User:PlanespotterA320

PlanespotterA320
PlanespotterA320
Born	20th or 21st Century; United States of America
Allegiance	Wikiproject Aviation
Service/branch	WikiProject Intertranswiki
Years of service	2015-present
Rank	Senior Editor
Commands held	Soviet Aviation Task Force
Battles/wars	Anglo-Russowiki content gap
Awards	Editor of the Week; Honoured Editor of the Encyclopedia; The Original Barnstar; The Women in Red Barnstar; The Barnstar of Diligence

I created this account in December 2015, but didn't start writing articles until a bit later. In terms of editing philosophy, I am a preservationist - just because something isn't heavily written about in English on the internet does NOT mean the it's not notable. And unfortunately, lots of topics that significantly exceed our notability requirements do not have articles simply due to the lack of English-language internet coverage.

If you want to make yourself very useful, help find the originals to some of these pre-1946 newspaper clippings. I hope to find better quality versions of the public-domain images to add to commons. And please do sign this photo request petition.

List of books I need

I need page numbers for certain quotes from the following books to include in citations, since the online previews that show some parts of a book rarely include page numbers. The list is in order of importance.

Dospanova, Khiuaz (1960). Под командованием Расковой: воспоминания военного летчика (in Russian). Alma-Ata: Kazgoslitizdat. OCLC 7366140. (for biography of Khiuaz Dospanova)
Butaev, Buta (2005). Амет-хан Султан [Amet-khan Sultan]. Moscow: Patriot. ISBN 5703009227. OCLC 61488566.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) (for biography of Amet-khan Sultan)

Books I have that you might need

Need the page numbers for a specific section of a book? Or need to confirm if something cited from a book is actually stated in it? Feel free to ask about these books:

Besschetnov, Yevgeny (2000). Звезды в ладонях: документальная повесть о дважды герое Советского Союза Амет-хане Султане (in Russian). Simferopol: КАЖН. ISBN 5778005261. OCLC 76815419.
Boyne, Walter J. (2002). Air Warfare: An International Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576073452. OCLC 437169920.
Cottam, Kazimiera (1998). Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. ISBN 1585101605. OCLC 228063546.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Mellinger, George (2003). LaGG & Lavochkin aces of World War 2. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841766097. OCLC 52921027.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Noggle, Anne (1994). A Dance With Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0890966028.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Sakaida, Henry, (2003). Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941-45. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841765988. OCLC 51779412.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Bykov, Mikhail (2014). Все асы Сталина. 1936 - 1953 гг (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza. ISBN 978-5-9955-0712-3. OCLC 879321002.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Simonov, Andrey; Chudinova, Svetlana (2017). Женщины - Герои Советского Союза и России. Moscow: Russian Knights Foundation, Museum of Technology V. Zadorozhny. ISBN 9785990960701. OCLC 1019634607.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Simonov, Andrey; Bodrikhin, Nikolai (2017). Боевые лётчики — дважды и трижды Герои Советского Союза. Moscow: Фонд «Русские Витязи», Музей техники Вадима Задорожного. ISBN 9785990960510. OCLC 1005741956.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Shkadov, Ivan (1987). Герои Советского Союза: краткий биографический словарь I, Абаев - Любичев. Moscow: Voenizdat.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Shkadov, Ivan (1988). Герои Советского Союза: краткий биографический словарь II, Любовь - Яшчук. Moscow: Voenizdat.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Seidov, Igor (2010). Советские асы корейской войны. Moscow: Фонд содействия авиации «Русские витязи». OCLC 970400945.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Yevstigneev, Vladimir; Sinitsyn, Andrey (1965). Люди бессмертного подвига: очерки о дважды героях Советского Союза (in Russian). Moscow: Politizdat. OCLC 619061954.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Zhukova, Lyudmila (2005). Выбираю таран. Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya. ISBN 5235028244. OCLC 609322789.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Zilmanovičius, Dmitrijus (1979). Jakovas Smuškevičius (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Mintis. OCLC 9897068.
Женщины Кавказа. Фотографии, живопись, скульптура, графика. Moscow: Фортуна ЭЛ. ISBN 5958200542. OCLC 643120881.

