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I concur with your "de-weasel" revision in connection with the lead and suggested, on the Yom Kippur discussion page, that your version be re-instituted. I have serious problems with this article all of which I noted on the discussion page herehere and here--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 05:19, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
T-90 References
For what it's worth, the uvz.ru snapshot in the Web Archive link on the page is the official site for Uralvagonzavod, the manufacturer of the T-90. Their page appears to be poorly maintained, though (hence the need for the Web Archive version, I suppose). - Jonathon A H (talk) 01:58, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Hohum. I came across this image a minute ago for an article I'm going to improve. Is there any way to clean up the blotches in the center? There's also this one, which I just tracked down and uploaded a minute ago. Parsecboy (talk) 12:34, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've tried to improve the second two, but the first one is very awkward - the pattern is wavy and irregular - which my methods don't work well with. Do you scan these yourself? Does the original have patterns, or is the scanning process creating them? (Hohum@) 18:26, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
*sigh*, this is why my brother says I am a noob with computers. I can't figure out how to get the plug-ins to work. I've moved them to the plug-in photo, but if I click on them from there it tells me that a file is missing... Any idea what I am doing wrong? Sorry for all the trouble. —Ed(talk • majestic titan)23:41, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, I installed it ages ago, so I may have led you astray. Drop fourier.exe from fourier-0.4.0_bin_win32.zip into your GIMP plugins directory; which is probably C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins. start GIMP. The following menu options should be available.
Well, I can see the filters now. The problem is that they are grayed out and I can't find a way to get them un-grayed. I've uploaded one of the photos I would like to do this too here; could you take a look and see if you can do it? And (if possible) tell me what in the world I am doing wrong? Many thanks and my apologies again for all the trouble. —Ed(talk • majestic titan)01:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
What version of Gimp are you using, what operating system? I see the problem. FFT can't work on indexed images. tif is an indexed format. Go to Image - Mode, and choose Greyscale or RGB. Work on the image, and then re save it as whatever format you want. (Hohum@) 02:03, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Of course, if you are scanning the images yourself, the best thing to do by far is to scan with settings that don't cause patterns (typically the highest resolution possible - and then scale the image down in post processing.) (Hohum@) 02:55, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know the Microsoft scanning wizard at all. Look for options to increase the resolution as much as possible (higher DPI) - or see if there is scanning software provided by the scanner manufacturer. What scanner do you have? (Hohum@) 18:44, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It's the default thing that pops up when you plug in the scanner. The scanner I'm using is in my university's library; when I go up there in a couple hours (I'm going to look up some New York Times microfilms), I'll take note of what it is. —Ed(talk • majestic titan)20:11, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There should be a Custom settings button at some point, choose the highest DPI possible - the image can be scaled down to a reasonable size later - but this should avoid scanning artefacts. (Hohum@) 20:17, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Generally using tools designed for fighting vandalism to revert edits in content disputes is frowned upon. Use of such tools can actually be revoked. You didn't do a large rollback and Twinkle is not only for vandalism from what I understand so it wasn't anymore than a reminder from me. You could have just used the normal revert function and it makes it more of a pain for other editors when they have to double check to see if rollback was used or not. Do expect to catch trouble from other editors if you are not careful. And: "Before you start using Twinkle you really should read its documentation to familiarize yourself with some of the possibilities and functions of Twinkle. There are multitudes of options that you can configure to change some of the default behaviours of Twinkle. Never forget that you take full responsibility for any action performed using Twinkle. You must understand Wikipedia policies and use this tool within these policies, or risk having your access to use the Twinkle revoked or your being blocked." - Wikipedia:Twinkle
Wikipedia:Edit warring, which is policy, says "anti-vandalism tools such as Twinkle, Huggle and rollback should not be used to undo good-faithed changes in content disputes.". I hope that clears it up for you and that you will desist from such use in the future. Momma's Little Helper (talk) 23:29, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for tracking that down. I don't believe that I used the tool in a way that gave the impression that the reversion was reverting vandalism - i.e. the edit comment was to the effect that the reversion returned an infobox summary phrase to something that was supported by the main text - and I didn't add any kind of warning or message to the talk page of the user I reverted. However, I suppose that the issue is that the TW tag appended to the edit makes it seem like an anti vandalism edit? (Hohum@) 00:01, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the issue is having misleading edit summaries. Tools like Twinkle are not supposed to be used in content disputes. Period. I didn't make up that policy, but it is what it is. Momma's Little Helper (talk) 01:13, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Apart from the TW tag, I don't see how it is possible to see the difference. I was hoping to understand the policy. Blind obedience is not the typical wikipedia way. I'll see if I can get clarity in a relevant venue.(Hohum@) 01:30, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
thanks for doing that. So far it seems that editors believe the prohibition is indeed due to edit summaries. If that ends up being the consensus, the policy should be reworded to reflect that. To me it seems best to change it to something like "If using automated tools, an edit summary that describes the change as undoing a good-faith edit must be used". Momma's Little Helper (talk) 14:38, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Edit summary in Arjun(Tank) article
Thank you for bringing the edit summary to my attention, i had not noticed it before but i will make sure to fill it in after any future edits.
Thank you--Nuclearram (talk) 11:09, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You are now a Reviewer
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Hello Hohum. Consider this a friendly warning. Please do not post false lies in your edit summaries again like you did here. That was NOT vandalism. The next time I see you making false edits again, I will report you to ANI for your distruptive edits. User:Igor Piryazev is Russian, therefore English is not his mother tongue. Please show some human compassion when interacting with all users, including him. He is trying his best and doesn't deserve to be treated poorly by you on the Battle of Kursk talk page. Also please learn to be more tolerant and do try to show some human kindness the next time around. Thank you. Cadencool21:34, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please report me now so you get a clue on what the repeated editing behaviour that I was reverting is actually called. He had been told several times that the edits he was making had unusable references, yet repeatedly re-introduced them.
Additionally, thankyou for prompting me to take an interest in that page again, where I noted that the same user reintroduced the same unreliably sourced information again, which I have reverted. (Hohum@) 22:02, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No you are wrong. He was not vandalizing but your edit can be called vandalism. Like I told you, he is not English. Please show some human compassion. Try practicing tolerance and explain to him how reliable sources work. Try to show some type of human kindness. All you've done is shown him that you can be very cold. Cadencool22:12, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It has been explained to him, clearly, repeatedly, and politely, over several days, by multiple editors, what level of reliability is required. If his grasp of english is so low as to not understand what he has been told, he shouldn't be editing here. If he is ignoring it, which seems far more likely, he shouldn't be editing here. I'm not here to make friends with editors who are disruptive.
Perhaps it's you who shouldn't be editing here. Until you learn to show some human compassion towards others, I see no point in you being here. Cadencool22:26, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
While human compassion has a great place to play in the world at large, and even a little on wikipedia, this is a project devoted to producing a high quality repository of information, which has requirements for inclusion.
Ironically, you come here and threaten without reason, and don't have the conviction to either carry out your threats, nor the decency to retract them or apologise. Apparently, neither do you appear to notice the many times Igor has been informed, civilly, and clearly, what he is doing wrong. (Hohum@) 22:40, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
LCA Help
Dear Hohum, thanks for taking an interest in the LCA article. It may be obvious to you, but I haven't really bothered to read the rules around here - I've just been copying style patterns from other pages. Question for you: I've been using the navy time 0000 to 2359 thinking that the LCA is a navy subject. Is military time 00:00 really the only acceptable? Or is this a blending of spheres? Thanks again.AmesJussellR (talk) 00:14, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think that most users of wikipedia are non military. The idea is no provide consistency of style, and clarity so that it's understandable and accessible to the widest audience. This is what the Wikipedia Manual of Style is all about. In fact, probably the first instance of the 24-hour clock notation should have a link to the article on it - which does mention military notation without the colon.
The MOS is only a guideline, as opposed to a policy, and I don't think anyone would have kittens if the article used pure military notation, but it might come into play if the article is checked for WP:GA or WP:FA status. Although using "am" and "pm" notation might make the article even more accessible to users, I think the 24-hour clock notation gives it some flavour.
Thanks to you User:Igor Piryazev has quit Wikipedia. Running off new editors who want to help build an enclyopedia is not the way we work around here. I understand you were trying to enforce policy on reliable sources but you did so in a negative way. The way you hounded him with your iceberg responses (sorry but I call it as I see it WP:SPADE) was uncalled for. The poor guy is Russian and wanted to help build articles with Russian historians/Soviet sources. I tried asking you many times to show compassion but you failed to do so and in the process drove him off the project. Please change your ways at communication before you alienate more vulerable new users, especially those who's first language is not English. Cadencool00:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I see no evidence that he has quit. He has failed to follow a core requirement of wikipedia for many weeks despite being asked to follow simple instruction on how to do it, and even given examples. If this has led the to quit instead of simply complying - which is trivially easy to do, then I don't think they had much of a future for his editing anyway. I'm sorry that I'm not just handing out hugs, per your wishes about compassion, but yours haven't convinced him to comply either.
