User talk:Peacemaker67

Charles Green (Australian soldier) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 1 November 2021. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to comment on the draft blurb at TFA. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:57, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Gog! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 20:57, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

yugoslav monitor drava

hello, Peacemaker67! i had a quick question regarding this article. i noticed that the lead states that the royal yugoslav navy began operating drava in 1921, while the article body and infobox apparently both state that the navy acquired drava in 1920. was there a period during which the ship was considered acquired but not operated by the navy?

i couldn't find "1921" used elsewhere in the article (aside from in the title of a source), so i didn't know where to look for an appropriate source. however, i did find this source, which states that "Yugoslavia finally received her much-reduced allocation of ships in March 1921" while also stating that the monitors were "[f]ormerly handed over to the Yugoslavs by the NACDEV on 15 November 1920". dying (talk) 11:25, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

G'day dying, I have a recently published book which describes the formation of the navy and handing over of the various ships. I'll check and update. Thanks for querying it. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:54, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

October songs

Thank you for Yugoslav monitor Drava, "about a heavily armoured river monitor that saw extensive service with the Austro-Hungarian Danube Flotilla during World War I and then briefly saw action with the Yugoslav Danube Flotilla during the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in World War II. It is the last of four articles about Yugoslav river monitors to come to FAC. During the invasion she was persistently attacked by Stuka divebombers who scored several ineffective hits on her until one bomb went down her funnel into her engine room, killing most of her crew and sinking her."! - sharing the page with Max Creutz, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:53, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Milorad Ekmečić

I saw your FAC withdrawal comment at this article about a bio in Serbo-Croatian. I am wondering whether you have already researched the reliability of the book, cause if you haven't I have a few comments about it which you might find helpful. Cheers, OakMapping (talk) 19:19, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

G’day OM. I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet. I am aware of some details about the author, publishing house and its owner and his background, but need to locate some reliable reviews of the book, which should exist given the subject was a prominent person. Searching and reading in Cyrillic hurts my brain, and it doesn’t appear to have been printed in Latin script, so anything you can help with in respect of locating reviews or with regards to the reliability would be of value. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 20:52, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

There's a review of the book in Serbo-Croatian in the journal Istorija 20 veka, you can access it via CEEOL using TWL, here's the link, but I haven't found any others. Regarding the publishing houses and editors, there's a bit I would like to say. It has been published by Novosti a.d. and Naš Pečat, companies that publish Večernje Novosti and Pečat respectively, which I would say are not reliable at all. If the worldcat is right, the book was edited by editors-in-chief of these two newspapers, which for sure doesn't make it more reliable. All in all, I doubt this source can be used in a FA, but you're more experienced than me so read the review at CEEOL and judge for yourself. Let me know what you have decided and whether I can help any further with this book, OakMapping (talk) 07:12, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, I’ll have a look. Presumably you are referring to Milorad Vučelić? Bearing in mind the BLP guidelines, what in addition to the material that is in his article would be relevant to his reliability as editor? Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:34, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I am referring to Milorad Vučelić. He was a member of the executive board of the Socialist Party of Serbia during the 90s. He was also the General Director of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) from 1992–95, i.e. during the Yugoslav wars. I believe you are aware of the propaganda of the RTS in that period. OakMapping (talk) 09:46, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

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