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Your addition to one of my articles on the german Wikipedia



Hi.
Please excuse my not too good english....
You added a talk topic regarding one of my latest articles (Liste der Kettenfahrzeuge der Kaiserlich-Japanischen Streitkräfte = List of Imperial Japanese Forces tracked vehicles) to my personal talk page at the german Wikipedia earlier this week. Thx for that. I tried to reply in english and also added all to the talk page of the article.

There are many articles on Wikipedia Germany and England plus picture descriptions on Wikimedia Commons that do collide with the results of my researches on japanese military force during the last years. It seems that many western authors during the last 75 years mainly used wartime and postwar US intelligence and/or military sources (most of them because they had nothing else...). But these are full of mistakes and/or wrong conclusions. At the moment I mainly use japanese sources like the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) online archives and japanese books even if my japanese is very bad. Nevertheless this already gave me a lot of additional informations and I had to revoke many of the things I was sure to know.
Yours Thomas aka Mastertom211 (talk) 02:41, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
:Thomas: thanks for the reply. I replied on your German Wikipedia talk page. I have found that the good WP:RS ↗ sources in English or otherwise, use much more than the wartime and post-war US military sources for published information. Certainly, the ones I have used over the last 11 years of working on Japanese AFV and tanks, do so. And I do use Japanese sources, as well. At any rate, as I noted, I am going out of town and will not be able to edit in any real degree until I return. I hate trying to do any detailed replies or editing by my mobile phone. You can email me, if you wish. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 18:05, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Enthusiastic experiments? What's that?



I suspect that it is a typo for "euthanistic" experiments. The experiments that are mentioned in the following paragraph. Perhaps you might reconsider your revision ↗. If it refers to euthanasia ↗, than it need not be mentioned in this paragraph, if it is elaborated in length in the next. Wuselig (talk) 21:17, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
:Thanks BMK. I tweaked the sentence to read better. Kierzek (talk) 01:17, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!


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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society


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I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the '''Fifteen Year Society ↗''', an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. &#x200B;

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:I accept. Thank you, Kierzek (talk) 17:23, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks, its been a while. Kierzek (talk) 14:48, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

German WP


Hello Kierzek eventually i have seen some edits of you in german WP. Perhaps this can make you happy as a present for your work ...
Best regards Ｔｏｍ (talk) 09:20, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
:Thanks, Ｔｏｍ. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 14:30, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
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::You are very welcome dear Kierzek, even if you do not know all friends of your work. Concerning japanese tecnical interests take this translation ↗ + or the original in :de:Militärische Kettenlaufwerke bis 1945 (Kaiserlich Japanische Streitkräfte) ↗ as an inspriration, for which i had the chance to support mastertom211 some time ago. Once again pls. receive thanks for your work which boosts the knowledge about japanese military history. BTW eventually you might read Diederichs's stone ↗ some of the remains might still occur in Japan. <small>(i have also worked on this, because my grandfather was in german marine infantry in tsingtao)</small> Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 12:52, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

:Tom: thank you for the kind note. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 14:20, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Yeoman's work



@Kierzek: A simple "thank you" notification would be woefully insufficient to recognize your yeoman's effort at correcting the multitude of articles recently corrupted by an inexperienced (and now thankfully "retired") editor. It is certainly a daunting task to manually edit all those records. My hat is off to you for undertaking this most tedious task. It is a reflection of the care, dedication and vigilance that you continuously bring to Wikipedia. You are owed a debt of gratitude by many. Gratefully yours. Historybuff0105 (talk) 19:08, 18 May 2025 (UTC)
:Thanks. It is going to take me over a week to finish. What a pain, but so be it. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 14:19, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
:I have finished. If you find I missed any, Historybuff0105, please correct them. Thanks, Kierzek (talk) 17:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Otto Skorzeny


I had a look at the sourcing and referencing, I tried to very the existing sources, mostly online, searched for isbn and oclc numbers, not changing content of the article. To date, I could not verify many sources and references. Frequently, page numbers are missing. I might have another look, but the Waffen-SS is outside of my area of expertise, and interest, sorry MisterBee1966 (talk) 15:54, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
:Thanks for the time and effort. Kierzek (talk) 16:40, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

The World Destubathon ↗


Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It will be held from Monday June 16 - Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help towards making the content produced as diverse and broad as possible!♦ <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span> 13:02, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
:Thank you for the consideration, Dr. Blofeld. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to put into a large undertaking, but will see if there is some minor additions I can do. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 05:20, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Joyous Season


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Diannaa, thank you for the warm holiday wishes. And I hope the holiday season is good for you, as well.🎄 Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 18:04, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

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:Thank you. It’s been a long road since 27/2/09. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 13:02, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas ↗


You are invited to participate in the '''Destubathon of the Americas ↗''', a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span> 17:10, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

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