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A fact from William Harbison appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 May 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that RAF Air Vice-Marshal William "Paddy" Harbison's 1952 report on Korean War air combat tactics was used as a strategy guide for a 1999 computer game?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/May.

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I would be more willing to classified this article as a B class but cites 1-7 are lacking a title to research the link and those cites are heavily used thru-out the article. If those issues were cleared up I would think that this would be a good B class article Oldwildbill (talk) 08:48, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Oldwildbill. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by cites 1-7 lack a title. The cites provide the page numbers from the three documents listed in the Reference section where the links to actual references are provided. Specificially, Silver Wings by Hallion, The F.86 v. the MiG-15 by Harbison, and Coalition Air War by Neufeld. You are correct that AVM Harbison is still living. Skeet Shooter (talk) 13:19, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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What do you think of this.

Dropping the Military career heading
adding an early years section heading before WWII
Breaking out the last sections of WWII to a new section heading titled Post WWII years inserted before Korean War.
Moving the game reference to the later years section
adding a post Korean War Section

Just think this would help on the timeline flow & break out the sections that don't directly fall into that specific time period.Oldwildbill (talk) 19:45, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestions, Oldwildbill - I went ahead and made the changes. I also received my copy The Darlington Spitfire that had some info to place in the early years section. However, I couldn't find a reference for Harbison's birth date. I used January 1, 1921 as a placeholder and commented out the field. I should have noted that fact. Unless you were able to determine that Harbison was really born on 1/1/1921, I'll go ahead and comment it out again. Thanks! Skeet Shooter (talk) 00:07, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]