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Thanks for all the work you did on this one. Can you please also provide citations, i.e. where you got all that information from? I will not delete your additions, but for a good Wikipedia article, the main facts at least should have inline citations. Thanks MadMaxDog 23:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the complement, but most of it was written by you. BTW I have had the fighting in the city of Berlin on my "to do" list, since I expanded the other sections, but I ran out of steam, and other things seem to get in the way (like the re-write of the Battle of Halbe). I am very glad that someone has tackled it, because the article was unbalanced (all bread and no meat in the sandwich) and it is much easier to chip in more information if most of the details are already written. :-)
As a kid I spent an inordinate amount of time studying castles, to such an extent that even now, by looking at an English castle I can still usually date any part of them by the architecture to the nearest 50 years. However I think my only link to Pontefract Castle in the Wikipedia project was from Robert Lilburne (Pun intended). -- Philip Baird Shearer 20:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Page sizes should not go over 32K. This page is now at 39K. I think that the Battle of Berlin section is becoming too German intensive. It should be more about the Soviets who after all had the initiative and were fighting the battle on their terms. -- Philip Baird Shearer 00:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Perhapse you would like to move the paragraph into Bombing of Berlin in World War II. But if you do I think that the 18th should be changed to the 15th and the online book I have put on the BoB talk page be used as a reference. I did not appreciate until I read yesterday it that this bombing (with the refrences given) this could be seen the first action of the cold war. -- Philip Baird Shearer 08:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I like Latin numerals for all German units, and some authors like Ziemke use them (see the map [1]). However I fought a loosing battle over this issue over the Battle of Halbe (see Talk:Battle of Halbe#Numbers of units). I think it makes it clear if one army is listed as 3rd and the the other as III. However only yesterday I went throught the Battle of Stalingrad [2] and used words for the German Armies to distinguish them from the Soviet ones. The reason for Corps being in Latin numbers is traditional and is followed by almost all military historians (and is in one of the guidlines). -- Philip Baird Shearer 14:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I do not think it is a good idea because all the military histories I have read about the Battle of Berlin date it from the 16th. Indeed the arguments are that there are only three crucial dates in the battle. The initial attack on April 16th, the breakout on the April 18th by Konev, the 25th because of the breakout by Rokossovsky and the Soviet American linkup meant that the war was won. After that it was all over bar the killing. -- Philip Baird Shearer 14:48, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hanna Reitsch flew in in a Storch but was flown out by another pilot in a Arado 96 which landed and turned around for close to intimidate take off. I am fairly sure that it was not from the Tiergarten but from Unter den Linden, but I have not found a source for that. BTW I deliberately put the wording on the outfight vague because I did not want to put in this much detail and some sources say she flew the plane out.
It is I suppose possible that the street now called Strasse des 17 Juni (a definate post war name) was then also part of UdL in which case that would square the circle (same street but in the Tiergarten) but according to the 17 article it was called "Charlottenburger Chaussee" during the war (which makes sense to me), so back to square 1. -- Philip Baird Shearer 01:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
The article can always be moved if there is a better name. Add anything you want, but expect it to be "edited unmercifully" :-o -- Philip Baird Shearer 12:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Army Group Courland#At capitulation AGC comanded by Gilpert or Hilpert -- Philip Baird Shearer 17:25, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
You seem to have taken text from http://stonebooks.com/history/iceland.shtml verbatim and put it into the Occupation of Iceland article. This would seem to be a copyright violation. Unless you can explain it some other way I will have to delete the article. Haukur 19:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Should his second name be spelled with one or two "l"s? The London Gazette server is acting up right now, but I find the spelling with one "l" appearing four times during WWI, and get no hits with the two "l" spelling. Choess 15:30, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Andorra, Liechtenstein and San Marino were not occupied during WW2; please see the articles on those countries for more details. Serbia, Slovenia, and Montenegro did not exist as independent states during the war, and the Independent State of Croatia was a Axis puppet state which was not recognised internationally as separate from Yugoslavia. Please be more careful when including material. Grant | Talk 19:13, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I presume this article was an error. I can only find details of Roger Eustace Le Fleming, which you seem to have already created. I put a {{ prod}} tag on it but I can speedy it if you prefer. Leith p 06:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about the SD template on the two soldier articles, I didn't think to read their ranks... My apologies there. I got a little used to kids making articles about their grandfathers who never rose past the rank of private... well, regards, †Ðanieltiger45† Talk to me 23:18, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you are referring to. Grant | Talk 13:56, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Got to give the guy the benefit of