Talk:Operation Perth

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Bias concerns[edit]

@Nick-D and AustralianRupert: - a concern has been raised that this article is biased. This operation appears to be Australian part of larger Coalition operations. Could you review and advise accordingly. Regards Newm30 (talk) 20:39, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

G'day, I tend to avoid working on articles on recent operations for various reasons. That said, I took a quick look and will offer some comments here (although I do not wish to edit the article). The article does seem to note in the lead that it was part of a wider multi-national coalition operation, although if the wider operation has an article on Wikipedia, I'd suggest linking to that in this article to allow the reader to get some more context. If the size and results of the wider operation are listed in RS, it might also be a good idea to include a sentence or two on this article to make it clearer how Operation Perth fit into the wider operation (and how big or small it was in comparison). Finally, the sourcing probably could be improved. Do you have access to the third edition of Coulthard-Clark's book? That might offer something. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 22:19, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

False information[edit]

As someone who was directly involved in this operation and also lost his squad leader during this operation there is a lot of false information in this write up. The "coalition" that was supposedly pinned down was never pinned down and never needed extraction. The force fought off intensive fire and broke contact after inflicting heavy fatalities to the enemy force. At one point this same coalition force had to move to a position to safeguard the Australian rangers that were on the ground and needed help. This is first hand knowledge that can be backed up by at least 50 or 60 soldiers who were on the ground fighting including but not limited to officers, ncos and lower enlisted. 98.96.102.79 (talk) 17:55, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]