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In the history of each article, there will be a link to the talk page of every editor involved. Just click on that link, and you can be communicating with him/her as I am with you. You can also discuss edits to a given article on the talk page of that article. --Orange Mike 19:06, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Text changes: Adolf Galland page

Copyedit from my page: "hi, your correction to the galland page of yesterday has contributed to its accuracy. when i re-worked the paragraph it was because the overall text was too loose. although the exact quote is 'an outfit of spitfires' (i also have his book here) this would be a literal translation of his words. perhaps 'squadron' would be more appropriate for readers of the English text who would be more familiar with that term. I had to deal with many similar matters in my translation (with Dave Zabecki) of the WW-2 German field operations manual 'Truppenfuhrung'(Q.V. wikipage). in the English rough draft I had to immediately use 'dynamic equivalence' for most of the terms ie: rendering the mental intention of the author rather than translating the words. many of the essential terms had no equivalent in English. This can be very difficult (even more so for scholars of ancient texts) and for Truppenfuhrung the exchanges with the academic review board went on for more than 3 years. this may seem to be a long-winded commentary on a single word, but it is intended only as a discussion of a principle. best wishes,bruce bruce.condell@wanadoo.fr —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruce Condell (talk • contribs) 07:51, 12 October 2007 (UTC) "

Hi Bruce and thanks for dropping the note. I do agree that the literal translation for this quote sometimes has the word "outfit" given as "squadron" and I would be perfectly fine in adding that in the citation note. Can you do me a favour, can you give me the page number in Galland's book where the quote appears, this reference source would be a better one than quoting the line from Galland's obituary. The citation should read: Galland, Adolf. The First and the Last: Germany's Fighter Force in WWII (Fortunes of War). South Miami, Florida: Cerberus Press, 2005. ISBN 1-84145-020-0. FWIW Bzuk 13:15, 12 October 2007 (UTC).

[edit] More on Truppenfuhrung

This article needs a lot of clean-up. One project you could start with is the wikifying of important terms. I'm gonna do a bit on the first paragraph or two today, to show you what I mean. When a term like "the Nazi Administration" or "the 1944 plot against Hitler" or "the British Army" comes up, there is inevitably going to be an article on it. You need to put in a link to that article, so that everything is contextualized. (In this case, the articles are Nazi Germany, July 20 Plot, and British Army. --Orange Mike 13:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Battle of Fort Frontenac

Many thanks for your intervention to restore my addition of the Tobias Smollett text to the account of the Frontenac Engagement. I really do not understand the action by ARDFERN, except (as you state) as vandalism. But why? What purpose is served? If I wish to change/delete/modify text I post a suggestion and invite comment from the original compilers before making changes. I have the Smollett account of the whole 7 years' war and would be please to upload it to the 7 years' war wikipage. It reads as a daily chronicle and is very well researched, clearly based on contemporary sources. Do you think it would be useful?bruce (talk) 19:10, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

It was unregistered user 72.138.115.179 who vandalized the page. Who knows why people vandalize. Usually there is no reason for it. We just have to keep on top of things. I don't think that adding long quotes is such a good thing; it worked with the Battle of Fort Frontenac because it's a relatively short quote, and for now, seems to fit with the article, but a long account of the whole 7 yrs war copy-pasted in the 7 yrs War article would be too much. It certainly would be a useful link if it exists online (Gutenberg?). Even if it doesn't exist online, including it as a reference would work. The odd relevant quote here and there, properly cited, would be fine I should think, as long as the flow of the article isn't disrupted. See WP:QUOTE for more info.BC (talk) 19:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Adolf Galland

I have reverted your edits on this article, but I thought I should explain why.

The New York Times is not a good source for direct quotations, these were NOT Galland's actual words. Kaplan (the other source) is a book source that quotes from the First and the Last, written by Galland himself. I cannot fathom why you deem the New York Times website more reliable than a source that quotes directly from Galland! Dapi89 (talk) 18:25, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

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