the doubt - he's an Italian university professor (as you might have guessed from the stream of Italian he has written in the guerilla article - I assume he will translate!). Generally in the English Wikipedia this sort of campaign article is understandably very Allied-centric so I'm really happy that an Italian with Italian sources is taking an interest - the tidying of the stilted English is a small price to pay in my view as long as there is quality in the information and it is satisfactorily referenced. May have to have a discussion with him on this latter point in due course! Sometimes one is pleasantly surprised....a French user of Wikimedia has taken the laborious map I made for the northern campaign and turned it into a pretty svg file - very professional (although I have to say I was rather proud of my original effort which I thought had a certain earthy charm!). By the way, it would be really nice to have a map for the southern front... any ideas? Keep up the good work! Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 16:07, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Mkpumphrey. I was just wondering why you removed Englebert (tyre manufacturer) from Category:Tire manufacturers? Thanks. DH85868993 15:10, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
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I see you have done a lot of work on the British African divisions of World War II. However the (reconstituted?) British 11th Division fought in the Burma Campaign as part of the British Fourteenth Army: and is usually called the "11th East African Division"( second paragraph). Could we discuss what to do with this reorganisation on the talk page of the Talk:British Divisions in World War II? -- Philip Baird Shearer 12:07, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I don't see a problem with the Iran article. As I understand it the chronology was 1. 10th Indian Div arrived at Basra -> Anglo-Iraqi War -> Habforce leaves Transjordan and is attached to Iraqforce when it reached Habbaniya -> 8 Indian Div starts to arrive -> Syria-Lebanon campaign -> Arab Legion sent back to Transjordan ->Iran Invasion. I think the texts reflect this now....? Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 17:20, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome; actually, Wknight94 ( talk · contribs) reverted the vandalism. I just let you know. Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 00:31, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry I didn't respond to your note earlier but I've been away for 6 weeks. I didn't write that sentence but I did reorganise the article with new sub headings and may have cut and pasted it to its current position (thus getting the "credit" for its inclusion). On the subject of adding a citation tag, there are no rules. If you think it needs more then stick in a tag and see if it stirs anything up! Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 16:43, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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You have added a lot of material to Italian Colonial Empire. Can you please add the references for your additions? Thanks. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick t 16:07, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi,
I noticed that during your edits on the Italian invasion of Egypt article, you have essentially been reverting my edits which have removed duplicate links.
The general policy is that a key word is linked on its first mention and not on every mention of it. Examples of where this is lifted is usually towards the end of the article for important things to promote further reading.
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Please be aware that the style for disambiguation pages differs from that for article pages, in particular there should only be one link per line. Thanks, Rich257 ( talk) 15:40, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Just to point out, you keep adding allot of dubious information to the Italian invasion of Egypt article. For instance:
Facing the Italian invasion was O'Connor and the ever-improving but still woefully incomplete Western Desert Force. Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse commanded the under strength 4th Indian Infantry Division and, [b]as of 3 September, Major-General William Gott had been placed in command of the under strength 7th Armored Division (the "Desert Rats"). It was Gott's former command, the Support Group, that would provide much of the "light covering forces" that actually met the Italians at the border[/b].[citation needed]
Uncited and incorrect information such as this - Gott did not take command of the 7th Armour until 1941, he was a Brigadier during 1940 and was still so during May 1941 and his command, as proved there the top of the article, was soley the 7th Support Group at the time of the Italian invasion.-- EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 12:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
My mistake. When you added Gott (and removed O'Connor?) I misread when Gott became commander of the 7th Armored Division. I saw "September 3" in the srticle for the 7th Armored Division and misread that it was 1940 (and not the correct 1941). My overall goal was to try to briefly explain who Gott was within the Italian invasion of Egypt article. You added his name as one of the primary commanders but never mentioned him within the article. Mkpumphrey ( talk) 13:11, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
The Italian strength is very confusing. I have the 1990 version of Hunt (which is the same as the original but with a very expanded foreword to give a new perspective following the revelation of the Enigma secret). Hunt says that the Italian force "which crossed the frontier on 15th September" was (my tabulation):
+"various other oddments" including "an armoured group"
No mention of the Maletti Group but I see that the Maletti are described in the article as being 6 Libyan battalions and I can therefore imagine that since it was an ad hoc formation, the battalions maybe were drawn from the two regular divisions and put in trucks.
