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Hello Buckshot, my beef with the edits of the IP is that they add numbers that i.e. far exceed what the Austrian Air Force has, or the Swiss... they numbers almost approach the the equipment numbers of the Italian Army! And edits like this [1] adding 300 to a howitzer Albania doesn't have in use any more make be believe this is an editor on a mission to increase the military power of Albania... at least on paper. Also he copied text 1:1 from a forum into the article once [2] (taken from here: [3]). Therefore I revert his edits as I can't see much value in them. noclador ( talk) 08:42, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
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== Soviet divisions ==
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Thank you for contacting me about this navbox. I created it because I found that Soviet Union division articles of limited scope tended towards being orphans, so a navbox linking them together seemed like the most expedient solution. I can understand that fully fleshing out the navbox with the uncreated articles would expand it beyond feasibility. Since it seems unlikely that the bulk of those articles will be created in the near future, the navbox seems to provide good short-term functionality. As the other articles are created, the sections of the navbox can be split off into their own navboxes. The navbox that the Soviet Union divisions navbox replaced was Template:Soviet Army Divisions World War II, which was a problematic template because it had no main link, which is required by our template guidelines. I merged the List of Soviet Union divisions articles because they were divided unencyclopedically. I agree that sublists should be created in new articles, but arbitrary year spans is not the way to go. I would be glad for your further thoughts, both on the navboxes and the lists.
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Hello Buckshot. I see that you are adding material to the article dealing with the TNA. That's fine except that you have deleted the opening paragraph under "post-Independence" giving details of the new national army as it was created in 1956. This was derived from John Keegan's authoritative work "World Armies" and seems to me be a valid introduction. Any objection to it being restored? Buistr 01:42, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot, was wondering how we should handle Russian Civil War Army-level formations. With the divisional units we've incorporated them into it's Soviet Army History. Do you think we should do the same with the Armies, or should we make these (Red Army) formations as compared to (Soviet Union) formations? Ryan.opel ( talk) 14:18, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the addition to the article. Adding to it has been on my to-do list, but time has prevented me from adding to the unit history. I also wanted to add to the unit history from the French and Indian war, where the 42nd Regiment of Foot rescued the Associators from being eliminated, an event that is celebrated in the unit Open Mess. Soldiers from the Black Watch attended the Formal Mess in several occasions while I was with the unit. From a military perspective, the unit is noteworthy for its high losses in every campaign it ever participated in until Iraq, where losses were, thankfully, much lighter. Of note in the Iraq action, an IED attack claimed the lives of unit members, the attacker eventually being caught in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] Again, thanks for the addition. Wzrd1 ( talk) 14:21, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for correcting my edit, most appreciated! But as you take an interest in all things military, and have been quite active on Russian military articles, I may have a little problem you might be interested in and a few words from an administrator like yourself would be useful.
Yesterday I was making several edits to the Superpower article in an attempt to improve the article, address some of its issues and rid it of some apparent nationalistic chest beating. One issue that I noticed in particular was the undue weight ( WP:RSUW) given to the EU and Russia in the articles leading paragraphs. This is an example below:
"Additionally, it is widely believed that the European Union and India may have the potential of achieving superpower status within the 21st century. [2] A few heads of states, [3] [4] politicians [5] and news analysts [6] have even suggested that Russia may have already reclaimed that status. [7] [8] [9] [10] According to various academics, the European Union has revived a style of European (a supranational entity), likening the union to an superpower of sorts. The term commonly used is Eurosphere. [11]"
Now I am sue you can see right-off what my issues with this are. For one, the suggestion that Russia and the EU are already superpowers is being forcibly pushed upon the reader! This is unacceptable, controversial and stinks of European/Russian nationalistic pov. Secondly it is written rather poorly and is painful to read. Thirdly (as I sated before) this is giving undue weight to the EU and Russia in the lead of an article whose topic is not that of potential superpowers, but that of defining the terminology, origins and characteristics of past and present Superpower/s.
To resolve the issue I deleted all mention of "potential superpowers" from the articles lead. I then expanded the lead to reflect the articles actual subject matter and used the "potential Superpowers" section at the bottom of the article to cover those nations regarded by academics as having the potential to achieve superpower status in the 21st century (re-written in a NPOV). I also made several other general edits to the rest of the article.
However, it appears I am now faced with being branded as "anti-Russian" in the articles talk page by an IP (unregistered user) who reverted my changes. I restored my revision as per WP:RSUW. I also have a strong suspicion that this IP is the same guy who has contested my edits in the past when trying to deal with Russian POV edits.
