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lengthy answers!
Sy, I'll answer your other comments when I have more time tomorrow, but I was trying to find out something about Belwar/Bilwa and came across this article: [http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NENZC18580630.2.13&l=mi&e=-------10--1----0-all NZ Chronicle archive] (I've found some very useful articles on there over the past few months). Bilwa is mentioned about a third of the way into the article and it clearly demarcates the town and the fort (to my reading, anyhow). Can't find it on google earth though so still don't know if it exists anymore. [[User:Sarahb|Sarahb]] 12:47, 30 March 2009 (PDT)
==Other matters==
*'''Chronological list of wars'''
Ok, lets do this then. It's donkey work I'm afraid, but it doesn't need to be rushed. Now, you have input all the battles so you are best placed to know this - are there lots of battles that don't form a part of specific campaigns? Do you think the list should just be wars, campaigns and isolated battles, rather than say list all battles of the Indian Mutiny? (That could be its own article perhaps.) Right, I have made a page here - [[Chronological list of wars and battles]] and a rough lead sentence and structure. We can change the article name if you think something else is more appropriate. I think we should break the list into double decades for readability and usability, so have done a few, but if I haven't started early enough, just put those in or if you think it should be broken into smaller sections go ahead. I have done a table format to keep it all uniform. Let me know if you need a hand working it out. We can add more columns if you think of something else important to go in. Anyhow, like I say, I have only made a rough version to get going with and we can make any changes necessary. I suggest going through the wars category by alphabet to fill this in and make a note on the talk page of the chronological list as to which letter you have got up to. Then we can both work on the list when we have time but still know what the other has done. Does that make sense?
*'''[[Battle of Belwar Fort]]'''
Good idea to put that article snippet in. I fixed the picture size - just have a look on the edit page and you can see what I did. I might've found Belwar on a modern map. Not sure - see what you think. It's about 30 miles SE of Gorakhpur and just north of the larger town Deoria on this [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/india/txu-oclc-6614190-ng44-8.jpg map]. This [http://www.pdavis.nl/Mutiny.htm account] about it seems to fit, but I just don't know. We better not copy that one by the way!
*'''Native regiments etc'''
I agree that the way to go is have only one page for a regiment and then redirect any alternative names. Then those redirects can go in the appropriate categories. I don't think there will be a perfect way to do this due to the complexities of the regiment histories, so I think what you are doing now is the best way.
*'''Bold titles'''
Yes, I changed that bold title so that it didn't appear in the table of contents. About having it bigger - there is already a big title at the top of the article. A bold statement at the beginning probably draws enough attention the size it is now.
*'''Copyright etc'''
This was the page with the text from another webiste that I wondered if we shouldn't be copying - [[9th Bengal Light Cavalry]]. It seems a bit long and when it is from someone else's website I think it is a bit different to quoting from a book. I am worried they might see it more as copying than quoting. If it was rewritten and then there was a line to say the source was the British Empire website that would probably be ok. I'm just erring on the side of caution.
I have quite a few things to catch up on here on the wiki so better do those before I start anything else but please point out anything to me I have said I would do and forgotten! [[User:Sarahb|Sarahb]] 13:23, 1 April 2009 (PDT)
