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whose ambition is to invent arcane rules and then demonstrate how clever they are by showing how they can apply the the rules at the expense of everyone else. They then spend their time in mutual congratulation and giving each other awards for producing articles on narrow topics that comply with the rules but contribute nothing to to the real world of knowledge.Those whose motivation is to improve access to knowledge get squeezed out by the rules-merchants. I had a foretaste when someone told me I had to learn to love the m-dash policy! Life's too short. Worst of all, I had started to do the same things myself, and I realised I was spending all my editing time defending articles against the edits of others, many malicious but others who simply didn't read the rule-book. So I've gone to get a life!

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Although I'm not particularly interested in things military, I nonetheless try to add bits of information on pages that deal with this topic when I come across them. I agree with the fact that the etymology of his family name says nothing at all about the person; but I fail to see how this is more or

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Thanks for picking me up on that - I've reviewed my references, and it looks like I incorrectly interpreted what they were saying : "Boxer shrapnel" appears not to have been an offificial designation but more a means of conveniently differentiating it from later steel-walled Shrapnel shells. The 1877

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where there is new information added (eg "known as Boxer shrapnel"). Otherwise it may get deleted or given a Fact tag. The paragraphs are already cited and we need to make sure that we don't add information that is not supported by the cited source - unless you're referring to that source, of course.

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would have a lot of insight about how infantry has worked for the last 2,500 years, and since there are relatively few good accessible accounts of how infantry tactics worked even in World War II, this is obviously a challenge. I think one can overcome it by working on smaller articles first; I and a

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I gave up editing Knowledge at this point. To have an article I had worked on for two years ranked back to start-class (=worthless) made me realise how much of my time I had been wasting. I thought I might come back to it, but I haven't. Knowledge is a great idea, but it's been hijacked by a clique

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limiting name-giving in this area to WWII personalities, but including references to peace and the making of Europe. You may not be fond of the latter personnally, but suppressing this "non military" information garbles the context in which the name was given. In other words, there is life outside

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Thank you Keith, yes, I downloaded that yesterday from your link in the article, and it's very interesting. My grandfather's battalion (1/5 Leicesters) was in reserve and not heavily engaged on 13 October, so it did not get the mauling many other units did. my great-uncle was not so lucky: he was

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Echoing Steve, I trust the comments are merely informative rather than discouraging. I am very interested in articles on military techniques (I didn't know there was a MilHist/Science), please reply here or at my talk if you'd like to collaborate. The major challenge for a copy-editor is always a

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I notice that you have reported me for no conceivable reason. i belive that we also have a dispute to sort out. in my opinion the majority of the wiki population who read men of harlech article would prefer it if the lyrics were viewable on there. i hope this case can be resolved soon.

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I also fail to understand the change about the information concerning the district of Caen where the street is : saying "linked with the war" seems a bit vague to me : which war ? Not the war in general (haha), anyway. The town-planners and the city council were careful about

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Anyway, just thought I'd offer some advice. I'm sure you know it all already though, so I'm sorry to state a load of stuff you already know. Feel free to throw any questions my way if you need to, and I'll try and help out. Hope you're enjoying the snow as much as I am,

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I had a look at your barrage article, having noticed your cri de coeur and thought that it wouldn't take much copy editing to make it B-class. It rather reminded me of my lack of knowledge of Wiki writing conventions when I started to do more than remove commas next to

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When I begin one of these articles, I use the name already in the list of World War I aces. If it turns out the ace is referred to differently, I will move the article when I finish with it--after all the votes are in, so to speak. I also disambiguate as needed.

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I'm Cyclopaedic, a middle-aged lawyer in England with a lifelong interest in military history, so most of my contributions are on one or other of those topics. I contributed purely for fun, and have now retired from active editing due to artistic differences..

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less relevant than stating that he "was a direct descendant of the O'Dempseys of Clanmalier, an aristocratic Gaelic family with a history traceable to a High King of Ireland in the second century A.D." (not to mention his 17 century ancestor). After all,

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lack of access to sources and therefore citations. Standards for the required density of inline citations has grown over the years and are now very high. If you can improve inline citations, that removes the last fundamental barrier to moving forward.

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Treatise on Ammunition does not refer to Boxer shrapnel, just Shrapnel. I've referenced the exact text used in the 1887 edition to avoid misunderstandings. Keep up the good work - we need more quality control ! Rod.

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You might be interested to know that some 20 meters down the road from the Mercer stone is another stone commemorating a French cuirassier who was killed at Waterloo. Maybe one of Mercer's boys did it,

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You're quite right - I think the problem with many doctrine articles is that they require quite broad knowledge of an area where there is relatively little popular writing. E.g. the perfect article on

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was the real name of the family, and I think one should rather talk about "the Ó Díomasaighs of Clanmalier" than "the O'Dempseys", a late Anglicized name, if his ancestry

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to be mentioned. And given that, I don't consider it irrelevant to explain here, for those who might be interested but who don't know Irish, the meaning of such a name.

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What is your source for Jackie rather than Jacky? The lives of Fisher by Bacon and Mackay don't use the former and the edited papers by Marder don't either. --

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I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using

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in Vietnam posted on my user page, and am inviting comment on it. Read it, and you will see that forward air control hasn't always been limited to

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3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Knowledge are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

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medical officer to an artillery brigade in 21st Division, and was killed at Loos on 26 September whilst tending a wounded man by the guns.

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