Talk:List of Korean War flying aces

message: I deleted the "ww2" kills because they are simply irrelevant here, and put shared kills as an add-on to the existing ones. Its not fair to add the "half" kill to a single kill, because its not the way the score is kept. Second: US pilots are the only ones to keep such a ridiculous score, instead os simply attributing the kill to whoever shot last. Same goes for "damaged" aircraft. A kill is a kill and everything else comes separately.
:: U.S. pilots do not keep score or award air to air victories, this is done only after interviews with witnesses and review of gun camera film. For your information the British also had partial kills.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.32.10.45 (talk) 22:30, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's subjective opinion. Do you have a book source to back it up? —Ed!(talk) 20:29, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted

message: James Risner is missing on the list, according to his article he is also a Korean War ace.
Beside he is known for his  stunt of trying to push his wingman's damaged Sabre home.
They used that on a episode of JAG.
Its described in a Time-Life book about Jetfighter and Bombers.--92.227.197.145 (talk) 09:58, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing 

message: The link to the article about ace William Westcott directs to the wrong guy. (A Brit with the same name who died in 1925.)
Feeling too lazy at the moment to edit it, but thought I'd bring it up.
D(r)ead End (talk) 18:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  William Westcott 

message: There are several notes with communist pilots' claims "acknowledged by USAF" and that kind of uses needs to be removed.
How can USAF "acknowledged" other country's pilots' claims?  It does not even know the dates, times, and locations of those adversaries' claims.  How could it "acknowledge" them?
For example, in the entry of Chinese pilot Wang Hai, it states "Although the US Air Force acknowledged Wang's nine victories, ....".  It is very misleading.  US Air Force has never acknowledged Wang Hai, nor even any foreign pilots' claims, because it is not of its business.  Also, as far as I know, PLAAF had never published the details of Wang Hai's claims but maintained that he shot down 4 UN aircraft and damaged 5.  Without the details (date, time, location, details of actions), how can USAF "acknowledge" non-verified claims?
We should remove those notes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhwang.us (talk • contribs) 05:30, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading use of "acknowledged" in several of the claims 

message: Nobody besides the Russians believes Nikolai Sutyagin got 22 kills, nor 20 either. Most none-Russian sources (both "Western" and others) highly doubt this number. Finnish aviation author and air battle expert Kalevi Keskinnen based on post-war registries and other proofs claims he had around 5, that it's possible they counted airplanes destroyed on the ground, which were included for propaganda purposes (it's well known both sides exaggerated the numbers, being the first real war of the Cold War). Leaving the table as it is, without even a comment, is misleading. Sutyagin was almost definitely not the top ace of the Korean war, and less of jet aviation (in this case it's an Israeli pilot with 17 kills confirmed both by Israel and Egypt). Kalevi Keskinnen also most probably never got 19 kills, it says that "most Western sources accredit him with more than 20", but actually most Western sources accredit him with far less. The reference to this is Mike Spick's book, but actually Spick makes it clear that the numbers may be way lower. In his book, Spick acknowledges the Israeli pilot as top ace of jet aviation, so both figures at once are impossible. Virum Mundi (talk) 12:32, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian kills 

message: User:瓜岛不是天堂，而是绿色的地狱 I have reverted your edits as vandalism. You have already been told that if a pilot did not score 5 or more aerial victories they are not an ace and do not belong on the page. Mztourist (talk) 06:32, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: * If you don't have WP:RS for 5 kills they don't belong on this page. Mztourist (talk) 03:04, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

text: I would add User:瓜岛不是天堂，而是绿色的地狱 when you restored Zhang Jihui to the list, you also removed the photo of the F-86 engaging the MiG-15. I strongly disagree with you doing that and you should have at least explained why you thought the removal was appropriate. HiFX (talk) 02:40, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: October 2023