Talk:SM U-65 (Germany)

Text and citations
AchimKoerver. Hello, I created this article with the material cited in Section "Operations known to British Intelligence". It is original text frolm the British NAtional Archives, also published in a book ofmine. Therefore I signed it all as Citation. Yes; right, its a long ciation in this way. But as it was written in 1919 to 1920, it cannot be comletely convenient to nowaday Wiki standards. I friendly asks others, to respect this. Its a form of tolerance for ancient texts I ask here. I think it is great to add links to other ships or events or places in the text. Hm; dissolving abbreviations like S.S." into "sailing ships", this already causes me teeth pain.

But replacing "blown up" by "scuttling" - thats a falsification a) of the original text, and b) a falsification of facts, of history. Here only about b) : a ships swimming in the water can be scuttled (sunk by openening the vents for example) or blown up (by explosive materile etc). Then it would sink in both cases. But a ship lying for overhaul in a shipyard, means it is outside the water, it is not swimming any more, cannot be "scuttled", it can only be destroyed by other means. And exactly this was the case here: German had to retire from the AUstrian bases quickly, so the blew up all submarines on yard.

In any way: I have written some 100 articles about submarines here in the last weeks, and have some 250 more ready. But since 1 week I do nothing other, than to try to protect the ORIGINAL text and facts against things like this. Please, my friends, tell me what you think ist the gain for humanity to change the content of texts of other, like "scuttle" for "blown up". In this way I will not find time for new artickes. Wouldnt you find it more gentile to ask the creators for a discussion, before you do things like this ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by AchimKoerver (talk • contribs) 13:39, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * You'd be better advised to spend less time "protecting" extensive quotations & original formatting, & more using the content to create pages, 'cause the formatting is gonna get changed. As for "scuttling", I got news for you, it applies regardless; if Kriegsmarine was trying to render her useless to the enemy, "scuttling" can apply, afloat or not, original quote or not. AFAIK, the original info (facts) haven't been changed in any of the pages you've tried to "protect".


 * P.S. You can (& should, BTW) sign your posts ~ . FYI.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  14:49, 7 December 2009 (UTC)