If you could voice your opinion on the articles talk page it would be most appreciated, thank you. Antiochus the Great ( talk) 15:38, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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Put up a start for 57th Army (Soviet Union). Cheers, W. B. Wilson ( talk) 17:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Buckshot06,
This is Wreck Smurfy. I wanted to say thanks for your thanks for the edits to 70th Army and 69th Rifle Division. As it happens I just received two more volumes of Red Army OoB material by Charles Sharp, so I'm in a position to crank out a few more articles in the coming months. Next up will be 354th Rifle Division, the running mate to 193rd Rifle Div. late in the War. I do Red Army re-enacting as a member of the 193rd, which is how I got started in all this.
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I have opened an RfC at the articles talk page entitled Talk:Superpower#RFC: Superpower article revision, no POV. I would appreciate it if you could express your opinions there. Thank you. Antiochus the Great ( talk) 21:32, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
You can start another dicussion but you appear to be in the mess of the edit war Antiochus the Great. Acroterion I sent Antiochus the Great on his talk page to appear of using another ip and engaged in an edit war using the ip 109.76.220.159 and Antiochus the Great of POV pushing but he quickly removes my comments [7]. I looked at the history of the Superpowers [8] and Superpowers talk [9] but the result has been under edit war since Dec 28 [10] and the discussion has been minor on there part. If you start with an edit, then talk first but the action Antiochus the Great has taken has been too much and no real discussion for such. There are disagreements but that is not stoping edit push. I think there is no resolution if this continues like what I see here [11] [12] [13] [14] as this matter was never discussed, it just appeared without any talk, this is a problem.-- 103.1.153.206 ( talk) 19:50, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Start article now in place. Cheers, W. B. Wilson ( talk) 09:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot06. I got your message regarding Brigadier General Frost. I have been in the process of creating and modifying the article for him for a while now. It is, so far, my first and only contribution to Wikipedia. Obviously, I'm not doing something right. So far, I have simply followed, as closely as possible, the style and content of other U.S. Army Generals who have Wikipedia entries. I'll be glad to add/remove/modify according to the rules but I think I will need assistance from a more experience contributor regarding what exactly needs to be done. I see that User:Illegitimate Barrister has been doing a considerable amount of editing. Some of the edits I understand, others I don't. Again, I'd like a little help getting this one right because I have a couple more, similar, articles I'm working on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3658:D39:A5EC:AD04:EE17:F7AA ( talk) 19:22, 24 January 2014 (UTC) Sorry, forgot to sign the above. afrosty ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:14, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
I have asked BG Frost for documentation regarding his activities in Iraq. I'm still unsure which specific items are in question. Can someone tell me exactly what part(s) is/are at risk? Maybe it's better to remove them and re-add them later when citations with reliable sources are available. What do you think? It may take some time for B G Frost provide the references due to his present workload and the fact he is moving to a new job as Deputy Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg and his wife is being promoted to Brigadier General in a couple months and she will take command of the US Army Cyber Command (I will want to submit an article about her also. . . .let's get this one right so when I submit hers, it's without errors). Much of the activities in Iraq (1st as a Cavalry Squadron Commander, & 2 yrs later as a Brigade Commander)are documented in the Hawaii news press articles in the Further Reading section at the bottom of the page. Is this considered reliable source verification ? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance. Afrosty ( talk) 23:36, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot06. Following your example (thank you), I have added a few references to the BG Frost article. I have also removed a few sentences that might be considered self-promoting. I have added a two or three new links to other Wikipedia articles. In the BG Frost article, there are several sentences regarding the Battle of Palm Grove. Everything that is said in the BG Frost article is also said it the Wikipedia article on the Battle of Palm Grove (which has no citation/reference warnings). Should I add a reference to the Wikipedia article or should just leave the BG Frost article as-is with just the link to the Battle article ? Is there anything else specific that I need to address ? What needs to be done to remove the warning at the top of the article ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Afrosty ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Buckshot06. I put up the article on the 354th Rifle Division over the last two evenings, if you care to peruse. I'm planning to tackle the 140th Rifle Division next, if no-one else has dibs. Wreck Smurfy ( talk) 01:32, 3 February 2014 (UTC)Wreck Smurfy
