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The Fokker Scourge article
I am having a few problems with an enthusiastic but at times very dogmatic editorial colleague on the Fokker Scourge article. In fact, things have reached a pass where some second opinions might be useful. The specific question he is hammering at the moment is that we shouldn't ever say "No. 1 Squadron RAF" (in spite of that being the usual way of putting it) but "1 Squadron" (on the grounds that the "No." is redundant). I wouldn't object to an occasional omission of the "No.", if only for elegant variation, but he has been going right through the article wiping every instance and claiming that "Wikipedia is not a source" (which is true enough, but nothing to do with the case). The gentleman concerned has been making dozens of other (mostly very pettifogging) changes to the article - a few have been genuine improvements, and most at least acceptable alternatives but some of have made clear text obscure, even meaningless. I have let everything he has done that is at all acceptable stand, but the really bad ones I've had to change - usually with a new version rather than a provocative revert.

I was wondering, if you have a moment, if you'd like to have a little look at the Fokker Scourge talk page (go straight to the bottom if you like) and tell me, either here, on my talk page, or even on the talk page of the article if you want to actually buy into the discussion, if I'm being totally unreasonable and should just give up. This is (for a WWI aviation article) quite a high traffic one - and I'd like to leave it in reasonable shape. At least readable, and plain in meaning (two things I value far above brevity for its own sake). --Soundofmusicals (talk) 01:07, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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Yakovlev's Tactical Twins (Air International. Vol. 44 no. 5) pp 244-249
Hello, Several months ago you added this as a source to the Yakovlev Yak-25 article. I am currently attempting to get the article to GA to match other Soviet aircraft articles. Would it be possible for you to email me scans of the article as I don't have access to Air International back issues? Kges1901 (talk) 17:05, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * No - I no longer have access to the article.Nigel Ish (talk) 21:28, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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GAN for German destroyer Z37?
I've reworked the description and added a lede for this article. I would like to nominate it for GA with you as a co-nominator since you wrote the bulk of the service history, if you're agreeable. Feel free to make any changes that you feel are necessary before I nominate it.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:37, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

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TCG Atılay
Hi! I guess we have a problem. All the Turkish sources ı refer say this was a Turkish-built submarine. And those sources are also reliable. What you mean may be TCG Atılay (S-347), which went into service later. Please refrain from reverting. Thanks. CeeGee 16:06, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Conways and Jane's are definitely taking about this submarine, and are specialist reliable sources on naval subjects - the Type 209 submarine was built 1972–1976 in a different German shipyard (i.e. Howaldswerke).Nigel Ish (talk) 16:22, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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Eurofighter Typhoon
Why did you revert the change I made re the hydraulic system? "brakes and undercarriage; powered by a 4,000 psi engine-driven gearbox" This is not understandable, an engine driven gearbox powers a hydraulic pump which powers the stated items. There is no such thing as a 4000 psi engine driven gearbox. I'd appreciate it if you could fix what you did.Avi8tor (talk) 15:19, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * What you said was "powered by an driven gearbox" which doesn't make sense.Nigel Ish (talk) 15:23, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Jet engines have a shaft drive to a gearbox full of gears which power generators, alternators, fuel pumps, oil pumps, and hydraulic pumps all of which rotate at different speeds, hence a box full of gears. The hydraulic pump in this case is probably constant speed so the pressure is the same all the time. There is no such thing as a 4000 psi engine driven gearbox. I know this because I flew jet aircraft for 45 years. Some of us also use SI and want the pressure in Pascals. Avi8tor (talk) 09:22, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
 * What is needed is for someone to look at the source and see what it actually says. Sadly it is a dead link. It may be on the Internet Archive somewhere, but I get a TLS error when I try to access it. Perhaps you may be able to see what it says?Nigel Ish (talk) 09:37, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Vickers Venom
Evening Nigel, There's a query on Talk:Vickers Venom about a phrase that seems to have come from you a long time ago. They refer to the phrase "after a crash in testing", at the end of the last para. As they say, there's no mention of this event in the sources cited. If you did introduce the phrase, could you add a ref please? Cheers,TSRL (talk) 19:38, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

