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AVIC Dark Sword and 601-S

You made this edit to AVIC Dark Sword where you attribute the development from the 601-S to this military.china.com article.

Could you indicate which part of the source article supports the attribution and provide a translation of that part? - RovingPersonalityConstruct (talk, contribs) 01:52, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like I put the reference in the wrong sentence. I was trying to use the citation as a source for the Chinese name "暗剑" in the heading. I will move it to the correct place. The source itself was moved here from the original AVIC 601-S page. -Loned (talk) 11:25, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Undefined sfn reference

HI, in this edit to People's Liberation Army Air Force Airborne Corps you introduced an sfn reference "International Institute for Strategic Studies 2021". Unfortunately you did not define it, which means that nobody can look the reference up and also addes the article to Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you could fix it that would be great. DuncanHill (talk) 10:24, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, somehow I didn’t bring this over when I moved it from the PLAAF page. Loned (talk) 12:50, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

PL-10 (ASR)

Is there some reason I shouldn't move this to just PL-10, with a redirect from PL-ASR, since there's nothing else titled PL-10 to disambiguate from? I figured I should check with you before moving this since you seem to know more about this subject than I do.

Also, an obligatory warning: you shouldn't cut-and-paste move articles, like you did in May 2022 from LY-60 / FD-60 / PL10 to HQ-6. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:51, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good suggestion, originally PL-10 was redirected to LY-60 / FD-60 / PL10, I only modified it to the current PL-10 (ASR). Your suggestion makes sense and the redirection should be in the other direction.

As to why that wasn’t the case. The PL-10 (ASR) was not created by me, but by someone else from an old, incorrect assumption that the HQ-6 air defense system is called PL-10. First, they created the LY-60 / FD-60 / PL10 article due to the assumption, and in the early 2010s, some editor found out PL-10 is actually another missile, so they created PL-10 (ASR) (also called PL-ASR). Those old editors from early 2010s loved to use Chinese websites or military forums as references, so the source reliability was pretty mediocre and mistake like this happened. When I started to clean up these articles, everything was a mess.

Also, sorry about the redirection to HQ-6. The original HQ-6 was a redirect page targeting the old LY-60 / FD-60 / PL-10 page. I reversed the redirection, basically make LY-60 / FD-60 / PL-10 be the redirect page, targeting HQ-6. Maybe I should’ve called administrator on that one, as I didn’t know this counts as "move". It’s the same deal as reversing the current redirect relationship between PL-10 and PL-10 (ASR). If you know the proper way to do it, please contact admin for me because I don’t know where to request this sort of maneuver.

Loned (talk) 02:02, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:15, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And WP:RMTR is the venue you are looking for for future reference. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:24, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers Loned (talk) 17:52, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution (fourth request)

Hi. I see in a recent addition to Autocomplete you included material that appears to have been copied from Chinese typewriter. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of our license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance, but it's not my job to clean up after you. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying within Wikipedia in the future. Please let me know if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 14:48, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry forgot about that one.-Loned (talk) 19:35, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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February 2024

Please include the author when creating citations. Just making the effort to identify the author would probably also help to avoid unreliable sources, like when using works from social media platforms which would normally be regarded as WP:BLOGS/WP:USERG. Things are a bit more involed than just "add source". - RovingPersonalityConstruct (talk, contribs) 23:25, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Normally only website/defense journals like Janes and Naval News provide their authors. Smaller think tanks that have a track record of providing correct information but lack page authors including Army Technology, Global Security, Weapons Systems, etc, which I cannot provide.

I usually don't use them but sometimes they are the only correct source. I typically only use them when major defense journals don't cover the topic. I’ve seen your edit, and I want to add that from a credibility and reliability perspective, weaponsystem.net is better than Army Technology, which included many instances of copying works from Wikipedia. Weaponsystem.net wrote its one stuff and usually translates weapon specs from Russian/Chinese sources.

Just like in the past, you told me you don't like Naval News but I think they are reliable, The fundamental problem is that there are very few discussions about defense publications on Wikipedia so it usually falls to the discretion of the editor. It would be great if there is some sort of standard. -Loned (talk) 11:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So concerning using Sina. I look at Sina and see that most of their content is republished from other sources (many of those which provide names of authors and editors.) Then there are opinion pieces (which seem to be explicitly attributed to their contributors.) And then there are original pieces attributed to Sina without identifying the authors. So from the start, Sina does not strike me as an organization with notable in-house expertise, otherwise they would not be republishing so much. The lack of identification for the contributors of their original pieces (in stark contrast with other publishers) does nothing to support that they are notable personalities or experts in the fields that they write in. All in all, this is on very shaky ground where reliability is concerned.

The "best" way to use those Sina pieces is to only use parts that have been attributed to other reliable sources (explicit attribution in the article body may be required to be safe) and ignore everything else. At that point, there's not much point in using Sina. - RovingPersonalityConstruct (talk, contribs) 17:06, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sina is one of the oldest web portals/news aggregator sites in China, akin to Yahoo News or Business Insider. They publish news from other websites and news agencies while occasionally producing/commissioning original content under their own editorial, which I find useful to validate information on military-related topics (and sometimes, this is the only way because similar information only exists in defense-watching forums). Nevertheless, your concerns regarding blogging on Sina are valid, under a certain context. From the early 2010s to 2017-ish, Sina, Sohu, Baidu, etc, web portals in China allowed users to submit "independent news" on their platforms. These users often have social media-like profiles while posing as news sources. However, this has been increasingly rare as the Chinese government cracked down and censored the blogging/independent reporting.^[1] I would definitely avoid these articles. Overall, I would treat Sina as any WP:SYNDICATED news source (such as Yahoo News) under Wikipedia policy, i.e., we need to verify articles on a case-to-case basis at discretion. Personally, my priority is always reputable English sources from think tanks or news organizations. I use Chinese sources as the last resort when the information is written under reliable authorship.^[2]-Loned (talk) 00:06, 14 September 2024 (UTC) Loned (talk) 00:06, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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