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February 2014

Hello, I'm Josh3580. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Camp Schwab, with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Following Josh3580's comments, I notice a number changes to the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma article that change the asserted facts, but do not introduce any references. This edit, for instance, sounds great but the information now diverges from the reference in the article. This edit as well is quite controversial and needs a reference to remain in the article. If you have any questions, feel free to message me on my talk page. Cheers. Computermacgyver (talk) 16:24, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there Josh3580 and Computermacgyver! Great to see you here. Those many changes took a great deal of time and energy, and if you were not satisfied with them, the appropriate thing to do is probably to ask me to explain, or provide additional references beyond what was already provided. I believe I provided sufficient references for every change. If you have further questions, simply ask, rather than go back and forth with edits, which wastes both our time! I've found in the years I've studied and worked on the Futenma situation that there are many assumptions which those who are not familiar with the situation on the ground ignore either willingly or ignorantly. An example is the aircraft hard landing near the Okinawa International University. The aircraft pilot identified a mechanical issue, chose an empty field to set down it, did so, and the aircraft caught on fire post landing. There was no crash. And there were no injuries. And the aircraft did not hit any buildings. Yet somehow in edits you reviewed, you let stand the claim that the 'aircraft spiraled into the main administration building of OIU'. Simply put, that is an inaccurate statement. Another example is the claim that the Okinawans are the protestors. The Okinawan people themselves will tell you that just because the protest takes place in Okinawa, doesn't mean that the participants are Okinawan. They are often from the mainland - and those assumptions need to be challenged. Finally, there is no connection at all between some of the crimes and Futenma. Why someone would feel the need to connect them on Wikipedia is beyond me, but again, it needs correction. Please let me know if you have any further questions, and together, we can help Wikipedia have accurate information vs. misleading or outright errors. Thanks! You can contact me any time here on talk.

Mkonji128, I appreciate the effort to clean up the article, and I agree on the OIU (although most sources seem to say on the campus/grounds of OIU). The issue, however, is that your personal judgment (or mine) isn't want matters here. Wikipedia requires reliable sources. I'm therefore very concerned about your removal of referenced statements from the article without providing any alternative references. The removal of information about the May 2010 protests. I saw your edit comment that, "Correcting inaccurate information - protests have never reached the claimed numbers, protestors are not from Okinawa, and other inaccuracies." If you have a source to back this up, I'm happy to see it go, but the existing statement is sourced from both a local newspaper and a US Military publication (Stars and Stripes). In the absence of a reliable source contradicting these, the statement should not be removed. Similar caution extends to the other referenced statements you removed:

The head of the Nago municipal assembly responded that "what the governor has done is unforgivable. Residents who are opposed will surely resort to the use of force, such as blocking roads to stop this from happening."Controversial US airbase in Okinawa gets green light". DW. 27 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.[1]
This was and remains a controversial decision, since the projected site involved construction on a coral reef and seagrass beds which are the habitat of the dugong, an endangered marine mammal protected under Japanese and U.S. law.Egelko, Bob (5 August 2004). "Imperiled mammal threatened by plan for Okinawa base, Court in S.F. hears activists advocate applying U.S. law". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 24 July 2006.[2]
Over 2,000 citizens responded immediately with a protest in front of the prefectural administration building, with around 1,000 forcing their way into the building to stage a sit-in. "Okinawa base foes protest governor's OK of offshore fill work for Futenma replacement". Japan Times. Kyodo. 27 December 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2014.[3]

Each of these statements is referenced and removing any of them requires a verifiable source pointing to an error in the current reference. If you can provide these, I'm very happy to see these statements removed, but if not I think they need to stay.

In other instances some of your edits changed text without changing/adding a reference. I don't personally have a problem with any of them, but Wikipedia requires references. If you could take a little bit more time to provide these references, I'm sure the article would be greatly improved. Computermacgyver (talk)

P.S. Please respond on the article's talk page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Computermacgyver (talk • contribs) 09:08, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of sourced information camp foster

I was shocked to see that at Camp Foster you deleted an entire section of carefully assembled reliably sourced info with the edit summary "removed old information" and replaced uit with a new totally different section ( Land Return) It is ok to add, but NEVER ok to delete without a reason.

The information is neither "old" nor WP:DATED. looking at your other removals mentioned above I see a pattern of wonder if you WP:DONTLIKE this type of information. I am restoring teh paragraph you deleted and am looking forward to hear from you, to understand.--Wuerzele (talk) 20:49, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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