User talk:Anaruna

August 2014
Hello, I'm Gaarmyvet. I wanted to let you know that I undid recent contribution because it didn't appear constructive. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!-- Jim in Georgia  Contribs  Talk  20:20, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * No problem, it wasn't particularly important, I just thought it looked tidier. (RockDrummerQ (talk) 20:24, 4 August 2014 (UTC))

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Recent edits
Hello, please could you explain your recent edits: ie strategic being added to result of a victory in infobox? I have reverted a number of your edits. Shire Lord (talk) 01:08, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, which infobox are you referring to? (RockDrummerQ (talk) 01:21, 25 November 2016 (UTC))
 * These two: Battle of Germantown and Battle of Quebec (1775) but I will check others you have done too. Shire Lord (talk) 01:24, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the delay in replying, I had gone to sleep. I'll address each point in turn (RockDrummerQ (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2016 (UTC))
 * In regards to the Battle of Germantown; the battle was indeed a tactical victory for the British. They had forced the American army into a long retreat, and held the field. They prevented Washington's plan coming to fruition. In regards to limited strategic gains for the British, the source that I backed that up with stated that, had Washington's army won, the defeat likely would have been too much for the British government, having so recently lost an army at Saratoga. Thus, this enabled the British to continue fighting; hence the short-term strategic gains. In regards to the long-term strategic gains for the Americans, it was the battles effect upon the French, as well as the British failure to follow up on their success. The British could easily have pursued and destroyed the American army, yet did not. This enabled Washington's army to remain intact, leading to their retraining at Valley Forge, where they emerged as a much stronger, cohesive fighting unit than before. The battle had considerable effects upon the French Court; as they were more impressed by the ability of the Americans, after suffering a string of setbacks, to launch such a daring and bold attack. This, in turn, led to greater French involvement. (RockDrummerQ (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2016 (UTC))
 * In regards to the Battle of Quebec - the American attempt to capture the city had failed. Had the city been captured, it likely would have greatly upset British strategic efforts, as the British used Canada as a base of operations for launching assaults into American territory. While it did not repulse the invasion entirely (thus, it is not decisive), it is strategic in the sense the American army did not capture the city, and bought the British enough time for reinforcements to swell the garrison, eventually compelling the Americans to withdraw. (RockDrummerQ (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2016 (UTC))
 * This is all very well, but in order to change certain facts you must put this in the talk page or even use a source to state that it was a strategic victory. Using terms like 'had Washington won' is Counterfactual history. Regards Shire Lord (talk) 23:49, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, I had used sources, as both claims in the infobox were referenced. I will present it on the talk page and see what a discussion would think. (RockDrummerQ (talk) 00:08, 26 November 2016 (UTC))

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With reference to you series of edit to Napoleonic Wars during December 2016 (diff) --There was one intermediate edit (diff diff-2) by, that are in the larger diff, but that series of two edits are not pertinent to this posting. In this large edit you added a number of short citations that do not have any long citations to go with them listing them with the numbers of the footnotes at end of your series of edits:

Please could you add longer citations for Riehn, and Philo, Dumas, Bodart and if necessary White? -- PBS (talk) 10:34, 23 April 2017 (UTC)


 * I fixed the citations I listed here on 23rd April. AFAICT you copied the facts with the short citations from other articles. Philo, White, Dumas and Bodart came from Napoleonic Wars casualties, and Riehn|1991 from French invasion of Russia. If that is so please read Copying within Wikipedia and more specifically the section "Other reasons for attributing text".
 * --PBS (talk) 07:49, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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You Broke 3RR
You've reverted that bit in the infobox 4 times in 24 hours, thats in violation of the 3RR rule. Also your assertion that the infobox "has always said mercenaries" is made in bad faith, since you yourself were the one that originally changed it to that from what had been in place since 2014.XavierGreen (talk) 15:13, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
 * You've repeatedly reverted it without consensus. It was not made in bad faith, as everyone (including the sources) seem to be in unanimous agreement that the term we should be using is mercenaries. According to the archived discussions I've gone through, you've repeatedly made cases for it to be changed to auxiliaries, without much success. As you have no consensus, do not revert it further. Anaruna ( talk)

May 2017
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 * Your assertions are incorrect. I re-wrote the entire article from scratch. Anaruna ( talk)
 * If anything, I "paraphrased" content at best, though I made efforts to re-write the vast majority in my own words. Would it still need to be attributed? Anaruna ( talk)
 * The problem is that sources were copy and pasted from the original article thus causing errors. This fact will also lead most to belive the sources have not been vented.....as in you the paraphraser have not actually seen the source thus the text your writing is really sourced to Wikipedia.--Moxy (talk) 15:59, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * How do I fix the referencing? Eight individual errors have been flagged. Anaruna ( talk)

Boston Tea Party Pricing
FYI, I think the formatting for the price of the tea destroyed during the Boston Tea Party is a bit off. I'm not sure how to fix it myself, so I thought I'd give you a heads up. Dbrote (talk) 15:53, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * It does look a little off. I'll have a look at it when I get back, I'm just about to head out. Thanks for the heads up!

Talkback
Shearonink (talk) 00:33, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Your customized Anaruna signature
is lacking the time/day stamp. Please fix it. Every time you sign your posts (which is great) on a talk page, your post is missing the time/date stamp (which isn't), because that can mess up archiving-bots and can also make it difficult to figure out the timelines of threaded discussions on WP talkpages. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 05:40, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

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