# Talk:Maurice Buckley (RNZAF officer)

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Nominator: Zawed (talk · contribs) 09:19, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 15:04, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

File:Maurice Buckley.jpg I seriously doubt that this 80-year-old photo was taken by the uploader
Yep, have replaced with a crop from the last photo used in this article. Zawed (talk) 10:33, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
File:Canterbury Aviation Company's airmail service, 1920s (27827696489).jpg The photo's description on Commons says that Buckley is in the center
Nah, the caption is wrong. Buckley is definitely the one with two eyebrows. Another image with identifying information for the monobrow chap can be found here. Zawed (talk) 10:33, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
Last photo is properly licensed
Have replaced this one since I ended up using a crop from it for the infobox. Zawed (talk) 10:33, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
Do you know which squadron of the RNAS he was assigned to?
No, unfortunately the sources are pretty light on his WWI service. Zawed (talk) 10:33, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
Why did Buckley get the OBE as a flight-lieutenant?
Have added a little extra from one of the main sources used. Even though 'just' a flight lieutenant, this would have been more because promotion opportunities were thin on the ground in NZ in the 1930s Zawed (talk) 10:33, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
Do you know if his ill-health prevented him from commanding front-line combat units after leaving 75 Sqdn?
Not stated in the sources, but I think it would have been more his experience being needed back in NZ. Possibly age was a factor as well.
I would suggest actually naming his wife and when they got married. And specify that he had a daughter and a son.
Have added the requested details wife/children.
--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:04, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66: thanks for the review, much appreciated. I have responded with comments above. Thanks, Zawed (talk) 10:33, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
I'd advise not relying on the Hobsonville Point source for the biographical detail if possible. Its a commercial organisation meant to sell property and I've noticed issues with factual accuracy on their website, although nothing specifically related to this. The website references it being assisted by the author of 75 (NZ) Squadron and I'd suggest that as a more reliable source for the article. Hobsonville – Portrait of a Seaplane Station may also contain some information on Buckley. (This isn't a formal GA comment or anything) Traumnovelle (talk) 00:10, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Otago didn't exist in 1895. Seacliffs was administratively part of Waikouaiti County. The infobox person template says to use settlement, administrative region, and then country. I don't mind if the administrative region is removed but including Otago is an anachronism that we should not use, even if sources make that mistake. Traumnovelle (talk) 07:36, 31 August 2025 (UTC)