User talk:Btillman

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[edit] Articles copied from theaerodrome.com

[edit] Willy Coppens

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Willy Coppens article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! Henning Makholm 22:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite completed previously. Sorry I hadn't checked messages sooner.

[edit] Medal of Honor

Thanks for this edit to Medal of Honor. Could you please clarify the role of Above and Beyond: The Aviation Medals of Honor in the edit? That is, does the new information come from the book, and if so, what page number? I don't mean to give you a hard time, but the larger article is poorly cited, and every push in the right direction helps! Cheers, Melchoir 00:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I didn't want to overload the article, but the material is mainly on page 3. Photographic evidence shows "the Tiffany" was awarded to Byrd & Bennett for noncombat and to Schildt for combat. When I queried the Navy and the Medal of Honor Assn. while researching the book, in an effort to determine whether the Tiffany was INTENDED as a combat or noncombat award, I received no response from either source. Frankly, I don't think it's known.

Feel free to contact me directly at btillman63@hotmail.com

Barrett 23 Jul 06

Wow, I don't know how it escaped me at first that you're the book's author! Well, if you have anything else you'd like to add to the article, I'd be honored! I'll just go make that citation now... Melchoir 05:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hans Grässel

When writing a stub on a German architect, I stumbled on the fact that he was awarded the orden Pour le Mérite. This made me confused. If you have anything to add on Talk:Hans Grässel, please do so! (I would ask people who wrote larger parts of the article on the orden in question, but as far as I can see all those who did large contributions to that article were anons.) // Habj 10:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] = Medal of Honor and stuff =

Melchoir: not to worry about my credits as the author! I look at Wikipedia far more than I write for it (too busy trying to make the next deadline!) But just this week I had email contact with another Wiki contributor. We wondered if it would ever be possible to establish certain contributors as acknowledged "experts" on given subjects in order to prevent or at least minimize inaccurate "corrections". there are, of course, many serious, NPOV contributors to any subject from aarkdarks to zoology who rely on conventional wisdom and "correct" new scholarship that they have never seen. I know that it's not possible or always desireable to lock many entries but in some cases it's warranted.

There's also the matter of original research. I know a great deal about WW II in the Pacific and naval aviation, but apparently my specialized knowledge (personal research and interviews over 30+ years, as well as flying some of the airplanes) is not allowed under Wiki's guidelines. Again, I understand the rationale, presumably to prevent unscrupulous POV partisans from inventing their own material. No doubt the peer review process could eliminate much/most of that, but obviously there are far too many subjects for a comprehensive evaluation.

Just some thoughts.

Barrett Tillman btillman63@hotmail.com

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