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US-centric, establishing a special rule for US units would be even more US-centric. I think inertia was a factor as well. I would estimate that between 5000 and 10,000 pages would have to be moved for the USAF alone. In addition to the page you moved, I'm only aware of a couple of USAF unit articles (air divisions) that include (United States). A quick peek at "field artillery battalion" indicates that the US army is a mixed bag of articles with and without the designator. US Navy articles generally avoid the issue by titles like VMF-nnn or USS Foo. If the discussion is as hidden in archives as I suspect, perhaps it's time to reopen the subject. My sense is that there is little need for the disambiguation because most non-English speaking country's aviation units tend to have names like Lufttransportgeschwader n or Escadrille de Chasse n even on the English Knowledge. Commonwealth units tend to be in the form No. n (Fighter) Squadron, rather than nth Fighter Squadron. I can think of an exception for Canadian units for specific cases, since I believe they now use the form of n Fighter Squadron (although I think their squadrons are all numbered in the 400s because of their past as RAF units), which could be confused with nth Fighter Squadron. --

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that you do not add that link again, unless you can positively show that the material at that link is free from copyright. I am sure you believe the material you are adding is correct, but that is not the issue here. What you need is verifiable material cited using reliable published sources, which rarely includes blogs (except blogs by academics), and few websites except reputable news ones. I understand the issues with censorship etc in the former Yugoslavia, but many of the pre-1991 sources are still usable, they just need to be identified as "Partisan" etc to flag possible bias. There are plenty of reliable sources that mention the battle. When you have scholarly sources for your edits, you should re-introduce them into the article then. Attempts to force them into the article then discuss them will be reported to admins for action, which could include blocking you from editing WP. I encourage you to thoroughly read the basic policies, and find the academic sources needed. Continuing to edit war over this material will definitely result in a request to admins to block you from editing. Regards,

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northwestern Bosnia, Tomislavgrad, Vitez, Gornji Vakuf, Mrkonjic Grad, Bihac, Kupres, Glamoc, Gornji Ribnik, Sipovo, Banja Luka, Kljuc etc, even Kiseljak for a short time. The western areas of Bosnia had been fought over by the HV, HVO, ARBiH and VRS pretty recently and was largely destroyed. Plenty of bodies, dead animals, mines and burned out houses and armoured vehicles. The winter was bitter, especially in the Glamoc valley. When I think about it now, I think of it as a beautiful country, in a visceral sort of way. The Dalmatian coast was absolutely stunning, as were the islands off the coast. I enjoyed going to Trogir for a pizza and a German beer on the rare occasion I got the chance. I haven't been back, I'm sure I will one day.

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it's not synthesis air opinion it's fact "pan-european" (Webster's identify pan-european as "of, relating to, or involving all or most of the nations of Europe". This edit takes the SS an echelon beyond "multi ethnic, multi-national" description. Additionally were response to me that they were not elite at the the time is incorrect. No timeline is or was given - meaning ambiguous, when I attempted to define the stage of WWII that it became pan-european - you slide your same default answer to me. My experience with this subject is not derived from history books and Tv shows. Thanks.

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itself". I am enraged. There was not one comment, warning, question, request, or suggestion from this "editor". Can you please help me reverse all the deletions and keep this guy off the page. There are ongoing constructive edits from several other individuals watching this site. I was worried this would happen as soon as I started to upload data about Germany. Please help resolve this. These actions were not constructive and have reduced the quality of the material to a shadow of its last version before his vandalism. --

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1940, he remained in East Africa and provided information on Allied shipping passing through the straits as well as on information pertaining to British activities in Southern Africa. While nominally working for the Auslandsamt, Alvensleben reported all information back to the RSHA rather than to the Abwehr. Even as late as 1945, Alvensleben reported directly to Adolf Eichmann !

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EK or a WMC, Art.3.3 is actually opening the GCiS for the recipients of the EK1 rather than the other way round, as anyone who had been awarded a WMwS1stC would be awarded a EK2 at first occasion and a EK1 the second time round and only then they would start counting for a GCiG. Hope that clears up things a bit.

