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Good Afternoon, I understand your point the RCAF Station Port Albert was not a "Canadian Forces Base" in that it existed prior to the Canadian Forces being formed from the RCAF, Canadian Army and The RCN. But as the Canadian Forces is the organization the perpetrates the prior 3 entities and to prevent the creation of additional categories that are not what the average person would look for. I believe having a comprehensive list of "Category:Canadian Forces bases in Canada (closed)" or "Canadian Military Facilities - Former" is important. If you look in the "Category:Canadian Forces bases in Canada (closed)" it lists many former Canadian Military Facilities, from before and after the formation of the Canadian Forces. How do you think this should be handled? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mech1949 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 15 August 2018 (UTC) Sorry forgot to sign Mech1949 (talk) 19:19, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Buck I am somewhat surprised that you chose to post your concerns about me at Talk:WP Military History which was a bit of a name and shame exercise that you could have resolved by messaging me on my personal talk page. Please bear in mind I am dyslexic so I don't see words grammar structure the way you do and its a massive challenge for me at the best of times the initial web source I took for Commodore Algeria was at http://www.unithistories.com/units/british/mediterranean fleet where it was written Commodore, Algiers/Algeria I interpreted that as first Cdre Algiers later Algeria (so at the time I applied common naming convention). I thought that because the shore base HMS Hannibal was also listed as the shore base (shows up some navy lists) for the other naval officers in charge at other Algerian ports outside of Algiers and he was the the flag officer responsible for all embarkations as the senior CO responsible. Trying to put these articles together in a cohesive way is incredibly difficult and very time consuming when the sources I have to draw don't have all the information methodically referenced its all over the place with no clear structure that's all I am trying to do sorry for wasting your time rectifying my mistakes regards Navops.--Navops47 (talk) 05:28, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
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Cheers Mate — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.20.166.140 (talk) 12:16, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing Seize Glory, Buckshot06.
Unfortunately Boleyn has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:
This needs some tagging.
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Hi Buckshot06,
Thanks for reviewing article on Rowallan Division. Did you leave any feedback? I'm new to this so dont know where to look.
Best Reggie Davidson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reggie Davidson (talk • contribs) 09:52, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
I accept your revert. My contention was J-Man11 has an obsession in adding the ORBATs for 2007 to all British Army units. Sammartinlai (talk) 07:31, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Netherlands Army Structure 1989 has just been created, I've G12 speedied it. Gavbadger (talk) 23:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
I hadn't realized you had made some edits to improve the article (you can see there's only about 2 or 3 minutes between our edits). At the time, there was only one source, that didn't even mention the subject, and a single, small paragraph of prose that said "There is basically there is no information available about the subject". The page should never have been published. I considered either CSD, move to draft or redirect. I chose the latter as the article linked under "notes" did list the subject. But, I'm glad you are able to save and improve the page. (Now if only you could save and improve the author ;-) Cheers - wolf 13:21, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
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Just checking with you if 1989 Portuguese Army order of battle is also a copyright violation? Look at the reference.
Thanks Sammartinlai (talk) 02:12, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
G'day Buckshot06. Just wanted to let you know that I managed to get a response from J-Man11 via email. Have provided some advice by that means, focussed on sources, copyvio and communication, will see what happens next. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 00:15, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
Is it acceptable or shoud it go for an AfD?
Asking since you deal more with army historical stuff.
Thanks
Sammartinlai (talk) 04:11, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
here and here. I just want to close the merger.
Thanks
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"Commander-in-Chief, UK Land Forces, General Sir Charles Huxtable
HQ: Wilton "
Doesn't this look awkward? I changed it to a prose-like line so I don't get the edit here. If you want a wiki-link for C-in-C Land Forces that's fine.
And as I mentioned, I assist Colin/Gulabin, who's work is widely citing on wikipedia military pages.
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so I may have accidentally removed yours.
And while people make errors, telling them to stop is rude. Just a note on the error would do.