He describes that the two Libyan and the 4th Blackshirts were effectively taken out in the first two days as was the armoured group (which he says had the name "The red flames of Italy"). The 64th was caught undeployed during a "routine relief" by 4th Armoured Brigade and surrendered. He says that the units that ended bottled up in Bardia were 1st and 2nd Blackshirts, 62nd Marmaraica and 63rd Cirene Divs plus a company of M13 tanks. He says the garrison was commanded by Bergonzoli, "previously commander of XXIII Corps". I wonder whether Hunt got the Corps names switched - why would you put the XXIII Corps commander in charge of what was XXI Corps plus a division?
In Tobruk was 61st Sirte and there was a "counterattack force" under General Cona built around XX Corps consisting of 60th Sabrata Div and the Babini Armoured Group (2 medium tank battalions (=I think M13) and a Bersaglieri Regiment) based at Mechili (I guess this is the BCS).
He also says that at Beda Fomm the Italians had "the better part of four battalions of medium tanks but that one battalion had crews that had never seen the M13 before."
In his foreword to the 1990 edition Hunt asks the question whether his story (and its accuracy) had stood the test of time (apart from distortions required to conceal official secrets in 1966). He states that he had read all the official histories and could only find one discrepancy (relating to the sinking of the Ankara). He's generally pretty confident about the British intelligence's success in determining the opposition's order of battle. Having said that 1. He would wouldn't he? - It was his job! 2. He only arrived in the desert in June 1941 (having been in Greece) so his description of these events is not first hand. Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 18:10, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hi! I've been following your commendable work on the battles of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, & noticed that you recently linked to the article Army of the Ethiopian Empire. The topic of this article duplicates Military history of Ethiopia, although its contents would be better matched to an article entitled Military history of the Axumite Kingdom. This leads me to wonder -- & ask your opinion on -- whether it would be best to have a series of 3 articles here: one on the history of the Axumite kingdom, another on the medieval empire (from circa 1300 to 1850), & the last on the military of Ethiopia from Tewodros II onwards (the existing article on the Military history). This would conform to the general state of the evidence -- there is little for the period AD 700 - 1300 -- & the pre-1850 military is so different from the military since that date that I think it makes sense to divide the topic there. Of course, doing this would mean that a number of links would need to be redone... -- llywrch ( talk) 20:18, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hey! I've noticed your substantial expansion of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War article, as well as on its battles, and I just wanted to give you a barnstar in appreciation. There aren't many with the knowledge or access to the sources to expand these articles so substantially, so it's great to see someone like you come along and improve them. Keep on doing what you're doing, there's plenty who appreciate it. ;) — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 02:22, 16 August 2008 (UTC) |
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No thanks. I will leave the removal of material to you. You apparently think you know what is important and what is not important in this world. I never intend to edit the "important" items you edit like: the E.T. article, the Lindsey Lohan article, or anything written about Natalie Portman. But are there subjects you routinely "protect" about which you could warn me? I will make every effort to avoid them. Mkpumphrey ( talk) 15:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
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I don't mean to repeatedly bother you regarding this article, and I'll no longer message you about it if you wish, but I wanted to be sure you know my thinking about what you wrote on the talk page. If you present your proposed edit there (I have only speculated about what it might be) and no one else responds in a week or so, that will just leave your opinion and mine. Since my opinion is no more important than yours, I would not object to your adding your proposed material at that point. If other editors express opinions we'll see what sort of consensus emerges (if any), but in that case I would not let my opinion alone be what keeps your edit out of the article. If any of this is not clear, feel free to ask me for more explanation. Otherwise, I'll assume you understand, and I'll not raise the issue any more on your talk page. Thanks. Ward3001 ( talk) 19:32, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your note. In response, I too didn't find anything that anti-religous about the label on my page. I think people construed it as such because it featured the word GOD with a red cross through it, coupled with my announcement that I had an interest in atheism.
