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Contents 1 Taranis UCAV 2 Can I ask why my see also linkl is getting deleted? 3 Rewriting the WW2 History section 4 RAF Deployments 5 Copy edit? 6 Old news 7 Categories nominated for deletion 8 Gallery 9 Wings - missing 10 roundel colours

[edit] Taranis UCAV

IMO the Taranis project should be included under "Future Aircraft". This will be the main focus of the RAF in terms of new aircraft development for the next 30+ years. http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/tanaris/

Thanks

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.243.165.135 (talk) 16:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The BAE Taranis project is just an MoD funded programme to demonstrate the technology. Adding to future aircraft would be pure speculation as this is only a demonstrator and we dont know if it is any good yet or if the RAF will buy the technology. MilborneOne 20:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can I ask why my see also linkl is getting deleted?

It seems that a user called "MilborneOne" seems fit to delete a link to an RAF Online community. I thought that wikipedia was a public editable encyclopedia but no matter what we do it keeps getting deleted.

I see that the British Army are allowed a link to their online community and even allowed a wiki entry ARRSE even though our websites are the same.

Can I please ask MilborneOne to contact me at webmasterATe-goatDOTcoDOTuk so that I can begin to understand why it is that we are not allowed a link but the Army are allowed to do whatever they like on wikipedia.

Many thanks

Wobblyman 15 Jan 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wobblyman (talk • contribs) 08:44, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is a not a directory or a list of websites the link to e-goat has been deleted because it does not meet the criteria for inclusion, refer to Para 11 in Links normally to be avoided at WP:EL. This is just a policy guideline and nothing to do with army-bias. The British Army Rumour Service link on the Army page is to a Wikipedia article - not an external link. Their is nothing to stop anybody creating an article about e-goat and then linking it from here under See also. MilborneOne (talk) 12:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rewriting the WW2 History section

Going to rewrite the section on bombing because at the moment it's a bit of a mess. I invite comments on the changes.IxK85 (talk) 14:12, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RAF Deployments

The deployments section is a bit of a mess. It contains details of current operational deployments (some very out of date), recent and some historic operations, as well as some long-standing training deployments. I would suggest paring this down to current operations (and possibly current overseas comitments eg Falklands, Asi?). Past ops belong in the history article. There is already a footnote to a section of the RAF website giving current deployments which would help. Sc147 (talk) 08:42, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm in agreemeent with this. The historical ops should go to History of the Royal Air Force and they need considerable expansion. However, we will need to think about where we draw the line. For example, is Baltic Air Policing is past or present op from an RAF perspective? Greenshed (talk) 13:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copy edit?

Now that a Copyedit tag has been placed on the article, I would be helpful to know what the problems are so that we could work on them. Comments welcome. Greenshed (talk) 23:39, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Old news

RAF is 90 years old today, shouldn't that get front page mention on en.wikipedia.org? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.131.210.162 (talk) 16:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Categories nominated for deletion

Category:Footballers who served in the RAF - (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This above category has been nominated for deletion. Does anybody here have any opinion on subject Djln --Djln (talk) 22:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Whats so special about Footballers? , should we also include Rugby players JS1 (talk) 09:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gallery

Did I miss something! has move of all the aircraft images been discussed? MilborneOne (talk) 18:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wings - missing

I added a bit to Prince William's article, about him earning his wings at Cranwell. I linked wings, and being a good little boy, checked the link to disambiguate it and make sure it was to the right place. But! We have no article about the wings that RAF/Commonwealth pilots earn and proudly display. For the yanks there's a great article at Aircrew Badge. We need something similar. Anyone? Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 23:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Try Aircrew brevet. Greenshed (talk) 23:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Aaaaarrrrggghhhhhh. Ta. I've wikied his wings. Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 00:14, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] roundel colours

The roundel red displayed in the picture is NOT the correct one -- too purplish. However, the fin flash has the right 'post office red' colour. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.254.46.64 (talk) 07:26, 13 June 2008 (UTC)