User talk:Torn23

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Also, thank you for adding the Eleven Reliable Men and Saburo Hayashi articles. Wikipedia always needs additional substantive material. I hope you'll keep adding to Wikipedia.

Your edit to Hito-Do
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move
I have moved American wirter and journalist to Joseph Newman (journalist). -- RHaworth 20:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Caution
Please refrain from creating inappropriate articles such as operation ARASHI. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. --Questionfromjapan 06:20, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Japanese operations
Hi: thank you for your articles on various Japanese military operations of the last war. Would you consider finding a native English speaker to go over them with you and make corrections?--Anthony.bradbury 22:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Peiping-Hankow Operation}}}
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Deleted page "Kiangsi-Fukien Operation"
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List of foreign residents in Japan
Hi Torn,

You created List of foreign residents in Japan (December 1941) but neglected to provide any references. A list such as this really needs a reference or it will be deleted as original research and/or unverifiable material.

The topic does seem like it might be encyclopediacally relevant, but a source would be greatly appreciated and it would clarify the exact scope of this list and allow correct attribution to the material.--ZayZayEM 07:32, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Torn23! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is an  Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to this article, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 19:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Joseph Newman (journalist) -

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Yamashita´s mission listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Yamashita´s mission. Since you had some involvement with the Yamashita´s mission redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. BDD (talk) 18:26, 19 January 2016 (UTC)