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A fact from Cyril Clowes appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 February 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that despite winning the first land victory against Japan in World War II at the Battle of Milne Bay, Major General Cyril Clowes (pictured) was relieved of his command for showing insufficient "vigour"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/February.

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Overlinking[edit]

At the moment we have a bit of an overlinking problem. For example there are way too many links to Blamey, Rowell and MacArthur. I thought I had unlinked many of them but they seem to have crept back in again. – ukexpat (talk) 18:23, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

np i have taken care of most i hope@@..PS Ukexpat see my talk page Sorry!!!Buzzzsherman (talk) 18:26, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, thanks for taking on the task! – ukexpat (talk) 18:32, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

spelling[edit]

I do have a question..with my spell check on lots its wrong..but i am wondering if its just my Canadian spelling settings..could some one else spell check this do the ozzies use British or American spelling??..Buzzzsherman (talk) 18:31, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

British! I'll do a copy edit a little later and check. – ukexpat (talk) 18:34, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

This article needs 2 reference related things:

A deviation from the one major source.
Major cleanup: Although there are many references, these need to be cleaned up. If the all the references to different parts of each book can be consolidated into one reference for each, it would be easier to tell what book is used if I just look at the references. Maybe put the page numbers in comments right after the reference? Ham tech person 00:37, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed your tags - the number of references and the formatting of them is perfectly OK. The books referred to in the References section are clearly listed in the Bibliography section in a perfectly acceptable format. – ukexpat (talk) 01:34, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Early life[edit]

Hi all. Would it be possible to expand on Clowes' early life a bit? At the moment its pretty sparse but if done would probably pull the article up to B class. Overall this article is looking quite good. Excellent maps again SpoolWhippets. ChoraPete (talk) 16:34, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]