Pillars of my editing philosophy

Few or no google results in English DOES NOT EQUAL non-notable topic.
A secondary source is no good if it contradicts all primary sources and other secondary sources.
WP:DUH! - The statement "So-and-so was featured on a (value) postage stamp of (country)" does not merit a "citation needed" tag when an image of that exact stamp is in that section of the article.
Barnstars should be for users who correct inaccuracies in articles, create and/or find needed photos+multimedia, expand stubs, copyedit poorly-written translations, and write new articles on topics that merit coverage. Issuing them for things like creating redirects, assessing articles, categorization, and humor devalues the awards and over-values less important editing.
Yes, it's OK to put a translated article template inside a talkpage WikiProject banner shell.
If the only freely-licenced photo(s) of someone or something is absolutely useless for the purposes of the article (ie, if it is de minimis, far too damaged to be restored to a point of usefulness for visual recognition, or doesn't show their face from an angle sufficient for recognition), fair-use is OK.
Do not redlink topics that will not meet notability requirements; this will confuse the newbies a lot.
The phrase "Lyalya Nasukhanova was the first Chechen woman pilot" clearly means that she was the first woman of Chechen ethnicity to become a pilot. It should NOT be changed to "Lyalya Nasukhanova was the first woman pilot of Chechen decesent", because that changes the meaning to implying she only had some Chechen heritage. Flipping out over the phrase "Lyalya Nasukhanova was the first Chechen woman pilot" over perception that it somehow secretly means she was the first woman pilot in a fictional independent Chechenya is silly. (This didn't happen to Lyalya Nasukhanova's article, but a nearly identical situation happened to a different article)
"Translated from Russian Wikipedia" at the bottom of a page is NOT a substitute for in-line citations. WP:CIRCULAR forbids sourcing just from other Wikipedias without checking real sources.

Pet peeves

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Please take your racist bullshit to Yaplakal and leave us alone.

Aviator biographies with heavily inflated tallies of aerial victories that go against the broad consensus of sources (please consult the 2014 book Все асы Сталина. 1936 - 1953 гг by Mikhail Bykhov for info, NOT the 1999 Stalin's Falcons: The Aces of the Red Star "encyclopedia" by Polak and Shores with numerous errors)
When people use a crappy image for an infobox when better images exist
Giving equal weight to repeatedly debunked fringe concepts and their counterparts
Crappy copy-paste machine translations being put in the mainspace without copyediting
Inconsistent romanization within an article
People who have never added any text content to an article taking a hardline stance on the formatting of said article.
When people write "Translated from (language) Wikipedia" at the bottom of a Wikipedia article instead of using the proper translated page template on the talkpage.

Articles I've created:

Aviation:

Soviet military biographies

Victims of Extremism & Prisoners of Conscience

Khans of Kokand

Other

Articles I've significantly improved:

Templates I use a lot

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{{Aviation accidents and incidents in YEAR}}

My Awards

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of the quality of your work. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions relating to aviation. Keep up the good work. Hope you will spot more of these. Thanks, Greenbörg (talk) 15:22, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

	Honoured Editor of the encyclopedia
	For your great devotion and contributions on Wikipedia TheMightyGeneral (talk) 15 January 2018

	The Women in Red barnstar
	I am sure you have one of these already? If not you deserve one! Great work on Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, Antonina Zubkova, Yelena Stempkovskaya and all of the others - Dumelow (talk) 01:19, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For your contributions on Heroes of the Soviet Union, especially on the lists of recipients and creation of new articles Kges1901 (talk) 21:51, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For your source note on "Stalin's Falcons" and its errors.. Buckshot06 (talk) 08:06, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

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