User talk:GraemeLeggett/Archives/2022/August

L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle

Hello. There is no name such as "Rifle, 7.62 mm, L1A1 (SLR)" in the whole article. Main name in the lead, infobox and article name should be the same otherwise it's misleading. Variants should be explained in the lead in the sentence or eventually in the notes attached to the first name. Eurohunter (talk) 10:25, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

So? Eurohunter (talk) 14:42, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Template documentation says "name – the formal name of the weapon." GraemeLeggett (talk) 15:07, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Estonian Tanks.

Good day, Mr. Leggett. I see your most recent contribution to the article on the British Mark V offers as a citation Tiit Noormets; Mati Õun (1999). Eesti soomusmasinad. Soomusautod ja tankid 1918–1940 ISBN|9789985606926, and you say that your alteration is "Closer to what source says." Can I, therefore, take it that you have a copy of the book, or are you just rolling it over from previously? If the former, I should very much like to peruse it. RSVP. Kind regards, Hengistmate (talk) 15:30, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

@Hengistmate:. I somehow (I've been hunting through my webrowser history but not found it) got a preview of it online. Might have been the version on googlebooks. Might have been on another computer and therefore I'm looking in the wrong history. I looked at the related wikipages and on the estonian wiki and I'm sure I wasn't just copying text back from there but for moment I can't recall or locate whatever it was. GraemeLeggett (talk) 16:43, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

@GraemeLeggett:Thank you for your kind reply and for your advice. I managed to get some "snippet views" here: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Eesti_soomusmasinad/-v8xAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Eesti%20soomusmasinad.%20Soomusautod%20ja%20tankid%201918%E2%80%931940%20Tiit%20Noormets;%20Mati%20%C3%95un and, briefly, was able to "Look Inside", where, sadly, I noticed some old favourite howlers (CA1 stands for 'char d'assaut', for example) That doesn't fill me with confidence. And now I can't find that facility again. Anyway, please let me know if anything comes to mind. We might be able to able to produce a credible form of the Mark V article now that some disruptive editors appear to have lost interest or, perhaps, died. Hengistmate (talk) 14:20, 18 August 2022 (UTC)