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Fascinating stuff. Much appreciated for the help Bob. While we're still on the subject of tanks, I had one other question: what exactly is that panel of multichromatic lights found right underneath the turret of the M1 Abrams tank?-- Marshal Bagramyan ( talk) 20:28, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot06. More warnings have appeared on Gen. Malcolm Frost's article. I have no idea what to do about them. (1) The first, "close connection", makes no sense to me. Why is that objectionable? Does Wikipedia have a rule about who can author an article? Should there be a comment by the author, in the article, indicating the authors relationship to the subject? (2) "tone". I will gladly modify or remove any offending statements. I cannot do that unless I know which statements do not meet Wikipedia's "encyclopedic" standards. The article has been modeled after numerous other Wikipedia military officer articles. I can find statements in other military officer articles that match the tone and intent of every sentence used in this article and have been permitted without warnings. Apparently I'm missing or misunderstanding something. (3) "citations/references". Without specific information about what needs referencing, I can't help. As you can see, I have added a 8 references since the last warning and does a very good job of providing verification for statements used. Again, this article appears, to me, to be cited satisfactorily when compared to other military officer articles. Can you get answers, specific answers, to these 3 items for me? Or, can you get someone to assist me editing the article? Should I consider removing the article and putting it in a workspace until it gets approval from everyone concerned ? (Even then, how do you overcome the "close connection" issue?) I need some good, solid, specific guidance here. Please help. Afrosty ( talk) 18:46, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for advising me to re-read BITE - it seems ironic, considering you began by telling me to buzz off. I'm tempted to place a warning here, for your personal attacks on me, but I doubt it would help. I'll just remind you here to please Comment on content, not on contributors.
As a "six-year experienced Wikipedian and administrator, with tens of thousands of edits and two featured articles", surely you know better than to put text like "details of what he did?", and "what were the dates of his posts at CArson?" within a live article [15].
Why are you recommending the user edits the article directly, in contradiction to the behavioural guidelines I stated?
And what do you mean about WP:DEADTREE - are you suggesting the subject requests deletion of their article? 88.104.19.233 ( talk) 18:16, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Courtesy notification - as we seem unable to agree, I have asked for third-party input on Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Malcolm_Frost. 88.104.19.233 ( talk) 21:19, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Pretty sure you were mocking me with it. Anyway so I did.
I guess you reacted on my 'edit war ceasefire' lighthearted comment and got interested in what was it about just after we've finally made an agreement and understood each other. How silly.
Nothing there was 'disrupting'. This article would be in totally disrupted state, like it was as recently as in 2012, if not my work on it. You csn check it. The link was in this comment of mine.
And I'm assuming good faith now despite this obviously mocking message you left me. I probably shouldn't. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.246.144.29 ( talk) 02:18, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Here it is, https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Spetsnaz&oldid=508538628
Maybe you should revert there, before all my disruption. -- 94.246.144.29 ( talk) 02:25, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Btw, lugnuthemvar left you a message on his talk page. -- 94.246.144.29 ( talk) 02:28, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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I guess I'll just play safe and say no more than that the relevant part of the official grounds for awarding an Admin Barnstar says "just to show an administrator that you think they are doing good work in a particular area of "the job" and that their work is appreciated" :) Tlhslobus ( talk) 06:20, 28 March 2014 (UTC) |
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Under the federal law, the FSB is a military service just like the Armed Forces, the MVD, the FSO, the SVR, the FSKN and EMERCOM's civil defense, but its commissioned officers do not normally wear military uniform. Lugnuthemvar ( talk) 09:50, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
2001 was a long time ago. besides, we should include the units used in military ops. Lugnuthemvar ( talk) 10:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
my proposal is simple. include the units used in military ops/campaigns. Lugnuthemvar ( talk) 10:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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I have undone the three moves you made of articles about French air bases. "Air Base 126 Solenzara" is possibly a more accurate literal translation of the French name of the base, but it is not a name format that is normal in the English language. For this reason I have moved it back (along with two others you moved) to the "Solanzara Air Base" form. You would probably do well to review WP:COMMONNAME before you make any other moves of this sort - our articles are meant to be located under names that people would normally look for them, not under literal translations of a name in another language. BMK ( talk) 16:09, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hello there! Several days ago I inserted a 2012 IISS citation to the article regarding the personnel strength of the Strategic Missile Troops. This wasn't a controversial edit as far as I am aware, because the IISS is a reliable source and the article never mentioned the manpower strength anyway. However since my edit, two IPs have challenged it by removing it. One claiming it was vandalism and the other left a very bizarre edit summary ("in out in history then moved information"). In order to "undo" my edit they both reverted the article to a 22 March 2014 revision of the article (as seen here and here). This is certainly strange behaviour and I bring it to your attention as I notice you regularly edit/patrol Russian military related article.