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Could you move this article to 95th Combat Bombardment Wing (over a redirect). That's the only designation the wing ever had and the use of the correct name removed the need for a disambiguating parenthetical. --Lineagegeek (talk) 17:33, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello Buckshot, do you remember User:OJOM you indef'd them back in February. Since your block they have been editing/rewording their talk page comments, which by it's self isn't really anything. (I have not check all changes since the block) The only logical reason I can think of for this is a future unblock request or maybe they think they can do something legally, anyway, today I noticed they are changing time stamps. I thought this would be important if any unblock request arises. Thank you for what you do, happy editing. - FlightTime (open channel) 14:57, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
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Good morning, I was reviewing my watchlist this morning and found that an article on my list had been moved. I did some investigation and have as so far been unable to find any reference to substantiate that No. 13 Service Flying Training School that was established in RCAF Station St Hubert, Quebec then moved to RCAF Station North Battleford, Saskatchewan was a RAF flying training school. A rule of thumb according to F.J. Hatch in the book "Aerodrome of Democracy" is that most of the RAF schools that were established in or moved to Canada we given a No. in the 30's to differentiate them from their BCATP counterparts. All of the schools in Canada were merged into the BCATP in 1942. If you could, please provide citation to establish that this move was justified.Mech1949 (talk) 16:46, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
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Not really that strange to pipelink [[United States Air Forces Europe|Eighth Air Force]] to cover 8 AF prior to February 1944 or all of 8 AF in WW II. That's when 8 AF became USSTAF and VIII Bomber Command became 8 AF. In this case, it can be read to be proper either way, but there are a number of articles where the link should be added. (Even more where [[United States Air Forces Central Command|Ninth Air Force]] is needed. --Lineagegeek (talk) 13:13, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
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You say you're engaging with him, but he's not just editing 77th Brigade (correctly if you say I and I won't argue to death with it) but take a look at his other editing which certainly isn't personal attacks. unless he says so himself, which really he tries to brush off in his own manner. Others have also cleaned up after him. The articles he created and survived AfD have been edited poorly or with unreliable sources.
Appreciate if you reply here (don't need to ping I can check) rather than considering it as an attack when others have also cleaned u after him and I also get snarky attacks.Sammartinlai (talk) 05:50, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_12#Category:Current_Brigades_of_the_British_Army Buckshot06 (talk) 07:52, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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Can you move 65th Bombardment Squadron to 65th Special Operations Squadron. A new editor did this by cutting and pasting. I rolled back his edits. what he did was mostly correct, but done the wrong way to lose the history. --Lineagegeek (talk) 18:24, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Buckshot06, can you look at my article on Rowallan Division again please. I have made some changes including content from the Officer Commending and adding more links. Hopefully I can remove the too few links warning now - what do you think? Also regarding the too few inline citations warning the issue is that few people know about the existence of Rowallan Division and there is hardly any mention in online sources. Happy New Year! Reggie Davidson (talk) 14:13, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
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Thousands and thousands of Navy personnel, like myself, who trained on the subject base want to know WHY you deleted the entire "Naval Training Center Orlando" page. Can you please tell me what specific claim of "copyright violation" was reported that entitled you to remove the ENTIRE page?!
I have reviewed the mirror of the former page content at IPFS (link) and find no credible claim of copyright violation. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20130819
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Dear Jimbo1836, I would kindly draw your attention to User_talk:Bwmoll3#Copyright_concerns, Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20130819, and its attached ten other subpages. Briefly, as you will see looking at the 'Copyright concerns' section, Bwmoll3 copied enormous amounts of text from numerous physical hardcopy books into wikipedia. It is not easy to establish which sections were stolen, so large scale deletions have taken place. However, his focus was on the air force history of the installations - here, Orlando Air Force Base - so, depending upon which parts of the article, especially naval, you can substantiate, we may be able to bring back portions.
I hope this explains why the article was deleted. Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 11:26, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
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I've found a number of good academic sources analyzing Kenya's decision to launch this operation, and hope to improve this article in the coming weeks. I see you made a post recently on the causes of the war, and hope you'll have a chance to help me improve the article while I work on it. -Darouet (talk) 20:46, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
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Greetings and felicitations. In this edit to the article "Fleet Air Arm" you add a reference name, "World's Air Forces 1989", but not the reference itself. Would you please be so kind as to repair this oversight? —DocWatson42 (talk) 09:48, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
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There is a "cite encyclopedia" template but it is confusing, encyclopedia= instead of title=, title= instead of chapter=. User-duck (talk) 23:32, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
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Just in case you run across this nonsense boilerplate, which was inserted in articles about B-47 squadrons by a banned edit0r. I don't know if it's part of copyvio problems, but it certainly can be deleted as unsupported by a WP:RS. Since it's also false, I think deletion is appropriate.
