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Keith,
My copies of the Med and ME series are locked up at the moment, but when I get them I should be able to finish fleshing out the UK and ME sections of the article. Do you still have the Far East series? If so, any help on expanding the article would be appreciated. EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 23:10, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, I've been working on my Infantry tank article and forgot to look. I'll have a go tomorrow. Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 23:38, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Last para of 53rd Brigade: Malaya section, 1st sentence says that "...on 22 January, 5RNR and a battalion from Batu Pahat reopened the Batu Pahat–Ayer Hitam road at Milestone 72...", then the very next sentence says that "Key ordered 5RNR to reopen the road...on 23 January...". Doesn't make sense - did the road get closed again after first reopening?
[21st] ... it was found that the Japanese had placed a block across it. The road was temporarily cleared next day by the 5/Norfolks from Ayer Hitam and the British Battalion from Batu Pahat ... On the 23rd the Ayer Hitam road was again blocked, and the 5/Norfolks, who were to have moved along it from Ayer Hitam into Batu Pahat to reinforce the garrison, were sent via Skudai and Pontian Kechil instead.
The Indians managed to reach the peak, but before it could be consolidated, a Japanese attack forced the British and Indian troops off the ridge with many losses, including the Punjabis' officer commanding. The attack on Bukit Pelandok was repulsed and the British and Indian troops were moved between the defile and causeway with the left flank covered by the 2LR. [1]
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So, I followed-up on your suggestion and registered an account (as stated earlier, shared IP so malicious edits are being made by others and I would like to avoid my own coming under editor-scrutiny for the wrong reasons). I tried creating a script page like you suggest, see
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Hi Keith, You have attributed the quote to the wrong man. I think it is extremely valuable to refer to two eyewitness accounts, and for them to appear in the notes. In order to do this, I see no alternative to Cite Book template, however. If you have an alternative means of getting the quotes to appear in the footnotes, please do let me know. Keith H99 ( talk) 18:25, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Since the main discussion seems to rapidly sidetrack, a quick question: why not expand the "Second Army" section to include the details from the other Normandy articles? EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 23:02, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
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Perhaps you'd care to explain how any part of this is incivil, to you or anyone, considering every part of it was concerned with the content of the page or aspects of unclrarity on it. Or do you take that personally, because they're your edits? TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 13:25, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Keith, have I copy-edited your work before? I'm pretty certain I have (I know that you have helped me). If so, you will know how I work and would like to go through the Malta convoys. I don't want to step on your toes. Let me know (ping me here). Regards Cinderella157 ( talk) 09:27, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
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G'day Keith, hope you are well. I've been doing a little tidying on the Battle of St Quentin Canal article since it appeared on the Main Page. In doing so, I notice that the casualty figures are missing for the British and Germans, while the US figures may potentially be for a much longer time period than just the attack described in the article. I was wondering if you might have any refs that could clear these issues up? Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 21:21, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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I've noticed that a newer member of Wikipedia has nominated the March of the Iron Will article for GA status, though a look at the the revision history shows that they've made no edits to it. There are some noticeable though correctable problems with this article (missing cites, reliance on Time magazine articles, some relevant info missing). Perhaps we could lend a hand and do some cleanup to prepare it for review? We can move some material over from the Second Italo-Ethiopian War article over to it. - Indy beetle ( talk) 03:57, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello Keith
I notice you reverted an edit I made here a few days ago, which puzzled me; the edit summary says “Its a title not a quotation”. I added the quote marks because I assumed Falcon Feathers was a translation, or a nickname, in the style of the
Frecce Tricolori ( literally "Tricolour Arrows"), or the
101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles") (Though now I'm looking at it again, I can see my “add quote marks” comment could be misleading...) Anyway, it's up to you.
Also, I notice you added the Italian name for Italian East Africa to the infobox and linked it (which is fair enough); but as the link merely redirects to IEA, which is the article title, do you think it's necessary?
