Talk:Yvonne Rudellat

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Merged with Yvonne Claire Rudellat - this is the better article (and has many links to it) and the page Yvonne Claire Rudellat should be deleted. KizzyB (talk) 15:26, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Surname

Having performed the history merge, as requested, I notice that the surname in the infobox and on the web site referred to in the external links section has a surname of Rudellat while the title of the article and lead has Rudelatt. Keith D (talk) 23:51, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I have included a paragraph on the name problem and requested the article be renamed.Exbrum (talk) 16:22, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Honours and decorations

According to Stella King, Rudellat was awarded the MBE, honorary because she was French. According to the Special Forces Roll of Honour website http://www.specialforcesroh.com/showthread.php?4138-Rudellat-Yvonne-Claire&highlight=ruddelat she was also awarded the Croix de Guerre. However, I have been unable to find any corroboration of this on lists of recipients of the decoration. Can anyone help here?Exbrum (talk) 16:34, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Editor user:FDW777 has pointed out that the citation for the Croix de Guerre is dubious: see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 153#specialforcesroh.com. I have therefore removed the mention of the Croix de Guerre. Exbrum (talk) 14:18, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

@Ebrum: I haven't said the citation is dubious, only unreliable. It's possible they may be right, but people need to track down other references as specialforcesroh.com fails WP:SPS. I'm not aware of how Croix de Guerre recipients are documented, British military recipients are much easier as they are documented in The London Gazette. There do seem to be several book references for this article, such as Agents Françaises, In Their Own Words: Women who served in WWII, Women Wartime Spies and more. However, those appear to be recent and older references such as the 1967 Women in battle don't include Croix de Guerre after her name despite it appearing after several others, so I don't know if an error by a more recent author has been copied by others or if she was awarded it and the 1967 book wasn't aware. However this isn't my area of expertise so I'll defer to your investigation. FDW777 (talk) 14:34, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, @FDW777:. Sorry for misquoting you. I would still not like to quote an "unreliable" source for something as important as a military decoration. I also find it significant that her biographer, Stella King, does not mention it. Perhaps someone else will find something and reinstate it. Exbrum (talk) 22:03, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

You didn't misquote me, I was just making sure you understood my original point. I wasn't suggesting specialforcesroh.com was wrong, only that the website is unreliable but I was taking no position whether the information it referenced was correct or incorrect. I would tend to trust her biographer more than brief mentions of her supposedly being awarded the Croix de Guerre in books without any explanation of where they have obtained the information. FDW777 (talk) 22:23, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

A similar problem with the website came up a few years ago as well, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 135#Adolphe Rabinovitch for someone who they claimed had been awarded an MBE but there's no record in the Gazette of it. FDW777 (talk) 22:35, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Wartime work

The statement on Jacqueline’s personal file at SOE that she was personally involved in blowing up Chaigny power station is incorrect. This was mooted but the idea was abandoned and the power station was subsequently bombed by the RAF. I have therefore deleted this from the article. There are other errors in the personal file: for example her areas of operation are given as the Cher and Ain départments. The latter is presumably a misspelling of Aisne, which is north of Paris; she in fact worked in the Indre et Loire and Loir et Cher départments, both of which are south-west of Paris.Exbrum (talk) 11:14, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

References

"Too much ... primary sources"

I would love to "improve" the article, but confess to not understanding the problem. I have looked up Wikipedia:No original research#Primary, secondary and tertiary sources but am still none the wiser. Could user:PoliceSheep99, who inserted the tag, please help me by being specific as to which sources are objectionable? Exbrum (talk) 19:23, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

The comments were unfounded and I apoligise for the mistake. ≈ PoliceSheep99 (talk) 18:19, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. You had me worried that I was doing it all wrong! Exbrum (talk) 09:15, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Typhus deaths at Bergen-Belsen

@Smallchief:. Hi there. You deleted my edit that there were 20,000 deaths a month on the ground that you did not believe the source cited and in your opinion it was an exaggeration. Please see Bergen-Belsen concentration camp#Treatment of prisoners and deaths in the camp which states (with a different citation to mine) that the number in March 1945 was "at least 18,168". Given that 20,000 is clearly a round number I do not find it objectionable, so I have reinstated it, making it clearer that this was the March figure, particularly relevant as that was when Jacqueline got there. Exbrum (talk) 21:30, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

• I don't have a problem with your formulation as described above. My original problem was the statement that prisoners were dying at the rate of "20,000 a month," which I took to mean "per month." By specifying that up to 20,000 died in March 1945, and that 20,000 deaths occurred only in March 1945 and not every month, you've met my concerns. Thanks for the consult. Smallchief (talk) 22:41, 29 January 2020 (UTC)