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Korean war

Hello Personalmountains, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I'm glad you've signed up as a regular editor. Your discussion comments regarding the Korean War are most interesting, and I am enjoying them! --S. Rich (talk) 00:30, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm happy you do! I unfortunately get carried away quite easily. I have little to no experience with discussions on Misplaced Pages, I mostly edit typos. I'm trying to start getting a bit more involved. We'll see how this goes :) Personalmountains (talk) 04:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Request

regarding , could you at least add a source? You say that the statement is well sourced, but there's no references for the sentence.
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 04:42, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

The very next sentence has ref 10 which has "The Gitmo files are the fifth (and very nearly the final) cache of data that disaffected US soldier Bradley Manning is alleged to have turned over to the Wikileaks website more than a year ago." I thought putting a single reference for two sentences was fine, but I may be wrong. I'll find another. pm (talk) 04:47, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

It would be OK, but in this particular case... a non-primary source would help quite a bit.
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 04:55, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

I've added cnet and reuters links. I'll also try to fix the "may be". Thanks for the heads up. pm (talk) 05:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Lac-Mégantic derailment

Hello, I just wanted to let you know that the reports about the capacity of 113k litres per car seem to be true. I've found a close-up picture of one the rail cars here where you can see an inscription "CAPT 113800 L". De728631 (talk) 00:01, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Yep, I'm not sure what the gazette was smoking. Thanks for the picture! pm (talk) 00:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Heh. I guess they lost a couple of zeros as in "more than 100,000". And actually they're even right (if grossly understating): 113k > 1,000. ;) De728631 (talk) 00:08, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

CFB North Bay

Hello. I was in the middle of contacting you when we had a brief power failure.

I removed your notices from the article. In April 2011, 22 Wing/Canadian Forces Base North Bay took control over its Misplaced Pages article because, to that point, contributors and editors had comprised people who had no inkling about the base, in most cases had never even visited the base. The result of their work was a mishmash of mistakes and omissions that failed to provide accurate information, in any dimension, about the base and its history. On top of this, thinking that we were responsible, the base received numerous rebukes for the Misplaced Pages article. In short, the article had become an embarrassment in every context that required correction.

As the Wing Heritage Officer for the base (essentially a history/heritage public affairs officer) the Misplaced Pages article became my assignment. With one exception, all of the information on the Misplaced Pages article comes directly from base active files, base archives, and the files and archives of air force units that were, or are, posted on the base--in other words straight from the horse's mouth. The exception is outside sources such as newspaper articles, books and similar writings. In every case, a citation is given (currently 63 are listed), and a bibliography lists the books used as references (14 are named).

Regarding your observation about "original research", I am uncertain what you mean by this. (As opposed to unoriginal research?) In any event, the sources of information for the CFB North Bay article are stated above. The sources do not get any more accurate than this--the information in the Misplaced Pages article about the base comes from the base, with the one exception I mentioned.

With respect to "...this article relies on references to primary sources. Please add references to secondary or tertiary sources", again I am afraid I am at a loss of what you mean. Once more, the sources for the Misplaced Pages article are the files and archives on the base, from the base and its units, and from cited newspaper articles, books and similar writings.

Lastly: "This article needs additional citations for verification ... Unsourced material may be challenged and removed." To reiterate, none of the material is unsourced. As for citations I have been diligent to ensure they are included, as exemplified by the 63 citations provided, and the 14 books listed in the bibliography.

We (myself and others on the air force base following the progress of the article) appreciate that you have shown interest in the CFB North Bay article. As per your User Page remarks, we accept that your inserted observations were made in good faith. Please rest assured that my remarks here are presented in good faith as well.

We wish you the best.

22WHERO (talk) 16:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)