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That's what happens when you institutionalize divisions, base a sense of unity on flimsy ideological foundations, and then train and arm the entire populace. Now with Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, all descending into civil war of the same sort, one can't but feel a sense of solidarity with people from

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I did spend a couple of months based at Divulje, Sep to early Nov 95, but spent a lot of each week driving around Bosnia. Divulje was actually comfortable in comparison to pretty much anywhere in Bosnia. We moved up into Bosnia in Nov and stayed there until Apr 96, with bases right across central and

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First, Vojska itself is not the source, instead, they are quoting the German military's field report. And the breakdown of german casualties coressponds to the overall number of the report itself (proving its accuracy). Second, please provide some evidence that the source is not reliable. Just saying

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I would like to discuss with you about this battle, also I wanted to mention that my view is totally equilibrate, I'm just telling the facts, and if you have the time I can send you more fundaments (books articles) mainly written outside Slovenia/Yugoslavia. Remember that the country was a state with

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Peacemaker, Omitting any discussion with regards to the paragraphs in your qasi-profile page where you disparage a lot people - I surmise you have had some passionate back-and-forth with people that disagree with your editing/reediting. I'm trying to respectfully understand your issue with my edit -

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There is no virtually no difference between the EK1 (1939) and the clasp, only that those who already had a cross wouldn't get an other one. However, because of Art. 4 of the War Merit Cross statute, they could not be awarded a WMC with or without swords. As the GC stands for 6-10 deeds meriting an

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I see the point. The text is not very straightforward, but quite clear when you think of it. If Fritz shows excellent leadership or extraordinary bravery, he will receive an Iron Cross. As the GCiG is for repeated acts of bravery or excellent leadership, the War Merit Cross does not matter. However,

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article, and I just wanted to say "thanks" in some small way. As I said on the peer review page, I'm neck-deep in a book project at present, but I will be working on the things you suggested over the next several months, and I appreciate your interest and the suggestions you made. Best wishes, and

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Hi, although I wanted to retire from Wiki, at least that was my plan a few weeks ago, I still find too many open ends I want to get my hand on. I recently bought two books on Alexander Löhr. Since his doings fall into what I believe to be your area of expertise (Balkans) I was hoping that you might

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Vojska is basically a gaming site, not "a reliable, third-party, published source with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". Of the many pages on Yugoslav/NDH/German etc orders of battle, only a very small percentage even contain information about where the information on that page is drawn

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You just can't write that SS Handschar commited crimes on Jews without footnote on that specific statement. You can't just say "well, you have sources there down", and there are like dozens of books named there. I would like to see a specifically book and number of page where it can be read that SS

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Thanks for the clarification. I believe you are going to struggle to maintain this categorisation tree in the face of many editors (like me) who don't understand the intricacies of the statutes. Perhaps the best way to try to strengthen your approach would be to place explanatory text at the top of

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EK I, whereas the golden version is awarded for bravery and requires an EK I. Thus, it is not clear whether a recipient of the silver version had received an Iron Cross or "only" a War Merit Cross. It is my understanding, BTW, that the categories are not supposed to be filled with any recipient but

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I appreciate that English may not your first language, but it is critical for successful editing that you are clear about what is and is not appropriate on WP. Adding links to material on YouTube is (usually) a blatant copyright violation, and WP is very strict about copyright. It is very important

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Von Alvensleben was exchanged by the Nazis in Germany in 1934 for Richard Kaaserer (later Oberfuehrer RuSHA). Alvensleben moved to the RSHA in 1939 and worked under Theodor Dannecker who sent him to Mozambique to examine the logistics for the proposed Madagascar Plan. When this fell through in late

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today, but please feel free to work on it whenever you are keen. It would be fantastic to see it progress towards FA if you have the time. I've been thinking of retiring from Knowledge for a while and will probably do so some time after the next co-ord election, but I'd be keen to collaborate with

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While I wholeheartedly agree that what I wrote wasn't in any way neutral - neither were any of the other contributions. That's because it was a TALK PAGE, not the main article (where something like this obviously doesn't belong). I guess based on your IFOR background, you have an anti-Serb bias.

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deleted over 3 months and 300 hours of my work and that of others, 40,000 characters of edits, and hundreds of constructive additions to the page. I am in the midst of uploading an enormous amount of PRIMARY SOURCE DATA and he deleted everything done so far as "wikipedia can not be a source for

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in the local library - which was a shock, because I now live in a small country town in Victoria. Anyway, I've nominated the article for GA. I know you were thinking about trying to get it to FA by Anzac Day next year, so if you are keen, please feel free to participate in the review. Cheers,

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I'm really not interested. The article needs to be NPOV, like every other article on WP. If you want to edit the article, please keep that in mind. If you're not going to edit the article, I fail to see what the purpose of this discussion is, other than you giving your opinion about my views.

