Talk:Battle of Changsha (1944)

message: This article needs a major cleanup. I'm don't have a wikipeida account, so I can't do it myself. Firstly, the grammar needs some work. It looks like it's fresh out of some translator software, and some parts are particularly hard to understand.  Secondly, the infobox says it was a Chinese victory.  Tell me if I'm wrong, but if you read the article, it implies it was a very costly, maybe even pyhrric Japanese victory. It says the Japanese captured the city and a top Chinese general named Zhang De-neng. From what I see, the Japanese completed their objectives in the end, while at a high cost. The Chinese, while able to maintain guerilla forces in the countryside, ultimatly failed to hold the city.  I don't know about anyone else, but that does NOT constitue a Chinese victory to me. It does say in the aftermath that the Japanese refused any plans to take more Chinese territory, that the Wang Jiwei government's priviliges were useless, and during the final Japanese push to Zhijiang and the Japanese troops being wiped out by the Chinese National Guard, etc. but those events happened AFTER the conclusion of this battle and therefore irrelevant to the result of the battle.  And lastly, it says that this battle was "This was also the only battle where Japanese casualties was higher than the Chinese during the entire war". But in the infobox, it puts Japanese casualties at 25000, with 20,000 of those at Hengyang. But the Chinese casualties are put at 67,000. If there are an unknown number of other Japanese casualties, then it should say so in the infobox, as it is very misleading otherwise. If someone could adress these issues, that would be great. Another source might be helpful, too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.92.166 (talk) 08:36, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major cleanup 

message: I am in the process of adding a great deal of material and references to the page Defense of Hengyang.  I also want to change the name to the more standard “Battle of Hengyang”, and I was looking at what other pages have links to it.  I noticed many issues with the Battle of Changsha page: 
The Info given in the info box is a series of strange mismatches between two battles.  It should pertain to the Battle of Changsha and not include the Battle of Hengyang.  
It is not correct to say that it is “also known as the Battle of Hengyang or Campaign of Changsha-Hengyang”.  The Battle of Hengyang and Battle of Changsha are 2 different battles fought in different places at different times, both of which are part of the Changsha-Hengyang Campaign. 
The page is under the title of the Battle of Changsha of 1944, yet oddly, there is no discussion of the Changsha battle at all.   
The section Battle of Hengyang should be eliminated as this battle has its own page. 
The section Aftermath should relate to the Changsha battle not to the Hengyang battle.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sgrmfox (talk • contribs) 20:51, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested revisions 

message: The photo which is said to belong to IJA troops seem to be NRA troops, those uniforms do not look Japanese, and the soldier seem to be firing a BAR? 120.21.152.106 (talk) 08:02, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese troops photo