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I don't want to stir up conflict between you and me, and this is a minor point that I can live with either way. But I'm curious why you made this edit since you didn't leave an edit summary. The link gives some additional information about King. If there was an article on King, the link would be to his article and would be entirely appropriate. But as I said, I'm just curious and don't plan to challenge the edit. Thanks. Ward3001 ( talk) 17:37, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
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Much as I am glad that you are helping to write articles on Ethiopia that might never get written, I'm at a complete loss at why you insist on equating "Semien province" with "Semien Wollo Zone"; they have almost nothing in common, except minor details such as both are located in the Ethiopian highlands, & both having "Semien" -- which means North -- in their names. You might as well link "Semien province" to any article with "North" in it, such as North Dakota! (And the reason I haven't written an article on Semien province yet is that I'd rather wait to create one when I have the time & material to write more than a two-sentence stub that would help no one.) -- llywrch ( talk) 06:22, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Nice work on Battle of Maychew. I was wondering though, what information - if any - came from Barker 1968 (The Civilizing Mission: A History of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936)? It's in the references section but not referenced by any of the footnotes. Recognizance ( talk) 20:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi thanks for the contribution to the article, however do you have source information to support your addition? If so can you add it in please. cheers-- EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 22:06, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi -- I noticed you have been adding English noble titles to various Ethiopian articles. The problem with your practice is that it is greatly at odds with the practice observed in the usual accounts of Ethiopian history & culture -- as well as Ethiopian practice. Ethiopians simply use the titles of "Dejazmach", "Ras", "Negus" & so forth. Substituting them for "Duke", "King" & so forth simply confuses those who are familiar with the subject. I've been reverting your edits -- as you have noticed; I hope you don't mind, & apologize if doing this offends you. -- llywrch ( talk) 22:04, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Wow. Thanks for the barnstar. :) -- llywrch ( talk) 21:33, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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If that makes best sense for you, go ahead & do it. I have no problem with glossing these terms inline, as long as the Ethiopian title comes first; that's really my only quibble. BTW, what is the practice in other parts of Wikipedia handling native noble titles, say Japan or Byzantine Greece? I looked at the MoS, but there was no explicit statement & I wouldn't trust the judgment of most of the regulars there. (Last time I asked for advice there, the incompetence of the answer almost caused me to leave Wikipedia & the topic was one of the issues that led to an ArbCom case.) -- llywrch ( talk) 16:35, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, I removed the "Bahrain" section that you added to Bombing of Palestine in World War II. Bahrain is not part of Palestine it is not even close to it. Not sure if there is good place for this section elsewhere, but it doesn't belong in this article. Odedee ( talk) 09:28, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for all the work you did on this one. Can you please also provide citations, i.e. where you got all that information from? I will not delete your additions, but for a good Wikipedia article, the main facts at least should have inline citations. Thanks MadMaxDog 23:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the complement, but most of it was written by you. BTW I have had the fighting in the city of Berlin on my "to do" list, since I expanded the other sections, but I ran out of steam, and other things seem to get in the way (like the re-write of the Battle of Halbe). I am very glad that someone has tackled it, because the article was unbalanced (all bread and no meat in the sandwich) and it is much easier to chip in more information if most of the details are already written. :-)