I see no reason to describe him as a "poor guy" or "vulnerable". If his language skills aren't good enough to understand requirements, he shouldn't be editing.
My history on wikipedia stands for itself. I am happy to help people who are willing to learn. Igor was unwilling to follow the rules after many weeks of being shown how to. (Hohum@) 16:53, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Greeting stuff
the other user replied to samsonov. Is it possible that you send him this greeting stuff to his talk. Dont know who to do.Blablaaa (talk) 00:49, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
i made none, nothing i said was slanderous or libelous but i guess it was a vialation of civility however your removal of my post and reasons for it are slanderous and outright censorship. i hope you enjoy your hollow shallow life94.168.210.205 (talk) 01:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, brief thanks for keeping an eye on this article - I hadn't thought of the image move. I'd like to chat about something off the record - please email me, MTIA. PeterWD (talk) 23:20, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Repost of Deleted File
User Communicat has posted File:Disgraced.jpg [2]. The picture is identical to the recently deleted , except Communicat now claims the picture is “copyrighted and unlicensed” instead of his previous claim that the picture is copyright of Stan Winer.[3]. In discussion of Communicat’s post of , User Petri Krohn [4] provided a link showing the picture is being used by the International Institute of Social History. [[5] This would seem to indicate the picture is copyright of that organization as opposed to either of Communicat’s claims about the copyright of the picture. Edward321 (talk) 00:01, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
He's claiming "fair use", which holds some water since there doesn't seem to be a free image of the subject available. (Hohum@) 14:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
User Hohum, I have installed a fresh Window XP, and hope that nothing wrong again. If anything annoying happens again, please let me know. Thanks. Arilang talk01:56, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
arbitration
You are involved in a recently-filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#military history POV-bias and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—
If you want to suggest an improved caption, please feel free to do so. I'm walking away from the article for a few days after another PA. In passing by the way I was really confused by what you wanted to do. Wee Curry Monstertalk22:56, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Since I was born, I still have it. I'm fed up with idiots basically, people generally don't do it to my face as a Glasgae kiss often offends. But they feel they can regress to schoolchildren on here. Think I'll work on some of my sandpit projects for a while. Ciao. Wee Curry Monstertalk00:36, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"Some Argentines have a strongly held belief known as Malvinism; that the Falkland Islands Spanish: Islas Malvinas are an intrinsic part of their country." Reference.
Wouldn't that pretty much do it, assuming there is a reference to back it up?
Per WP:3RR "An administrator may still act whenever they believe a user's behavior constitutes edit warring, and any user may report edit-warring, even if the three-revert rule has not been breached. The rule is not an entitlement to revert a page a specific number of times."
You are clearly edit warring against consensus without meaningful explanation on the article talk page. An administrator is likely to become involved if you continue. (Hohum@) 21:10, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hah, that's funny. I'd seen your name here and there from time to time and always wondered, but never really pegged you for a wiki-geek. :) Anyways, teh BeeNine is pining for your return to what is now FC 3.0; we're starting fresh since BD cocked 2.0 all up. Tarc (talk) 14:41, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Likewise - seen you around, but knew it was you. I'd go to the forum if I knew where it was now. Send me the address via "email this user" ?(Hohum@) 16:36, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This Arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been passed:
Communicat (talk·contribs) is prohibited from editing or commenting on articles about World War II or the Aftermath of World War II. This prohibition is of indefinite duration, but may be appealed to the Committee by Communicat after six months;
Communicat is placed under a behavioral editing restriction for a period of one year.
I see that "upright" had been added in place of "xxxpx" within the image syntax in the Battle of Prenzlau article. I checked WP:Images and it only gives examples of the xxxpx format. Please direct me to a page where it explains how to use "upright". I haven't encountered this anywhere else, but maybe I haven't been paying attention. Thanks. Djmaschek (talk) 04:18, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, good job noticing that photoshop fake on the Yalta image. I'd never have noticed. Just out of curiosity, have you got any idea who the guy is that was photoshopped in? Fut.Perf.☼13:19, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
For your fine contributions to articles related to the history of Nazi Germany, and in particular, World War II, I award you this Barnstar. Cheers. Kierzek (talk) 18:58, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
For meritorious political-historical writing about sensitive topics.
PS i wish ya hadn't reverted my tweak to the holocaust. my rationale: we who are familiar with the topic know that the section headline 'concentration and labor camps' means 'concentration camps and labor camps' but someone coming new to the topic might not. my english teachers of old would'a marked off for the headline as it was since there was potentially-unclear meaning: what sort of concentration? adding camps made it obvious at-a-glance.
Regarding the section heading, I normally try and keep them short yet readable, with as little redundancy as possible - otherwise the TOC can become difficult for a reader to quickly find the section they want. I'll do this at the expense of grammar, but not excessively so. This was a marginal case, and I probably would just have shrugged if it was reverted. (Hohum@) 18:22, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Nazi Germany-article name discussion redux
Hi: Just to let you know, I quoted you in the current discussion here: [12] on the Nazi Germany talk page. This discussion as to the name to use for the article; which you may recall had came up before and I could not have stated a new reply better then you did back then. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 01:38, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Baza
In the Battle of Baza (1810) article, I moved the Edouard Milhaud picture back to the left side. In some monitor configurations (that is, the one at my workplace) the infobox crowded the picture and forced it downward. When pictures cross the section heading boundaries, the article looks awkward. If not for this situation, your idea to have the picture face the text was a good one. Djmaschek (talk) 03:26, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have modified the image code so that it goes on the right, and on very wide monitors - should stay on the left of the infobox. (Hohum@) 17:46, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Am I a Greasy Pig?
Just wanted to find out if you were willing to share some of the sources you mention on the Kaga article that are reputable, from the past 30 years, and intended for a general audience, that use the gendered pronoun when referring to ships. I won't ask you to respond to all of my arguments, since I know I'm being combative and offputting, but I hope you'll at least provide me with that info since you made the claim. Dr.queso = talk05:34, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World ISBN9781591149552
Dear Hohum, Please could you assist me with a file? It is File:Landing Craft Mechanised Mk 1.jpg. I really don't know what I'm doing trying to upload this - I suspect I may have gotten close. I hope you don't mind this presumption. Thanks for any help. Regards, AmesJussellR (talk) 18:10, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do. Upload an image to use in an article? Use an image in an article which is already on wikipedia or commons? (Hohum@) 18:16, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks very much. I have begun a new page specifically for the LCM 1 and this Imperial War Museum photo would be quite useful. I'm sorry this is so counter-intuitive to me. Best regards, AmesJussellR (talk) 18:30, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've taken a look. Although you assert:
Crown Copyright. This artistic work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.
This is because it is one of the following:
It is a photograph created by the United Kingdom Government and taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
It was commercially published prior to 1962; or
It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created by the United Kingdom Government prior to 1962.
HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply)
More information.
See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.
Just wanted to say thanks for your improvements to some of the images I uploaded. The Petit Journal ones in particular look excellent - Dumelow (talk) 20:21, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Greetings. I was looking at the photos of the Romani children and notice that below the photo it mentions that two escaped Auschwitz. I will like to create a blog about them. What happened to this beautiful children broke my heart. I will appreciate if you can provide me with the names or where I can find them on the Internet or elsewhere.
I'm guessing you mean File:Romani Kids ww2.jpg. I only did some image restoration work on it and don't know much about the image. It was originally uploaded by another user who may have more information: User_talk:7mike5000 - he also wrote the comment in the Eva Justin article that two survived. However, I can see that the image comes from a video hosted on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website - here. That has more details which you may be able to follow up on. (Hohum@) 01:20, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Good edit. Clear and to the point. One thing the kerfuffle of the last few days has done is focus editors' minds on the meaning of the article, and this makes very clear what it is and is not. Mark Shaw (talk) 16:59, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
my wanting what is in an article to be properly cited is more a reflection of your attitude than mine
Thats how your attitude looks from aside (no offence):
The cited reference had a name by which it is easy to google it. So when the ref link to the telegraph was broken, you could have fixed it, like i did. Instead you immediately got rid of the whole (inconvenient?) interesting fact.
I've put this fact into the "tank" article long ago, and since than check it once in half a year. And it is either deleted, or is distorted badly. You seem to have the article in your watch list, but do nothing to prevent it.
I briefly looked for a fix to the Telegraph link, which is my usual practice, but failed. However, the WP:BURDEN isn't on me to do this.
I have well over a thousand articles on my watchlist, I miss many problems. Also, the Tank article is a mess in general, so that's a needle in a haystack of problems.
