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Ardaseer Cursetjee

Hi, is there any chance of you taking another look at Ardaseer Cursetjee? I see you did quite a lot of work on it a while ago, especially in the "Family" section, but it doesn't appear to make much sense. At one point we are saying he never married Marion and at another we're saying that the Parsi community did not accept the marriage, which is contradictory. More, we are using a blog, which is rarely a good idea. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 08:15, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ Sitush, Sure. I will do so. I agree on your comment on the citation. I wonder - can you direct me to a few good references? I am also looking for the same, but would appreciate any help in this. Notthebestusername (talk) 05:12, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I found the article while doing some cleaning up and have zero knowledge of the subject, so I'm not much use to you as a provider of sources unless I start digging around for them myself. If you can't find appropriate sources then it may be best to remove all unsourced statements and those that are sourced to the blog: better to say nothing than to say the wrong thing, etc. - Sitush (talk) 07:28, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ Sitush Thanks. I did some more digging and managed to find better citations. I have placed them instead and also improved the content of the wiki, removing any contradictions. The one blog that I have however left is actually authored by the University college of London and is used as part of the course curriculum there. I understand it undergoes a lot of cross checking from the peers in the university and so I have only kept this one. I will also check if I can get my hands on Ardaseer's book when I visit the British library next - perhaps they might have a surviving edition. Notthebestusername (talk) 02:54, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks very much for taking the time. I know that it can be a pain revisiting old writings. - Sitush (talk) 03:11, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Woody Island (South China Sea)

Thanks for your improvements to the article, and your other work on other articles, but you are introducing quite a few errors. For example, you have written "The paracel are a group of island and atolls in the South western part of South China sea." Well no, they're not. Not even close. "The Paracels are a group of islands and atolls in the north western part of South China Sea." It is the Spratlys which are in the south of the South China Sea (SCS), not the Paracels. I'll give it a few days before I start correcting your errors. Maybe in the meantime you will have corrected them? Best wishes, Pdfpdf (talk) 15:55, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

BTW: 3,000 metres (or is it 2,700 metres - I can't put my finger on the exact number) is NOT a "small" airport - it's at least twice the length of any other non-PRC airport in the SCS. Pdfpdf (talk) 16:02, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. I have corrected the error regarding Paracel. Regarding the airport, the landing strip in woody island is small as per the classification of ICAO and FAA. I have added this qualifier in the wiki. The qualifier that you mention really does not make much sense - a small airport in the Antartica remains a small airport, even if it is the largest in Antartica. The airstrip on woody island is barely sufficient to land a small aircraft (the PRC managed one landing which was more of a "pride landing"). This landing strip is quiet similar to the ones on Lakshadweep (a small airport). Notthebestusername (talk) 02:59, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your Antartica analogy: Fair comment. Pdfpdf (talk) 09:33, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding "small": References saying that the airport can handle Boeing-737-sized aircraft and the PRC's fighter jets gave me the impression that it wasn't "small". Your comments now make me realise that I need to know more about the relative sizes of airports. I do reflect, however, that given that it's twice the length of any other non-PRC airport in the SCS, what are the other non-PRC airports? Tiny? No big deal. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 09:33, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - your comment led me to read up more which was the real fun part. I am also wondering if I should just change it to military air strip (one flight to it in 3 years really does not make it an airport...) - Thanks for pointing this out. Notthebestusername (talk) 09:41, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I find the topic of the PRC allowing "tourists" to visit the Paracels interesting - while it seems they're prepared to run cruise ships to the Crescent Group, they don't seem to want to run civilian flights (or cruise ships) to the Amphitrite Group. Like you, it seems to me that "military air strip" seems more appropriate, and I like your changes to Woody Island Airport. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 08:37, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pdfpdf Thanks. Notthebestusername (talk) 06:15, 28 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I reverted your edits at the Vishwas article because you're relying far too much on what he says about himself, which is not a good idea when he is a self-publicist. I'm also unsure about some of your changes, eg: you said that the recording that went viral was doctored, in which case why did he apologise when he'd done nothing wrong? The article has been subject to a massive amount of fancruft over the years and I'm afraid I don't think your changes were much better. We need reliable independent sources. - Sitush (talk) 14:59, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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