Talk:George Jones (RAAF officer)

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[edit] UFO enthusiast

Good article. One thing though: Jones was a prominent UFO enthusiast, see Australian ufology and Air Marshall Sir George Jones and the UFO. I think this should be mentioned(?) Grant | Talk 14:07, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Yep, fair enough, I remember seeing a couple of mentions of him in connection with UFOs on the web - especially that quote about being "loath to talk about it publicly lest people should think I was either an incompetent witness or getting a little screwy in the head". I'll work it in sometime soon. Thanks/cheers, Ian Rose 15:06, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CB

I was aware that my initial wording wasn't the best, but I was trying to make it seem less "tacked on" to the end of the para, and make it flow more ligically from teh preceding sentences. Perhaps "Regardless of this..." would do, or perhaps any such qualification is unecessary. I'm slightly curious as to why you felt it necessary to avoid the re-direct on King's Birthday Honours, but left the one on Companion of the Bath alone? Particularly since there will probably be a reasonable case for moving Queen's Birthday Honours to King's Birthday Honours on the (eventual) death of the current monarch, at which point the redirect will then run the other way. David Underdown (talk) 12:59, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Mate, I see your point about it possibly looking a bit tacked on without something to make it flow from what went before, I knew that's what you were doing. I was thinking of just rewording slightly to say "Despite this issue..." but when I tried it without any preliminary, it didn't look too bad to me. It's not a huge deal, perhaps I'm being too careful... As for redirects, again you're right - the Order of the Bath link was an oversight, and for the Birthday Honours perhaps pragmatism is the way to go in future... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:54, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

No worries (sorry, a year or so sitting next to a Queenslander when I first started work), I don't know if you're aware of WP:R2D, I went through a phase of piping redirected links, but now I normally follow the directions given there. If you don't think the bald mention of the CB is too bad, I'm happy to leave it at that. David Underdown (talk) 15:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)