User talk:Macaddct1984

Calling the Russian aggression "Spedial Military Operation" and calling the aggressor propaganda website "Lostarmour, an OSINT analysys [sic, and there are other errors such as Random Capitalization you also restored] website".

Revert yourself. Specifically to my neutral version ("the war with Ukraine", "Russian website").

This is the sort of "OSINT analysys" we talk about:

"The destruction of a U̶k̶r̶a̶i̶n̶i̶a̶n̶ NATO army [the word was purposely crossed out] armored column in the Russian region of Zaporizhzhia. Unforgettable images," wrote Lost Armour, a military blogger with 22,000 followers. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/06/10/moscow-tries-to-impose-its-narrative-of-a-failed-ukrainian-counter-offensive_6030757_4.html

Which of course goes along with the "SMO" nonsense by whoever wrote this article, and you didn't even look into it at all.

I honestly should have just removed the ebtire Lostarmour sentence/pargraph. And you should too.

94.246.147.217 (talk) 16:48, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Greetings Macaddct1984! I saw that at Talk:2025 Belgorod Oblast incursion#Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 04 August 2025, you referred to the interpretation by users of dynamic maps such as DeepStateMap.Live as essentially amounting to original research, so I was interested in your thoughts on how Dobropillia offensive#Territorial control is being approached. Thanks! SaintPaulOfTarsus (talk) (contributions) 15:36, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

I think that use case seems a bit more acceptable, provided the source is indeed reliable. My issue with the edit request on the Oblast incursion article was going further than just saying "as per this map, it is occupied" to instead say "this map used to show X, now it shows Y, and we should take from that a result of Ukrainian failure" – macaddct1984 ^{(talk | contribs)} 15:46, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, makes sense! SaintPaulOfTarsus (talk) (contributions) 15:53, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

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You rejected my Redirect suggestion for Namco system 753 redirecting to the correct 357.

The reason i did it in the first place was I myself was a user accidentally putting in 753 instead of 357. You mention advising of a source for it being a common misspelling?

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