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RE: Salamaua–Lae Campaign

From the lede: "Blamey also planned and carried out the significant and victorious Salamaua–Lae Campaign." In the article on the Salamaua–Lae Campaign he is hardly mentioned at all: only a neutral to somewhat negative mention in the aftermath section. Can some fine historian determine which of these articles is BS? (Sarcasm intended.) CactusFlower (talk) 22:32, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Salamaua-Lae campaign article is currently under-developed and needs a lot of work. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:21, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you have missed my sarcasm. Both of the articles appear to me (a non-military historian admittedly) as puff pieces. Please keep your puff pieces consistent mate. CactusFlower (talk) 22:24, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top.
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I am as you know quite new. But yet I have seen this duplicitous ploy of "then you fix it" in other places. I am not a historian. I do not have access to the sources required. But you are quite happy to see a one sided (and perhaps untruthful) article because of that? Okay mate. Take a look at what a "military historian" responsible for a lot of these articles lied about or misinterpreted on Charles Moses. Then tell me I am wrong to suspect puffiness. CactusFlower (talk) 17:33, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::I believe you have missed my sarcasm. Both of the articles appear to me (a non-military historian admittedly) as puff pieces. Please keep your puff pieces consistent mate. [[User:CactusFlower|CactusFlower]] ([[User talk:CactusFlower|talk]]) 22:24, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 :::[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]] Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe {{#switch:{{Trunc|{{LC:article}}|1}}|a|i|e|o|u=an article|#default=a {{{type}}}}} needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.  Wikipedia is a [[wiki]], so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the '''edit this page''' link at the top.<br /> The Wikipedia community encourages you to [[Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages|'''be bold''' in updating pages]]. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out [[Wikipedia:how to edit a page|''how to edit a page'']], or use the [[Draft:Sandbox|sandbox]] to try out your editing skills.  [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|New contributors are always welcome]]. You don't even need to [[Special:Userlogin|log in]] (although there are [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|many reasons you might want to]]).  [[User:Nick-D|Nick-D]] ([[User talk:Nick-D|talk]]) 08:32, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
+::::I am as you know quite new. But yet I have seen this duplicitous ploy of "then you fix it" in other places. I am not a historian. I do not have access to the sources required. But you are quite happy to see a one sided (and perhaps untruthful) article because of that? Okay mate. Take a look at what a "military historian" responsible for a lot of these articles lied about or misinterpreted on [[Charles Moses]]. Then tell me I am wrong to suspect puffiness. [[User:CactusFlower|CactusFlower]] ([[User talk:CactusFlower|talk]]) 17:33, 6 August 2017 (UTC)