HMS Bristol (D23)
Your revision here was a little odd. All the other ships of the Royal Navy are in metric (imperial) except this one. Further, as it is now, the length and beam are in imperial and the draught is in metric. Bonewah (talk) 13:57, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2 (oleo undercarriage).
The oleo strut of the F.E.2's undercarriage is of course well known - and well referenced. Just two sources that come to mind are: I have nonetheless run into a bit of conflict with someone with interests from "a later war" who disputes this - perhaps on the authority of works documenting more modern "oleo struts". I wonder if you could apply an impartial eye on this one? --Soundofmusicals (talk) 23:49, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hare, Paul R. The Royal Aircraft Factory. London: Putnam, 1990. ISBN 0-85177-843-7, pp.208-209.
 * Cheesman, E.F., ed. Fighter Aircraft of the 1914–1918 War. Letchworth, UK: Harleyford, 1960. pp. 44-45.

"Unhopeful changes"
Re: your revert here,I actually thought the IP's addition, "is the best production aircraft", was quite hopeful. :) - BilCat (talk) 23:59, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Spelling - Ha! Who needs it!Nigel Ish (talk) 09:37, 31 March 2018 (UTC)


 * LOL. Some of mine have been even worse! - BilCat (talk) 11:53, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Lol your edit is a bit in accurate ok :) 07Sepp Dietrich (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Beevor on HMS Blanche
Thanks for adding the information from Beevor's book to the article. But there's a problem with the ISBN and I can't find the edition that you've used on Worldcat. Can you check again and make sure that the bibliographic info is correct?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:30, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Well that was the ISBN-13 that was listed on the flyleaf of the book! I've changed it to the ISBN-10, which seems to work.Nigel Ish (talk) 15:48, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Not the first mis-printed ISBN I've seen. Thanks for fixing it so promptly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:09, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Pennant number
Thanks for your research on Pentstemon. As you know your way around the RN archives I am wondering if you can locate anything about Pendant/Pennant numbers? There is a comment on my talk page following my change on S-class destroyers (1917). I have accepted the other editors point as I can find nothing to contradict it and I think he is right but the existing page on Pennant numbers is a bit of a mess following an IP editor doing a search and replace on the RN section changing pennant to pendant in 2012. Specifically it needs a date for if and when pendant numbers were introduced and a date for when they started to be referred to as pennant numbers. Can you help? Lyndaship (talk) 15:37, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Can you help ID a ship?
I am currently working on battle of Westerplatte. Three German ships shelled the Polish fort: the well known BB Schleswig-Holstein and the two smaller vessels. One of them T196 aka SMS G196 you wrote about, and you included the sentence "On 4 September T196 along with the pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein and the old minesweeper Von der Gronen (formerly M107), bombarded Westerplatte". Could you double check that source? Polish Wikipedia article about the battle describes the other ship as a torpedo boat T-963, but frankly I cannot find any source to verify either of those ships (particularly T-963; can't even verify such a ship existed). Trying to confirm M107's presence at Westerplatte pretty much seems to go back to our article, too (and  Chronology of the War At Sea 1939–1945. has no online previews, and no copy near me). PS. I wonder your source would include a date, according to the article, those torpedo boats only aided the attack on a single day, Sept 4th? PPS. File:Westerplatte en.PNG current map describes the ships as '2 torpedo boats'. PPPS. M107 was a broken link, but I piped it to German minesweeper M 107. I guess T-963 is an error? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:09, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Rohwer and Hummelchen definitely says that T196 and the minesweeper took part in the bombardment on 4 September - and only mentions them taking part in bombardments on that date - Schleswig-Holstein certainly took part on other days. I suspect that T-963 is a mangled version of T196. I think there may be some sort of on-line German language version of Chronology of the War At Sea 1939–1945 - which I've seen as a reference either here or on de:wiki - but I'm not sure of its copyright status or whether it accurately reflects the books.Nigel Ish (talk) 13:36, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Online German version of Jürgen Rohwer's Chronik des Seekrieges 1939-1945 (updated from the print editions) is available on the webpage of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek; the link is: http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/chronik.htm There does not seem to be any copyright notice.Dfvj (talk) 03:47, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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Middlesbrough
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Airedale article
Hi Nigel Ish. I have to say it's been quite impressive how you have improved HMS Airedale (L07) from a single-sentence stub (in which pretty much all of the other content had to be removed and revdeleted as a copyvio) to what it currently is. I know others have been involved, but you have done the yeoman's work; so, job well done. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

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HMS Cattistock
I noticed that you have English's book on Hunt-class destroyers, and I would like to expand that article, which I created years ago as a stub. Since English isn't easy to get access to on this side of the Atlantic, would it be possible for you to send scans of the entry for Cattistock in English's book? Thanks, Kges1901 (talk) 13:56, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Xmas

 * 2018 XMAS.pdf FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:37, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Hartmann
Thanks for the effort. Dapi89 (talk) 13:52, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Please avoid making edits or claims if you have clearly not read the changes.
You are making changes and adding tags to the Tornado article without having read the changes. This is completely clear because YOU TAGGED A REFERENCE WITH A TAG REQUESTING A REFERENCE. You clearly did not even read the changes if you did not see that it was already referenced.

