Talk:Mad Mike Hoare

message: Multiple internet sources suggest he was born in 1919.
--93.107.199.105 (talk) 20:27, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth

message: "One mercenary had died during the skirmish"
What was the name of this mercenary ?
:Johan Fritz.  I added a little about him. --Jpbrenna 04:09, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of mercenary

message: Wasn't he known as 'Mad Mike Hoare'? - (Aidan Work 04:55, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nickname.

message: This article provides a number of useful facts. Still it is mainly a glorification of a mercenary. The passage mentioned above under "objectivity", and which contains some criticism of his conduct, has been removed from the article. --84.188.211.138 01:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: may I ask, if he was good at his job, "fought the good fight", etc, etc... what is the difference between mercenary and soldier?  the fact that he fought for a country other than his own is a silly thing to base a view of someone on... George Washington would not qualify as a decent man then, neither would several other key players in history.
Although the US link to Diego Garcia is eminently plausible, I am not aware of any sources which back this up. Anyone know? If not, we should remove it. --Magicmike 02:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: Is it true that Mad Mike Hoare was a qualified chartered accountant? Thanks in advance for any info.
PeadarMaguidhir 07:26, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: yes, he was. and quiet a prolific writer to boot.
I haven't been able to find anything concrete to back this up (apart from a vague reference to the December 1980 Accountancy magazine disciplinary pages), but I recall hearing from an accountancy lecturer that Mad Mike was only thrown out of the ICAEW because he was in prison so couldn't pay his annual fees. In other words, they couldn't touch him for any of the "other stuff"! 86.140.171.105 08:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Careers 

message: I really don't think that the radio personality Mike Webb is the same as the mercenary, and I removed the link.Grant McKenna 09:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mike Webb

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 23:57, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: *Hoare agreed to fight for Mancham . 
*When attempting the military deposition, Hoare and the others were disguised as a beer drinking fraternity, the "Ancient Order of Frothblowers", arriving in a Royal Swazi jet on Mahé, and carrying their own weapons; nine mercenaries (Hoare's advance guard) were already in the island on the evening of 25 November 1981. 
* South Africa negotiated [Four of the mercenary soldiers' (convicted of treason)] release with a $3 million ransom payment.  
*Throughout his trial Hoare insisted that his operation had been blessed by the South African government: I see South Africa as the bastion of civilisation in an Africa subjected to a total Communist onslaught... I foresee myself in the forefront of this fight for our very existence; he was released in 1985. 
Please do not return this information to the artilce without a citation.--BirgitteSB 19:34, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  contested statements removed 

message: Hoare as in "rhymes with whore"? I image him punching a lot of people in the face if that is not the right pronounciation ;-)
Maybe someone with a little bit knowledge of Irish can help?
:Yep.  That's the correct pronunciation. 89.204.195.129 (talk) 21:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to pronounce the family name 

message: Since he was a commender of the ANC 5 Commando, should Mike Hoare be included in the :Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo military personnel? On the other hand, it was only a figleaf to hide foreign intervention.
--Jean Po (talk) 22:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should he be considerated as a DRC Army officer? 

message: I undid the good faith edit by user talk:Quisqualis because we need to retain the red-link to 5 Commando to encourage editors to create such a page (see [Tasks - African Military History].  Because we already have a 5 Commando page on Wikipedia (Royal Marines) we need to add "ANC [Armée Nationale Congolaise] for disambiguation purposes.  If ANC is ambiguous because of the South African political organisation, we can use any other unique and appropriate suffix.  Recommendations are welcome.  Farawayman (talk) 12:05, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  5 Commando ''Armée Nationale Congolaise''