This appears in articles about fourth squadrons added to B-47 wings in 1958/1959 and inactivated in 1962 and is completely wrong. The fourth squadron addition was a result of B-47s standing up 1/3 of their force on their home bases instead of deploying to Reflex bases. (In fact, a small addition was made to the force as four 20 plane squadrons replaced three 25 plane squadrons). It doesn't even make sense to say squadrons were added as the force was reduced. The inactivations were not related to the drawdown of the B-47 force, but to the increase of the alert force to 1/2 of available planes. I've replaced this nonsense with a fairly standardizes replacement where I've come across it (including 968th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron). --Lineagegeek (talk) 15:31, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Re: my request of 19 February: BlueD954 made the correction. —DocWatson42 (talk) 17:08, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Because 705th Tactical Airlift Training Squadron exists as a redirect, I need someone to move 705th Tactical Airlift Squadron to thAT name, the most recent name of the unit. Even as the 705th TAS, the unit was a crew training unit and although it shares a couple of other reserve firsts with the 704th Fighter Squadron, its organization as the first reserve unit to train active duty aircrews is arguably its most distinguishing achievement. --Lineagegeek (talk) 15:57, 27 February 2019 (UTC)--Lineagegeek (talk) 15:57, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
I just ran across a category you created a few years back, Category:Air defence units and formations of the United States. Per ENGVAR, "defence" should be spelled "defense", the American English spelling. I don't do much with categories, so I'm not sure of the best way to correct it. Since you're an admin, I figured it would be easier to just contact you directly, as you probably have the tools to correct this. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 06:00, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
I see that you deleted the article Columbus Air Force Base on Feb 21 due to copyright violations, but I just looked at the deleted pages, and it appeared to be primarily from US government/public domain sources. Perhaps there was something going on that I did't see? Thanks. --rogerd (talk) 21:49, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Regarding your edit today in the Formation section of this RD. I use the sentence "Its basic order of battle was as follows:" in those frequent cases where I have the regimental designations from Sharp, but none of the other subunits (battalions, companies, etc.) This is to indicate that the OoB is incomplete; it is basic. As Kges1901 pointed out in his edit of your edit, "Its key regiments were:" implies there were further regiments, which there were not. I can't think of any other wording that makes these points as succinctly as my original wording. Wreck Smurfy (talk) 03:25, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
An example sfn-formatted reference could be * Grylev, A. N. (1970). Перечень № 5. Стрелковых, горнострелковых, мотострелковых и моторизованных дивизии, входивших в состав Действующей армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 гг [List (Perechen) No. 5: Rifle, Mountain Rifle, Motor Rifle and Motorized divisions, part of the active army during the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Voenizdat. ((cite book))
: Invalid |ref=harv
(help) Soldat.ru does not need to be cited because it is just the web host for the files. There is also a searchable version of the lists here. Kges1901 (talk) 02:17, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
The official title of the Afghan Ministry of Defense is spelt in the American English format and thus it should be standardized on other wiki pages as well that mention the Ministry.
I’ll be reverting it back to the previous edit I made. Acemaster77 (talk) 08:35, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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I've just added more info and another ref to this article, as I have done a few times in the past year. Wreck Smurfy (talk) 05:16, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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I don't want to discuss want you and others seem to be working with @J-Man11 on his references and sources, but have you looked at his poor English grammar, spelling and sentence structure? I don't call myself an English teacher and also make typos now and then, but look at his casual sentences or phrases and sloppy mistakes; these all hardly classify as a history of any British military unit. Also, while I don't want to care about how he is helped with his references, he appears to be so desperate using even social media sites or the British military units as justified sources. If this is encyclopaedic and accepted, then I've never seen such standards before.
