User talk:Alant

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Australian Defence Force
Thanks a lot for your improvements to this article! I note in one of your edit summaries you were worried about the number of references to David Horner's book. I agree that the number of refs is greater than is desirable, but this book (which was released in 2001 as part of the centenary history of Defence) is probably the only comprehensive history of the ADF and Horner is a very reliable source - he's published a number of very well regarded books and is the editor of the official history of Australian peacekeeping which the Australian War Memorial is currently preparing. --Nick Dowling 10:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks again! In case you were wondering about where all the passive voiced text came from, I'm a public servant so have a tendency to write in the passive voice and my main sources for the article have been Australian Department of Defence publications, which are typically incredibly passive. --Nick Dowling 23:49, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * "This is passive tense because we cannot see who did the establishment. This is active and is it accurate? "During the first decades of the 20th Century, as the three Australian armed services were establishing themselves, they did not share a chain of command."" - that's not quite accurate as there wasn't a single chain of command until 1976, which was a long time after the services were established. I've just fiddled with this sentance again to read: "The three Australian armed services were established by the Australian Government during the first decades of the 20th Century without a single chain of command." What do you think? --Nick Dowling 03:38, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I've just tweaked the wording further. I'll now go and do something different so you can take over! --Nick Dowling 03:59, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Alant, I've nominated this article for consideration as a featured article. If you'd like to comment or vote please visit Featured article candidates/Australian Defence Force --Nick Dowling 08:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Graffiti
Hi Alan, yes please go ahead...it was just one site that was not advertising...it is full of superb graffiti and I could not see any advertising slant to it...hence the rvt; please edit away as you see fit! what was the academic link you mentioned? thnx Peter morrell 13:47, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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