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IIRC, it's in an archived MILHIST Talk page, and my limited computer skills won't let me locate it without devoting all my Wiki time to the effort. My recollection of the discussion was that it was decided to let this exist as a legend. Even if omitting the (United States) from the page is

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Bosnia (once the setting for the winter Olympics..) has yet to recover really. That's the impression anyway. When you're trying to rule out this or that "more exotic" pathogen, you still ask the fella if he's been to Bosnia lately. As depressing as the Croatian economy might be, Bosnia is

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It's incredibly idealistic and frankly unrealistic to expect any side in a total war to play by the rules of modern warfare. Only if reprisals were excessively brutal, murdering innocent civilians without any strategic goal would I consider actions of anti-fascist forces to be criminal

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Don't you know that 2000 men cannot fight 30.000 and this is a common exaggeration? Don't you know that Balli Kombëtar was a NAZI Collaboration group that had made a nazi puppet Goverment? Why you had reverted all my contribution? I seek only to write the truth and nothing more.

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I don't agree with you about my personal points of view and editing.Anyways, my mistake was that I didn't put sources for every line.I fixed that,so you don't need to be upset.Missunderstand was also reason of minor edit/regular edit.I will keep that in mind.Thanks.

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murdered by fascists in USSR, SFRY, PPR, and CSR would easily justify almost any amount/type of reprisals. What little revenge that was had by the victorious forces in the east cannot be classified as "criminal" by any honest, thinking person. That's crazy.

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limited freedom until 1991, and for this reason, many of the local books were written by people without a neutral point of view. I propose you to keep the changes I made and work with you to show you more fundaments about my point of view.

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Mate, I'm from Australia, and I know something of the Ballists. These articles are constantly edited/vandalised by trolls, and many NPOV editors simply revert poorly worded and unsourced additions on sight for that reason. Provide

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I'm not entirely sure we should be using the trial documents, they are Communist POV, of course. He also wasn't questioned about Simovic's statement, I can't see anywhere it was even raised except in the summing up.

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It depends on whether they intended to do a full review, or just make a comment. If it looks like they were doing a full review, you could ping them on the review page, or leave a query on their talk page. Cheers,

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if Fritz has the EK1 or the clasp, but ends up in a position where he can't show bravery or leadership, but does other useful things, he can still get a German Cross in Silver although he can't get a WMC .

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His name is remembered in particular in connection with the so-called Dalmazzo-Këlcyra Agreement of 5 March 1943 that foresaw a ceasefire between Balli Kombëtar and Italian forces in Albania. In mid-October

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and managed to get a new page "1st Picardy" completely buggered up, trying to change a redirect and it got a B class by mistake." on 7 August so it was marked as a B by the person who disentangled the move.

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Hi! Thank you for taking time to review the Battle of Orašje nom. I found the remarks regarding the background section especially useful, and applied the same changes to a number of other articles. Cheers--

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since June, with a particular focus on including more data about Germany, the Axis, historic context, German technical achievements and other information related to the German experience of the war. Today,

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I was unaware of that. My view is I can't see any reason whatsoever why USAF units should be exempt from the policy, but if that is the consensus, perhaps we should add that exemption to MILMOS? Cheers,

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Thanks for the comments, I will highly appriciate if we can negotiate the changes on this page, before we do that I will show you the sources and I believe you will accept those changes. Thanks again.

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G'day, I am thinking of nominating this for an A-class review in the next couple of days (depending on how much time I get to edit this week). Would you like to be listed as a co-nom? Regards,

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I am pretty active these days, would you like me to recheck all stubs and start class articles? Many of them have been expanded for better status, I can probably update the classes. Thanks.

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Regarding your recent changes to my edits. According to the statute on the German Cross, Article 3,3 it required prior award of the Iron Cross 1st class. Thus that category is redundant.

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Ok, no worries. Thanks for all you've done on it so far. I will see how I get on. Work is very busy now due to a couple of secondments, so I may have to leave it for a while. Regards,

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A paper on the "The Bjelovar uprising of 7–10 April 1941". Maybe you've already seen it. I assume, since you are using Terzic, that you can get by with a Serbo-Croatian source.