I really appreciate if you could reply here, not on my talk page and yes I'm still breaking.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:J-Man11&action=edit§ion=10 This is not heated eh? You can scream at him, I cannot? Excuses or passing the buck? Reply here and not my talk page when you can scream at him.BlueD954 (talk) 06:54, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I can certainly have a go at this. I have already gathered some material on 3rd Lancashire Engineer Volunteers (1901 onwards), and there is some around for the signals company that was spun out from it to the Royal Signals in 1920, so I should be able to provide a page for the redirect to point to. Regards Rickfive (talk) 19:09, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
In 2015, 718th Bombardment Squadron was moved to 718th Intelligence Squadron in the mistaken belief that it was redesignated and reactivated. After I made a number of changes to the page, I discussed this issue on Talk:718th Intelligence Squadron. I have since confirmed with AFHRA that the online factsheet for the 718th Intelligence Squadron is accurate and the squadron was newly constituted in 2011. I've removed the former references in the article to the Intel unit, but now the article needs to be moved back to 718th Bombardment Squadron over the current redirect. 718th Intelligence Squadron should not redirect to the article. --Lineagegeek (talk) 21:08, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
The article Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Popov has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
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You're right: 7 AA Brigade and 7 AGRA have no connection, at least during WWII. According to Rollo ('Guns and Gunners of Malta'), Routledge ('Anti-Aircraft Artillery 1914–55') and the war diaries listed in The National Archives (TNA) catalogue, 7 LAA Brigade was formed in Malta Command in January 1941 and disbanded in May 1944. According to the war diaries, 7 AGRA was formed in the Middle East in early 1943 and fought through Italy until 1945. Postwar it's a little more sketchy: 7 AA Bde was reformed in AA Command in 1947 (Routledge) but I have found no mention of it after its last unit was disbanded in 1948, and it had certainly gone by 1955 (Routledge). Routledge says that 7AGRA (AA) was a *new* formation in British Army of the Rhine from 1955; it appears to have been renamed 7 Artillery Brigade in 1960 (TNA documents). This is only slightly different from the statement in the current Wikipedia page on the the new 7 Air Defence Group, which cites Watson & Rinaldi on BAOR (a source that I don't have).
7 LAA Brigade on Malta is on my (long) 'to do' list of gaps in Wikipedia coverage. Rickfive (talk) 10:36, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. Could you tell me what process was followed on this deletion about 12 hours ago - all I can find now is the deletion log message "Implicated in largescale Bwmoll3 copyright violation". I watch this article, and normally I see warnings of impending deletion through edits to Talk or the article, but noticed none in advance in this case. This article had a reasonable level of citing, 12 cites according to google cache, so there has been varied editing over the years on this article. Complete deletion seems excessive to resolve a copyright problem in this case. All the sections other than "United States Army Air Forces use" seem to have a moderate level of citing, and I suspect just deleting the "United States Army Air Forces use" section (having only 2 cites) would resolve any copyright abuse, but without access to the History I cannot make a proper assessment. I'd like to bring back the parts of this article that do not have problems. Thanks. Rwendland (talk) 00:49, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Re this edit. What has happened here? The entire history of the article appears to have been lost. Mjroots (talk) 05:30, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Military Assistance Command, Vietnam and Embassy of the United States, Saigon. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement. You have not followed WP:BRD these pages had been stable for many years before you made your recent edits, I reverted your edits with an edit summary, you made your edits again and then opened a discussion on my Talk Page, rather than the subject pages. That is not following BRD, it is edit warring, please revert your edits and discuss on the Talk:Military Assistance Command, Vietnam#Move of DAO section to Embassy of the United States, Saigon. Mztourist (talk) 03:21, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
As I work my way through WW II AAF bombardment squadrons, I have reached the 747th. I will be working on it over the next couple of days, but I expect I will be asking for you assistance in moving it to 747th Bombardment Squadron over a redirect. I'll have to look at a couple of sources, but right now, I don't believe that this unit has ever had the expeditionary designation.