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Thanks for catching and correcting my dumb edit on the infantry tank page. I'm absolutely aghast that I could inadvertently add bad content to an article, especially when it was my intention to only remove content. It reinforces my need to check changes before submitting edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Going mobile ( talk • contribs) 18:52, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Keith, I'm an avid reader and occasional (unregistered) contributor on the English Wikipedia. Also being a native German speaker I stumbled over this sentence in the section Hindenburg Programme of the article Hindenburg Line:
" Ernst von Wrisberg, Abteilungschef of the kaiserlicher Oberst und Landsknechtsführer (head of the Prussian Ministry of War section responsible for raising new units), had grave doubts about the wisdom of the increase in the expansion of the army but was over-ruled by Ludendorff."
I looked into the article's history and found that you were the original contributor in May 2016. Instead of directly editing and giving my reasons on that article's talk page, I choose this way of telling you. Seems less disruptive and the article appears to be your brainchild to a certain degree, anyway.
Two issues here:
[*] Your direct quote from German does not fit into your statement. It's what made me stop in the first place. A literal translation back into English would be: "Ernst von Wrisberg, head of department of the imperial colonel and lansquenet-leader had grave doubts..."
[*] You go on to translate this as "head of the War Ministry". The English wiki has a listing of all Prussian war ministers with pictures. Mr. von Wrisberg is not in it. The German wiki states he was "Direktor des Allgemeinen Kriegs-Departements" at this time (end of 1916). Looking at the War Ministry article again, it states that the Allgemeines Kriegs-Departement was a subdivision of the war ministry, so you could call him a deputy minister.
Please leave a comment here or on the article's talk page wether you will change anything in the article yourself. Thank you for your contributions, I saw many in the article's history. 92.201.16.7 ( talk) 11:54, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks very much, you're not so bad yourself. ;O) I made a small alteration to avoid an apostrophe, hope that's OK. Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 09:14, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hello!
i saw that you undo my changes in Battle of Gazala i have request from you. In allies side there are total 843 tanks and in down below the losses of tanks from allies side is 1,188 tanks damaged or destroyed.
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Hi Keith. Thanks for your input on the Yeomanry->Yeomanry Cavalry page move request. It's clear that this was an inappropriate move and I've withdrawn the request. I do, however, believe that separate articles are justified and, following a discussion with one of the other contributors to the page move discussion, have begun a discussion about reverting the Yeomanry article to its original state, and splitting off the work I have done into a separate Yeomanry Cavalry article. I would welcome your opinion on this. Factotem ( talk) 23:11, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
I noticed this edit (and I agree!), but was wondering if it might be sensible to link in some way to either a category or list of films (as opposed to mentioning them directly in the article). The films that had a genuine critical and cultural impact would still get mentioned in the main article. I was reminded of this when I ended up at All the King's Men (1999 film) via Frank Beck (British Army officer). Anyway, what do you think of the films in Category:Films about the Gallipoli Campaign (I removed one and added a couple)? Not sure where Break of Day (film) should go. I ended up looking through Category:World War I films and List of World War I films. Quite a lot there. Tell England (film) is interesting as an early example of the genre. I wonder if the title of the film refers to the appropriation in the post-war year of the Ladysmith epitaph? Actually, I should have looked at the article on the book: Tell England, which confirms it. Hmm. The Corbets (brothers?) mentioned there in the book dedication are a bit of a mystery. Carcharoth ( talk) 10:37, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Keith
I notice you reverted the corrections I made to some weight conversions here. The problem was that the conversion values were confusing (and wrong); I brought it up
here, and a remedy was suggested, so I have applied that to the SoT page ([
viz)
I trust you are OK with that. Regards,
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Hi Keith. Do you have a copy of Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915: Winter 1915: Battle of Neuve Chapelle: Battles of Ypres by Edmonds and Wynne in your possession? I'm looking for a source for the statement "The first higher territorial command to see action was the Northumberland Brigade, which suffered over 1,940 casualties on 26 April 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres." A similar statement is sourced to this publication in the Second Battle of Ypres article, but to the page range 256–268, and I'm hoping to narrow that down to a specific page. I have sources that state the Brigade was the first territorial command to see action in the battle, and just need a source for the specific date and the number of casualties. Appreciate any help you might be able to give. Cheers. Factotem ( talk) 13:37, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Alright mate, check out my edit at German casualties in World War II [2] -- Woogie10w ( talk) 13:25, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
