User talk:MarleyDog

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August 2022[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at M3 Lee, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Loafiewa (talk) 02:34, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My changes - which I have just re-made - were and are based on thoroughly reliable sources including among others the recent excellent David Doyle book, the seminal Hunnicutt book and the Anzac Steel series as well as personal research in the Bovington Tank Museum archive. What was there originally and which you re-instated was thoroughly wrong and discredited, much of it apparently based on the very old and confused Chamberlain and Ellis book. Their take on British designations, in particular, is completely discredited and inaccurate based on 1970's knowledge - or lack of it. Numbers produced, supplied and received also take some careful analysis and the old incorrect understanding of designations did not help accuracy here. Please do not set the knowledge clock back again by half a century. Doing so will only further reinforce the common opinion that Wikipedia is unreliable. I would certainly not trust it on any subject without corroboration. But I am not going to debate source page and sentence references here with you for every piece of data. Do what you will. MarleyDog (talk) 06:48, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]