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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Battle of Sarimbun Beach

Hi, I appreciate your contrbutions on the Battle of Singapore articles and read them with interest. I was just wondering what you think the scope of the Sarimbun battle should be. My impression is that the Japanese primary objective in the Sarimbun landings was Tengah Airfield. On that basis the article on the battle should conclude with the capture of the airfield around midday on February 9 and not include the fighting on the Bulim line. What do you think? Grant | Talk 17:53, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Slim River

Hi Wolcott thanks for doing those adjustments on this article, i forgot to remove the stubs. I see you're from Singapore, just wondering whether you would have access to more images or better maps to improve the article? Tristan benedict 14:12, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello Tristan, unfortunately I do not have any images or maps relating to the battle of slim river. My sources come from the Imperial War Museum and Australian War Memorial. Perhaps if i do find something relevant, i will post it on that article. Wolcott 20 August 2007

That would be great if you did find something for above, I do like photos they make an article much better. About the casualty figure for Battle of Malaya, i was reading Colin Smith today and worked out that the Japanese losses were very similar on Malaysia as they were on Singapore itself. 3,506 killed all together and 6,150 wounded. On Singapore he puts the casualties as 1,713 killed and 2,772 wounded (which i haven't checked or changed on Battle of Singapore. For the Commonwealth he puts the casualties as 7,500 killed, 10,000 wounded and about 120,000 pow for the whole campaign. Unfortunately he doesn't divide the Commonwealth figure into those on Singapore and those on the mainland Have you found different figures? All these figures are on page 547 of Singapore Burning. Tristan benedict 17:13, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I saw an exact figure for Japanese casualties on a personal website, which appears to be gone. But since u found some info, I shall make the changes. As for the commonwealth casualties, ill seperate the figure according to history's estimation. One thing I do know is that the allies lost more than 3000 troops in Malaya, as I have noted in the Battle of Muar article. So the Battle of Singapore was definitely a less bloody campaign. Wolcott

The numbers seem to make more sense now. The Commonwealth figures are always going to be an estimate i reckon due to the confusion of retreat and the lack of information gathered at the time, but what you've put down looks good. Yeah, Battle of Singapore a lot less bloody. Too short a fight for heavy casualties! Tristan benedict 09:05, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that my computer crashed mid edit, i didn't realize it left that mess behind. Tristan benedict 20:08, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I actually expected a bot to fix that but no one did. Anyway I couldn't find any pictures relating to the battle of Slim River, so I posted some relevant ones instead. Wolcott

Those pictures look good. Nice finds. Tristan benedict 19:13, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] war of the worlds

vincent and julio are killed by the tripod's heat ray. i watched it for the first time in ages the other day and you can clearly see both of them get hit by it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.132.77 (talk) 20:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid u shud watch it again. Vincent and Julio ran to the right of the screen as soon as we see Ray running, disappearing from view. They never ran in the same direction as Ray and the others did. Wolcott 06:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image source problem with Image:Bosjaptankbukitimah.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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Source still is needed. The source is needed always for verification by others, it is unimportant when the file was loaded. Alex Spade 18:31, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Since you uploaded the image, you may be the only person who can fill in the source information. Just add a sentence to the image description page saying where you got the image from. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:10, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

U may notice that the date in which I uploaded the image was almost a year ago. May I know why is this image being singled out out of the many unsourced images on wikipedia? Wolcott 10:21, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

It's not being singled out; many images with no source are being tagged, and many images with no use rationale are being tagged. In general, the entire collection of nonfree images is slowly being cleaned up to conform to WP:NFCC. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, your search of unsourced images (although uploaded long b4 source is required) is extremely slow. Do work harder as I was very displeased with the previous User who was seemingly victimizing that one image. Wolcott 15:14, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

You uploaded this image on November 30, 2006. The source requirement has been present in the policy since at least Jan 1, 2006 [1]. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:30, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Well how come a bot never came to tag it the way they're doing it today then? Wolcott 18:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

The bots are a relatively new phenomenon, which is why older images get tagged. The Wikimedia Foundation passed a resolution [2] in March that has lead to an effort to clean up our old images. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:37, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

They sure are slow at tagging the old images. Wolcott 18:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there was a large delay, and now there are too many to tag all at once. I notived you added a source, but it is quite vague - how did the image get from a presumably print version at the National Archives to a digital version on Wikipedia? If someone else wanted to look up the image in the national archives, is there a reference number they can use? — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I can't remember how I got the image, but I know it's from that website. Wolcott 08:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alex Cisak

where did you get the info for his place of birth, d.o.b height etc. i'm not questioning it i just would like to be able to us the same site for future refrence.Skitzo, co-founder of the AfTaDaRkCrU 13:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I didn't create the page of Alex Cisak, Kasnie did. — Wolcott 14:57, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brewster Buffalo

Hi Wolcott, you added that "two Dutch pilots, Jacob van Helsdingen and August Deibel, became aces on the Buffalo. They both recorded a total of three victories." The standard definition of a flying ace is five victories. Grant | Talk 08:43, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I'll change that sentence immediately. Wolcott 22:23, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Valley war sequence.PNG)

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[edit] References

Hello. Good work with adding references to articles, but I would recommend you use the cite web template, which uses fields such as "accessdate", rather than having to type "Retrieved on" yourself. To see them, have a look at Márton Fülöp, for example. Thanks, Mattythewhite 18:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Ki 45 001.jpg

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[edit] LCFC appearence stats

just to let you know i have updated the stats for tonights starting 11, the new figures are from soccerbase plus 1 more for tonights game, btw for any reply can you do it on my talk page please, cheers.Skitzo (talk) 20:09, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marton Fulop

i think we are going to need to keep an eye on that as there are many conflicting stories about weather he is going to be recalled or not. Skitzo (talk) 18:09, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] James Wesolowski

Hiya. I'm just wondering why you reverted my edits on James Wesolowski Blackjanedavey (talk) 00:21, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] George wayda

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[edit] Image source?

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[edit] Copyright problems

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