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== Jheeghun ==
Sorry. I have fixed the coordinates. Jheeghun is described as 17 miles from Chutterpore (Chhatarpur). You probably noticed that by mapping the Nerbudda Fild Force route I finally pinpointed Kurrereah as Kararia. I also managed to correct Bhowragarh location. Small triumphs!--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 02:15, 6 October 2009 (PDT)
== Amritsar ==
Is the Massacre a bit too one sided to be under Battles? We have the Delhi massacre in that category. We also have the Battle of Trimmoo Ghaut which should be called a massacre as John Nicholson annihilated the 46th BNI. Again there is Cawnpore (Bibigarh) which was no battle but the slaughter of helpless prisoners. Also I am about to write a page for the destruction of the 26th BNI which was wiped out at Ajnala after surrendering. Maybe we should have a Category:Outrages but it is dangerously subjective. A FIBIS policy decision?<br>
I have also made a few pages recently for the outbreak of mutiny at various locations. I have put them under Indian Mutiny obviously but also under Battles and used the Battle Info Box. They can't really go under Mutinies as they would look as though they were separate from the Indian Mutiny. Any suggestions?--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 10:38, 14 October 2009 (PDT)
== Campaign Maps ==
:On our earlier subject of what comes under Battles, would it be helpful if the title were 'Battles and Actions' as was the original table?--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 04:21, 16 October 2009 (PDT)
==Photographs==
==Hyderabad Contingent==
Hi Sarah, I made an article for this, hope this was the right thing to do. Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 18:33, 21 January 2010 (PST)
==Singapore==
Hi Sarah I haven't read every link of the medical history articles I have added, but most of the ones I did read had the names of people scattered throughout and some had quite a lot of names. Even the others I thought added a sense of the social conditions at the time which could be of interest to those who had ancestors living at the time. I still have some other links to add but will not do so if you think they are not relevant. Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 17:05, 8 February 2010 (PST)
==Citation and Doctor==
Hi Sarah I have not been successful doing a citation and half the article [[Doctor]] now doesn't appear. Initially I put Notes at the end of Bengal Individuals and then at the end of the article.Also I didn't know whether just to put==before Notes, or whether more were needed, as it was in a section that already had===. However, overriding all this I must have done something incorrect as now nothing in the article appears after the citation. Sorry [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 20:35, 10 February 2010 (PST)
==Apothecary==
Hi Sarah. I agree the article is getting long, so it would be best to split of the Individuals as you suggest [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 17:35, 19 March 2010 (PDT)
==Macao Expedition==
I have seen no other Macao Expedition so have removed the date from the title and have added it to the chronological list. I have categorized it as Wars and Campaigns (though it might equally be under Minor Campaigns) and Napoleonic War. I hope you agree. I have also changed the spelling to the old spelling to link it to the Location page. Also a few internal links and other stuff which perhaps you could vet. I don't know Nick Adams - I hope he wont be upset but this surgery.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 08:18, 25 March 2010 (PDT)
==Forums/Message boards/ELs==
Hi Sarah. Thanks for the reasoning. Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 22:38, 8 April 2010 (PDT)
==District Info box==
hi, I think we can use the old one with a slight alteration - add the headquarter info to it and remove the altitude (as it varies). Coordinates would help with location. About the image: it should remain - does not necessarily have to be for a map - could be any interesting image of the province. just my thoughts. regards [[User:Rzafar|Rzafar]] 03:19, 16 April 2010 (PDT)
== Digital Library of India ==
Maureen has just put a link on the Indian Mutiny page to the Digital Library of India. I can't seem to make it connect to anything coherent. Is it me? The same link is on 13th BNI page. BTW I have found the archive.org History of the Indian Mutiny which I have added.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 09:56, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
== User status ==
One of the ways I tried to fix the cite problem meant that sysops would lose editing rights, unless they were a member of another group that had editing rights, so I added you to the bot group too. I'm not using that way now, so I can remove you if you prefer.
BTW - I also changed the CSS so that cite references are slightly smaller and highlighted blue when clicked whilst I was playing with it. I think it makes it easier to see which ref you are being referred to, but if you prefer the old way I can change it back. --[[User:Valmay|FIBIS Webmaster]] 14:57, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
==[[Civil Service reading list]]==
Additional wording suggested:
After "Check the FIBIS Online Bookshop for availability of recommended titles and more information" add: under the heading Indian Civil Service.
Also add [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30sherman.html New York Times Review] Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 05:36, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
== Naval matters ==
Thanks Sarah. I was unaware of this section. I have two articles: Shannon's Naval Brigade and Pearl's Naval Brigade. I have made categories for each. Do you think these categories should be removed and the articles put under Category:Naval and Maritime? or maybe Category:Navy?. I would like your advice. Thanks.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 07:30, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
== 19th Light Dragoons ==
You are quite right Sarah. I was drunk with power and didn't check the links. In principle I think we should use the contemporary regiment titles when listing the forces of a particular campaign. That means we either need an article for that title with a redirect or we put in a portmanteau link. I don't think it realistic to create articles and redirects for all the former titles so inevitably we have many many portmanteau internal links. It will never be black and white however so I am happy for you to reinstate 19th Light Dragoons. I don't think I am able to do it.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 08:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
== Internal/external links ==
Has Hugh discussed this issue with you? Have a look at my post on his page.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 08:41, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
== Historic Guns ==
I have just had a look at this article and think you have done a great job sorting out the pictures. It is editing far beyond my capabilities. Am I right that there are still a few Sutlej guns to be formatted? Let me know when you reckon you have finished so we can ask Elizabeth Hancox for her comments.