I'm utterly puzzled by your "citation needed tags" in the Spanish Civil War article. You have put them directly in-front of citations. If there is an element in the preceding text which the existing reference doesn't cover, perhaps put that text within "Citation needed span" tags? If there is a problem with the citations themselves, there are a bunch of tags to deal with that (list at bottom of Template:Citation needed), and a talk page to explain if a tag doesn't fit. (Hohum@) 21:12, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry if i used the "Citation needed" tag wrong. But I did explain the details on the talk page. And there is a link right to the explanation from the banner on the top of the page, which you have removed. And a brief explanation was in the banner. 84.52.101.196 (talk) 21:25, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Chieftain new section in talk re Israeli/Uk co-operation
Hi Hohum. Would be grateful if you could take a look. Your comments would be welcome. Ive left a similar message on mr leggets talk page. Happy new year! Irondome (talk) 05:52, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ancre Heights
Thanks for changing the weather table, it was my first go at doing one and I hadn't noticed the redundant criterion. I'll have to look at the others I've done on the other pages now. ;O)Keith-264 (talk) 20:57, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your help recently with the United States Air Force Combat Control Team page and the Ashley Spurlin file, I appreciate it. I'm a bit newer at the whole contributing thing and... I just found out about DYK nominations as well. Anywho, I wrote a DYK nomination about the CCT page and I figured I'd let you know since you editted it a few times and if you would want to offer any feedback on how I did on it I would sure appreciate it. Thanks again, cheers —dain-talk05:54, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for looking over the article. Do you have a reference I could look at to explain |upright=1.1| as it's a new one on me. ThanksKeith-264 (talk) 21:58, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hallo Hohum, can I first say thankyou very much for lending a hand round at Camouflage, it's appreciated. It's my first venture into FAC territory, and I'm finding it quite tough compared to GAN. Nikkimaria has offered to lend a hand tidying the references, and I've had to remove most of the images among other things. Your nice countershaded Focke-Wulf has come in handy at Countershading, and I've started a 'missing' article at Disruptive coloration, which is already a lot better. Meanwhile, if you could spare a moment to look at Camouflage and its FAC, I'd be enormously grateful as I feel a bit out of my depth and all alone there! But I think once the refs are straightened out it will seem a lot better. Hoping you've got the time and inclination - of course will understand perfectly if not -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:02, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for taking a look. Mind you, I think I preferred the b/w Catalina image, more dramatic and full of the sea somehow. But the FAC comments are all about references and manual of style; and we need to leave images alone while Nikkimaria checks all the copyright status and everything, she just told me this evening. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:26, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
General stability of an article is desired during a review - but I think this applies to major changes, or lots of little ones. An image change or two usually isn't an issue imo.
I prefer colour images where possible, in this one specifically because you can't really tell if something is really white in a b/w one. Also, it's far higher quality. (Hohum@) 20:30, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
My pleasure. The Stenigot tower image was hidden away on commons without being in a Chain Home category, so it was luck that I found it. The link review found a whole bunch of dead links - if you can find better alternatives it would be helpful. I might be able to find old versions on a web archive - but most look like someone's self-published site. (Hohum@) 16:06, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wholesale massacre at the Centurion article
Re your message. Such a wholesale removal of material from a WP piece even if uncited, is tantamount to a form of Good faith based "vandalism" in my opinion. I felt I was justified in reinstating it at least provisionally. A whole narrative structure which can be sourced has been removed. Therefore the entire section suffers as there is not even the skeleton of information to which cites can actually be added at a later date. Therefore it adversely affects the 2 relevant sections.
My recommendation is to pepper the entire section(s) with citation needed flags and adopt a gradualist approach to this.
Also a section on talk needs to be created to actually gather the relevant cites from other interested tankie editors, esp from SA and to a lesser extent Israel.
By the logic displayed, a good portion of WP would disappear overnight if these slash and burn edits were repeated on a large scale. A large percentage of sections (or entire articles) are in the "citation needed" pending category. And yes I am aware of the "rules" :) Cheers Hohum Irondome (talk) 23:28, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
My message didn't say to remove anything, so I have no idea where you are getting the "wholesale massacre" idea from. I asked for what you added to be cited - presumably you got the information from a reliable source in the first place, or feel it is true because you read it somewhere? Reliable sourcing is a requirement on wikipedia.
Unlike articles which are biographies of living people, where uncited material must be removed immediately, other articles, like this one, often have a lot of uncited information which stays for a long time - in the hope it will be cited by someone with a reliable source. I was hoping you were one of those people.
I think there may be a misunderstanding. I reverted 2 large edits which removed a very large chunk of text in the Middle East and South Africa section. The 2 edits immediately prior to my undong them. It was uncited material but I felt the removal didnt help the sections structure. Thats what I was talking about above. Cheers Irondome (talk) 18:47, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I noticed that you had uploaded the above file. I am currently trying to upgrade an article which uses this file to AL class and according to one reviewer, the source of the file "should be changed to the book or website from where it was originally scanned/uploaded". Could you help with this? Thanks. Wild Wolf (talk) 17:05, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I tracked down the original source and updated it. (Hohum@)
Hi Hohum!
Well, I came here for discussing the Pakistani Aid to Arabs, you reduced the text that I entered here. It is inappropriate reduction, as what was in the text, is clearly shown in this source
Also, you can go to the Pilot which shot down IAF plane, Sattar Alvi. I have entered the text again which is shown in the above source, and I have also reduced some of the text. Now before any further reduction, plz use the talk page. Faizan (talk) 15:40, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That source wasn't being used at the time. Anything unsourced can be removed. Additionally, wijipedia can;t be used as a reference, and the refgerence on the Sattar Alvi page was unreliable.(Hohum@) 18:39, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I see that you have reverted my edits in the The Holocaust article, making four days of work on my part count for nothing. I know this article is one of the longest on this site and it's a bit of a nightmare to find anything, but it means you have put all the mistakes back in; such as the excessive white space, the copyediting, i.e. duplicated links (and therefore uneccessary) and so-on. The clue was in the edit summary.
I suggest you read it.
To avoid a lot of to-ing and fro-ing between your talk page and mine, if you want to reply, please use this one, as I will be watching it.
I'm confused if you think it took four days of your work to (incorrectly, and against WP:MOS) change some quote tags, which is all your *single* edit comment mentioned, and all that I reverted, as far as I know. (Hohum@) 16:45, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Moved pictures, maps and quotes to reduce white space; copyedit - (article is very big and difficult to navigate); replaced 'Quotation' with 'cquote' to avoid boxes obscuring information"
I tried to reduce the horrendous amounts of white space visible (at least it is on my screen). While wrestling with the maps, quotes and so on in this monster of an article, I found info boxes and a couple of pictures being partially obscured, and the only way that I knew to avoid that situation was to use 'cquote's. If it is against the WP:MOS and you've fixed it, then fair enough, but you still managed to erase many copyedits - from single words and punctuation marks to whole phrases. They all came under what you call a *single* edit, (see above for another copy of the [rather long-winded] edit summary).
Ok, the problem with altering many things in a single edit is that it's difficult to unpick the good and bad parts - of course, many tiny edits have their own issues too. Try grouping similar types of edits together.
However, it looks like I didn't pay attention to all the changes to made. I'll have a look to see if I can re-include your substantive edits while not including the cquotes. (Hohum@) 15:11, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Bear in mind also, that reducing "white space" and image crowding is an attempt to accommodate various different browser window sizes, usually biased towards satisfying smaller widths (~1024px) as not everyone has a large high resolution monitor. (Hohum@) 15:14, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your scrutiny but do you really want pictures etc on the left-hand side? I find that it breaks the margin and looks untidy. Regards, Keith.Keith-264 (talk) 16:05, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. The manual of style suggests "pointing" images towards text - i.e. faces and items which lend themselves to this (cars, planes etc.). It also suggests alternating images left and right (partly because on very wide resolutions, there will be a big stack of images misaligned with the relevant text if they are all on one side). However, it's also a matter of taste as well as balancing style recommendations and technical issues. (Hohum@) 16:13, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, does it really? For me reading left to right makes the right side the obvious place, so my eyes scan the picture reading each line. I take care to spread them evenly down the right hand side and try to match them with the size of the paragraph on it's left. I'd rather have fewer pictures etc than break the left margin. Does this mean that I've turned into an old fart? ;O)Keith-264 (talk) 16:18, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's not mandatory, and consensus / taste applies, and on the Ginchy article, it probably wouldn't cause a stacking issue, so fee free to put them on the right. I would ask that you don't set specific pixel sizes except where necessary (like infoboxes), use the default thumbnail size, the upright or upright=<number> parameter (see WP:EIS) - this lets people use their preferences to set image sizes. (Hohum@) 18:45, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Ho' I bow to the power of your Wikimojo. I thought that the px sizes were for fitting them to the text, as I have copied other editors on usage, since I find that wiki procedure pages are explanations written for people who know about computers, rather than descriptions for ignoramuses like me. When I saw upright notations, I hadn't a clue what they were about. I assumed that people just clicked on to get the big version. I'll give WP:EIS a look tomorrow. If you have any more suggestions about my page design please feel free. Thanks mateKeith-264 (talk)
The reference had information on when delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Qatar will be completed. The deal for the order is confirmed and I was just writing in the timetable. How is that in violation of anything? America789 (talk) 19:41, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately not. It seems to me that as it is the same cap badge for each unit, they each have a relevant fair use claim, but the NFCC requirements aren't really my thing and I can't find a wikipedia noticeboard for the topic. (Hohum@) 17:22, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The existing reference to Zaloga, Armored Thunderbolt almost covered it, I have added an additional page to the existing reference.