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Buckshot06, I can put up a stub explaining what the BSSA is and the information it provides. Of more general information, such as its date of production, I am not sure. It is clearly gleaned from wartime data, but whether it was produced in the format we know during the war is unclear to me. Cheers, W. B. Wilson ( talk) 07:50, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
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How do I upload a CV to authenticate the Edward J. Erickson article? I have the CV from Mr Erickson, and I need to upload it in the approved fashion. Some sort of WP:OTRS ticket, I think, but how? Buckshot06 (talk) 06:54, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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Could I make use of an official document listing his military positions, rather than a CV? Buckshot06 (talk) 13:26, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
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I believe that the US Marine Corp's Force Reconnaissance does fulfill a non-conventional role in the sense that they do not focus on conventional operations, but I do not believe that they fulfill the Special Operations criteria. For instance, the US Army's Long Range Reconnaissance detachments/companies fulfill a very similar role; providing limited ranged surveillance for a brigade or division. They attend Ranger school, are jump qualified and must attend the Surveillance & Reconnaissance Course at Fort Benning, but they are not considered an SOF. I guess the gist of my argument would be that non-convention/elite does not necessarily equal SOF. Since the US Special Operations Command and Marine Special Operations Command have not seen it fit to include Force Recon in their SOF category, I think that lends credence to the opinion.
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=After reviewing the definitions and comparing Force Recon with some of the equivelant forces on the international list, in addition to their historic activities alongside current special operations forces (namely the Rangers and SEALs in Vietnam), I agree that they do in fact fulfill the SOF criteria. I'll undo my edit. Best regards, ForwardObserver85 ( talk) 07:44, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey, no sweat on the Force Recon. Regarding the Rangers, while they were capable of being employed on the company-battalion level in the event of airfield seizures and cordoning operations, I believe they were also created to be used at the platoon level. For instance, part of their new mission set capability included a carry-over from their Vietnam days in which squad-level units would conduct long range reconnaissance and ambush patrols. Additionally, in his memoirs on the creation of Delta, Colonel Charles Beckwith mentioned that while campaigning for the creation of that unit he was met by resistance from the Ranger battalions and their supporters who felt that the Rangers were already tasked with the sort of counter-terror operations he was envisioning for Delta. When he finally got approval for the unit, Colonel Beckwith also wanted to be able to recruit from the Rangers especially. This would imply to me that they were training on some level (although not to the level of the various commonwealth SAS units) in small unit CQB and hostage rescue operations. The reason for this, I believe, was because aside from long range patrols and prisoner rescue operations, the US Army Special Forces (Green Berets) at the time were almost solely focused on Unconventional Warfare (aka training & leading locals to fight). As a result, the Rangers picked up most of the direct action-type of operations, even if they weren't actually the best ones suited for them. I look forward to hearing any counter-points or issues you might have, but it might be a few hours before my reply as I'm calling it a night. Best regards, ForwardObserver85 ( talk) 09:35, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Buckshot, I hope that you had a nice Christmas, and are enjoying a break. If you have time, could you look in on the Task Force 1-41 article? (which is currently up for deletion) and comment on whether you think that it's likely to be notable. Thanks, Nick-D ( talk) 22:49, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I've begun a copy edit of this article but I would appreciate your clarifications. For example the sentence: This is one of the longest records for an OC of a unit to hold such a position within the SADF. Dose this mean it was a record for the same officer to fill one, single command? Cheers! Shir-El too 20:23, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
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I recently created John Geoffrey Bruce (because of his Everest achievements) and it is about to go on the main page in DYK. I couldn't find much about his Indian Army military career so that is being dealt with very skimpily. I see you included him in a list at 17th Indian Infantry Brigade. Is there any more that can be said? Any help would be welcome. Thincat ( talk) 13:06, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot, my beef with the edits of the IP is that they add numbers that i.e. far exceed what the Austrian Air Force has, or the Swiss... they numbers almost approach the the equipment numbers of the Italian Army! And edits like this [1] adding 300 to a howitzer Albania doesn't have in use any more make be believe this is an editor on a mission to increase the military power of Albania... at least on paper. Also he copied text 1:1 from a forum into the article once [2] (taken from here: [3]). Therefore I revert his edits as I can't see much value in them. noclador ( talk) 08:42, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
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== Soviet divisions ==
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Thank you for contacting me about this navbox. I created it because I found that Soviet Union division articles of limited scope tended towards being orphans, so a navbox linking them together seemed like the most expedient solution. I can understand that fully fleshing out the navbox with the uncreated articles would expand it beyond feasibility. Since it seems unlikely that the bulk of those articles will be created in the near future, the navbox seems to provide good short-term functionality. As the other articles are created, the sections of the navbox can be split off into their own navboxes. The navbox that the Soviet Union divisions navbox replaced was Template:Soviet Army Divisions World War II, which was a problematic template because it had no main link, which is required by our template guidelines. I merged the List of Soviet Union divisions articles because they were divided unencyclopedically. I agree that sublists should be created in new articles, but arbitrary year spans is not the way to go. I would be glad for your further thoughts, both on the navboxes and the lists.