The guns page led me to do a couple of new articles under Ordnance. Any comments on Infantry Weapons and Mountain Guns would be appreciated.
Thanks. --[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 13:48, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
== Map template ==
I have just made a Google Map of the 17thC HEIC Factories locations. Realising that the Battle Map template is not appropriate, I have tried to make a new Map template. Have a look at the East India Company page. It is rather crude and, if we use the map image I have chosen, the text would be better below the image. If you have time to refine it, I would be grateful.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 17:47, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
==Green Template link to FIBIS Google Books Library==
Hi Sarah. I have noticed the link is broken for some of the links from the green template to the FIBIS Google Books Library,, eg for the template on [[Indian Mutiny]], [[Burma]], [[Life in India#Passage to India]]. I tried to replace these links , based on one which is still working which is located on the page [[British India]]. On my first, and only attempt, on the page [[Indian Mutiny]] I was partially successful, in that the link goes to the Google Books Library, but it doesn't go to the category Indian Mutiny. Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 21:03, 17 November 2010 (UTC) Hi Sarah currently I have a working link, although for how long I don't know. Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 04:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
== Reginald Malpas Gore ==
Hello Sarah<br />
I have now received from David Gore better res images of his father's photos. I have put them on the page but as usual my limited skills have been unable to arrange them neatly without encroaching on the paragraph below. Could you please work your magic on them? They are all thumbnails as this seems the only format which includes the title. Regards--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 12:29, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
:Just to let you know I have fixed the images by adding a gallery. --[[User:Valmay|FIBIS Webmaster]] 17:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
== People by occupation ==
Thanks for your message Sarah. You are the wiki expert so I'll go along with however you feel it should be organised. When I started the Military Commanders biographies I found a lot of single people under Ocupations so I relocated them to People. I have also created a Category for Military Commanders with British, French, Indian and Other subcategories. If you feel this needs re-casting, please let me know. The sticking point for me was putting East India Company under Category:People by Occupation when it is manifestly neither a person or an occupation. Thanks for your help.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 07:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
== Battle of Josshouse Hill ==
Someone has inserted irrelevant text on this page and the Talk page. I have undone it. You might have a look at the History to check I have done the right thing.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 07:01, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
==Journal cover pic==
Noted, although it has been on the page [[FIBIS Journal]] since November 2009, and was uoloaded by another. Would it be possible to upload some, or all of the FIBIS Journal covers, which are cuurently used for the Journals in the FIBIS shop and I could add them to the page [[FIBIS Journal]]. Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 12:34, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
== Images ==
Hi Sarah<br />Belated thanks for organising all the images in the Elizabeth Guns article. Sorry I didn't enter them correctly first time. Having been out of circulation for a while I missed the notifications. Regards --[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 12:10, 31 October 2011 (PDT)
==Indian Subordinate Medical Service==
Hi Sarah, the ISM Service is different to the ISM Department, according to this Google Books link http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PShpbwti_3EC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=Indian+Subordinate+Medical+Service&source=bl&ots=RpsqnAStyB&sig=POStCCl2jHkwfNhmvvUIUPih-9U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cBXoUpiKOIq4iQeyvYHQDA&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Indian%20Subordinate%20Medical%20Service&f=false - Regards[[User:Maureene|Maureene]] ([[User talk:Maureene|talk]])
==Apothecary==
Hi Sarah, I must say I don’t agree with the quick definition of Apothecary which has been added.
“Initially, under the East India Company, this was a junior medical orderly.”
I don’t think it could be said that an Apothecary was ever a junior medical orderly, at least not in Australian terms, where an orderly does nothing to do with matters of treatment at all. Maybe when they first started their training as boys this terminology might apply, but not trained Apothecaries. In 1812 boys were to be trained as “Compounders and Dressers, and ultimately as Apothecaries and Sub Assistant Surgeons”
If you read down the Apothecary page it says “Medical College training for Hospital Apprentices was introduced in 1847 in Bengal following the system that had previously been successfully introduced in Madras. "General Order 200" dated 15 June 1847 is about Apprenticeships in the Bengal Subordinate Medical Department. It sets out that candidates would sit an examination to become an apprentice. Those successful would serve for two years as an apprentice in the Hospital of a European Regiment or General Hospital. They then may be selected by the Medical Board for a studentship in the Medical College. They would then attend a two year course of study comprising Anatomy, Dissection, Materia Medica, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the practice of Medicine and Surgery and more especially clinical instruction in connection with the last two branches. At the end of the two years they were to undergo an examination. If successful they were to be drafted to European Regiments or to the General Hospital, there to wait their turn for promotion as Assistant Apothecaries or Assistant Stewards. Promotion to Apothecary was also to be by examination.
Even comparing an Apothecary to a senior nurse is not correct, at least for the Australian situation, because no nurses would have studied, or would perform surgery. I think a lower ranked doctor would be more accurate terminology, or possibly a senior nurse who performed surgery.
By the time the Indian Army was established in 1895, the term Assistant Surgeon was the term then used, and I believe by training they were regarded as fully qualified medical men.
<br> Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] ([[User talk:Maureene|talk]])
<br>Sarah, now changed, per your comment on my User page [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] ([[User talk:Maureene|talk]]) 1 February 2014