Here's the excerpt from p. 22:
At the outset of the war, the army planned to raise 216 divisions, including 61 armored divisions. At nearly 400 tanks per division, this entailed the manufacture of 25,000 tanks, plus additional tanks for training and attrition -- not to mention that Britain was buying large numbers of tanks and the U.S. had further Lend-Lease commitments. ... The plans were for an astonishing 45,000 tanks in 1942, and 75,000 in 1943. [the 120,000 figure]
So, that's not quite "120,000 tanks = 61 divisions". It's "They initially planned to build 120,000 tanks, which would provide for 61 U.S. Armored divisions, their training, and projected replacement of losses, plus sales to Britain and Lend Lease."
Additionally, p. 24:
The US Army would form 16 armored divisions during the course of the war instead of the original plan for 61, although some 70 seperate tank battalions that had not been included in the original plans eventually were organised
there is nothing wrong with the sources and if you have a problem with the wording please improve it instead of removing everything, and nazi germany needs a motto so if there isnt we must find some alternative Kalix94 (talk) 19:37, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Because the edit was very poorly worded, and the sources were poor, as I said in the edit comment. If you have a problem, bring it up at the talk page of the article, where this has already been discussed. (Hohum@) 01:42, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for all these image upgrades, but can you use edit summaries, so people don't have to look at them when they come up on their watchlists. Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 18:42, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And please indicated which image you switched (title and artist), rather than "Clearer version" or "Google Art Project version". Thanks in advance.Coldcreation (talk) 06:41, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm the user responsible for rewriting the article of the 2S25. I can tell you're a very busy user with all of these reviews but I do have one question. On a scale of 1 to 10, one equaling a B-class article and ten equaling a GA-class article, what rating would you give it? Originally, I was planning to rewrite it to make it a GA-class article but gave up after finding out that almost all the sources on this vehicle are either Russian, deprived from Russian, or from the internet. Khazar (talk) 20:06, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I see this is not the first time I've had to ask this. It is a great inconvenience for other editors not to use them. Johnbod (talk) 23:55, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nope, my Inkscape skills aren't good enough to get multiple colours on this image without an unreasonable amount of work. (Hohum@) 12:50, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I was wondering if it was you who added the different ammo types section on the 8.8cm KwK 36 L/56 gun's page : 8.8_cm_KwK_36
I'm particularly interested by the pzgr.40 APCR ammo for this gun. And I've not found any source links concerning it on this page ...
I'm playing an online game called War Thunder : the Pz VI Tiger I (E) using the 8.8cm KwK 36 L/56 is modled, however, it doesn't get in it's ammo selection any pzgr.40 APCR ammo, if you could give me any historical source which can prove that this gun could be equiped with APCR rounds, i could transmit it on the develloper's forum and make this game more historically accurate ...
Jentz, Tom (1993). Tiger 1 : heavy tank, 1942-1945. London: Osprey. p. 17. ISBN978-1-85532-337-7. Of the total ammunition load of 92 rounds, the recommended ratio was 50 per cent Pzgr 39 and 50 per cent Sprgr. Occasionally, when available, a few rounds of Pzgr 40 were carried for use against the heaviest armoured Russian tanks and tank destroyers.
- a line from his poem The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands :
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
-the line ' a lesser breed without the law' apparently comes from another of his poems titled "Recessional"
-Professor Gilbert Murray's comments can be found in page 18 of this book --- "Gandhi's Interpreter" by Geoffrey Carnall. a link to the specific page shows up on google-books if u search with the quote and the names.
Dear Hohum,
I noticed that you changed back my corrected caption on the 1st Duke of Wellington page. You gave some advice about how I should correct the caption that says the Swinton is of Kitty Pakenham. I can't work out how to follow your advice. But I do know that the painting is of Elizabeth Hay, later 2nd Dss of Wellington because I work at Stratfield Saye House and see the original painting every day. Are you able to change the caption for me?
Yours, archivist10 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Archivist 10 (talk • contribs) 22:52, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Archivist 10:Is there a catalogue for the items held at Stratfield Saye House, ideally online, which can confirm this? If so, I can update commons and wikipedia using it as the verification. (Hohum@) 15:58, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
USS Oriskany fire assessment
Just wanted to say thank you for assessing this article. I'll see what I can do to expand upon it. Thanks a bunch!RGFI (talk) 18:14, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Quick question for you about cleaning up a scanned photo
Is there much that a photo expert can do to this photo without getting it scanned again? [13] We have a much smaller version already in Commons and it would be nice to upgrade it. I've got Photoshop and can probably at least clean up the moiré pattern if it's not too complicated.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:24, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately I don't see an image at that link. If you can see one, perhaps grab it and upload it to commons (or somewhere else you can point me to), and I'll see what can be done. Some moire issues are trivial to fix, others can be so difficult a rescan is preferable. (Hohum@) 21:13, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, thanks for your improvements to the Barrett XM109 article. This is ancient history, but I think you may have added a mistaken citation back in 2008. I started a thread on the talk page about it. No worries. Rezin (talk) 17:54, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Please would you visit the Talk page relating to No.255 Squadron and there (a) constructively join in the discussion about "splitting", also (b) set out your connection (if any) with the squadron. The result of a lot of difficult research work done by descendants of squadron members has, within the last few days, been deleted without prior discussion. 255 Historian (talk) 14:00, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The information about Jimmy Lee Gray and his crimes was taken from his article. Since you contend that my insertion was "unreferenced," what is the correct procedure for citing another Wikipedia article?
The obvious intent of the article on the gas chamber is to make readers feel sorry for the murderers who were put to death. Such an article is obviously POV or unbalanced unless we are also told the nature of the crimes for which the murderers are being put to death. Gray kidnapped, raped, and murdered a three-year old girl. A three-year old girl! Does anyone care whether she suffered, or how long it took her to die? And yet, we have an article expresses sympathy for Gray, and we not told, in the article, that he kidnapped, raped, and killed a three-year old girl.
You can't use other wikipedia articles as sources per WP:CIRCULAR, but you could use the relevant sources that page uses.
However, I don't feel manipulated into any sympathy for him. The paragraph you're adding to describes a failure in execution, and doesn't use any unnecessary phrases to describe it. It should link to his article, where readers can find out more about why he was sentenced to death. (It's pretty obvious that anyone sentenced to death in the US has done something horrific.) This article isn't about the crimes, it's about the mode of punishment.
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Replacing an FP
The simplest way might be to upload it as a new image, and do a simple delist and replace nom - just use the "delist" box on WP:FPC and add the replacement image in as well. If it proves difficult to figure out how to set that up, that's probably true for a lot of people, so let me know and I'll code a delist and replace template to simplify things.
It's a little complicated, but it's more-or-less guaranteed results - either your changes will be accepted, or you'll get an explanation of exactly why. Adam Cuerden(talk)17:31, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
In a failed attempt to help, I moved "/Archive12" to "/Archive1"
You'll need to get an admin to delete "/Archive 1", and then move "/Archive1" to "Archive 1". (Don't try copy pasting content, as the history would be lost).
Once that's done make the following change on the talk page
Hi, hope you don't mind, but I undid your change to the gallery widths as the images are variously portrait and landscape, and it seems best to have the same area for all images, roughly the same size as standard (down the right) images rather than suddenly one or two in a gallery far larger than the rest. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I made the change because the gallery takes up about the same amount of screen space, but most of the pictures are bigger and easier to see detail in. i.e. there is a lot less wasted whitespace. (Hohum@) 16:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Your comment about using blogs as sources does not consider the quality of the mentioned blog. In the modern web, a dedicated aviation blog like "the aviationist" or "Oryx", often used as first source for "mainstream" press has much more precise information than any New Your Times, CNN or RT. Your POV is biased and your sources are very weak. — Preceding unsigned comment added by vnkd (talk • contribs)
Your presumption of what I know is flawed. I have left The Aviationist references intact because it seems that he is at least an expert in the field. The other blogs I removed are not. You also ought to take more care checking which sources I have added to the same articles - which is *none*; I have only put them in cite tags to make them more presentable. Your attention to details like this is sloppy. Know what you are talking about before throwing around accusations. Check WP:RS and WP:RSN to find out what wikipedia considers reliable sources. Also, sign your messages. (Hohum@) 14:00, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the edits on the loca map, I've only been experimenting with "Location map many" recently, I'll be able to copy the layout. Keith-264 (talk) 21:00, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your comment on the Peiper Talk page. I really appreciate it!