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Hello Buckshot. I see that you are adding material to the article dealing with the TNA. That's fine except that you have deleted the opening paragraph under "post-Independence" giving details of the new national army as it was created in 1956. This was derived from John Keegan's authoritative work "World Armies" and seems to me be a valid introduction. Any objection to it being restored? Buistr 01:42, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot, was wondering how we should handle Russian Civil War Army-level formations. With the divisional units we've incorporated them into it's Soviet Army History. Do you think we should do the same with the Armies, or should we make these (Red Army) formations as compared to (Soviet Union) formations? Ryan.opel ( talk) 14:18, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the addition to the article. Adding to it has been on my to-do list, but time has prevented me from adding to the unit history. I also wanted to add to the unit history from the French and Indian war, where the 42nd Regiment of Foot rescued the Associators from being eliminated, an event that is celebrated in the unit Open Mess. Soldiers from the Black Watch attended the Formal Mess in several occasions while I was with the unit. From a military perspective, the unit is noteworthy for its high losses in every campaign it ever participated in until Iraq, where losses were, thankfully, much lighter. Of note in the Iraq action, an IED attack claimed the lives of unit members, the attacker eventually being caught in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] Again, thanks for the addition. Wzrd1 ( talk) 14:21, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for correcting my edit, most appreciated! But as you take an interest in all things military, and have been quite active on Russian military articles, I may have a little problem you might be interested in and a few words from an administrator like yourself would be useful.
Yesterday I was making several edits to the Superpower article in an attempt to improve the article, address some of its issues and rid it of some apparent nationalistic chest beating. One issue that I noticed in particular was the undue weight ( WP:RSUW) given to the EU and Russia in the articles leading paragraphs. This is an example below:
"Additionally, it is widely believed that the European Union and India may have the potential of achieving superpower status within the 21st century. [2] A few heads of states, [3] [4] politicians [5] and news analysts [6] have even suggested that Russia may have already reclaimed that status. [7] [8] [9] [10] According to various academics, the European Union has revived a style of European (a supranational entity), likening the union to an superpower of sorts. The term commonly used is Eurosphere. [11]"
Now I am sue you can see right-off what my issues with this are. For one, the suggestion that Russia and the EU are already superpowers is being forcibly pushed upon the reader! This is unacceptable, controversial and stinks of European/Russian nationalistic pov. Secondly it is written rather poorly and is painful to read. Thirdly (as I sated before) this is giving undue weight to the EU and Russia in the lead of an article whose topic is not that of potential superpowers, but that of defining the terminology, origins and characteristics of past and present Superpower/s.
To resolve the issue I deleted all mention of "potential superpowers" from the articles lead. I then expanded the lead to reflect the articles actual subject matter and used the "potential Superpowers" section at the bottom of the article to cover those nations regarded by academics as having the potential to achieve superpower status in the 21st century (re-written in a NPOV). I also made several other general edits to the rest of the article.
However, it appears I am now faced with being branded as "anti-Russian" in the articles talk page by an IP (unregistered user) who reverted my changes. I restored my revision as per WP:RSUW. I also have a strong suspicion that this IP is the same guy who has contested my edits in the past when trying to deal with Russian POV edits.
If you could voice your opinion on the articles talk page it would be most appreciated, thank you. Antiochus the Great ( talk) 15:38, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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Put up a start for 57th Army (Soviet Union). Cheers, W. B. Wilson ( talk) 17:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Buckshot06,
This is Wreck Smurfy. I wanted to say thanks for your thanks for the edits to 70th Army and 69th Rifle Division. As it happens I just received two more volumes of Red Army OoB material by Charles Sharp, so I'm in a position to crank out a few more articles in the coming months. Next up will be 354th Rifle Division, the running mate to 193rd Rifle Div. late in the War. I do Red Army re-enacting as a member of the 193rd, which is how I got started in all this.