You've reverted me twice and twice labelled me a vandal for this article Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II for a perfectly proper and one would think innocuous use of the 'redirect' template . Could you please give an actual explanation? Doprendek ( talk) 15:26, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Keith, A 1928 book based on official BRITISH documents is not much good for stuff about what the GERMANS were up to. A better citation for the reorganisation of the German air service would be - Gray and Thetford 1961, p. xxxix: but nothing there about reduced air activity (although I'm sure I've read somewhere that there was something of the kind while they were in an administrative muddle - makes sense. But it would have been in September or October 1916 NOT May). The reference to reduced activity in Jackson doesn't link up with the rest of the sentence - I can't see anything at all in Jackson about the reorganisation at all. Anyway - we really want something that links the halves of the sentence - it's really only one statement. I'll find something - although the gray and thetford would be an improvement in the meantime. Marco — Preceding unsigned comment added by WWIReferences ( talk • contribs) 03:25, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
A recent set of edits on the article for Australia were "edit summaried" as "Corrected Grammar", or words to that effect - but this was obviously spurious as there were no apparent discernible changes at all, most certainly not to the grammar. I was "bold" and reloaded the version of the article before that set of changes, but I am just a little confused if I did the right thing? -- WWIReferences ( talk) 01:56, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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I put a North Sea map in the infobox with a location point. The infobox is supposed to convey the main point os the article at a glance. The image is currently an unlabeled map of the North Sea so to the casual glancer, the Battle could have occurred at any point between the Netherlands and the Orkney Islands.
Adding the map (simply by using |Map_type=North Sea and |Map_relief=Yes) was the main point of my edit. So as not to have two maps, I filled the space the previous one occupied with an image that I spent all of 10 seconds selecting. You are absolutely 100% correct that it's a melodramatic, trivial propaganda picture, but I figured it portrayed the most significant event that occurred and so was roughly representative of the Battle. Though on reflection, I see that the picture's triumphalist tone might affect neutrality, and another one may have been better.
Anyway, I firmly believe I made the article better overall. So I thought I'd explain my reasoning before making any other changes.. Catsmeat ( talk) 08:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Shouldn't that be "Battle of Hébuterne"? Gog the Mild ( talk)
Hello Keith
Thanks for your note on
the talk page there; nice work on the article! Sorry for not replying sooner; real life intruding!
If you don't mind there are a couple of things I'd like to amend: AFAIK Operation FB only covered the outbound 13 ships to Murmansk at the beginning if November; the 23 Soviet ships inbound to Iceland were a separate operation over a three month period, as were the 6 ships that sailed in January. I only added them originally to round out the (unusual) story of swapping convoy for patrol & independent sailing, so I'm minded to clarify that a bit. I've also got their names, if you think that's relevant.
Also, the bit about SS Chulmleigh seems to have undue weight in an article on the whole operation; maybe we should do a ship page for her and move it there?
Anyway, good to hear from you;
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Hi Keith, please see here for advice on the correct use of semi-colons. Also please have a look at the Wikipedia policies around good-faith edits and rv-warring. Dan100 ( Talk) 21:45, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Keith-264. First of all, thanks for keeping up your hard work on Wikipedia. I had to remove your recent additions to the Battle of the Espero Convoy article. Frankly, even if important in the context of the Mediterranean war, the antisubmarine and torpedo bomber actions you added to the page fail WP:TOPIC. Feel free to restore it if you think the info is relevant to the battle itself, but you must note that similar articles (Suda, Matapan, Sirte) usually avoid to mention secondary operations or subsequent engagements if these are not a direct consequence (or part) of the battle. The sections I deleted may find a more suitable place in articles related to the individual units. Best regards. Darius ( talk) 21:58, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
P/S: What about merging the submarines' info (in a shortened form) into the "Background" section? A summarized paragraph about the torpedo bombers' attack could be also added to the "Aftermath". Let me know your opinion. Darius ( talk) 22:05, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Keith. I see that the military history project recommends including alternate names for battles, which is sensible. It's still not clear to me why this particular name warrants inclusion, though: "Schlacht von Cambrai" is just a direct German translation of "Battle of Cambrai," not exactly the same territory as the Battle of the Bulge vs. the Ardennes Offensive vs. Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein. - 165.234.252.11 ( talk) 18:41, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
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Keith,
My copies of the Med and ME series are locked up at the moment, but when I get them I should be able to finish fleshing out the UK and ME sections of the article. Do you still have the Far East series? If so, any help on expanding the article would be appreciated. EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 23:10, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, I've been working on my Infantry tank article and forgot to look. I'll have a go tomorrow. Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 23:38, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Last para of 53rd Brigade: Malaya section, 1st sentence says that "...on 22 January, 5RNR and a battalion from Batu Pahat reopened the Batu Pahat–Ayer Hitam road at Milestone 72...", then the very next sentence says that "Key ordered 5RNR to reopen the road...on 23 January...". Doesn't make sense - did the road get closed again after first reopening?
