Wolfhound63

June 2019

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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 18:31, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalise Wikipedia, as you did at United States Army uniforms in World War II, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. User:122.108.183.105 19:27, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Tried to fix a bad article.

This article has extensive inaccuracies. I added sourced edits in the first section since there were many inaccuracies and there were of course no sources for that section at all.

To illustrate the point I will list the inaccuracies of the "Class B" section alone. Except for the first chapter which is now corrected the rest of the chapters are just as bad.

The A,B,C,D uniforms in the article are just totally made up. The fact A and B are modern terms is stated but there wasn't then or now a C or D in the U.S. Army. What is given does not even correspond with USMC A B C D uniforms.

1. The campaign hat could be worn with any uniform.

2. Spread Collar refers to a very wide opening for the tie. The Army shirt was not a spread collar type.

3. Rank was not worn on officer's shirt shoulder straps to "prevent snipers". Prior to 1942 the U.S. pin was worn on the right shirt collar and the branch insignia on the left with rank on the shoulder straps if the shirt was being worn as an outer garment. In 1942 this was changed so the rank was removed from the shoulder straps and the U.S. was replaced by the rank on the right collar point.

4. Enlisted personnel did not wear insignia disks on their shirts in WWII. That was a post war development.

5. Enlisted branch of service disks were not worn on the garrison "overseas" cap.

6. Enlisted service stripes were indeed authorized on service shirt sleeves.

The photo of Donald Prell, while I'm sure chosen to honor a WWII veteran shows a blue infantry cord which was not created until the Korean War era. It is also being worn with armored branch insignia which would not be authorized at any time in the U.S. Army. Although I sympathize with the desire to use a WWII vet's photo it's not an accurate WWII uniform example for the purpose of this article.

I could go on but you get the point. This is but one small section. Most of these are easily sourced in the U.S. Army WWII uniform regulations. I am willing to fix the errors but the edit will be very extensive virtually eliminating whole chapters and adding others.

Please give me feedback if you think an administrator will allow me to correct this with well sourced material or at least put in a disputed notice.

Thank you very much,

Wolfhound63 Wolfhound63 (talk) 14:22, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Wolfhound63:! First off, thanks for trying to improve Wikipedia. I (and a couple of other editors, User:Wtmitchell, User:Garuda28 and bot User:ClueBot NG) reverted your edits for a couple of reasons:

• • You removed large bodies of text without an edit summary ([1], [2], [3]). They were reverted as it is a very common form of vandalism.
  • Some of your edits did not include sources ([4], [5])

I'd recommend adding (sourced) replacement text in the same edit when you remove blocks of text and adding edit summaries. Once again, thanks for helping Wikipedia. :)

–Majavah (talk) 16:59, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

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