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I have opened an RfC at the articles talk page entitled Talk:Superpower#RFC: Superpower article revision, no POV. I would appreciate it if you could express your opinions there. Thank you. Antiochus the Great ( talk) 21:32, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
You can start another dicussion but you appear to be in the mess of the edit war Antiochus the Great. Acroterion I sent Antiochus the Great on his talk page to appear of using another ip and engaged in an edit war using the ip 109.76.220.159 and Antiochus the Great of POV pushing but he quickly removes my comments [7]. I looked at the history of the Superpowers [8] and Superpowers talk [9] but the result has been under edit war since Dec 28 [10] and the discussion has been minor on there part. If you start with an edit, then talk first but the action Antiochus the Great has taken has been too much and no real discussion for such. There are disagreements but that is not stoping edit push. I think there is no resolution if this continues like what I see here [11] [12] [13] [14] as this matter was never discussed, it just appeared without any talk, this is a problem.-- 103.1.153.206 ( talk) 19:50, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Start article now in place. Cheers, W. B. Wilson ( talk) 09:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot06. I got your message regarding Brigadier General Frost. I have been in the process of creating and modifying the article for him for a while now. It is, so far, my first and only contribution to Wikipedia. Obviously, I'm not doing something right. So far, I have simply followed, as closely as possible, the style and content of other U.S. Army Generals who have Wikipedia entries. I'll be glad to add/remove/modify according to the rules but I think I will need assistance from a more experience contributor regarding what exactly needs to be done. I see that User:Illegitimate Barrister has been doing a considerable amount of editing. Some of the edits I understand, others I don't. Again, I'd like a little help getting this one right because I have a couple more, similar, articles I'm working on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3658:D39:A5EC:AD04:EE17:F7AA ( talk) 19:22, 24 January 2014 (UTC) Sorry, forgot to sign the above. afrosty ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:14, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
I have asked BG Frost for documentation regarding his activities in Iraq. I'm still unsure which specific items are in question. Can someone tell me exactly what part(s) is/are at risk? Maybe it's better to remove them and re-add them later when citations with reliable sources are available. What do you think? It may take some time for B G Frost provide the references due to his present workload and the fact he is moving to a new job as Deputy Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg and his wife is being promoted to Brigadier General in a couple months and she will take command of the US Army Cyber Command (I will want to submit an article about her also. . . .let's get this one right so when I submit hers, it's without errors). Much of the activities in Iraq (1st as a Cavalry Squadron Commander, & 2 yrs later as a Brigade Commander)are documented in the Hawaii news press articles in the Further Reading section at the bottom of the page. Is this considered reliable source verification ? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance. Afrosty ( talk) 23:36, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot06. Following your example (thank you), I have added a few references to the BG Frost article. I have also removed a few sentences that might be considered self-promoting. I have added a two or three new links to other Wikipedia articles. In the BG Frost article, there are several sentences regarding the Battle of Palm Grove. Everything that is said in the BG Frost article is also said it the Wikipedia article on the Battle of Palm Grove (which has no citation/reference warnings). Should I add a reference to the Wikipedia article or should just leave the BG Frost article as-is with just the link to the Battle article ? Is there anything else specific that I need to address ? What needs to be done to remove the warning at the top of the article ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Afrosty ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Buckshot06. I put up the article on the 354th Rifle Division over the last two evenings, if you care to peruse. I'm planning to tackle the 140th Rifle Division next, if no-one else has dibs. Wreck Smurfy ( talk) 01:32, 3 February 2014 (UTC)Wreck Smurfy
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Hi Buckshot. We haven't spoken for a while but I hope you're doing well. I had two questions to ask you, since your knowledge of the military is far better than mine. I was hoping you could tell me the name and purpose of this pylon found on the rear of this BMP-1 armored personnel carrier and the name and purpose of this triangle rail guard found on front of this turret of this T-72A MBT. Cheers,-- Marshal Bagramyan ( talk) 17:46, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Fascinating stuff. Much appreciated for the help Bob. While we're still on the subject of tanks, I had one other question: what exactly is that panel of multichromatic lights found right underneath the turret of the M1 Abrams tank?-- Marshal Bagramyan ( talk) 20:28, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Buckshot06. More warnings have appeared on Gen. Malcolm Frost's article. I have no idea what to do about them. (1) The first, "close connection", makes no sense to me. Why is that objectionable? Does Wikipedia have a rule about who can author an article? Should there be a comment by the author, in the article, indicating the authors relationship to the subject? (2) "tone". I will gladly modify or remove any offending statements. I cannot do that unless I know which statements do not meet Wikipedia's "encyclopedic" standards. The article has been modeled after numerous other Wikipedia military officer articles. I can find statements in other military officer articles that match the tone and intent of every sentence used in this article and have been permitted without warnings. Apparently I'm missing or misunderstanding something. (3) "citations/references". Without specific information about what needs referencing, I can't help. As you can see, I have added a 8 references since the last warning and does a very good job of providing verification for statements used. Again, this article appears, to me, to be cited satisfactorily when compared to other military officer articles. Can you get answers, specific answers, to these 3 items for me? Or, can you get someone to assist me editing the article? Should I consider removing the article and putting it in a workspace until it gets approval from everyone concerned ? (Even then, how do you overcome the "close connection" issue?) I need some good, solid, specific guidance here. Please help. Afrosty ( talk) 18:46, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for advising me to re-read BITE - it seems ironic, considering you began by telling me to buzz off. I'm tempted to place a warning here, for your personal attacks on me, but I doubt it would help. I'll just remind you here to please Comment on content, not on contributors.