Please avoid making changes and edit warring when you clearly have not read the changes.

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 * I read the changes, which is why I reverted them - as discussed in the talk page, they were confused, are sourced to an unknown reference with no bibliographic details, and sourced to a whole chapter of this unknown book so they cannot be verified. The information added appears to be design shop gossip and is undue.Nigel Ish (talk) 23:34, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

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RAF Tornado list
Hello, I understand why you removed the list of RAF Tornados as it is very long (and perhaps too much for the main article) but I'm wondering if there is a suitable place for it. There's a comparable list of the RAF Phantoms, albeit shorter, showing that there is relevance to having a list of air frames. So would the Tornado list be appropriate on a separate/new article dedicated to RAF Tornados like the RAF Phantom article or one simply just for the serials (which I believe is warranted)? Or equally does it have no valid place despite a similar list existing on the RAF Phantom page?

Thanks, F4JPhantomII (talk) 15:31, 15 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I had not noticed that the phantom article has a hidden list of individual aircraft, I have removed it as it not normal practice to list individual aircraft or blocks of serials numbers. Individual aircraft can be listed if they are noteworthy but this is really rare and I cant think of any RAF Tornadoes that would that notable to list, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 16:03, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

HMS Russell (F97)
Hello Nigel Thanks for catching this: I was just working through the list at Blackwood-class frigates; I have no idea if they are accurate or not. In fact I was unsure about HMS Grafton (F51), also, as the Duke of Grafton was primarily a soldier, but the first HMS Grafton dates from 1679, so I presume it's correct. Anyway, thanks, Xyl 54 (talk) 07:49, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * According to Manning & Walker, Henry Fitzroy is the namesake for HMS Grafton. Apparently he did command the first Grafton - also the first HMS Cleveland was named after Fitzroy's mother.Nigel Ish (talk) 20:02, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

MiG-21 Update
I am only adding neutral information from known sources about the loss of a MiG-21 Bison on a MiG-21 site. Please stop your disruption by adding unrelated information that has yet to be verified — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayonpradhan (talk • contribs) 21:28, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The information I added was from exactly the same source (the BBC) as the information you kept, and you added no information, only deleted it.Nigel Ish (talk) 21:33, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Su-30 MKI shooting down
Give me a few mins I'm adding more citations. Faraz (talk) 20:57, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Isn't India refuting Pakistan's claim enough? IAF denied yesterday officially. So We have both sides POV. Faraz (talk) 20:58, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
 * As you continue to misrepresent what sources say after it has been pointed out, there is no point in continuing any discussion. I have unwatched the article in question as I find dealing with editors who indentionally distort what sources say a waste of time. Please do not post on my talk page again - I cannot assume good faith about your motives.Nigel Ish (talk) 22:07, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

AGF
Hello! Just a reminder to WP:assume good faith. There are a lot of problems with the proposals made by User:Faraz, but it may be incorrect to assert that they are intentionally misrepresenting sources. It could be that they misunderstood the sources. Another Indian jet of a different model was indeed shot down, so they may have confused reporting on that jet for reporting on the allegedly shot down Sukhoi Su-30.

