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The Imperial army asked for an armistice on 29 October, two days before 31 October, when Hungary broke their union with Austria, effectively ending the Empire (and not on 27 October as mentioned). The armistice petition -accepting all Wilson's preconditions for peace- could have never come about had the battle not taken place, thus the military defeat predates Austria-Hungary's dissolution by at least 48hs. One of the cited sources uses the term "thereafter", so I see no reasons to claim that the statement is against NPoV policy. The same for Ludendorff's quote: "In Vittorio Veneto, Austria did not lose a battle, but lose the war and itself..." The offensive lasted until 4 November (a ceasefire had been arranged 24hs before) only because the Italian army commanders wanted to gain as much terrain as possible, but the Imperial troops had already conceded defeat by 29 October. We can discuss ad aeternum what was first, i.e. Italian victory or Habsburg collapse, but Wikipedia relies on sources, and cited sources are quite clear if not explicit on this point. Hello, MWadwell, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers: We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Woody (talk) 19:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
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List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality
Thankyou for your edit to List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality. I am afraid that I have had to remove Murray as he is already listed at the "subpage" List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients. The main list would have become too long otherwise. Hope this explains it. Any questions can be left on my talk page. Welcome. Woody (talk) 19:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

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VC Recipients link added to Battle of Passchendaele
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Tagging of Battle of St. Mihiel
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First Battle of the Somme (1918)
Strictly using the British official nomenclature isn't always appropriate, particularly when it invites confusion. As I am sure you are aware, the 1918 nomenclature is fraught with different names for the exact same events. So although the British wanted to call the event First Some 1918, Operational Micheal seems to have become the more popular name for the Spring Offensive (Kaiserschlacht) events in the Somme between March and April 1918. What a mess.--Labattblueboy (talk) 12:43, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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 * This MilMOS says that:"Names should generally follow the stylistic conventions used by the service or country of origin. For example, while US and British usage has spelled-out numerals for army-level formations and Roman numerals for corps, editors writing about different countries should follow those countries' normal usages; thus, "3. Panzer Armee" becomes "3rd Panzer Army", and "18-ya Armiya" becomes "18th Army".
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 * Blatant copyright violations are deleted on sight (before discussion) because they are a liability to Wikipedia. All I saw was an image that had been copied and adapted from a map on an external site not affiliated with the US government, and there was no indication on the image page that the map was a work of the US government. (I did notice that it was partially copied from the double map, and that is why I deleted it.) How do you know that this is a US government work? (Sorry for the inconsistent message - I was adapting a templated message that works better for images than text, and didn't make all the changes I should have.) Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:55, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The image page said nothing about it being a U.S. Government work ("References - Terrain: Map of Ypres/Cambrai from http://www.firstworldwar.com/maps/graphics/maps_61_wfront_cambrai_(800).jpg Strategic Defensive lines: Map of Ypres from Australian War Memorial Website: http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/wp-content/uploads/maps/Ypres_Offensive.pdf Prior, Robin & Wilson, Trevor Passchendaele: The Untold Story, 1996 Yale University Press. ISBN: 0-300-06692-9 ) Licensing: "). Finding this particular map online is not a trivial task.  I google-image-searched for it, but it did not generate any hits.  Where on http://www.firstworldwar.com/photos/maps.htm does this particular map appear? Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:33, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

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 * I restored the map and listed it at PUI. Please identify the precise source of the base map there or on the image page so that the image does not risk deletion now or in the future! Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:38, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

The Imperial army asked for an armistice on 29 October, two days before 31 October, when Hungary broke their union with Austria, effectively ending the Empire (and not on 27 October as mentioned). The armistice petition -accepting all Wilson's preconditions for peace- could have never come about had the battle not taken place, thus the military defeat predates Austria-Hungary's dissolution by at least 48hs. One of the cited sources uses the term "thereafter", so I see no reasons to claim that the statement is against NPoV policy. The same for Ludendorff's quote: "In Vittorio Veneto, Austria did not lose a battle, but lose the war and itself..." The offensive lasted until 4 November (a ceasefire had been arranged 24hs before) only because the Italian army commanders wanted to gain as much terrain as possible, but the Imperial troops had already conceded defeat by 29 October. We can discuss ad aeternum what was first, i.e. Italian victory or Habsburg collapse, but Wikipedia relies on sources, and cited sources are quite clear if not explicit on this point. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.116.225.209 (talk) 15:56, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

First Battle of Picardy listed at Redirects for discussion
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