As a "six-year experienced Wikipedian and administrator, with tens of thousands of edits and two featured articles", surely you know better than to put text like "details of what he did?", and "what were the dates of his posts at CArson?" within a live article [15].
Why are you recommending the user edits the article directly, in contradiction to the behavioural guidelines I stated?
And what do you mean about WP:DEADTREE - are you suggesting the subject requests deletion of their article? 88.104.19.233 ( talk) 18:16, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Courtesy notification - as we seem unable to agree, I have asked for third-party input on Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Malcolm_Frost. 88.104.19.233 ( talk) 21:19, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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How's it going? I haven't seen you around for a while. I hope you're OK. You've done a lot of great work; I hope you're not away for long. bobrayner ( talk) 17:22, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Pretty sure you were mocking me with it. Anyway so I did.
I guess you reacted on my 'edit war ceasefire' lighthearted comment and got interested in what was it about just after we've finally made an agreement and understood each other. How silly.
Nothing there was 'disrupting'. This article would be in totally disrupted state, like it was as recently as in 2012, if not my work on it. You csn check it. The link was in this comment of mine.
And I'm assuming good faith now despite this obviously mocking message you left me. I probably shouldn't. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.246.144.29 ( talk) 02:18, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Here it is, https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Spetsnaz&oldid=508538628
Maybe you should revert there, before all my disruption. -- 94.246.144.29 ( talk) 02:25, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Btw, lugnuthemvar left you a message on his talk page. -- 94.246.144.29 ( talk) 02:28, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Bumping for a response. -- 94.246.144.29 ( talk) 02:38, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi user:Buckshot06 ( talk), it's been awhile but I thought that you can help me with this: /info/en/?search=Talk:Royal_Moroccan_Army#Battles_in_infobox
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Purely theoretical questions: If an editor that has proved rather distressing to me in the past finally gets punished (oops, sorry, sanctions are not punishments, as per WP:I-forget-what) for misbehaving in some dispute in which I have no involvement, would it violate some Wikipedia principle if I were to offer something like a Barnstar for Law Enforcement (if such a thing exists) to the Admin who issued the sanction? And, if so, would I have to hypocritically pretend that I regarded the sanction as a 'regretable' necessity? Tlhslobus ( talk) 03:24, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
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I guess I'll just play safe and say no more than that the relevant part of the official grounds for awarding an Admin Barnstar says "just to show an administrator that you think they are doing good work in a particular area of "the job" and that their work is appreciated" :) Tlhslobus ( talk) 06:20, 28 March 2014 (UTC) |
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Under the federal law, the FSB is a military service just like the Armed Forces, the MVD, the FSO, the SVR, the FSKN and EMERCOM's civil defense, but its commissioned officers do not normally wear military uniform. Lugnuthemvar ( talk) 09:50, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
2001 was a long time ago. besides, we should include the units used in military ops. Lugnuthemvar ( talk) 10:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
my proposal is simple. include the units used in military ops/campaigns. Lugnuthemvar ( talk) 10:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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I have undone the three moves you made of articles about French air bases. "Air Base 126 Solenzara" is possibly a more accurate literal translation of the French name of the base, but it is not a name format that is normal in the English language. For this reason I have moved it back (along with two others you moved) to the "Solanzara Air Base" form. You would probably do well to review WP:COMMONNAME before you make any other moves of this sort - our articles are meant to be located under names that people would normally look for them, not under literal translations of a name in another language. BMK ( talk) 16:09, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hello there! Several days ago I inserted a 2012 IISS citation to the article regarding the personnel strength of the Strategic Missile Troops. This wasn't a controversial edit as far as I am aware, because the IISS is a reliable source and the article never mentioned the manpower strength anyway. However since my edit, two IPs have challenged it by removing it. One claiming it was vandalism and the other left a very bizarre edit summary ("in out in history then moved information"). In order to "undo" my edit they both reverted the article to a 22 March 2014 revision of the article (as seen here and here). This is certainly strange behaviour and I bring it to your attention as I notice you regularly edit/patrol Russian military related article.