Also, the NDTV source and India Today source explicitly report the Pakistani claim. Your edit summary had the effect of misrepresenting the sources. Never mind, the sources that you removed should indeed have been removed. Sorry for misunderstanding your edit.Leugen9001 (talk) 17:01, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

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Engineering magazine access?
I'm hoping that you might have access to this magazine through Grace's Guide as I'd like to add the trials data for HMS Raleigh (1919) which apparently appeared in the 24 September 1920 issue. I'd like to be able to properly fill out the ref, but am unwilling to pay for the priviledge. I'd appreciate it if you could send me the pdf file of this issue if you can. Thanks in advance.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:03, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry I don't - while I have used Engineering as a reference in the past, Grace's Guide wasn't pay to access when I used it.Nigel Ish (talk) 15:49, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Shoot, c'est-la vie du papier!--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:13, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * You might find trials info for Raleigh in the Proceedings of the US Navy Institute, some of roughly that age are on the Internet Archive - they did reprint trials data (including from The Engineer, so if you are willing to dig a bit, you may be in luck.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:38, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Good idea, I also need to clear up the whole coal/mixed/oil-firing boiler in which Friedman and Raven & Roberts contradict each other, and sometimes even themselves!--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 19:50, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

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No. 45 Squadron RAF
Hi - You seem to be insistent on reverting my edits to various articles. The section on 45 Squadron in No 41 - 45 Squadron Histories has been reviewed and updated by Wing Commander Jeff Jeffard who has written extensively on RAF matters. See. Surely that is a better source than no source at all? Dormskirk (talk) 20:16, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I tagged the page as requiring verification as it does not meet the requirement of a WP:Reliable Source as the website is a private website with no editorial control, and everything on it should be found in actual reliable websites. Clearly you disagree. I will unwatch all the RAF squadron pages on my watchlist as it is clear that you object to my requesting better sourcing.Nigel Ish (talk) 20:31, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I took a cursory look at the webpage in question and wonder what is the connection with Jefford, who is an acknowledged authority on RAF squadrons and their histories? Unless he's exercising some sort of editorial control, the site doesn't qualify as RS.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:36, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * The website uses the words "Thanks to Wg Cdr C G Jefford, for the latest amendments to this squadron history - 24 July 2004". But I respect your view and have removed all the references that I had inserted. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 21:45, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest citing whatever information you wanted to add directly to Jefford's books. You have to be very cautious with adding material from websites.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:57, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

 * Hey, great going! Congratulations! - Ahunt (talk) 01:55, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Focke-Wulf Fw 189
Greetings:

I have discovered something that I should have verified before I started making changes. I apologize for neglecting to do before. When I originally viewed the WIKI page on the Focke-Wulf Fw 189, I did so from my Kindle reader (mistake #1); I also performed the changes to the WIKI Fw 189 page based on how it appears via Kindle’s apparently out-of-date WWW Browser (mistake #2).

What I had intended to correct was the hideous way that the Fw 189 WIKI article appears on my Kindle. Now that I have viewed the Fw 189 WIKI article on one computer, running Windows & Internet Explorer, and another computer, an iPad running Safari, both of which show the Fw 189 WIKI article properly formatted, I see the error of my ways! I assumed that all WWW & Wikipedia users saw the Fw 189 WIKI article in the same hideous way it appears on Kindle - with a 75%/25% split between a blank area on the left side of the page and the thumbnail images on the right side of the page, then, after the images, the text is correctly formatted. If I had known that 99.9% (or more) of the world sees the page correctly formatted, I would not have entered the &lt;br&gt; HTML tags. By entering the "break" tags, the Fw 189 WIKI article appears correctly formatted on Kindle. Again, I apologize.

All The Best, Robert Ternes Rtmorphine (talk) 00:50, 5 July 2019 (UTC) rtmorphine

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Edits on S-200 missile page regarding Cyprus & sockpuppetry
Hi Nigel, I thought I'd just get in touch with you to alert you to the fact that the two accounts (User:Srarfgen_Wiston and User:Blass12334) used to make the changes to the S-200 (missile) article regarding the incident in Cyprus seem to have the same political agenda as User:Micheledisaveriosp, and are both clearly fake sock puppet accounts. I'm not saying there is a direct connection - I'm assuming someone with admin-level access to user IPs could elicit that information - but clearly there's something going on. You might want to keep an eye on this in the future, if not take action now. My reversion of the edit has added the article to my watchlist, so I'll keep an eye on it, but I already have a very full watchlist and to-do list here on WP, so I'm not going to get involved directly in edits unless this happens again. Best,