As a kid I spent an inordinate amount of time studying castles, to such an extent that even now, by looking at an English castle I can still usually date any part of them by the architecture to the nearest 50 years. However I think my only link to Pontefract Castle in the Wikipedia project was from Robert Lilburne (Pun intended). -- Philip Baird Shearer 20:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Page sizes should not go over 32K. This page is now at 39K. I think that the Battle of Berlin section is becoming too German intensive. It should be more about the Soviets who after all had the initiative and were fighting the battle on their terms. -- Philip Baird Shearer 00:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Perhapse you would like to move the paragraph into Bombing of Berlin in World War II. But if you do I think that the 18th should be changed to the 15th and the online book I have put on the BoB talk page be used as a reference. I did not appreciate until I read yesterday it that this bombing (with the refrences given) this could be seen the first action of the cold war. -- Philip Baird Shearer 08:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I like Latin numerals for all German units, and some authors like Ziemke use them (see the map [1]). However I fought a loosing battle over this issue over the Battle of Halbe (see Talk:Battle of Halbe#Numbers of units). I think it makes it clear if one army is listed as 3rd and the the other as III. However only yesterday I went throught the Battle of Stalingrad [2] and used words for the German Armies to distinguish them from the Soviet ones. The reason for Corps being in Latin numbers is traditional and is followed by almost all military historians (and is in one of the guidlines). -- Philip Baird Shearer 14:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I do not think it is a good idea because all the military histories I have read about the Battle of Berlin date it from the 16th. Indeed the arguments are that there are only three crucial dates in the battle. The initial attack on April 16th, the breakout on the April 18th by Konev, the 25th because of the breakout by Rokossovsky and the Soviet American linkup meant that the war was won. After that it was all over bar the killing. -- Philip Baird Shearer 14:48, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hanna Reitsch flew in in a Storch but was flown out by another pilot in a Arado 96 which landed and turned around for close to intimidate take off. I am fairly sure that it was not from the Tiergarten but from Unter den Linden, but I have not found a source for that. BTW I deliberately put the wording on the outfight vague because I did not want to put in this much detail and some sources say she flew the plane out.
It is I suppose possible that the street now called Strasse des 17 Juni (a definate post war name) was then also part of UdL in which case that would square the circle (same street but in the Tiergarten) but according to the 17 article it was called "Charlottenburger Chaussee" during the war (which makes sense to me), so back to square 1. -- Philip Baird Shearer 01:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
The article can always be moved if there is a better name. Add anything you want, but expect it to be "edited unmercifully" :-o -- Philip Baird Shearer 12:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
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For your excellent work in what was a serious hollow in treatment of History of Italy in English Wikipedia, the entry Italian Social Republic. Attilios 12:07, 24 February 2007 (UTC) |
Please see Talk:Army Group Courland#At capitulation AGC comanded by Gilpert or Hilpert -- Philip Baird Shearer 17:25, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
You seem to have taken text from http://stonebooks.com/history/iceland.shtml verbatim and put it into the Occupation of Iceland article. This would seem to be a copyright violation. Unless you can explain it some other way I will have to delete the article. Haukur 19:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Should his second name be spelled with one or two "l"s? The London Gazette server is acting up right now, but I find the spelling with one "l" appearing four times during WWI, and get no hits with the two "l" spelling. Choess 15:30, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Andorra, Liechtenstein and San Marino were not occupied during WW2; please see the articles on those countries for more details. Serbia, Slovenia, and Montenegro did not exist as independent states during the war, and the Independent State of Croatia was a Axis puppet state which was not recognised internationally as separate from Yugoslavia. Please be more careful when including material. Grant | Talk 19:13, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I presume this article was an error. I can only find details of Roger Eustace Le Fleming, which you seem to have already created. I put a {{ prod}} tag on it but I can speedy it if you prefer. Leith p 06:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about the SD template on the two soldier articles, I didn't think to read their ranks... My apologies there. I got a little used to kids making articles about their grandfathers who never rose past the rank of private... well, regards, †Ðanieltiger45† Talk to me 23:18, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you are referring to. Grant | Talk 13:56, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Got to give the guy the benefit of the doubt - he's an Italian university professor (as you might have guessed from the stream of Italian he has written in the guerilla article - I assume he will translate!). Generally in the English Wikipedia this sort of campaign article is understandably very Allied-centric so I'm really happy that an Italian with Italian sources is taking an interest - the tidying of the stilted English is a small price to pay in my view as long as there is quality in the information and it is satisfactorily referenced. May have to have a discussion with him on this latter point in due course! Sometimes one is pleasantly surprised....a French user of Wikimedia has taken the laborious map I made for the northern campaign and turned it into a pretty svg file - very professional (although I have to say I was rather proud of my original effort which I thought had a certain earthy charm!). By the way, it would be really nice to have a map for the southern front... any ideas? Keep up the good work! Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 16:07, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Mkpumphrey. I was just wondering why you removed Englebert (tyre manufacturer) from Category:Tire manufacturers? Thanks. DH85868993 15:10, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