[21st] ... it was found that the Japanese had placed a block across it. The road was temporarily cleared next day by the 5/Norfolks from Ayer Hitam and the British Battalion from Batu Pahat ... On the 23rd the Ayer Hitam road was again blocked, and the 5/Norfolks, who were to have moved along it from Ayer Hitam into Batu Pahat to reinforce the garrison, were sent via Skudai and Pontian Kechil instead.
The Indians managed to reach the peak, but before it could be consolidated, a Japanese attack forced the British and Indian troops off the ridge with many losses, including the Punjabis' officer commanding. The attack on Bukit Pelandok was repulsed and the British and Indian troops were moved between the defile and causeway with the left flank covered by the 2LR. [1]
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So, I followed-up on your suggestion and registered an account (as stated earlier, shared IP so malicious edits are being made by others and I would like to avoid my own coming under editor-scrutiny for the wrong reasons). I tried creating a script page like you suggest, see
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Hi Keith, You have attributed the quote to the wrong man. I think it is extremely valuable to refer to two eyewitness accounts, and for them to appear in the notes. In order to do this, I see no alternative to Cite Book template, however. If you have an alternative means of getting the quotes to appear in the footnotes, please do let me know. Keith H99 ( talk) 18:25, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Since the main discussion seems to rapidly sidetrack, a quick question: why not expand the "Second Army" section to include the details from the other Normandy articles? EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 23:02, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
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Perhaps you'd care to explain how any part of this is incivil, to you or anyone, considering every part of it was concerned with the content of the page or aspects of unclrarity on it. Or do you take that personally, because they're your edits? TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 13:25, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Keith, have I copy-edited your work before? I'm pretty certain I have (I know that you have helped me). If so, you will know how I work and would like to go through the Malta convoys. I don't want to step on your toes. Let me know (ping me here). Regards Cinderella157 ( talk) 09:27, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
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G'day Keith, hope you are well. I've been doing a little tidying on the Battle of St Quentin Canal article since it appeared on the Main Page. In doing so, I notice that the casualty figures are missing for the British and Germans, while the US figures may potentially be for a much longer time period than just the attack described in the article. I was wondering if you might have any refs that could clear these issues up? Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 21:21, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
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I've noticed that a newer member of Wikipedia has nominated the March of the Iron Will article for GA status, though a look at the the revision history shows that they've made no edits to it. There are some noticeable though correctable problems with this article (missing cites, reliance on Time magazine articles, some relevant info missing). Perhaps we could lend a hand and do some cleanup to prepare it for review? We can move some material over from the Second Italo-Ethiopian War article over to it. - Indy beetle ( talk) 03:57, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello Keith
I notice you reverted an edit I made here a few days ago, which puzzled me; the edit summary says “Its a title not a quotation”. I added the quote marks because I assumed Falcon Feathers was a translation, or a nickname, in the style of the
Frecce Tricolori ( literally "Tricolour Arrows"), or the
101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles") (Though now I'm looking at it again, I can see my “add quote marks” comment could be misleading...) Anyway, it's up to you.
Also, I notice you added the Italian name for Italian East Africa to the infobox and linked it (which is fair enough); but as the link merely redirects to IEA, which is the article title, do you think it's necessary?
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Hi Keith, I'm an avid reader and occasional (unregistered) contributor on the English Wikipedia. Also being a native German speaker I stumbled over this sentence in the section Hindenburg Programme of the article Hindenburg Line:
" Ernst von Wrisberg, Abteilungschef of the kaiserlicher Oberst und Landsknechtsführer (head of the Prussian Ministry of War section responsible for raising new units), had grave doubts about the wisdom of the increase in the expansion of the army but was over-ruled by Ludendorff."
