Talk:The Black Book

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Excuse me but the gentleman who wrote this article is a friend of mine. He got the sources from research in the Impieral War Museum by looking at the official documents, I was with him. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Briton92 (talk • contribs).

The article should say so. Merely testifying is not enough.--Soumyasch 15:00, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh come come, surley we can do away with all this bloody red tape.--Briton92 21:37, 2 April 2006 (GMT)

Surely not, I'm afraid. This isn't pre-revolutionary France where the mere word of a gentleman suffices to lay to rest questions of creditable sourcing. See Wikipedia:Citing sources and bear in mind that insisting on citations for encyclopedic content is not merely "red tape" Longshot14 23:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Well unlike you sir I am a gentleman and I stand by my principles. LOL. My friend became disalutioned with Wikipedia and left so I will try to locate the sources if that pleases you.--Briton92 22:49, 3 April 2006 (GMT)

The source was a book he looked up in the IWM called Invasion, 1940: The Nazi Invasion Plan for Britain by Walter Schellenberg. Hope that clears it up.--Briton92 15:20, 4 April 2006 (GMT)

Can I ask where you find the justification to tell Longshot14 that he's not a gentleman or that he doesn't stick by his principles? Citation of sources is an essential principle of any sort of academic work and I, for one, am glad we have gentlemen—in the contemporary, not classical, sense—like Longshot14 and Soumyasch standing up for it. Binabik80 15:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep your hair on, it was a joke! The clue is LOL which those young people take to mean laugh out loud. Man with two legs 11:37, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Virginia Woolf

I removed this from the article:

On knowing the book, Virginia Woolf is said to have sent a telegram to Noel Coward saying My dear - the people we should have been seen dead with.

While amusing, that is just plain silly. Woolf took her own life on 28 March 1941. The "Book" wasn't known to Britains until after the war. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.20.238.31 (talk) 05:49, 13 January 2007 (UTC).

Indeed, my mix-up. It was Rebecca West. --Explendido Rocha 10:35, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Where is the Entire List?

The article at least should mention where the entire list is available for perusing. Has it never been made publically available? It doesn't seem to be locatable on the Internet. Jimhoward72 06:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)