Talk:Second Battle of Passchendaele

message: I have uploaded a number of historical photographs from Library and Archives Canada a well as a number of paintings done by official war artists during the campaign. I thought this might improve the variety of quality historical images available to the article.Labattblueboy (talk) 09:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commons Images 

message: I  am in the midst of expanding the article and improving the quality of the cited sources in hopes of getting it to GA quality. Any help  would be appreciated.Labattblueboy (talk) 23:19, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improve to GA 

message: *Common spelling used in cited sources, to match the current campaign name: Battle of Passchendaele.  --Labattblueboy (talk) 09:42, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: Found a home for the preliminary operations excised from 1st Pass and synchronised section titles. Keith-264 (talk) 09:58, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alterations 

message: * 
:Cleaned up using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ucucha/HarvErrors Keith-264 (talk) 12:46, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unlinked reference 

message: Your cuts to the additions I made look like they keep the sense of the new material, while returning the balance of the article closer to what it was, which I agree makes sense for the page, although it seems to me that they were part of an operation originally intended to go as far as Westroozebeke, rather than stop at Passchendaele. Diversion of the Germans from the Malmaison and Cambrai attacks also seem to be part of a whole in late October-December, so the subsidiary/minor attacks on the flanks are more significant in my reading of the material (the 63rd Division night attacks achieved more than the bigger day operations of 26 and 30 October, which may have infuenced the subsequent operation of 2/3 December) which is to say they were part of one operation not coincidental to the CC attacks. If you look at maps for the end of the advance, the northern flank moved forward as well as the central area around Passchendaele. The balance of sources contemporary with us does somewhat emphasise the Canadian Corps operations though, which the page should reflect. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/3188/ (A moonlight massacre: the night operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917) may help when it's out in July. I don't mind you pruning to the "subsequent operations" section to rebalance the article, since my descriptive style isn't to everyone's taste.Keith-264 (talk) 07:49, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pruning 

message: Added a little detail from the RND history - casualties and operations.Keith-264 (talk) 17:46, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  RND 

message: "Moving troops to the front ahead of the attack was nonetheless extremely difficult as the only means of approaching the front line were narrow boardwalks made of wood planking which wound between the shell-holes. Slipping off the duckboards could often be deadly with unfortunate soldiers frequently drowning in mud under the weight of their own equipment."
Does the source define frequently? Given the number of soldiers I would have thought that drowning was one of the lesser risks they ran, certainly less likely than being killed by artillery and gunshots. Are we not straying into the arena of legend about Ypres rather than a rare danger which occurred elsewhere like the Ancre valley in late 1916-early 1917?Keith-264 (talk) 21:37, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mud 

message: Found a source at last and have been able to add a brief narrative of operations on the northern flank of the battlefront. Does anyone think there's now enough material to split the page?Keith-264 (talk) 15:49, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The addition of the subsidiary elements of the offensive is certainly helpful. I've had a look though and made some copy edits, but it generally looks like a good addition. There is no need to split, the topic isn't large enough. If it comes to it, we'd just have to summarize content more concisely.--Labattblueboy (talk) 02:24, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

text: Blammed a few typos and concur with your pruning. Actually the split suggestion was a compromise as I'd do four pages, one for each operation....;O) http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/metadata/AC01858814/1/LOG_0000/;jsessionid=066469642B476E3C81BA6F936B44AB65 The German Official History is online here, which can be deciphered with a translator (albeit somewhat eccentrically) so I hope to glean a few snippets from the other side of the hill.Keith-264 (talk) 07:56, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ruquoy is the only detail I've been able to find about Rucquoy/Ruquoy.Keith-264 (talk) 08:34, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Franco-Belgian operations 

message: Added a sub-heading (as I wasn't sure how casualties have been recorded on this page) for data gleaned from Der Weltkrieg. Feel free to copy-edit as usual.Keith-264 (talk) 13:55, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Added casualty figures for the Second and Fifth armies (from weekly returns "including wastage"). Think Wolff may have only counted the battle days.Keith-264 (talk) 23:11, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casualties 

message: *  Keith-264 (talk) 06:47, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New source 

message: Revised the preliminary operations section now that the operations of 22 October article is complete. Keith-264 (talk) 22:18, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Cut Polderhoek 3 December to a see also as above.Keith-264 (talk) 22:39, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

text: Finished the edits to subsequent operations.Keith-264 (talk) 11:31, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  22 Oct 

message: Checked sources and amended a few details, swapped to efn for simplicity, cut a dupe wikilink, ce where the passage had a green line (mostly mine) and misc tidy ups.Keith-264 (talk) 23:32, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  CE 

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message: Tidied prose, transposed the 63rd and 58th divisions checked the French section.Keith-264 (talk) 14:50, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
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