Schmooey82

User talk:Schmooey82 Schmooey82 (talk) 04:45, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Billy Sing

Hello Schmooey82, thank you for your note regarding the Billy Sing article. When you click on the link you provided, the web page does indeed say "Chinese Australian WWI Exservicemen" at the top, but if you look at the enlistment dates on that first page, you will see several who enlisted in the 1930s or 1940s—well after World War I. If you take into account the Hui (2002) reference which says that around 400 Chinese-Australians served in 'the past 100 years' (as at 2002), it seems likely that the 530 people represent the whole of the 20th century rather than just World War I. Searching the list, you find Jack Wong Sue there, and he was born after World War I. There is also no mention of Billy Sing in the list, incidentally. For all these reasons, I consider that it would be inaccurate to use that list as a source to say that there were 530 Chinese-Australians serving in the ADF in World War I. On a different note, as you appear to be relatively new to Wikipedia, I have posted a welcome message with some useful links below. Welcome to Wikipedia, and I trust this helps. Janggeom (talk) 12:27, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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