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Problematic WWII Chinese air warfare articles created/expanded by User:Got Milked

Has anyone else found problems with our biographical content related to Chinese air warfare in World War II?

I'm looking at articles created/expanded by Got Milked and am running into major issues with unreliable sources, non-neutral point of view, reliable sources that don't actually mention the article topic, and very unclear notability. For examples:

• Zheng Shaoyu's content was effectively irretrievable, and I can't see why they're notable
• Gao Zhihang is as of writing now redirected, and I can't show the similarly problematic content because of the massive copyright violations
• John Wong Pan-yang is now redirected, but previously was sourced almost entirely to unreliable sources and had little to no claim to notability (as far as I could tell)
• Same for John Huang Xinrui (see pre-redirect content)

There's a lot more out there, e.g. I suspect Xu Huansheng has very similar problems to those above. Help? Is it worth nuking and/or redirecting these? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:08, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Anyone? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 22:37, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

It's hard to say, at least for me, without being able to read the relevant sources, which may be why people are hesitating from weighing in. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:07, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

I could not see at a glance any problems with the two article I reviewed. Buckshot06 (talk) 06:13, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Siege of Lal Masjid

Siege of Lal Masjid has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:08, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Battle of Mersivan

Hello everyone, please take a look at Battle of Mersivan. It seems to me it requires some objective input. GusChago (talk) 20:59, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Lacking time and the sources to do a thorough job, I've replaced the article entirely with the text describing the battle from the Crusade of 1101 article. As the editors who wrote it appear to be new to Wikipedia, I expect that I'll be doing a whole lot of reverts and rollbacks as I try to explain concepts like WP:NPOV, etc. to them, just to let any admins who might notice me violating the 3RR rule.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 13:47, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Looking for input from the commumity...

...regarding the renaming of USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) to USS Robert Smalls. Just follow this-> link to WT:SHIPs. Thanks - wolf 05:16, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography#Proposal: Moving post-nominals from lead sentences to article bodies

An RM that may be of interest to editors here, given how many Commonwealth military figures have them. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:26, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947

The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 states that "the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to exercise the authorities contained in" the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947. Despite being a relatively important piece of legislation, the article on the ASPA is two sentences long and there is no link to the actual act. I am having difficulty finding a pdf or other link to that act, so I thought I would bring it up here to see if anyone else might have better luck locating it. Thanks! -Location (talk) 17:31, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

@Location: Is this what you're looking for? The associated pdf is here. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:23, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

@The ed17: Thanks for looking into this. That pdf appears to show only part of Section 2 of the Act, but it does show that it is also referred to as Public Law 413 of the 80th Congress. Unfortunately, the Congressional records here only go back to the 82nd Congress. Cheers! -Location (talk) 19:09, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

@Location: How about this then? It looks like the act is on page 21, although it still starts with section 2. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 19:19, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

@The ed17: That it! I don't understand why they leave out Section 1, but it does appear to have all the other sections referenced by the CIA Act of 1949. Thanks so much for tracking it down! -Location (talk) 19:35, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 203, March 2023

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Errol Manners

RN rear-admiral, currently a stub. Would be nice to see a major expansion on this individual, given his dual naval and theological careers. Leaving him here, as not really my area, but hopefully might spark someone's interest! StickyWicket (talk) 11:26, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Foreign designations for military aircraft

The system of reporting names for Soviet now Russian and now Chinese military aircraft dreamed up by a group of non-Soviet and non-Chinese countries has been at NATO reporting name for some time. However, the system was formulated by the Air Standardization Coordinating Committee, now the Air Forces Interoperability Council. Anyone who is interested in giving their views on which the article title should be, as opposed to redirects, can comment at Talk:NATO reporting name.

To be as clear as possible, the issue is between *accuracy of designation* and WP:COMMONNAME, if such common usage *can be proved.* Buckshot06 (talk) 21:09, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

489th Civil Affairs Battalion

Would someone from MILHIST mind taking a look at 489th Civil Affairs Battalion? It's a newly created article that I came across after being asked about it at User talk:Marchjuly#Question from 489wiki on User:489wiki/sandbox (18:09, 12 March 2023). It was moved to the mainspace by its creator without being assessed in anyway. It's already been tagged with several maintenance templates (by another user), but perhaps some from MILHIST could take a look at it too. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:31, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

I have started working on this, thrown out half the standard "this is Civil Affairs" type commentary, started changing to standard terms etc. It appears to have been attached to VII Corps (United States) during Desert Storm. I will continue keeping an eye on this. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 08:39, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look at this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:53, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Do we really need a page about a battalion?--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 02:12, 14 March 2023 (UTC)