User talk:Kges1901/2019/January

2018 Military Historian of the Year

 * Congratulations, Kges. Thanks for your efforts in 2018, and all the best for 2019! Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 09:05, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019
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Vietnam base photos
Great work adding all those base photos, they really improve the pages. Thanks! Mztourist (talk) 05:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

warheroes.ru website in citations
I found the discussion that went against the use of warheroes.ru as a source I can't help but notice that 1. There was very little discussion in the first place 2. The rejection of it in large part due to the language it is published in and the language of the sources 3. The rejection of it based in large part by users on the grounds of not being able to verify it;s contents due to the language barrier (with the lack of trying to find a Russian-language Wikipedian to access the accuracy of the contents), among many other issues.

I intend to present my argument something like this: I have found warheroes.ru to be much more reliable than many other sources that are allowed in Wikipedia articles. Some people may have been confused and thought it was a self-published source or a Wikipedia transclusion after Nikolai Ufarkin and Andrey Simonov, two of the websites writers, donated their articles under a CC-BY-SA licesnse via OTRS so the material could be used directly on Russian Wikipedia, like this. I happen to have copies of the Russian encyclopedias of Heroes of the Soviet Union from the 1980's, and have seen many times that warheroes does not repeat errors from them but corrects them and mentions that the official Soviet biography had such error. (For example, the Soviet encyclopedia incorrectly said that Irbaykhan Baybulatov was a Kumyk, but he was actually a Chechen, and that was all noted in the website. (A classic case of de-valuing the merits of Chechens in WWII after the Aardakh). Information on warheroes.ru can be easily checked against scans of official documents on pamyat-naroda.ru, and I have yet to find any inaccuracy in the prose of award lists on the website. And death dates on the website are correct as based on official death certificates as opposed to OCR-scans of old encyclopedias that often result in seeing many typos. So, while a few English speaker with less than an L-1 understanding of Russian and no access to any Russian print sources of any kind might not have been able to access the website as verifiable in a brief discussion, it is safe to say that the content on the website is verifiable and accurate - based on a long-term assessment of the website's content and comparison of it to various primary sources, wartime newspaper clippings, Soviet encyclopedias, official documents, memoirs, and other information. (Also, the coordinator/owner of the site does not write any articles, so again, not "self-published" - and the writers often perfect edit others articles.)

Think it will be enough to convince Parsecboy? He clearly has very minimal knowledge of Soviet+Russian history, it's been hard to explain some things in the past. I don't want to let a language barrier and the fact that one user don't have certain books be used as an excuse to blacklist an entire site, especially since the website is far more accurate than many other sources like essays and the official books that kept on changing the story from the Soviet era or even simply described executed people as "dead day.month.year." It appears that the blacklist was informal anyway, and not officially listed at Reliable sources/Perennial sources. (Either way, I think it should be listed there as "Generally reliable" there - can you help it achieve such status?)--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 02:00, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Warheroes was never considered unreliable in general, it was just considered to be not high quality enough for A-class. Sources such as warheroes are still ok for B-class, for example, but tend to raise questions on reviews for higher assessment levels. I would advise you against making comments about Parsecboy as he was just raising a point that had come up earlier, as you can see from the discussion. To fulfill WP:RS at a high quality level I've generally found that websites need to have editors that are published experts in the relevant field, so at least Andrey Simonov (being a published author)'s entries can be considered to be high quality RS.Kges1901 (talk) 00:30, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of No. 2 Squadron RCAF
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Your GA nomination of No. 2 Squadron RCAF
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Your GA nomination of No. 3 Squadron RCAF
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DYK for Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)
– Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy
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