I looked into the article's history and found that you were the original contributor in May 2016. Instead of directly editing and giving my reasons on that article's talk page, I choose this way of telling you. Seems less disruptive and the article appears to be your brainchild to a certain degree, anyway.
Two issues here:
[*] Your direct quote from German does not fit into your statement. It's what made me stop in the first place. A literal translation back into English would be: "Ernst von Wrisberg, head of department of the imperial colonel and lansquenet-leader had grave doubts..."
[*] You go on to translate this as "head of the War Ministry". The English wiki has a listing of all Prussian war ministers with pictures. Mr. von Wrisberg is not in it. The German wiki states he was "Direktor des Allgemeinen Kriegs-Departements" at this time (end of 1916). Looking at the War Ministry article again, it states that the Allgemeines Kriegs-Departement was a subdivision of the war ministry, so you could call him a deputy minister.
Please leave a comment here or on the article's talk page wether you will change anything in the article yourself. Thank you for your contributions, I saw many in the article's history. 92.201.16.7 ( talk) 11:54, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks very much, you're not so bad yourself. ;O) I made a small alteration to avoid an apostrophe, hope that's OK. Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 09:14, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hello!
i saw that you undo my changes in Battle of Gazala i have request from you. In allies side there are total 843 tanks and in down below the losses of tanks from allies side is 1,188 tanks damaged or destroyed.
How is that Possible!!!
Please change it
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Thanks!
it's Really helpful — Preceding unsigned comment added by Historian From Hazarajat ( talk • contribs) 10:08, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. 198.84.253.202 ( talk) 03:08, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Keith. Thanks for your input on the Yeomanry->Yeomanry Cavalry page move request. It's clear that this was an inappropriate move and I've withdrawn the request. I do, however, believe that separate articles are justified and, following a discussion with one of the other contributors to the page move discussion, have begun a discussion about reverting the Yeomanry article to its original state, and splitting off the work I have done into a separate Yeomanry Cavalry article. I would welcome your opinion on this. Factotem ( talk) 23:11, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
I noticed this edit (and I agree!), but was wondering if it might be sensible to link in some way to either a category or list of films (as opposed to mentioning them directly in the article). The films that had a genuine critical and cultural impact would still get mentioned in the main article. I was reminded of this when I ended up at All the King's Men (1999 film) via Frank Beck (British Army officer). Anyway, what do you think of the films in Category:Films about the Gallipoli Campaign (I removed one and added a couple)? Not sure where Break of Day (film) should go. I ended up looking through Category:World War I films and List of World War I films. Quite a lot there. Tell England (film) is interesting as an early example of the genre. I wonder if the title of the film refers to the appropriation in the post-war year of the Ladysmith epitaph? Actually, I should have looked at the article on the book: Tell England, which confirms it. Hmm. The Corbets (brothers?) mentioned there in the book dedication are a bit of a mystery. Carcharoth ( talk) 10:37, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Keith
I notice you reverted the corrections I made to some weight conversions here. The problem was that the conversion values were confusing (and wrong); I brought it up
here, and a remedy was suggested, so I have applied that to the SoT page ([
viz)
I trust you are OK with that. Regards,
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Hi Keith. Do you have a copy of Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915: Winter 1915: Battle of Neuve Chapelle: Battles of Ypres by Edmonds and Wynne in your possession? I'm looking for a source for the statement "The first higher territorial command to see action was the Northumberland Brigade, which suffered over 1,940 casualties on 26 April 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres." A similar statement is sourced to this publication in the Second Battle of Ypres article, but to the page range 256–268, and I'm hoping to narrow that down to a specific page. I have sources that state the Brigade was the first territorial command to see action in the battle, and just need a source for the specific date and the number of casualties. Appreciate any help you might be able to give. Cheers. Factotem ( talk) 13:37, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Alright mate, check out my edit at German casualties in World War II [2] -- Woogie10w ( talk) 13:25, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