Cadar (talk) 18:58, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That's part of the reason why I posted on the WP:MILHIST talk page, to get more people looking at the article - making it less likely that these sort of edits sneak through.Nigel Ish (talk) 19:01, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , your statement on socketpuppet is completely false and instrumental. I haven't NEVER used Wikipedia in order to do any political activity. I am an Italian autoconfirmed user (with e-mail and mobile phone number), with a unique active account on WP, everyday connecting from La Spezia, Liguria. Concerning the topic on Talk:S-200 (missile), my original topic was modified by Srarfgen Wiston who added the WP:POV sources you are probably questioning about: I quoted uniquely Deutsche Welle and Reuters.com. Those two WP:reliable source neutrally reported a declaration of the Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister Kudret Ozersay, which seems to be authoritative and to have an encyclopedic relevance. They also stated that, in tha case that this is true, it would be the first incident involving Cyprus during the Israeli-Syrian conflict. Before moving accuses, you have probably to read the article's chronology with care and then to try to be more honest and collaborative with other editors. Have a good day.Micheledisaveriosp (talk) 07:57, 4 July 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm not going to get into an argument with you. If you had read my comment above, you would have noticed that I wrote that "I'm not saying there is a direct connection" between the account you are using now and two obviously sock-puppet accounts. I've checked the history, there are no visible edits from you on the article page in question, but I was messaging Nigel Ish regarding what are obviously highly suspect and non-neutral edits from two obviously fake and connected accounts. His response was to yours on the talk page. Therefore you are involved in the situation, even if some other third person edited your comments. I was not an editor on this page, but Nigel Ish called my attention to a problem with a report on the MilHist page, otherwise I wouldn't even be here.
 * Cadar (talk) 08:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , you said "used to make the changes to the S-200 (missile) article regarding the incident in Cyprus seem to have the same political agenda as User:Micheledisaveriosp, and are both clearly fake sock puppet accounts."
 * Well, I have no political agenda, I have never been in Cyprus, I haven't edited the article, but before doing so I tried to ask on the Talk:S-200 (missile), having understood it was a questioned issue. That's all. Question closed, in my opinion. Any eventual further claim, no matter.Micheledisaveriosp (talk) 20:45, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

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f4 phantom civillian operators section
i don't understand why you removed my addition the the civillian operator section. i added a link in there to prove that it was true. you want to see the link again: https://www.platinumfighters.com/phantom2
 * I removed your addition because it appeared to be a blatant (if poorly written) advert for the aircraft for sale.Nigel Ish (talk) 08:21, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

2019 English Channel Piper PA-46 crash
You have removed my edit adding a description of the Malibu cabin heating system which is described by a diagram in the Pilots Manual. I put this in the Investigation section because it seemed relevant to the recent finding of CO poisoning. If you prefer it elsewhere, I could put it in the Aircraft Description section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbees44 (talk • contribs) 11:02, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It's Original Research to suggest that the CO poisoning is related to the heating system - leave it to the AAIB to give the cause of the accident.Nigel Ish (talk) 11:09, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

De Havilland Comet
Please read WP:CITEDENSE carefully before commenting or acting further on my revert. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 11:02, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

hp and shp
Thanks for reviewing the bot edits! It's greatly appreciated. I've fixed all the issues encountered and they shouldn't happen again, but I have one thing I'm wonderingabout and that is hp and shp. Are they the same thing? They both have the same value but it seems like it's measured at different points? If they're measured at different points why don't we have the same distinction for kW. The template currently struggles a bit with this distinction, which I will fix, but it would be useful knowing what the actual difference is. --Trialpears (talk) 17:39, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Shaft horsepower (shp), brake horsepower (bhp) and indicated horsepower are all measurements of power, just measured (or calculated) in different ways - and all have the SI unit of kW - technically 600 shp is shorthand for shaft power of 600 hp - etc - but there isn't an equivalent shorthand for SI units. I don't think there is an easy, automatic, way for templates or bots to deal with it - it really needs human editors with access to the sources.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:54, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

An-12
It was already divided but a complete mess. Now it is readable--Petebutt (talk) 15:36, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The act of dividing it effectively makes the section unreferenced - virtually none of the "retired" entries have any reliable sourcing about retirement, while almost all of the "still in service" entries cites are several years old - so are not valid for saying that the type is in service in 2019. This needs to be cleaned up.Nigel Ish (talk) 15:40, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Royal Navy mutiny of 1919
I saw you reverted my inclusion of the HMS Velox in the Royal Navy mutiny of 1919. If you click in the link you can see where it is cited. If it is cited in the Mutiny article does it have to be cited in the ship article too? -- Thats Just Great (talk) 22:53, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It needs to be cited in each article.Nigel Ish (talk) 07:54, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

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