The page was created by Mr Moll under this title, not moved from its previous designation. The other squadrons of the 456th Bombardment Group were all converted to provisional status in 2002 and assigned to AMC, later changed to ACC, but the 747th was not included in the DAF letter directing the action. Another result of this letter personally offends me. Bureaucracy has dictated that the 745th and 746th Squadrons have now passed the 744th Squadron in decorations because they are listed higher up in the letter (solely because the 744th was a bomber squadron again in the 1960s), and were picked to be the rainbow expeditionary units at Al Udeid. Naturally, I deny the offense has any root in the fact that I served as a copilot in the 744th as a lieutenant. --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:35, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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I've been thinking about moving Russian Airborne Troops to Russian Airborne Forces and eventually creating a separate article for the Soviet Airborne Forces. This can be done because two new books, Red Assault: Soviet Airborne Forces, 1930-1941 and David Campbell's forthcoming Osprey book Soviet Airborne Forces 1930–91 should be enough to expand the Soviet history of the VDV, along with Zaloga's Inside the Blue Berets and Glantz's History of the Soviet Airborne Forces. In addition, the titling of these four books, I think, establishes that the RS translation of voyska is forces. (Don't forget that all other articles on voyska are titled forces not troops, such as the Russian Ground Forces, Soviet Air Defence Forces, and Strategic Missile Forces) The titling of Russian Airborne Troops stems from the official translation on mil.ru, the Russian MoD is internally inconsistent in its English translation of the name of the VDV (see this search of press releases) Also, compare google books on Russian Airborne Forces and Russian Airborne Troops. What do you think about this proposed move? Kges1901 (talk) 22:21, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, do you have any views on the way forward here? J-Man11 seems to be posting links to wikia.org pages in the apparent belief that you are interested in what pages he is creating there and -- presumably? -- he thinks that you might agree to unblock him if pages he creates there are of sufficient quality.
I meanwhile am not that interested in wikia.org and can't unblock him anyway, but have been trying to encourage him to fix the existing material already posted on his User talk page here on English Wikipedia. (On which he's made some progress but not great progress.) However I'm uncertain if I should continue to push for him to do that if it's not what he should be doing or if it isn't going to help his prospects long-term anyway.
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I thought I followed the procedures, but apparently not. Somehow, the talk pager for 644th Bomb Squadron got stuck at Talk:644th Strategic Missile Squadron, an older name of the unit. I can't change because Talk:644th Bomb Squadron is a redirect. Needs to be changed. Currently also makes the article appear as unassesssed.--Lineagegeek (talk) 23:11, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hello can you explain why you are changing royal navy stations into royal navy appointments the two things are completely separate, the station is the name of the geographical area of jurisdiction including formations allocated to it, dockyards, barracks, and other facilities within that area as confirmed by the Board Admiralty when corresponding with the admiral assigned to that station. The UK National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/6. Station and fleet records lists them as stations first not the name of the appointment e.g Flag Officer Commander etc. You have done this or are doing this for most of the RN articles. the UKNA states Station records vary greatly in character and completeness but usually consist of: correspondence exchanged between the station and the Admiralty, other branches of the Royal Navy and ships. and find record series for individual stations and fleets. Not correspondence between individual Flag Officer or Commander. If the Board of Admiralty wanted to call them by the appointment first they would have done so when compiling their official records. to remind you
Without trawling through umpteen book, journal, university and news agency sources that use of the word Station we have:
Instead of just changing them (which is just lazy thing to do) why don't you simply create a separate page for the name of the appointment to that station instead altering reliably sourced articles, it is one of the reasons I have mainly stopped editing on WP and you are the only editor doing it. I am moving them back to the original name you can if you wish start creating separate articles for the appointments I am not creating additional work for my self.--Navops47 (talk) 04:11, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Did you not previously scream at J-Man11 in capital letters before making good friends with him and endorsing his 'best English' articles and comments? Try lecture yourself first please. And reply here. BlueD954 (talk) 02:45, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
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G'day Buckshot06. I just wanted to say thanks for your efforts trying to help J-Man11 to be a productive editor. Far more than I could cope with, I can tell you. I only wish I had an ounce of your patience. Good on you for giving it a red-hot go, but some people just don't have what it takes to edit WP. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:44, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
