Talk:Glen Cooper

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Nice work here, happy to assess as B-Class however there are few little improvements that should be made to fully comply with requirements:

In the article name, "officer" shouldn't be capitalised as it's not a proper noun -- you can move the article to Glen Cooper (RAAF officer) and leave the current name as a redirect.
- Done. Copied over original talk page too. Zawed (talk) 23:21, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Generally for an article of this level of detail the lead would be a bit more substantial, say a decent-sized paragraph. The aim is to adequately summarise the article.
Although the reference used is certainly counted as "reliable", it's always good to see a few more in a B-Class article. Naturally that could also expand the amount of detail, perhaps getting it to GA-level. I'd be happy to add or tweak a bit with info from other RSs, or could point you to one or two that are online. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:06, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the feedback. Zawed (talk) 23:21, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And that, of course, has wiped out any previous history of contribution.Lexysexy (talk) 10:20, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lexysexy, it took me a few minutes to figure out what you meant with your comment. By "copied over talk page", I meant I copied the contents of the original talk page (a day old, created by myself) to the new talk page (here). I didn't copy over it. And if that's not what you meant, perhaps you should clarify your comment? Zawed (talk) 10:32, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think Lexy's referring to edit history for the article, however the pre-move history can still be found at the redirect page. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:37, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, OK. By the way, I just found the Australian War Memorial online pdfs of the various Australian Official Histories of WWII. I will see if these can be used to expand the article. Zawed (talk) 11:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's a key one I was thinking of. I expect he'd at least be in the Air War Against Japan volume, but check out the indexes for all of them to be sure. Later I'll give you a link to some other online sources you can use; right now I'm just uploading a couple of pictures of him from the AWM to Commons. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 11:39, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, once you've combed the air volumes of the official history of Australia in the war of 1939-45, the next place to go is the official history of the RAAF during 1946-71, namely Alan Stephens' Going Solo, in which you'll find Cooper mentioned more than once. Like the WWII histories, Going Solo is digitised and freely available, this time at the RAAF's Air Power Development Centre site. I don't mean to sound like an ad but the Centre is a gold mine of Air Force literature, since many books and practically all their yearly conferences, plus an historical newsletter called Pathfinder, are available online. The 1996 conference, The Post-War Years, has more detail on 81 Wing's deployment to Japan if you're keen. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:27, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]