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I see you have done a lot of work on the British African divisions of World War II. However the (reconstituted?) British 11th Division fought in the Burma Campaign as part of the British Fourteenth Army: and is usually called the "11th East African Division"( second paragraph). Could we discuss what to do with this reorganisation on the talk page of the Talk:British Divisions in World War II? -- Philip Baird Shearer 12:07, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I don't see a problem with the Iran article. As I understand it the chronology was 1. 10th Indian Div arrived at Basra -> Anglo-Iraqi War -> Habforce leaves Transjordan and is attached to Iraqforce when it reached Habbaniya -> 8 Indian Div starts to arrive -> Syria-Lebanon campaign -> Arab Legion sent back to Transjordan ->Iran Invasion. I think the texts reflect this now....? Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 17:20, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry I didn't respond to your note earlier but I've been away for 6 weeks. I didn't write that sentence but I did reorganise the article with new sub headings and may have cut and pasted it to its current position (thus getting the "credit" for its inclusion). On the subject of adding a citation tag, there are no rules. If you think it needs more then stick in a tag and see if it stirs anything up! Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 16:43, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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You have added a lot of material to Italian Colonial Empire. Can you please add the references for your additions? Thanks. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick t 16:07, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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I noticed that during your edits on the Italian invasion of Egypt article, you have essentially been reverting my edits which have removed duplicate links.
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Please be aware that the style for disambiguation pages differs from that for article pages, in particular there should only be one link per line. Thanks, Rich257 ( talk) 15:40, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Just to point out, you keep adding allot of dubious information to the Italian invasion of Egypt article. For instance:
Facing the Italian invasion was O'Connor and the ever-improving but still woefully incomplete Western Desert Force. Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse commanded the under strength 4th Indian Infantry Division and, [b]as of 3 September, Major-General William Gott had been placed in command of the under strength 7th Armored Division (the "Desert Rats"). It was Gott's former command, the Support Group, that would provide much of the "light covering forces" that actually met the Italians at the border[/b].[citation needed]
Uncited and incorrect information such as this - Gott did not take command of the 7th Armour until 1941, he was a Brigadier during 1940 and was still so during May 1941 and his command, as proved there the top of the article, was soley the 7th Support Group at the time of the Italian invasion.-- EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 12:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
My mistake. When you added Gott (and removed O'Connor?) I misread when Gott became commander of the 7th Armored Division. I saw "September 3" in the srticle for the 7th Armored Division and misread that it was 1940 (and not the correct 1941). My overall goal was to try to briefly explain who Gott was within the Italian invasion of Egypt article. You added his name as one of the primary commanders but never mentioned him within the article. Mkpumphrey ( talk) 13:11, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
The Italian strength is very confusing. I have the 1990 version of Hunt (which is the same as the original but with a very expanded foreword to give a new perspective following the revelation of the Enigma secret). Hunt says that the Italian force "which crossed the frontier on 15th September" was (my tabulation):
+"various other oddments" including "an armoured group"
No mention of the Maletti Group but I see that the Maletti are described in the article as being 6 Libyan battalions and I can therefore imagine that since it was an ad hoc formation, the battalions maybe were drawn from the two regular divisions and put in trucks.
