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Thanks for the partial revert. I'm a scientist, and I'm sure we were trained to put citations before the punctuation. I guess I'm one of the editors who prefer the style of journals such as Nature, which place references before punctuation, which seems to me to be a much more logical place for them. But I'd begun to notice that much of wikipedia does it the other way, and so I re-checked WP:CITE (actually before I found your revert) and discovered I'd misread the policy last time around (wishful thinking I guess?) While I still prefer the "other" way, I agree consistency is paramount, so I came to revert my edits and found you'd already done it.
I don't agree however that "returned ... again" is redundant. He actually returned to Britain twice, first from Sudan and secondly from Australia (presumably, although the text doesn't actually say explicitly that he went; it's very easy to misread RAAF as RAF and wonder how he can be returning when he's already here - if you see what I mean). As it stands, the article has two almost consecutive sentences which both effectively begin "After returning to Britain, ....". I felt that this didn't read well and was potentially confusing. Adding "again" seemed the simplest way to emphasise that he was returning for the second time. However, I not that fussed about it, so if you prefer the article as it is, or can suggest an alternative way to clarify it, then that's OK with me.
Also, in many articles, I've noticed a certain lack of consistency with commas. Here we have "After returning to Britain (no comma) Drummond...." and "Returning to Britain, he ...." I think the comma is correct in both places. Any thoughts? -- Romney yw ( talk) 10:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have elected to review this article against the Good Article criteria and should have my initial comments posted up within the next few hours. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. ( talk) 05:07, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
The following a just simply suggestions for article improvement, and are not required for GA.
Cheers, Abraham, B.S. ( talk) 06:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Bryce, re. your point on the kills figure, I think you're probably right - the ADB figure may even be a case of the author doing what we would term original research, i.e. reading 8 victories including 1 shared (as made explicit in The Aerodrome's list) and deducing a final figure of 7½. It's a bit different to the Stanley Goble case, where we have only two sources that can't clearly be reconciled. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 05:09, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I find it a bit puzzling that the prior editor checking for dead links couldn't fetch it up at http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Drummond.htm. If I could decipher the cites affected, I would correct them. If someone more skilled could oblige the readers...?
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