You've reverted me twice and twice labelled me a vandal for this article Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II for a perfectly proper and one would think innocuous use of the 'redirect' template . Could you please give an actual explanation? Doprendek ( talk) 15:26, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Keith, A 1928 book based on official BRITISH documents is not much good for stuff about what the GERMANS were up to. A better citation for the reorganisation of the German air service would be - Gray and Thetford 1961, p. xxxix: but nothing there about reduced air activity (although I'm sure I've read somewhere that there was something of the kind while they were in an administrative muddle - makes sense. But it would have been in September or October 1916 NOT May). The reference to reduced activity in Jackson doesn't link up with the rest of the sentence - I can't see anything at all in Jackson about the reorganisation at all. Anyway - we really want something that links the halves of the sentence - it's really only one statement. I'll find something - although the gray and thetford would be an improvement in the meantime. Marco — Preceding unsigned comment added by WWIReferences ( talk • contribs) 03:25, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
A recent set of edits on the article for Australia were "edit summaried" as "Corrected Grammar", or words to that effect - but this was obviously spurious as there were no apparent discernible changes at all, most certainly not to the grammar. I was "bold" and reloaded the version of the article before that set of changes, but I am just a little confused if I did the right thing? -- WWIReferences ( talk) 01:56, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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I put a North Sea map in the infobox with a location point. The infobox is supposed to convey the main point os the article at a glance. The image is currently an unlabeled map of the North Sea so to the casual glancer, the Battle could have occurred at any point between the Netherlands and the Orkney Islands.
Adding the map (simply by using |Map_type=North Sea and |Map_relief=Yes) was the main point of my edit. So as not to have two maps, I filled the space the previous one occupied with an image that I spent all of 10 seconds selecting. You are absolutely 100% correct that it's a melodramatic, trivial propaganda picture, but I figured it portrayed the most significant event that occurred and so was roughly representative of the Battle. Though on reflection, I see that the picture's triumphalist tone might affect neutrality, and another one may have been better.
Anyway, I firmly believe I made the article better overall. So I thought I'd explain my reasoning before making any other changes.. Catsmeat ( talk) 08:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Shouldn't that be "Battle of Hébuterne"? Gog the Mild ( talk)
Hello Keith
Thanks for your note on
the talk page there; nice work on the article! Sorry for not replying sooner; real life intruding!
If you don't mind there are a couple of things I'd like to amend: AFAIK Operation FB only covered the outbound 13 ships to Murmansk at the beginning if November; the 23 Soviet ships inbound to Iceland were a separate operation over a three month period, as were the 6 ships that sailed in January. I only added them originally to round out the (unusual) story of swapping convoy for patrol & independent sailing, so I'm minded to clarify that a bit. I've also got their names, if you think that's relevant.
Also, the bit about SS Chulmleigh seems to have undue weight in an article on the whole operation; maybe we should do a ship page for her and move it there?
Anyway, good to hear from you;
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Hi Keith, please see here for advice on the correct use of semi-colons. Also please have a look at the Wikipedia policies around good-faith edits and rv-warring. Dan100 ( Talk) 21:45, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Keith-264. First of all, thanks for keeping up your hard work on Wikipedia. I had to remove your recent additions to the Battle of the Espero Convoy article. Frankly, even if important in the context of the Mediterranean war, the antisubmarine and torpedo bomber actions you added to the page fail WP:TOPIC. Feel free to restore it if you think the info is relevant to the battle itself, but you must note that similar articles (Suda, Matapan, Sirte) usually avoid to mention secondary operations or subsequent engagements if these are not a direct consequence (or part) of the battle. The sections I deleted may find a more suitable place in articles related to the individual units. Best regards. Darius ( talk) 21:58, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
P/S: What about merging the submarines' info (in a shortened form) into the "Background" section? A summarized paragraph about the torpedo bombers' attack could be also added to the "Aftermath". Let me know your opinion. Darius ( talk) 22:05, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Keith. I see that the military history project recommends including alternate names for battles, which is sensible. It's still not clear to me why this particular name warrants inclusion, though: "Schlacht von Cambrai" is just a direct German translation of "Battle of Cambrai," not exactly the same territory as the Battle of the Bulge vs. the Ardennes Offensive vs. Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein. - 165.234.252.11 ( talk) 18:41, 13 June 2018 (UTC)