He describes that the two Libyan and the 4th Blackshirts were effectively taken out in the first two days as was the armoured group (which he says had the name "The red flames of Italy"). The 64th was caught undeployed during a "routine relief" by 4th Armoured Brigade and surrendered. He says that the units that ended bottled up in Bardia were 1st and 2nd Blackshirts, 62nd Marmaraica and 63rd Cirene Divs plus a company of M13 tanks. He says the garrison was commanded by Bergonzoli, "previously commander of XXIII Corps". I wonder whether Hunt got the Corps names switched - why would you put the XXIII Corps commander in charge of what was XXI Corps plus a division?
In Tobruk was 61st Sirte and there was a "counterattack force" under General Cona built around XX Corps consisting of 60th Sabrata Div and the Babini Armoured Group (2 medium tank battalions (=I think M13) and a Bersaglieri Regiment) based at Mechili (I guess this is the BCS).
He also says that at Beda Fomm the Italians had "the better part of four battalions of medium tanks but that one battalion had crews that had never seen the M13 before."
In his foreword to the 1990 edition Hunt asks the question whether his story (and its accuracy) had stood the test of time (apart from distortions required to conceal official secrets in 1966). He states that he had read all the official histories and could only find one discrepancy (relating to the sinking of the Ankara). He's generally pretty confident about the British intelligence's success in determining the opposition's order of battle. Having said that 1. He would wouldn't he? - It was his job! 2. He only arrived in the desert in June 1941 (having been in Greece) so his description of these events is not first hand. Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 18:10, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hi! I've been following your commendable work on the battles of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, & noticed that you recently linked to the article Army of the Ethiopian Empire. The topic of this article duplicates Military history of Ethiopia, although its contents would be better matched to an article entitled Military history of the Axumite Kingdom. This leads me to wonder -- & ask your opinion on -- whether it would be best to have a series of 3 articles here: one on the history of the Axumite kingdom, another on the medieval empire (from circa 1300 to 1850), & the last on the military of Ethiopia from Tewodros II onwards (the existing article on the Military history). This would conform to the general state of the evidence -- there is little for the period AD 700 - 1300 -- & the pre-1850 military is so different from the military since that date that I think it makes sense to divide the topic there. Of course, doing this would mean that a number of links would need to be redone... -- llywrch ( talk) 20:18, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hey! I've noticed your substantial expansion of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War article, as well as on its battles, and I just wanted to give you a barnstar in appreciation. There aren't many with the knowledge or access to the sources to expand these articles so substantially, so it's great to see someone like you come along and improve them. Keep on doing what you're doing, there's plenty who appreciate it. ;) — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 02:22, 16 August 2008 (UTC) |
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No thanks. I will leave the removal of material to you. You apparently think you know what is important and what is not important in this world. I never intend to edit the "important" items you edit like: the E.T. article, the Lindsey Lohan article, or anything written about Natalie Portman. But are there subjects you routinely "protect" about which you could warn me? I will make every effort to avoid them. Mkpumphrey ( talk) 15:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
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I don't mean to repeatedly bother you regarding this article, and I'll no longer message you about it if you wish, but I wanted to be sure you know my thinking about what you wrote on the talk page. If you present your proposed edit there (I have only speculated about what it might be) and no one else responds in a week or so, that will just leave your opinion and mine. Since my opinion is no more important than yours, I would not object to your adding your proposed material at that point. If other editors express opinions we'll see what sort of consensus emerges (if any), but in that case I would not let my opinion alone be what keeps your edit out of the article. If any of this is not clear, feel free to ask me for more explanation. Otherwise, I'll assume you understand, and I'll not raise the issue any more on your talk page. Thanks. Ward3001 ( talk) 19:32, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your note. In response, I too didn't find anything that anti-religous about the label on my page. I think people construed it as such because it featured the word GOD with a red cross through it, coupled with my announcement that I had an interest in atheism.
