
SA Army Emblems and usage of Licencing on Wikipedia
[edit]Dear Farawayman,
I have submitted the article 44 Parachute Brigade (South Africa) and have submitted emblems which is currently still in contention with Wikipedia pending approval. I am waiting for the Director of Heraldry in the SANDF to send me the necessary release form. I however would like to ask you under what licencing you have put your emblems and symbols up? If you can give me the licencing string then I could also use this and avoid any emblems or symbols removed or being in contention
many thanks--213.132.63.33 06:23, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Notification about possible deletion
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Yours sincerely, LGA talkedits 07:35, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
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Martin H. (talk) 01:23, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
File tagging File:Valerie Deacon NYMAS.jpg
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And also:
- File:Steven Zaloga NYMAS.jpg
- File:Sean McMeekin NYMAS.jpg
- File:Martin Scott Catino NYMAS.jpg
- File:Major John P. Ringquist NYMAS.jpg
- File:John Prados NYMAS.jpg
- File:Clifford J. Rogers NYMAS.jpg
- File:Al Nofi NYMAS.jpg
- File:Adrian Goldsworthy NYMAS.jpg
Yours sincerely, Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:37, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
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Htonl (talk) 13:36, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
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Didym (talk) 16:41, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Notification about possible deletion
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Yours sincerely, A1Cafel (talk) 03:19, 18 January 2024 (UTC)