Talk:Léo Major

message: So what;s the standard or threshold for citations? Can we remove the "needs citations" warning? Thndrbkt (talk) 21:45, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

message: The page used to be a big copyvio from the Ottawa Citizen.  I have replaced that text without doing it justice.  Someone should go to the trouble to expand the article using the source. NickelShoe 18:16, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference

message: I came accross the article by accident. I have rephrased it and wikified in a way that (a) matches most wikipedia artices and (b)does justice to a very great hero. It is a great story. Mike33 06:08, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Why does the article stipulate that Léo Major is a "Montrealer" !!? I tried to change this to French Canadian, and it was changed back. It usual in biographical articles to stipulate the nationality of the personnality (here Léo Major), and "Montrealer" does not constitute a nationality ,whatsoever. Never did, never will. The french article says that Léo was born in New Bedford (he moved to Quebec when he was 2 or 3 years old IIRC) and that he died in Longueuil... How on earth do these facts make him a "Montrealer" ? I suspect here at play the age-old anglo-saxon tradition of negating the french or french-canadian ethnic background of anyone who does anything notable, grandiose, courageous, ingenious, etc... The guy was french-canadian, just deal with it.
Not only was the guy a war hero, he is the quintessential war-hero, a real-life rambo, the kind of hero americans can only dream of in Hollywood scenarios. He is the Maurice Richard of the soldatesque, with the blood of Normand kings running through his veins. And you are orangist dogs.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.28.70.222 (talk) 22:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Montrealer" 

message: Seems a little unlikely. Can we get the source on this one checked? Provided it's not impossible. I mean, we all know that story of the crazy Scottsman who went to World War II with a bow and a broadsword.
--98.229.36.30 (talk) 03:50, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  93 captured Germans and no citation? 

message: I don't know where the author got their information to assert that Major "was one of only three Canadian soldiers to be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal." But, the assertion is just silly.  I admit that I cannot find the reference now (hence I cannot in good faith alter the entry), but I am quite confident that there were 2,132 Canadian recipients of the DCM (covering the Boer War, WWI, WWII, and Korea).
My great-great uncle received the DCM during WWI. No, I don't have it. But, I've held it...hence my knowledge of its history.  I am sure that he was not simply one of three Canadians to have received it. As a peruse through the June, 1918 edition of the London Gazette where my relative is mentioned, I can find a couple of other Canadians mentioned for the DCM. Thus, it's not hard to validate.
In the pre-1993 days, the DCM was known among Canadian soldiers as the "Near-Miss Victoria Cross." Take a look at the list of Canadians who received the Victoria Cross. Should we really believe that more Canadians received the Victoria Cross than its second-place cousin?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryceman98 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems somewhat unlikely, I've added a citation needed by the claims. The article claims that only 3 distinct people won the medal, yet he managed to win it twice, that seems super unlikely. Unfortunately, most of the article lacks citations, so there could be a lot of these type of things. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:58, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a source that lists 5 other soldiers, so 6 total Canadians, receiving the DCM as of 21 August 1945. I will edit the claim to reflect this and add citation Thndrbkt (talk) 18:47, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  DCM Factual Error 

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message: This whole article seems to have been written by an over-enthusiastic thirteen year-old who has very badly extracted certain things from the sources.
Rubbish like 'running with his machine gun' and the hill 'was very strategic' are but two examples.
(Or is carrying a weapon like a Vickers what is actually meant? And is 'very strategic' merely trying to give an indication of the hill's importance?)
I came upon this article by chance. I hope I do not have to return to it until it has been substantially improved. 
It needs it.
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thread_title:  Yuck 

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message: An article of a soldier, and doesn't even mention his rank in the info section. I'd no clue if the man is even an officer or a enlisted, considering that in the body it talks about "ordering a sherman tank to fire".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kalle-Erik Vähäkylä (talk • contribs) 11:01, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of rank 

message: New Documentary on the life of Leo Major in French. 
Dont know if the link will stay or if it will be translated to English
Léo Major : le fantôme borgne
*Added archive https://ici.tou.tv/leo-major-le-fantome-borgne/S01E01 
Lavabo pq (talk) 14:35, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links Added

message: What is the source for the Nazi army’s size and casualties? If anyone can give one it will be appreciated. CanadianSingh1469 (talk) 05:11, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded. Neocorelight (Talk) 06:29, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source