Would the same rationale apply here SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen - Source regarding the use of a division history by Otto Kumm. I have reliable sources that call these unit histories "tendentious" and Otto Kumm an "unreformed Nazi enthusiast." Who knows what he means by "crushing the partisans" and "bravery." Please let me know what you think.
Here are the sources in context:
Memoirs and histories by former Waffen-SS generals and bulky 'official' unit histories (often in several volumes) were produced with the assistance from HIAG since the 1950s. They invariably portrayed Waffen-SS men as "idealists who fought honorably and well (and had nothing to do with the concentration camps)"[1]; these works were clearly "tendentious."[2] HIAG also underwrote the publication of works by right-wing academics sympathetic to the Waffen-SS.[2]
At least through the 1970s, Kumm remained "the ever unreformed Nazi enthusiast" according to researcher Danny S. Parker, who was given access to the previously closed HIAG archives.[3] Perceived by the West German government to be a Nazi organization, HIAG was eventually disbanded in 1992.[4]
Levenda, Peter (2014). The Hitler Legacy: The Nazi Cult in Diaspora: How it was Organized, How it was Funded, and Why it Remains a Threat to Global Security in the Age of Terrorism. Ibis Press. ISBN978-0892542109. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Parker, Danny S. (2014). Hitler's Warrior: The Life and Wars of SS Colonel Jochen Peiper. Da Capo Press. ISBN978-0306821547. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Sydnor, Charles W. (1990) [1977]. Soldiers of destruction: the SS Death's Head Division, 1933–1945. Princeton University Press. ISBN978-0691008530. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Thank you - I will do that. I was just making sure I'm not the only one who would question uncritical use of potentially biased and revisionist sources. :-) -- K.e.coffman (talk) 18:27, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Radar
Hi:
I have seen that you have reverted the input by HHubi. I totally agree with you, that guy thinks that Wikipedia is an ITU manual. However, I was thinking that his entry of ITU quotes could be added in a "Regulations" section (as I did in Radiosonde) which would stop further reverting. What do you think about that.
Possibly. I've referred the issue of his editing of telecoms/radio related articles to WT:TEL, since I don't have the expertise in the subject for the nuance that may be necessary in dealing with such a troublesome editor. (Hohum@) 16:28, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I would like to go ahead and clean up this article: none of the sources listed are reliable; in addition, the credited vehicles are not cited. I know you've disagreed once, so I wanted to give you heads up to see if you wanted to improve the article before I proceed.
Policy requires that articles reference only reliable sources; however, this is a minimal condition, rather than a final goal. With the exception of certain recent topics that have not yet become the subject of extensive secondary analysis, and for which a lower standard may be temporarily permitted, articles on military history should aim to be based primarily on published secondary works by reputable historians.
The nature of historical material requires that articles be thoroughly—even exhaustively—cited. At a minimum, the following all require direct citation:
Firstly; thank you for taking an interest in improving the articles that you have been working on. It is welcome.
The web sources currently in use have bibliographies at the bottom of their pages, so they are tertiary, and the text they support is probably factual. I agree that it should more properly be cited directly to those sources, if you have them. If you don't have them, I advise against removing the text in the article just because of poor referencing. You should only remove information if you think it is *wrong*, not just because the sourcing is weak.
Short version - I suggest improving the referencing, rather than tearing out information because it has tertiary sourcing. (Hohum@) 15:49, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure that I agree. Per WP:MILMOS & WP:RS, these are unreliable and, secondly, tertiary sources. I find these numbers to be dubious – they could have been simply exaggerated in the heat of the battle or by the unit commander to mask mistakes, or could have been factually incorrect, whereas the unit reports destroying 'heavy tanks' while in fact these were T-34s. Without reliable sources, we simply do not know. If the articles do not have citations, then per various tags "the material may be challenged or removed." It does not say that it cannot or should not be removed. What do you think? K.e.coffman (talk) 17:42, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
As I said, improve the sourcing. The numbers are likely supported by the reliable sources (Jentz, Schneider, etc.) at the bottom of the web pages currently used. (Hohum@) 14:14, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I do not have access to these sources; I'd rather interested editors improve the article once it's been cleaned up.
Good luck here. I also tried to help but it was received slightly less enthusiastically than a dose of clap. Sadly, having tried to be nice I find that I have no stomach for further involvement - I hate rows on here - so I'm ducking out. If you continue to try to help I wish you luck with it. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 14:48, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Greyscale PNG's
I quite literally never thought that the colorspace of the PNG would affect that, even though I damn well 'knew' it could have. Thanks for fixing that, and educating me a bit on what to do if I see that problem in the future. MjolnirPantsTell me all about it.15:46, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about this but can you have another look at the Cape Guardafui loc map you did please? I altered something in the picture captions and it altered the map, making it spill over the page margin and I can't put it right because I can't find what I did to it, even looking at previous versions of the page. Keith-264 (talk) 12:58, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No, it was 220, I was changing picture captions from center /center to {{center|caption}} and it changed something in the map formula but I don't know what.Keith-264 (talk) 18:59, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Hohum, Some of the information in this map, namely the spread of lollardy's influence (the distinction between areas with a lollard presence before the death of Richard II and areas where lollardy spread in the 15th century), was made inaccessible to people with deuteranomaly (and possibly other kinds of "colour-blindness") by the change of blue areas to green (your edit on 20 May 2015). Could you please have another look some time? Thanks and best wishes --Frans Fowler (talk) 00:22, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I've now adjusted the colours so that they are compatible with deuteranopia, protanopia and tritanopia - according to the filters for that purpose in Gimp. Hopefully that has worked. (Hohum@) 00:51, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi again. Thanks for trying, so quickly! The current version from the File history table is an improvement (but not as clear as the first one, with the blue). However, the big version now at the top of the file page (which looks to me like the version in the Lollardy article) doesn't seem any different from the previous one - Somerset and Wilts look like darker and lighter versions of the same colour. Is that just the database being slow somehow, or is there a mix-up? Cheers --Frans Fowler (talk) 01:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, and thanks for your help now that the article is queued for GAN. What do you think of another editor's sudden additions to the article, and changes to structure? Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:30, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I took a chance on it, and have at least explained myself. I'd be very glad if you could keep an eye. On the B2, I'd say it was easily a good enough image to be going along with, but as always, these things can be worked on. In the case of the B2, although this is a camouflage article, its colours are not terribly important as its stealth does not rely on its visual appearance: a curious but pertinent fact. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:56, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
T-34s in Angola
Howzit, Hohum.
As you were the first contributor to mark the section I wrote on the T-34's usage in the Angolan Civil War as being too granular, I would value your opinion on the revised section I am proposing here. This is roughly about the size of the section on the tank's Korean War deployments; however, I have been told it is still too detailed and needs to be axed to four or five sentences, or less than one paragraph.
What do you think? Has it been adequately condensed as is, or does it need more work?
Not bad, but it needs to be condensed more. Things like how they were shipped aren't needed. Read the Korean war section and see how that concentrates its focus. (Hohum@) 21:04, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I know. My intention is to templatize bare reference. In order to harvnb template wokrs, we need to convert literature to templates Citation or Cite book/journal. -- Bojan Talk 19:46, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@BokicaK: It would make a lot more sense to do it the other way around. Prepare the citations, then adjust the references - that way, nothing is broken. (Hohum@) 19:48, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I concur with You, but I can't do it with plain search & replace. I just wanted to do half of this task. I hoped that others users will append Literature/Sources/Biobliography sections. -- Bojan Talk 19:54, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be quite happy to join in repairing the references but I'm useless with harvnb, sfn is the only one I'm any good at; would it help if I did some of the affected articles like that while you're plugging away on V-B? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 07:33, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Although well intentioned, I'm not convinced the original change was the best idea for a lot of the articles involved. (Hohum@) 20:25, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Editorial POV-pushing, despite attempts by to persuade an editor to acknowledge the difference between an article conforming to the title and a Montgomery-bashing exercise.
