User talk:Guylaen

Infobox military exercise

Regading {{Infobox military exercise}}, it sounds like you want to overhaul the template to add new information and make it more useful... Can I help in anyway? I'm pretty good with infoboxes, one of my few talents... Anyway, if you want to team up I'm happy to help! - Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 07:27, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am wondering if we should make a more general exercise infobox though.
For example, Clade X was an exercise about pandemics.
There are other exercises that other government departments and even businesses do. Guylaen (talk) 21:05, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How would you like to do this? Do you want to provide me with a list of values/parameters and I'll build the code? What would work best for you? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:51, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Zackmann08, sorry for the extreme lack of communication about this on my part. We just did Cyber 9/12 here at MIIS – I wasn't on a team, but I had to be available if they needed me to fold down tables. Last week I had a French conversational midterm, and then I had to go up to LLNL to visit the NIF, so a bunch of my time was spent on that. Today, I had to meet with Vladimir Norov and catch up on Central Asian issues. (I was surprised at his positive attitude about Trump and now my brain hurts). Next week I have to run the CCPCJ for Northwest Model United Nations (NWMUN).
Basically, all that to say that life is busy, but I suppose I did that to myself. I'm the one who wanted to stop working in kitchens, after all.
Anyways. YES. That would work. Guylaen (talk) 04:52, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
HAHA! No worries. Real life does get in the way sometime. The nice thing is there is no deadline here... Whenever you get the time, start mocking something up and I'm happy to work with you when it works in your schedule. No rush! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 05:03, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not ready yet. Just commenting so this convo doesn't get auto archived. Guylaen (talk) 06:10, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Zackmann08
Some information I've discovered about this subject... there is, to many scholars, a difference between:
  • Exercise
  • Wargame / Crisis game
  • Model
  • Simulation
  • Moderated Discussion / BOGGSAT
Guylaen (talk) 20:48, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I just had a conversation with Jacquelyn Schneider about what characteristics should go into this infobox, and she said "We've been trying to figure that out for years to make searching the website easier."
So... yeah. I still need some time working out the basics of this infobox. But I might work with Schneider and the team at the Hoover Institute on some of the basics.
(More on Schneider: https://www.hoover.org/profiles/jacquelyn-schneider) Guylaen (talk) 23:48, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Operation SUSSEX

In the category of great minds think alike, three or four days ago I noticed there was no article about Operation Sussex. I was gathering material to create an article -- when suddenly I discover you had just created an article. It's kind of weird that two of us had the same idea at the same time for such an obscure topic. Anyway, good work -- and I'm actually glad you've relieved me of feeling an obligation to create the article. Smallchief (talk) 12:09, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Chief! That fills me with joy for you to say that, I love your work here. Yeah, I was brought to the page after writing OSS/London.
But I would love it if you could expand the page, you've made a lot of great articles, and I would enjoy seeing what you can dig up about SUSSEX, maybe from some places that I haven't thought of. Do you think that Operation PROUST should have its own page or should just be redirected to SUSSEX?
I'm working on Kenneth Cohen at the moment, and I will probably write Z Organisation next – obviously a Yank created the redirect for Z Organization, because that's not how Brits write that word. (I'm a Yank, I just refuse to use the word "American" because it's literally not a demonym for someone from this State of states). After that, canceling the redirect for Operation Greenup, and making it its own page. After that, will probably write Operation FAUST and the TOOL missions and... so on.
If you want to take any of these articles, let me know.
Also, please check out Template:Office of Strategic Services and let me know if anything is missing. Guylaen (talk) 13:02, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Your Sussex article is great and much more in-depth than my usual effort. I have no plans to work on any OSS-related articles, so have at it! I'll let you know if I might be crossing paths with something you're in the midst of doing. Smallchief (talk) 07:53, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Rectified. Guylaen (talk) 03:02, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Backstory

Since you've been doing so much work on the Claude Dansey article, I thought you might be amused to know that I only started the article in the first place because of an offhand mention of Dansey in one of Charles Stross's Laundry stories.

"By the abjuration of Dee and the name of Claude Dansey I hereby exercise subsection D paragraph sixteen clause twelve and bind you to service from now and forevermore." DS (talk) 22:27, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's crazy he did so much, and yet his obituary in the New York Times was only like eight sentences long!!!! He took his secrets to the grave. Thank the gods other people didn't.
The only problem with most of his biographical material being written after he died is that he didn't have the chance to defend against the accusations about the Prosper Network and Delacort. Guylaen (talk) 22:31, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
And there are mixed reviews about Colonel Z, but the only ones I care about are the ones by the people who worked at the agency, and they say its mostly accurate with only minor errors like names and dates – as is to be found in basically every history of the SIS. Did you know they didn't even publicly acknowledge their existence until 1992‽‽‽‽‽
Anyways, yeah, I just needed a break from his world for a bit. I got very interested in North Borneo after writing that section so I'm making the page for the constabulary now. Guylaen (talk) 22:34, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A gift for you!

The empire on which the sun never sets recognition
For your massive work on the North Borneo Police Force 👮🏻 I hereby send you this recognition. Thank you.  Ṉight Ḻantern 🏮 01:56, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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@Closed Limelike Curves
I see that you have removed the nomination for deletion. Thank you. I know, the names and titles are pretty crazy – when I read that he was a "Count of the HRE" in the source material, I also did a double-take. Those funny little monarchs and their titles of nobility, am I right? Guylaen (talk) 05:50, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Apparently like his grandfather or great-great grandfather was a count in the HRE and he retained the title or something, I didn't really care about that part besides getting it accurate. Guylaen (talk) 05:52, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, sorry about that, that was my bad! Crazy titles and the rest of it seemed pretty wild too. On the first source I pulled up I made a typo while searching, which made it look like the guy's name didn't even show up in the source, so I thought it was just made up. – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 05:55, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah... I wish I had more time to track down more stuff about him, but my imput is going to slow down in about a week when Spring Term starts back up.
I really wrote the article because I wanted to write Z Organisation and his name came up, but I got side-tracked expanding Claude Dansey and that led my to start working on North Borneo Police Force. I feel like I have to finish these things now before I come back to the Count. Guylaen (talk) 06:00, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Correct. Until that disamb page is turned into an article, unfortunately, that's all I can do for now. Guylaen (talk) 09:44, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Ingratis (talk) 12:27, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Short answer: yes.
Long answer: I don't have the time right now, I'm expanding other pages. Guylaen (talk) 01:48, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I was not pushing you - I was just wondering whether it would be possible or desirable to combine the various stubs/short articles on the medals from this campaign into one longer one, but since there is scope for expansion that's clearly not a useful idea. Ingratis (talk) 02:14, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Nah, the problem is that there just aren't enough articles about the North Borneo expeditions yet. Guylaen (talk) 04:28, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
North Borneo as a subject, generally, needs expansion into many more articles. Guylaen (talk) 04:29, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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