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An editor has persistently changed a bulleted list (that I think you created) about those imprisoned after the assassination. Not only does that change create an inferior format, it deletes some interesting details. You may wish to comment on the talk page here. I can't revert it again because I don't want to violate 3RR. Ward3001 ( talk) 17:15, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Vidor is reverting again. You really should put your comments on talk page here, not just the edit summary. Thanks. Ward3001 ( talk) 23:30, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Your recent edit on the Allied invasion of Syria article states: "Added from Australian history" however you have provided no citation to back this up. Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources-- EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 17:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Please look at the changes proposed for this article by User:GoldDragon and comment on the article's talk page. Ed Fitzgerald t / c 03:56, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your comments and I'm glad you enjoyed the article. As for lacrosse, I made the Maryland Terrapins lacrosse stub, but don't have much motivation to expand it at the moment. Strikehold ( talk) 06:32, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Much as I am glad that you are helping to write articles on Ethiopia that might never get written, I'm at a complete loss at why you insist on equating "Semien province" with "Semien Wollo Zone"; they have almost nothing in common, except minor details such as both are located in the Ethiopian highlands, & both having "Semien" -- which means North -- in their names. You might as well link "Semien province" to any article with "North" in it, such as North Dakota! (And the reason I haven't written an article on Semien province yet is that I'd rather wait to create one when I have the time & material to write more than a two-sentence stub that would help no one.) -- llywrch ( talk) 06:22, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Nice work on Battle of Maychew. I was wondering though, what information - if any - came from Barker 1968 (The Civilizing Mission: A History of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936)? It's in the references section but not referenced by any of the footnotes. Recognizance ( talk) 20:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi thanks for the contribution to the article, however do you have source information to support your addition? If so can you add it in please. cheers-- EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 22:06, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi -- I noticed you have been adding English noble titles to various Ethiopian articles. The problem with your practice is that it is greatly at odds with the practice observed in the usual accounts of Ethiopian history & culture -- as well as Ethiopian practice. Ethiopians simply use the titles of "Dejazmach", "Ras", "Negus" & so forth. Substituting them for "Duke", "King" & so forth simply confuses those who are familiar with the subject. I've been reverting your edits -- as you have noticed; I hope you don't mind, & apologize if doing this offends you. -- llywrch ( talk) 22:04, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Wow. Thanks for the barnstar. :) -- llywrch ( talk) 21:33, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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If that makes best sense for you, go ahead & do it. I have no problem with glossing these terms inline, as long as the Ethiopian title comes first; that's really my only quibble. BTW, what is the practice in other parts of Wikipedia handling native noble titles, say Japan or Byzantine Greece? I looked at the MoS, but there was no explicit statement & I wouldn't trust the judgment of most of the regulars there. (Last time I asked for advice there, the incompetence of the answer almost caused me to leave Wikipedia & the topic was one of the issues that led to an ArbCom case.) -- llywrch ( talk) 16:35, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
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Not looking to get you in trouble or anything, but I noticed that someone at IP address 173.67.31.135 has made a large number of edits similar to yours. Would that be you, when you didn't notice that you'd been logged out of Wikipedia? Just nosy -- llywrch ( talk) 04:48, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello there! Just wanted to remind you to spellcheck before submitting your edits, such as on Battle of Maychew. Thanks for your great work! -- GorillaWarfare talk 18:03, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I removed the "Bahrain" section that you added to Bombing of Palestine in World War II. Bahrain is not part of Palestine it is not even close to it. Not sure if there is good place for this section elsewhere, but it doesn't belong in this article. Odedee ( talk) 09:28, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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He passed away on July 25, 2010 according to this [3], which also confirms his Wikipedia involvement. Sorry for the loss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.83.126.102 ( talk) 05:14, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
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