Hi, I'd inadvertently pasted the same citation twice about Mongolian Ost Battalion troops in Normandy. Thanks for the revert otherwise I wouldn't have caught that.Yojimbo1941 (talk) 20:59, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Nice work on the WWI images. Thanks. If you feel like having a look at their sourcing that would be good. If you feel like weeding some of them out, even better. And from the last A class review:
"The images need boosting in size, each scrutinised on the basis of quality (res, etc), height, caption length, relationship to surrounding text and images, and critically, internal detail. The Br. Grand Fleet looks like a bad case of skin rash and pimples. Austrian troops: the relevance, the detail, is impossible to make out. The corpses: amazing pic, and hugely dramatic. Bigger, please. Initial actions: please see the MoS on text sandwiching! Please note the change in WP:IUP on image sizes, which has loosened up about forced size increases. Experiment with 230–250px?"
If you are already on to any of this and I am playing the role of the slow kid at the back of the class, apologies. In any case, thanks again for the good work. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:56, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Hohum. I saw your recent edits on M60 Machine Gun, and noticed you removed a reference from thefirearmblog.com on the grounds it was a blog, and thus not a reliable source. I agree that blogs are not reliable sources, but, as far as I can tell, thefirearmblog is actually a news site, and just happens to have blog as part of their name. There was a discussion on WikiProject Firearms (Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Firearms/Archive_9#Source_discussion) about reliable sources, and while not specifically mentioned, I believe that based on precedent favors the reliability of website in question. I recognize you're a much more experienced editor than I am, so a response would be very much appreciated, especially if I'm mistaken. Thanks! - Mr.1032 (talk) 21:05, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Although it seems they do have staff writers, I'm not convinced that makes it a reliable source. Even if it did, it doesn't seem that the author of that contribution, "Miles" is a staff writer, or a recognised expert - he seems like an interested amateur. In short, it would be better to find a better source instead of arguing about that one. If you want to get more feedback, the reliable sources noticeboard would be the place to go. (Hohum@) 22:35, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I'd be happy to upload a file separately. Since only one non-free image per article is allowed, that would mean that the older image would be deleted. If that's a concern, I'd be happy to list it for discussion. Or I can just go ahead and replace the file in the article. Please let me know. --K.e.coffman (talk) 22:08, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Where do you see the limit on non free images in an article to one? There is a "minimal number of items" clause er WP:NFC, but showing someone young, in military uniform, versus much older, as a civilian, especially when their features are very different, are different use cases. . (Hohum@) 11:05, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Pull quote?
You changed several instances of cquote to quote in the Chain Home article, marking it "not a pull quote". What is a pull quote and why should one be used instead of the other? Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:03, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Pull quote - A quote of something in the article itself. Template:Cquote has warning at the top "This template should not be used for block quotations in article text."
Block quote, MOS:BLOCKQUOTE - A long quote. "Do not enclose block quotations in quotation marks (and especially avoid decorative quotation marks in normal use, such as those provided by the {{cquote}} template)"
Thank you for your recent edits on Vietnam War. Per your User page I have become exhausted wrestling pigs on various recent edits of Vietnam war related pages. regards Mztourist (talk) 07:00, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
APCBC
Hi Hohum, the edit with the deletions I agree with but the problem remains that the article does not describe how the caps work. So to verify is your objection to the lack of citation or are you contesting the descriptions? The 1st portion I can provide a citation to, the second is Nathan Okum's work on the subject. This is the part that particularly concerns me. I don't have a better source than he provides but He is a noted expert in the field. Please let me know I have zero intention of edit warring.Tirronan (talk) 16:38, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! Why you deleted my text from Military section? Could you help me with transform my text to coherent with your opinion?--Swadim (talk) 17:13, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Photo request petition - please sign
Hi! Can you please sign the petition to TASS and RIAN requesting them to release certain historic photos (many of them from WWII) for Wikimedia by adding your signature to the signature section? Thanks, --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 21:01, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Military history WikiProject World War I Op-Ed Series
The Teamwork Barnstar
In recognition of the role you played in cleaning up my God-awful spelling and grammar in the World War I Op-Ed series published by the Military history WikiProject's newsletter The Bugle over the last four years, I hereby present you with this teamwork barnstar. It is thanks to so many different editors like you who took the time to copyedit the nearly four year long series that it ended up being as successful as it was, and I am grateful for your help since spelling and grammar are not my strongest suites. Yours sincerely, TomStar81 (Talk) 14:38, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Edits on 1745
Genuine question; what is the purpose of the changes you've made to the images used in this article? I get the sandwiching thing (although it seems slightly unnecessary) but not why you've removed all the px/size things. Not objecting per se but I used specific sizes for a reason so I'm trying to understand why they've been changed. Thanks!
Except with very good reason, do not usepx (e.g. thumb|300px), which forces a fixed image width. In most cases upright=scaling factor should be used, thereby respecting the user's base preference (which may have been selected for that user's particular devices).
Thanks for your effort to change image sizing on articles about Nazis and Nazi Germany generals to preference sizing. I have reviewed all of them that are on my watchlist, and I have to objection to any that I've seen so far. I;m hopeful that this will put the issue to rest. Beyond My Ken (talk) 11:27, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. I've just been going through generals via Commanders of World War II. So far, most British and US generals have default sizes, but German ones have far more that are (slightly) smaller. Some of this may be because they are closer framed to the face, so don't need to be so big for recognition. (Hohum@) 11:33, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I like your addition of the 4 sizes of spoons to the tablespoon etc. articles. But the addition made me realize there's no frame of reference in them. I'm wondering if you can find a similar photo, with something like a cube of sugar to clarify their sizes? PetesGuide, K6WEB (talk) 16:56, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think most people know how big a teaspoon is - however, to split hairs, it's actually a coffee spoon in the image, which may be slightly smaller. If I come across a spoon set image with something even more universally known for scale, I'll use that though. (Hohum@) 17:30, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Bombing of Dresden page
I just put the word historians in instead since me adding other things in was not needed I see that now since the fist sentence covers what I was trying to sayJack90s15 (talk) 14:17, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
New Albion article
Thank you very much for your improvements to New Albion. I have recently worked much on the article with very much of my effort expended by improving the citations. I was entirely unfamiliar with the OCLC notation and appreciate that you were so conscientious with your editing that you noticed something so small. If you are able to provide any further advice regarding the article, I am very interested in receiving it. I see your experience is deep, and my efforts at article writing include only four article creations with small edits to various others. So, I value your thoughts.Hu Nhu (talk) 22:03, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Re: your edits of Heinrich Himmler article
I edited the article and added info from a new source, a book by a reputable publisher, not the two online sources criticized in the earlier reversions. I do not accept that just because an author of history is characterized as a "revisionist," that he or she might not have something interesting to offer. I mentioned all along that the allegations of a British execution of Himmler were unproven.
Elendil's Heir
Put your comments about articles on the article talk page. David Irving is utterly discredited, he is not an acceptable source. (Hohum@) 22:17, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for your help!. I thought I had done the best to the picture but damaged Rostron's shoulder. Do you think it's a go for FP Candidate? Just your opinion will be welcomed :). A barnstar awaits you. --LLcentury (talk) 20:02, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to undone the IPs contribution, as they are based on fringe theories but without sucess. The IP pretends to claim that the statements come from the book 'The Great Patriotic War of 1941-45' Vol. 2. (pdf link) but that's not true. (just check the cite to p. 358) Most of the statements in fact come 1:1 from this article: https://ukraina.ru/pobeda/20150507/1012991229.html written by Evgeny Spitsyn, a die-hard Stalin apologist and revisionist.
Hi. Just a heads up. The images you've replaced at George Washington's political evolution were specifically selected because their licensing met the standards expected at A Class review. The images you replaced them with, while better quality, do not have appropriate licensing. That will be an issue if the article is ever (re)submitted to the higher quality review fora. Factotem (talk) 11:40, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Source says it was published 1774, which is in the date field, so, whether the author is known or unknown, they have been dead for 100 years, so PD. (Hohum@) 12:24, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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What "clarification needed]" for you? I think you're wrong in your assessment. You are seriously mistaken when you say that now in Russia there is "the return to the Stalinist interpretation". This is complete nonsense. Refer to the newspaper "euromaidan" about Russia - nonsense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.92.126.42 (talk) 17:22, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am a native English speaker. Some of the content you have added is incomprehensible, incoherent, not valid English sentences, they convey no meaning, and are babble. Usually, it is possible for me to fix bad grammar, but it's impossible to figure out what was intended. It is also unclear what part is quotation from a source, and what is isn't. I also find it hard to believe that a quotation from a reliable source would be so incoherent. I have told you this countless times, but you keep re-adding it without discussing it on the talk page of the article, where this should be. (Hohum@) 18:24, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I have never said anything even close to "the return to the Stalinist interpretation". Where are you getting this utter fiction from? (Hohum@) 18:28, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Answer:
Yes, please excuse me, I was wrong, it was not written by you (Rjensen wrote).
