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World War I Air Service dates

I notice that you have been editing a large number of dates for actions affecting World War I Air Service units. However, you do not provide any WP:Reliable sources for your edits. In your recent edit to the 2d Pursuit Group, you not only changed a date, but removed the citation provided for the previous date in the article. For that reason, I have reverted your change. If you have a source for your change, please add a citation to that source. If a source is already given for the material you are changing, as was done in your edit to the 2d Pursuit Group, you should open a discussion on the talk page, note that there is a difference between sources, or if a previous editor has misused a source, include that in the comments accoumpanying your edit. --Lineagegeek (talk) 21:30, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

You are formally right but, I think, overreacting a bit… I do agree with the fact that the information must be properly sourced. Yet, we all know that most of the information on the American Air Services in France 1917-1919 comes from "Gorrell's Papers", so the numerous references to those 1000+-sheet papers on this page are almost useless, as the label "page needed" remind us. Now, if the reference stands for the whole section, all right, let us leave it… But for the information contained in the page, I shall change again the dates for the Belrain Airfield to 23 september 1918 – 11 December 1918, as the 2nd PG is said to be demobilized on 11 December 1918, consistent with the fact that all of its squadron had left Belrain on this date. More generally, I am trying the straighten the many discrepancies that I can find on the different pages published by Wiki on the Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, from the airfields' history point of view. Regards.Pf mary (talk) 13:47, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

I'd agree that general references to Gorrell, Col. Edgar S. (1974). History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917-1919. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. OCLC 215070705. don't help, but when the Series and Volume, including the titles of the series and volume are included (In this case, presumably Series C: Tactical Units, Vol. 10 History of the 2nd Pursuit Group, the material can more reasonable be located. However, leaving edits unreferenced leaves them open to being reverted, particularly if the edit removes a referenced date. --Lineagegeek (talk) 18:39, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

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