User talk:RichardMJennings

Dear Mr. Yunshui,

Following up on my email today, I've quickly found 3 links to my publications and a reference from our local newspaper, The Desert Sun, that shows my presidency of the local Chapter of MOAA.

I'm continuing to work to find all links of my articles in the publications. The articles to which I enclose links are:

"Artillery of the Federal German Army" http://sill-www.army.mil/firesbulletin/archives/1964/DEC_1964/DEC_1964_FULL_EDITION.pdf

"The Thrust of the Nixon Doctrine" - see attached

"The US/Soviet Arms Competition"  http: ://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/785182.pdf

The reference attached is from the newspaper, The Desert Sun, which confirms my service and the Presidency of the local chapter of MOAA.

More to follow. Thank you, Richard M. Jennings

From: dickjennin@aol.com [mailto:dickjennin@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 10:28 AM To: wiki@wikimedia.org Subject: ‪Yunshui left you a message on Wikimedia Commons

Hi:

In response to your criticism about the photo with the daughter, and the proposed deletion, I have personally conferred with Mrs. Butler, who has been handling the updating of the entry. Though the photographer who shot the photo at a World Affairs dinner years ago gave me permission to use her photos, we have deleted the photo. Incidentally, Mrs. Butler is not a member of my office.

But more serious is the apparent attempt to downgrade my achievements and contributions to society: I refer specifically to the recent demand to Mrs. Butler that the words "Ph.D;" and "author" be deleted This is very significant, in that by doing so, this downgrades my past work to that of thousands of retired military officers who have, after retirement with MA's, have headed civilian organizations. Moreover, the deletion is factually incorrect:

My Ph.D. from Georgetown in 1975 was the result of a huge amount of work. For example, Georgetown required that a doctoral candidate in Government pass fluency tests in three foreign languages, as well as comprehensive exams in the Government category. How many of my fellow retired officers can do that? My dissertation was not deemed adequate in 1973, and I went "back to the drawing board" for a couple of years to improve it, which finally happened in 1975.

I did not start the idea of a Wikipedia entry, and in fact, when it was mentioned to me, years ago, by the World Affairs Council administrator, I didn't even know what it was. She knew about it, and wanted to put in entries on the World Affairs local council and myself. She sent an intern over to the house, where he perused my publications and wrote the first entry. Perhaps he used my computer to send it. It stood almost as written for some six years, and then I noticed it had to be updated, particularly at times when I left the Presidency of one non-profit organization to head another. Later, I looked at the Wikipedia entry for the officer who had succeeded me as President of WAC, Herbert Temple, and noticed that he had an entry "Personal" that mentioned his family, and I decided that that should be included in mine.

My authored writings are significant because they afford a lot of research material that is useful for scholars working on, in particular, the US/Soviet arms race during the early decades of the Cold War. Several of them are carried on the internet, some of them verbatim. You have required the deletion of any mention of my dissertation of over 500 pages. Why??? In emails to follow quickly, I shall list references for the writings and my career. In the meantime, please restore the Ph.D. word and the dissertation.

Please delay the decision on deletion until you receive these.

Please give me an example of a format how my page should read.

Thank you, Richard M. Jennings RichardMJennings (talk) 22:09, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

We've edited/corrected and deleted requested photo "Father/Daughter". KEEP this page. Thank you.

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