My English is not native, of course, I can only apologize for the mistakes. I do not impose my opinion, I only write in addition to others, if it affects the theme of Russia and Russian history. I think that this should not be completely indifferent for you or others. For example, to know that the historian Boris Sokolov is actually a very odious figure in Russia and his opinion is not typical for Russian historians. I repeat, in any case, I do not seek to impose my opinion to anyone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.92.126.42 (talk) 19:15, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The premised fact is that "brain gain" over "brain drain" ratios are antithetical and contingent. Wherefore, the lingo of using only "brain drain" alone within the primary Section is misleading to readers. The mutually exclusive net gain premise is a subsequent and inverse positional shift for both nations. Inasmuch, any respective receiving nation's gain is also the originating nation's loss. This is the essence of the concept.
The proportional inverse net loss to the preceding nation was the dependent variable of Operation Paperclip. This primary covert strategy of international policy gained political traction in the 20th century. It represents fundamental comparative advantages extracted from competitive disadvantages through diplomacy over war. Let me know your position before I undo... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdcanfield (talk • contribs) 14:58, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies for the lack of edit summaries. Mostly removing broken wiki coding, making sort work correctly for all dates. (Hohum@) 23:59, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your edits to Cold War. Your input solicited...
...at Talk:Cold War. I am keen to standardize the references and repair all of them. I am willing to do all the heavy lifting. ♦ Lingzhi2(talk)
Sorry about that; when I was making the link, I was thinking that if that target didn't exist, it should be created, but I forgot to check when I was saving the page. I just made a redirect from there in case anyone else links to it, but thanks for changing "crewed" to "human"; it sounds more natural. And thanks for your watchfulness on this article. -- Beland (talk) 23:58, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi. There is some lists, I mean about List of marines and naval infantry forces and List of paratrooper forces, in lead of both of that articles is said to there are "several" countries but for me seems to there is 60+ countries, and several is often used when something is just a few or a little more then a few so maybe can be said to there is many or something like that. When I saw it for the first time it confused me a little I must to say, so it can also confuse people who read etc. 93.87.128.87 (talk) 19:48, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It has multiple meanings, like most words - in this case, I think they mean "various", or the very indistinct "some". (Hohum@) 19:55, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe more better to put "various". For me was confusing. Also I checked Webster and it is said "in common use, several is often more than a couple and a few, though it is sometimes the same as both and occasionally more than a few" 93.87.128.87 (talk) 19:59, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft
I'm just wondering what this was about. When I don't have an opinion on something, it's usually cause for zero posts, not three vaguely insulting ones. I'm sorry if I've caught you at a bad moment or something. Anyway, I just wondered what prompted that. --The Huhsz (talk) 22:19, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(Firstly, kudos to you for laying the olive branch.)
It's not *no* opinion. I'm pretty sure it was specific and clear. The issue being discussed is a waste of time. Not only yours, which is, of course, yours to waste - but of other editors (which is theirs to waste as well). However, waste is waste - time better spent doing something else.
I can't see any likely positive outcome to wikipedia articles from the discussion. We reflect what reliable sources use. If sources use he/she/it/they, that's what we use. This principle has been hashed and rehashed many times.
What does it matter if across articles we are consistent or inconsistent in pronoun use between ships, airships, bicycles or cows? Why would they need to be? What's the harm/benefit? Things aren't consistent in reality. As a comparison, we had endless battles about British English vs American English use in articles - common sense eventually resolved this to - unless there is a string national tie, it doesn't matter - choose one consistently within the article, and use that. Pronoun use should be handled in a similar way - follow the style used in the majority of sources used for the article. Then get back to concentrating on improving actual article *content*. (Hohum@) 23:06, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
And kudos to you for accepting it in the spirit it was meant. Oh, I got what you meant. I essentially asked a question at a venue set aside for this sort of discussion for opinions about this encyclopedic matter, and you responded, essentially, that it was silly even to ask the question. By my terms it is definitionally important (else I would not have asked the question); it is, as you say, my time to waste, and this was a proper venue for asking such a question. So I (perhaps unintentionally snarkily) pointed out that this is (in terms of the conversation) tantamount to saying you have no opinion.
I do sympathise; I found myself reading something earlier today about Trump's impeachment process. People were getting very exercised about Trump vs Obama and the upcoming election. I am not American and view the entire US political scene very cynically. I was sorely tempted to get in there and tell the participants that it was a waste of their time, bandwidth and electrons, and that they should endeavour to develop more productive interests, that all politicians are liars and crooks, and that we would all be dead in 100 years so who cares? I did not; I clicked on something else and moved away silently. That you did not do similarly tells me that you are not completely disinterested in the topic.
If you were Emperor of Wikipedia and the choice was up to you, would you really say "go with the sources"? We don't do that currently of course; if we went with the usage of contemporary sources we would call Nelson Mandela a "criminal terrorist", George Washington an "insurgent traitor" and Martin Luther King a "Negro activist". Without checking those articles I am confident we do not do so. We write about them the way modern sources do. The words we choose to describe things are important. The "she for ships" (and perhaps airships too? Hovercraft?) is not quite at that level, but cumulatively I believe almost as important. You're right that it's been discussed previously. It's ok that we sometimes discuss things more than once. Clearly I don't believe it's a complete waste of time. But the real problem was that my question did not relate to the wider MoS discussion; I merely mentioned it as background. My question was more about how the heck this specialised usage that the ship people seem to find important has gotten spread onto airships, which aren't ships. Like, was there a discussion that agreed this? Anyway, sorry to waste even more of your time. Best regards, --The Huhsz (talk) 00:20, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The Washington, Mandela and King examples seem inaccurate. If you use the best reliable sources (i.e. the mass of seminal works on those people by historians and biographers), it's unlikely you'll get the results you suggest.
If the best sources about anything (e.g. airships) stopped being written, then, although those sources may seem seem to have archaic language to you, it's the most up to date available. Although, I'll bet there are some decent modern books on airships (and I'd bet they tend to use she).
Ref Trump. It seems to me, that after a very careful inspection of the evidence, they will ponder its weight, and then vote along party lines. (Hohum@) 18:00, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Hohum:, you recently reverted an edit I made on the short description of the Lakh article, without providing any explanation. Would you mind letting me know why you did that? The existing short description - 100,000 - 1,00,000 in Indian numbering, seems confusing to me, and I would say it is confusing for most English-speakers as not only does it look like "1,000,000" (1,00,000 being an unfamiliar number), but it doesn't seem to add anything useful to the description. werewolf (talk) 23:19, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's the comma separation used by the numbering system that uses Lakh, so it is entirely appropriate, and also clearly explained. (Hohum@) 23:04, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Hohum:, your revert was not explained. Generally it is preferred that when doing a revert, one provide an explanation. I understand the role the comma plays in the Indian numbering system as well as in this instance, and I am in no way disputing it. What I am saying, and as I explained in my previous message, is that I don't think it it necessary to add the Indian notation in the short description as it is potentially confusing to someone merely reading this short bit rather than delving into the article, where the unusual (for non-Indians) notation is explained. werewolf (talk) 08:47, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Your edit was also not explained. I clearly think it is useful, please take this to article talk if you want to gain consensus for your edit. (Hohum@) 13:38, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If you want to move the main part about Bernie Madoff's expected death into a new section (or wherever) please do. But a short sentence in the lead makes sense. Birthdays and death dates are nearly universal in bios. It will be big news when it happens, and note that he is claiming this, not some nut job. In short, I'll revert your reversion: it's important material. Smallbones(smalltalk)15:22, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your explanation. It's nice to communicate with people who are ready to help. I will now know about quoting. Thank you also for prompting to read this book. A bit even funny, that the only (!!!!!) the "historian" whom he quotes is Sokolov. Here's superhistory!!! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Россиянин2019 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strange editing practice
I appreciate your removal of the text as strange. Many visitors (not even Russian) pointed out your strange editing practice. For example, in the subject "lend-lease". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.155.64.26 (talk) 14:30, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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about the reversion in Allied War Crimes
here is the original phrase from the Portuguese Wikipedia (the place where i found it)
Prisioneiros alemães na Noruega teriam sido obrigados a limpar campos minados. Quando a "limpeza" terminou, 392 estavam feridos e 275 morreram. (German prisoners in Norway would have been forced to clear minefields. When the "cleanup" ended, 392 were injured and 275 died.)but now i noticed,the guy who put the Source in the original one,put a german war crime. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.35.35.204 (talk) 16:54, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
apparently,the book is about the Scorch campaign made by the germans in norway,but nothing about the Mine fields189.35.35.204 (talk) 16:57, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You need to stop edit warring and take it up on the talk page of the article to gain consensus for your edit. Please read, and abide by WP:BRD, and revert your contested edit now. YOU are responsible for any edits you make, whether translated or not. You have now said it was Norwegian, British, and then Germans were responsible - you clearly don;t have the source and are blindly copying. (Hohum@) 17:28, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Need help don't know what to do with this some one is making stuff up asking around for help
i see you removed a image from it,and i understand why, the Description of the Image was Kinda bad, what ACTUALLY happened is that, the japanese soldiers Looted the Shop the propaganda said they we're buying stuff from, and it was published by a japanese Journal as a propaganda, to say to the Chinese people something like this:
"HEY! we arent bad, we are helping your economy, and we clearly didnt Looted this place" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.35.35.204 (talk) 01:12, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
When you revert and say the template "broke" you should add a post to the talk page saying what happened. Please explain your revert as your change left the template in this state:
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That was a silly mistake of mine. I moved the "the" to a more logical position in the code, and moved it after the language name instead of before. Fixed as well. Thanks! --Gonnym (talk) 14:17, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Patton
General George S. Patton wearing his 4-star service cap.jpg is a photoshopped image of File:Pattonphoto.jpg which he is wearing 3 stars. Neovu79 (talk) 00:35, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You deleted my edit to the Sherman tank page because it was unreferenced. But I the table I added was cited to a ballistics report. Can I please put my edit back? Blamazon (talk) 20:28, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The text you added is unsupported by the reference. The table itself is out of place in the section you added it, but might work in the "Gun development" section where the weaker high explosive shell is already discussed. (Hohum@) 21:26, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
Hello,
I hope you are fine. Actually I am new here. You seem like an experienced person in Wikipedia.