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Buckshot06, I can put up a stub explaining what the BSSA is and the information it provides. Of more general information, such as its date of production, I am not sure. It is clearly gleaned from wartime data, but whether it was produced in the format we know during the war is unclear to me. Cheers, W. B. Wilson ( talk) 07:50, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
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There are three articles and at least one needs to be merged, but I am not very sure how these legal definitions work.
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How do I upload a CV to authenticate the Edward J. Erickson article? I have the CV from Mr Erickson, and I need to upload it in the approved fashion. Some sort of WP:OTRS ticket, I think, but how? Buckshot06 (talk) 06:54, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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Could I make use of an official document listing his military positions, rather than a CV? Buckshot06 (talk) 13:26, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
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I believe that the US Marine Corp's Force Reconnaissance does fulfill a non-conventional role in the sense that they do not focus on conventional operations, but I do not believe that they fulfill the Special Operations criteria. For instance, the US Army's Long Range Reconnaissance detachments/companies fulfill a very similar role; providing limited ranged surveillance for a brigade or division. They attend Ranger school, are jump qualified and must attend the Surveillance & Reconnaissance Course at Fort Benning, but they are not considered an SOF. I guess the gist of my argument would be that non-convention/elite does not necessarily equal SOF. Since the US Special Operations Command and Marine Special Operations Command have not seen it fit to include Force Recon in their SOF category, I think that lends credence to the opinion.
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=After reviewing the definitions and comparing Force Recon with some of the equivelant forces on the international list, in addition to their historic activities alongside current special operations forces (namely the Rangers and SEALs in Vietnam), I agree that they do in fact fulfill the SOF criteria. I'll undo my edit. Best regards, ForwardObserver85 ( talk) 07:44, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey, no sweat on the Force Recon. Regarding the Rangers, while they were capable of being employed on the company-battalion level in the event of airfield seizures and cordoning operations, I believe they were also created to be used at the platoon level. For instance, part of their new mission set capability included a carry-over from their Vietnam days in which squad-level units would conduct long range reconnaissance and ambush patrols. Additionally, in his memoirs on the creation of Delta, Colonel Charles Beckwith mentioned that while campaigning for the creation of that unit he was met by resistance from the Ranger battalions and their supporters who felt that the Rangers were already tasked with the sort of counter-terror operations he was envisioning for Delta. When he finally got approval for the unit, Colonel Beckwith also wanted to be able to recruit from the Rangers especially. This would imply to me that they were training on some level (although not to the level of the various commonwealth SAS units) in small unit CQB and hostage rescue operations. The reason for this, I believe, was because aside from long range patrols and prisoner rescue operations, the US Army Special Forces (Green Berets) at the time were almost solely focused on Unconventional Warfare (aka training & leading locals to fight). As a result, the Rangers picked up most of the direct action-type of operations, even if they weren't actually the best ones suited for them. I look forward to hearing any counter-points or issues you might have, but it might be a few hours before my reply as I'm calling it a night. Best regards, ForwardObserver85 ( talk) 09:35, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Buckshot, I hope that you had a nice Christmas, and are enjoying a break. If you have time, could you look in on the Task Force 1-41 article? (which is currently up for deletion) and comment on whether you think that it's likely to be notable. Thanks, Nick-D ( talk) 22:49, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I've begun a copy edit of this article but I would appreciate your clarifications. For example the sentence: This is one of the longest records for an OC of a unit to hold such a position within the SADF. Dose this mean it was a record for the same officer to fill one, single command? Cheers! Shir-El too 20:23, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
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I recently created John Geoffrey Bruce (because of his Everest achievements) and it is about to go on the main page in DYK. I couldn't find much about his Indian Army military career so that is being dealt with very skimpily. I see you included him in a list at 17th Indian Infantry Brigade. Is there any more that can be said? Any help would be welcome. Thincat ( talk) 13:06, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
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Why would you move this article when there is quite a bit of info pertaining to Task Force Iron? Don Brunett ( talk) 15:24, 21 January 2015 (UTC)Don Brunett