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Could an experienced editor, knowledgeable in military topics finally take a look at the edits of JMRAMOS0109? I've had it with his "valuable" contributions. It is clear that the less he is familiar with a subject, the more inclined he is to rewrite the wiki-articles on it. The great majority of his edits are pointless and cosmetic at best, editing for the sake of increasing the amounts of edits and others are literally harmful, changing facts with his own interpretations, Americanizing terms connected to other countries the way he feels like it. Just a small number of examples of his valuable contributions is changing Soviet air regiments to "air wings", commanders of military schools in Socialist states to "superintendents", disregarding the Soviet system of grading military education institutions of center/school - higher school - academy and "translating" it to the US system, changing the term higher school to "academy" and academy to "staff college", because he feels like it, changing the translation of ракетная бригада (which means surface-to-surface ballistic missile brigade) to rocket brigade, completely disregarding the fact that the Russian language does not make the distinction between rocket and missile, introducing non-existent formations like Black Sea Fleet Air Arm, to clarify things, that do not need clarification and disconnecting the meaning of the English translation from the original name of the institution, put in brackets. Red Banner Black Sea Fleet Air Arm ([in Russian]: Red Banner Black Sea Fleet Headquarters) is NOT a meaningful edit. I can go on with such examples all day long. It is painfully obvious, that he lacks any understanding about the things he is so eager to re-write. It is not just a question of stylistics. Anyone with some basic understanding of Soviet and Russian military subjects knows that the Russians tend to introduce small changes in the names of military formations and units to underline changes in functions and/or equipment. A recent example is how he changes the translation of дивизия противовоздушной обороны from Division of Air Defence to Air Defence Division, completely oblivious to the fact that this also changes the meaning. The two may look the same, but they are not. Противовоздушная дивизия (Air Defence Division) was used for classic AAA formations in the interwar years, WWII and the initial postwar period. When the Russians transitioned these formations from classic anti-aircraft guns to anti-aircraft missile systems, guided by radars, they also changed the names to дивизия противовоздушной обороны (Division of Air Defence), to underline the combination of missile air defence troops and radiotechnical troops. This is also true for the higher corps formations, which also added fighter aviation to the mix.
He does not even understand the difference between an armed service (Силы) and branch (Войска) and keeps changing Troops to Forces, just because he feels like it. Making such edits willy-nilly changes the whole meaning. Does the quality of the content of the wiki-articles important, or is it just a question of persistence and who is willing to make an edit after edit after edit, no matter his/her competence on the matter? You edit the articles about the Soviet and Russian Armed Forces often. You know people, who are knowledgeable on the matter. I struggle to understand how his lack of general understanding and his actions could pass under the radar for so long.B.Velikov (talk) 08:39, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
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Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well B. MarnetteD|Talk 17:22, 19 December 2019 (UTC) |
MarnetteD many thanks for your kind words - much appreciated. Hope you have a great holiday as well!! Warm regards from New Zealand, Buckshot06 (talk) 10:01, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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I hope you’ve been doing well – happy new year as well. I’ve been doing some research on Russian military structure and have noticed a distinction is made from services (like the Navy) and independent troops (like the Airborne Forces or Strategic Missile Forces), but I haven’t been able to find any sources that accurately describe the difference. I noticed you’ve done a lot of editing on Russian military articles in the past. Do you have any recommendations on good sources or could explain the difference? Thanks! Garuda28 (talk) 04:34, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
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Is it OK with you if I move 246th Field Artillery (United States) (the redirect) to 246th Field Artillery Regiment? This will make it conform to about 95% of US Army field artillery regiment article titles. RobDuch (talk·contribs) 04:26, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
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Yeah, Somalia's Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, World Bank and International Monetary Fund don't have clear and concise figures on gross domestic product (nominal and per capita), I can only really find vague estimates but the calculations would suggest Somalia's is around 4-5bn USD assuming the 67mil USD budget is accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamveryshy22 (talk • contribs) 20:27, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
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Sincere apologies for making a bit of a hash of the clean up of this article following the change of name. And thanks for adding back the material which should quite rightly be retained. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 15:40, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hello,
Can you please delete the redirect Camp Baharia so i can move Dreamland (Fallujah, Iraq) there?
Also can you please delete the redirect Camp Fallujah so i can move MEK Compound there?
Thank you. Gavbadger (talk) 21:08, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Please stop deleting "Category:Closed installations of the United States Navy" and adding non applicable ones to Naval Facility articles. All the ones on Wikipedia are closed and that category is where they are "collected" easily. You have also added categories a read of the articles and link to SOSUS in them should show to be odd to say the least. Naval Facilitys had nothing to do with "communications" beyond having them. Naval Facility Bermuda had nothing to do with Bermuda's military. Palmeira (talk) 13:09, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
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Katangese Gendarmerie has finally been created. What are your thoughts on how the article looks? Any suggestions on how to improve its quality? Eddie891 Talk Work 12:13, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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