Can you please explain how things work here??😄😄 অগ্নিশিখা (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thankyou for your recent contributions to the pitched battle article. I am new to editing and greatly appreciate the support. I was also wondering if an infobox would be a useful addition somewhere in the article? I am not sure what infoboxes would be of use in the Military History Wikiproject or if any would be useful in the article. Any Assistance in this regard is greatly appreciated. Cheers.
Hi. I can't think of an appropriate/useful infobox in this case. By the way, you can sign your talk page entries with ~~~~ (Hohum@) 09:39, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Hohum this is a message about translations!
I wanted to write my name in Japanese from English and also the letters of the alphabet, do you have any idea for the best way for this?
for example when I google translate a name or a letter, it kind of screws me over with different meanings and such, all I wanted was to write my name and letters in a different language, but don't really know how.
I am asking you this only because I saw you post on translations article, just hoping you could maybe have the answer, thankyou friend! EzeeWiki (talk) 07:09, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that's possible with Japanese. Translation relies on a whole word's meaning having an equivalent word/symbol in the other language. Transliteration tends to be phonetic for Japanese to English - using letter patterns to represent what the spoken Japanese sounds like. I don't think there is a relevant letter by letter way of transliterating from English to Japanese. It's hardly my area of expertise though. There may be translation forums on the web somewhere that may be able to help. (Hohum@) 11:49, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hohum, I wanted to ask your take on the use of anti-vax tags in BLP articles. I noticed you added to a number of people recently. I'm a bit concerned since I think we need to be careful with anti-vax activist vs someone who has say questioned the safety of the current COVID vaccinations or have at some point discussed anti-vax topics but don't push the material (disclaimer, 100% vaccinated here including COVID). I think the label has two critical parts. First is activist. Tucker Carlson has questioned the safety of the COVID vaccine but not vaccines in general and unlike say Jenny McCarthy or JFK jr he hasn't made that a special message he pushes or tries to engage in. When looking at the BLP articles if there is little mention or only minor mention of their anti-vax work then I think the tag shouldn't be used since it has a strong, negative BLP implication. As an example, it looks appropriate on Nick Catone and Jamel_Holley's pages but I think it's questionable on Frank Winterstein's page since the vaccine material is very limited. It's not clear to me how it would apply to Kenneth Copeland since it appears he has come out generally for vaccines based on the article text. Benjamin Grant Mitchell's page says nothing about vaccines. I know the use of categories on BLP pages has come up several times recently. I wanted to get your thoughts since you added these tags. Thanks. Springee (talk) 14:29, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Even if it is only one (or possibly several/all COVID vaccines), he's been outspoken. Anti-vaccine activist seems entirely appropriate in this case. I will check the others. Although I think the Benjamin Grant Mitchell page I noticed that the mention of anti vaccine / conspiracy theories had no source, so removed per BLP, and removed the category. (Hohum@) 15:34, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I looked at some of your recent edits but obviously too quickly (hence I didn't want to make changes without asking first). So looking at both Carlson and Winterstein, I don't think the tag should apply to either person. Carlson has mentioned concerns about the COVID vaccine more than once but that is a specific case, not a general stance against vaccines. We shouldn't use a specific case to apply a generalized tag (in my view). The Winterstein tag is still questionable on two grounds. First, if so little of his article is about anti-vax then he probably isn't notable for any anti-vax activism and thus shouldn't be tagged. More importantly, the source for the claim is an Instagram photo and thus would fail RS for the claim in question. I might raise this as a general BLPN question. If I do I will ping you here but not cite your edits. My intent isn't to make a stink about good faith edits, rather to try to figure out when these tags should be used. I think in previous cases (for other tag types) they were limited to cases where a person is well known for their efforts in a particular area, not just because they publicly expressed skepticism or similar at some point. Springee (talk) 16:58, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree with the conclusion about Carlson, I don't think you have to disagree with all vaccines to be anti-vaccine - especially when it's so clearly at odds with evidence. For Winterstein, I reject the idea that to be in a category you have to be a notable example - however, I do agree the sourcing is insufficient, so the text, reference, and category should be removed. (Hohum@) 17:08, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Military reverted edit
Hallo. You have reverted an edit I made to Military moments after I made it, reverting the introduction to the article to the previous falacious text. This requires correcting, as per the edit I had made with references. Aodhdubh (talk) 18:19, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Per my edit comment. "The lead should not contain unique content. It should summarize existing article body text".
MOS:INTRO "The lead section should briefly summarize the most important points covered in an article... Apart from basic facts, significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article."
Please do not use intimidating tactics on me by accusing me of edit waring when I think it is you that is engaged in an edit war. I did a single revert and asked that you take it to the talk page before you reverted my edit. You did not do so, you just reverted me a second time and tried to intimidate me by sending me a long threatening message about how I could be banned even if I didn't revert a third time. I've never seen that happen. Not every change to a page needs discussion on the talk pages. I think reverts should be justified and you have made no attempt to do so. I made a bold edit to the page as wiki endorses, and explained my edit. you reverted it without comment. I reverted it and said I stood by my reasons and asked that it go to the talk page before reverting it again. You did not do so. Again you reverted with no explanation. It is you that is engaged in an edit war, not me. Make your case on the talk page as to why you think the Gloster should be included. If everyone blindly reverted every change on Wikipedia and hid behind edit war rules no article could be changed. You have given no reasons for your reverts. That is edit war by definition. You wrote to me; " Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors.", yet you didn't take your own advice, you reverted for a second time. Please stop edit waring and then bullying and threatening me with sanctions. I'm the one that first suggested taking it to the talk page and you have not done so. That makes you the problem. I believe I'd be justified given that you haven't explained your reverts to just wait out the 24-hour rule and revert it again as I have already explained my reasons, whereas you have not. Take it to the talk page. We can work this out but I will not be bullied Jackhammer111 (talk) 15:38, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I have reverted you *once*, and given a reason. You are clearly edit warring with multiple editors. *You* have made the bold edit to the stable version of the page, it has been reverted. It is up to you do discuss and gain consensus for the change. Take it to the article talk page. (Hohum@) 15:52, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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World War II article sources
If I want to write about an ongoing discussion about the World War II article and proposed edits that is different from the one described here, am I in the correct section? If not I apologize. I was wondering what you thought about the different opinions regarding evaluating sources on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and subsequent invasions of Poland. CessnaMan1989 (talk) 18:03, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
My main comment would be: Instead of providing clear, reliable sources which give unequivocal support for a position, there is now a verbose argument about one source and some hand waving about being able to find sources that support whatever position you want. It doesn't seem particularly constructive. (Hohum@) 18:13, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Your hatred for Gamal Abdel Nasser was never love in Egypt. That is why you, the British, are not keen on the history of the Egyptian army, which is being distorted before you, despite your claim of sadness for Egypt as a result of its defeat. That's why you don't care about us
Your hatred for Gamal Abdel Nasser was never love in Egypt. That is why you, the British, are not keen on the history of the Egyptian army, which is being distorted before you, despite your claim of sadness for Egypt as a result of its defeat. That's why you don't care about us Armies of the World (talk) 14:08, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]