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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by PBS (talk | contribs) at 11:24, 17 May 2009 (→Precursors to the dehousing paper). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Precursors to the dehousing paper

From the history of the article:

  • 20:58, 10 July 2008 Mugs2109 (→Contemporary debate, Dehousing and Singleton Report: The dehousing report was in response to the Area bombing directive vagueness, not the Butt report)
  • 21:11, 10 July 2008 Philip Baird Shearer (reverted. The reference is at the end of the paragraph see Longmate-126.)
  • 21:19, 10 July 2008 10 July 2008 Mugs2109 (Changed Longmate opinion/POV to a historical fact)

Mugs2109, you have shown your personal opinion "The dehousing report was in response to the Area bombing directive vagueness, not the Butt report" do you have a source for that? In my opinion the 21:11, 10 July edit by you was an attempt to reinsert that POV in a slightly different format. We are allowed to use reliable secondary sources include such points of view, such as Longmate's that you dismiss with the statment "Changed Longmate opinion/POV" (See WP:V). While it is an historic fact that "After the Butt report and Area bombing directive had been issued" the sentence implies that the dehousing paper was issued because of the But report and the area bombing directive -- after all if you did not wish to imply a link between the issuing of the directive, and the dehousing memo why specifically mention it? If we take your statement "a historical fact" at face value, we could change the wording to "After Portsmouth F. C. won the FA Cup in 1939,[1] Cherwell produced his ..." which is also an historical fact, but Portsmouth winning the F.A. Cup was not in the chain of events that caused Cherwell to write his dehousing paper. Do you have a source that say that the area bombing directive was a precursor to the dehousing paper? if not we should go with Longmate. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 10:47, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'The loss of production is the worst month of the Blitz as only equal to that of due to the Easter holidays ...' Can anyone tell me what this line from the article means as it appears to have become totally mangled from the original quotation. Bedwasboy (talk) 08:29, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My transcription errors now all fixed (I hope). --PBS (talk) 11:24, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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