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So, you would also be removing a redundant category for anyone with the German Cross if they also had the War Merit Cross 1st Class with swords? Am I understanding this right?

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Lineagegeek - can you pls provide a link to the relevant discussion? I'm not aware of this either and I don't see any obvious reason why we would treat them any differently.

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Thanks for the congrats. You did an impress job yourself. I just wish I could have improved some articles like you did. (Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding sources.)

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Hello from Greece, i am no new on English wikipedia, but only little things i have write here. Excuse me, but there is none citation that you have reverted my contribution.

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This is a hugely significant event as one of the assassins was the 21 year old Baron Werner von Alvensleben, son of the Schleicher associate Werner von Alvensleben senior.

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Hey, I just have a question about the process. If folks come by and give feedback but never come back after it's fixed - what do I do about getting the 3 supports?--v/r -

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I have no idea, I have never seen that at the top of an article page before. It is actually referring to WikiProject Biography, not WikiProject Military History. Cheers,

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My advice would be to book really early in the season, if you do take the trip. For me at least, this is the last place I want to be when the summer heat sets in. Hvar,

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G'day mate. I noticed that you, among others, have cool text like "send ... over" instead of "Peacemaker67 (talk)" and I was wondering how it is you do that? Cheers.

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If I may, Peacemaker, I've been meaning to ask a personal question? How did you find Yugoslavia during your deployment? I gather you were in fact stationed near my

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In the silver version, yes. Otherwise one would be recommended for the Iron Cross. Whereas someone with an Iron Cross could be recommended for both versions.

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Overall, however, the currently "fashionable" theory about massive crimes of the Eastern allies against their fascist opponents is incredibly misguided. The

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only with those who have not received any higher awards. But I am not sure that this principle can be sustained in the face of enthusiastic categorization.

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Peacemaker, I know some folks don't care much for barnstars, so I hope you don't mind me sending you this one. You put a lot of time and thought into the

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Listen chief. I don't give a rat's arse what you "think". As I have pointed out to many editors before you, opinions are like arseholes. You either have a

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The appropriate place for this discussion is on the article talk page. Please take it up there, so that all interested editors can be involved. Cheers,

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from. There is no footnoting. The author does not claim any academic qualifications (so far as I am aware). They are the reasons why it does not meet

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Handschar commited some crime on Jews. You obviously are not historian and please give a job to someone who understand this type of stuff. Thank you.

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and its associated peer review. I know it was long and detailed, so I just wanted to say I appreciated your time, interest and feedback. Thanks!

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Excellent, thanks. Perfect for 4th Army. Yes, I'm ok using latin script, on military matters at least, but not so good with the cyrillic. Cheers,

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Ok, so the War Merit Cross 1st Class with swords was also a possible prerequisite for the award of the German Cross, if I'm reading it right?

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Do you think we could still maybe add the fact that Simovic was apparently a witness at the trial? Or do you think the source is not POV?

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No, it wasn't assessed properly if it was, because while the checklist was there, it hadn't been completed. I'll assess it now. Cheers,

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has record of you being approved for access to Oxford University Press's humanities materials through the TWL partnership described at

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Sorry mate, I can't help you. This is blatant canvassing. You need to use dispute resolution if you are in a content dispute. Regards,

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you until I go. I don't have a copy of Kearney any more, unfortunately, but if I can help out in any way, I'll certainly try. Regards,

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A convention that is universally ignored for USAF units. There have been previous discussions on that on the MILHIST talk page. --

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G'day the class=File bit is fine, but you need to add a task force field to the banner as well, such as Aviation=y or US=y. Cheers,

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Hello Peacemaker67. I noticed your MfD of this talk page. As an alternative, you might consider withdrawing your MfD and replacing

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That's fine, but it doesn't make an opinion that killing Nazi collaborators is not a crime invalid, even if you disagree with it.

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Alvenslben was a cousin of Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben, first and final SSPF for Adria West. Kaaserer was SSPF in Yugoslavia.

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Thanks for the response. It is automatically marked as file so wouldn't need that, but "Aviation=y" or "US=y" seems helpful.

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for your edit or you don't. If you don't, piss off until you do. If you do, cite it. That is how we roll on en WP. Regards,

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