User talk:Remotepluto/Archive 2

Evidence of User:Kamakatsu vandalizing my comments and fabricating information about sources on Talk:Nanking Massacre
I only chose stuff he made up when replying to me. There were other fabrications that I'm aware of, but that's another story. The diffs are provided in chronological order.


 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Nanking_Massacre&diff=prev&oldid=596696483 Diff 1] where "I see that Frank Dorn got into historical writing later; however the statement that he made was when he was a soldier." in order to disqualify Dorn's writings as a reliable (although primary) source. Frank Dorn (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/frank-dorn.htm) was a American soldier in 1937, retired in 1953, and made that statement in a book (ISBN 9780025322004) he wrote in 1974. A single search on Google should reveal what year this book was published. I assumed good faith in him, so I just pointed out the facts and did not make accusations.


 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Nanking_Massacre&diff=prev&oldid=596697567 Diff 2] This one was egregious, in two ways.
 * (1) I used an asterisk (*) before my comment to highlight him misrepresenting my opinion. He edited out that asterisk into a colon to make my comment less conspicuous. I didn't even notice this very subtle vandalism for a few days.
 * (2) With "Putting aside that Matsusaka Yoshihisa is not a historian", he was trying to sneak in false information in order to dispute the reliability of the source Y. Matsusaka. A simple google search will reveal that Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka is a tenured history professor at a reputable institute in the US. He apologized when I called out, but it's too hard for me to think of a reason that such a mistake can be made inadvertently.


 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Nanking_Massacre&diff=prev&oldid=596699502 Diff 3] He said "at that part he references that the prisoners of war amount to no less than 200,000." when talking about the book Nankin Dai Gyakusatsu Ketteiban by Prof. Tomio Hora of Waseda University.
 * "That part" was chapter 6, "On the estimation of death toll", from pages 184-216 in the Chinese version. Hora actually wrote a Chapter 3 "Killing of POWs, 'plainclothes soldiers' and refugees" regarding the number of POWs. I read through Chapter 6. There were "200,000", there were "POWs", but I could not find a statement about 200,000 POWs, because Hora estimated POWs to be about 30,000 - 100,000. Mr. Kamakatsu could be outright lying that he actually had read this book, given that in a previous [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Nanking_Massacre&diff=prev&oldid=596678011 comment] he said that he saw Hora's number from someone else's book. But I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one.


 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Nanking_Massacre&diff=prev&oldid=596708881 Diff 4] and [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Nanking_Massacre&diff=prev&oldid=596748651 Diff 5] He fabricated quotes from the Frank Dorn book, in a conversation that we had, pasted here:


 * Obviously he made a fabricated quote, and later to cover up this one made up another, whose style didn't look like formal writing by a native English speaker in 1974. Had he not made the second lie that was linguistically too blatant, I would have glossed over the first one. (Hint: In formal non-fiction writing one should: a) use "which" instead of "that", or no conjunction at all, to start an adjective clause; b) avoid using the first-person pronoun "I"; c) position the causal adverbial clause behind the main clause; d) use "because", "for" or "since" instead of "as".)

O so much good faith I assumed in him, which ended up being moot. Remotepluto (talk) 21:06, 27 February 2014 (UTC)