User: Bbpen
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I have written and edited Wikipedia articles about U.S. Navy stuff.
I saw your action on Operation Praying Mantis. If you run into this problem again (a misspelled page), don't just cut-and-paste the copy into a newly created page, because that loses all the history and talk of the previous page. Right now, for example, on your new page there's no way to tell when/by who it was first written. Further, somebody coming to the misspelled page doesn't know it's misspelled because there's no direction to your page.
Better is to Move the page - a wikipedia action that sysops can perform (maybe everybody can do it now; I'm not sure). I'm going to do it now. - DavidWBrooks 20:52, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the cleanup, and the tip. Bbpen 13:44, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Although the insect is a Preying mantis, the operation entered history as Praying mantis apparently due to a misspelling. (In much the same way as Operation Satellite morphed into Starlight. There is no doubt the original documents spelled it the right way, but other cite it in either way. Sorry to have taken so long to reply to your last. I have been on the WikiSourse. [[PaulinSaudi 10:16, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)]]
Actually, the insect is a praying mantis, named for the way it folds its forelegs as if in devotion (cf. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=praying%20mantis ). The fact that it also preys has no doubt caused the confusion. Bbpen 13:44, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
--- Re: Barry Bonds, glad to do my best in the cause of literacy.... Glad you liked it. Hayford Peirce 17:45, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
