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Hello,
Please pardon my nitpicking.
In my research for information about scoring aerial victories, I discovered that two victory scores were kept. The individual victory scores could credit a single downed plane to as many as a dozen individual attackers. However, that same victory would be scored as one added to the unit's victory list. Therefore, while some individual scores were inflated, the unit score was (purportedly) more accurate.
I hate to offer even such slight discouragement as this to someone who is pitching a staggering amount of energy into developing this list. Keep up the fabulous work.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 20:44, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, again,
It occurred to me after noting the above, that there are a couple of other items you may not know and may foul you up.
1. Some "Canadian" pilots were born in such places as Mississippi and Detroit. They avoided swearing allegiance to King George V, as was required of the native-born Canadians. They were just good old American boys sneaking into the war before their country decided to fight.
2. Beware when dealing with the Lafayette Escadrille. The French numbering system(?) for their WWI squadrons is devious; they usually changed the aircraft designator within the name after re-equipping their squadrons—except for the occasion when they changed the number also. The Lafayette Escadrille's designation upon dissolution was Escadrille N.124, signifying they used Nieuports. The French promptly formed a replacement squadron armed with Spads, and numbered it Escadrille SPA.124. This unit still survives in the French Air Force. So does another Escadrille N.124; darned if I know where that originated. List of French Air Force aircraft squadrons may be of interest to you.
Hope I didn't bore you with this. Again, keep up the great work. Georgejdorner ( talk) 03:50, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Helo, once more,
http://www.theaerodrome.com/index.php is a very handy tool, though there is no consensus on using it as anything other than a second reference in some cases. It is written by a cadre of aviation historians that includes authors of both Grub Street and Osprey Publishing aviation history texts. Many pages in the website have their parent texts noted at the bottom.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 20:35, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
I know it's a list, but I wanted to add a little more than just a list of aces. It's shaping up now to more of a quick overview for each individual, and after a little more tweaking, should be finished. Leaving all the details and narrative to the individual pages that it links to. Not planning on doing a lot more with those other than some minor formatting changes, and adding a photo of the individual to their article, although some of the individuals either didn't have a page or had at most a line or two of information about them. For those I've created or added more information as they are notable and worthy of an article that could later be expanded. Bwmoll3 ( talk) 23:51, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
This article contains extensive citations to theaerodrome.com, which was determined as being ""generally unreliable"" by RfC on the WP:RSN (see archived discussion). Rather than spam 150+ inline maintenance tags (or just nuke the refs), I've marked the whole article with {{Unreliable sources}}. I hope someone more knowledgeable than me can work through this, either finding reliable sources for the data, or alternatively removing unsourceable entries. - Ljleppan ( talk) 09:54, 30 December 2021 (UTC)