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Good pictures of the PVA here http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%BF%97%E6%84%BF%E5%86%9B if anyone wants to load them and knows Chinese. --Gary123 17:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

"To understand PLA strategies, one must study the grand campaigns in which PLA wiped out 8 million KMT troops in 2 years, with small casualty of its own."

doesn't that seem at least slightly non-neutral?

Its in quotations so that the reader ubnderstands that this is from the Chinese POV, the article also explains the common western perception that the chinese threw hordes at the Un forces but that has largely been disproved. --Gary123 00:14, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

ANy particular reason why 24.225.221.84 removed the passage on POWs during the war. It certainly fits intot he scope of the article and was pretty even handed I think. IT explained the Chinese brainwashing techniques while at the same time stating that usually the abuse was psychologcal and not violent. And it was in my opinion very balance on the matter of PVA prisoners behind US lines. --Gary123 16:05, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

This article is about a communist chinese army and Johnsmith removes every link thats not from an official US army site. I put the links to the us army sites to be balanced but that means nothing to someone frightened by the yellow peril who thinks that th nanking massacre is a myth put out by a chinese world conspiracy. user:John Smith's even removed an American veterans webpage that had extracts of Peng (the chinese c in c) memoirs. How can you remove the memoirs of the c in c of the PVA from the PVA and not be biased? This is practuically vanaalism. What is this revenge for what I said about Chang? --Gary123 18:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

user:johnsmith has ignored my comments in the talk page, has demonstrated a sytematic antichinese bias, and has pursued all articles I edited as retaliation for a complaint I made on the Unknown story page see above for reasons the links are relevent. --Gary123 06:01, 14 October 2006 (UTC)ı

Without posting on the talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Smith%27s has continued to vandalize this page. --Gary123 17:03, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• Korean War FAQ is the only website on the web that documents the history and orgnaization of the PVA. Yes it has a Chinese bias but even proUSA veteran websites have used it since it presents the Chinese side of the Korean WAr. This article ios about the Chinese army in the Korean War its only fair that there should be one link showing the chinese side. I remind you in this article about China's war effor the faq is the only Chinese link yet the antichinese Brit user:John Smith has removed it 4 times now. --Gary123 17:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:John_Smith%27s this is NOT the first time John Smith has launched mutliple reverts without saying anything on the talk page! --Gary123 17:42, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, hi Gary. Didn't notice you there. Well anyway, I had a look at the site and I realised it was a ridiculously POV website. So I believe it isn't a valid reference. Plenty of better stuff out there. John Smith's 23:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment: I think a Chinese perspective needs to be represented in the links section. This site seems a lot more factually objective (does not equal NPOV) than most Chinese accounts of the war.

That being said, there are better quality Chinese links/sources on the Korean War and the PVA; see, for example:

Mao Anying in Korea, The Korean War in pictures, Origin of the name of the PVA. (All links in Chinese, but there could be an "English" button somewhere.) --Sumple

draws largely on western sources for information. This is an article about a Chinese army its only fair that ONE website show the PRC side. I've already put a disclaimer saying Red Chinese Pov. Just to let you know in the past a very Porusa veteran website included a tiemline based on the Chinese FAQ just to show the Chinese side of the war. P>S this link is good enough for the WESTERN BBC's OFFICIAL history of the war. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_hickey_02.shtml if it satisfies the BBC's standards it should satisfy wikipedias. Face it its pretty much the only site on the web focused on Chinese intervention it be criminal to keep it out of any half decent page. The main Korean War article is entirely amerocentric its only fair that the article on the PVa show Chinese perspectives in a balcanced view. Are the BBc's historian commie stooges?

P.S. Keep in mind that the article has to be nonPOV not the links for example articles on the American militia, KKK, and neonazi movements all have links to supporting websites. --Gary123 01:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

But there aren't any neo-Nazi or denialist websites on the main Holocaust page. Obviously a page about an organisation would need a website to that organisation. John Smith's 10:42, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Godwin's Law. And you can't possibly compare the PVA to nazis. --Sumple (Talk) 12:48, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Thats right plus this is a page about the PVA organization not the main Korean War page. Furthermore just so everyone knows John Smith's did not find this page by accident he has been pursuing articles I contributed to as retaliation for confronting him about the Unknown story book. He immediatley reverted my edits on several pages and posted a nasty confrontational message on the talk page of another article. John Smith's is not genuinely intrested in contributing to this article but is simply pursing a childesh school bully vendetaa against me for speaking up against his unknown story page. --Gary123 18:17, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Just so its clear whos out to help improve this article, this is where the article was befor I arrived http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Volunteer_Army&oldid=59660956,

this is my contribution http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Volunteer_Army&diff=81250188&oldid=59660956

this is john smith's http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Volunteer_Army&diff=80866802&oldid=80722123 --Gary123 18:24, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Gary, are you completely psychotic or are you just smoking a lot of pot at the moment? John Smith's 20:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Just in case anyone had any doubts John Smith's had to proove to us where he stands.Dont let his hyperbole fool you look at the subject matter of his previous edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=John+Smith%27s

and then look at the subject matter of the Frank Hogan article I created and anyone here tell me that Im just paranoid.--Gary123 03:58, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

If anyone thinks I'm just paranoid about John Smith's, look at the Frank Hogan article, its a topic that John Smith's knows nothing about a Ny DA, who has had several important biographies written about him. But because I was the creator of the article John Smith's tagged it with nonnotable. Look I didnt want to believe that John Smith's was pursuign a vendetta against me I wanted to beleiev that it was just a coincidence and that he was just very active in China related articles, but the NYDA has nothing to do with his "expertise" it was clearly done simply to "punish" me, it is IMPOSSIBLE that it was a coincidence. Frank Hogan just happened to be his FIRST NYC related article he edited. --Gary123 04:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Reading your posts is the best free source of entertainment I've found in a while. Please keep sharing. John Smith's 16:38, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

How about you "entertain" me and let me in on your sudden knowledge of NYC history at the Frank Hogan article just a few minutes after we met at the unkown Mao page! --Gary123 16:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DOCUMENTATION OF John Smith's Activities

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=100&target=John+Smith%27s

17:30, 10 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Mao: The Unknown Story (→Unknown History VIRUS INFECTING wikipedia one article at a time)

Me and John Smith's have a dispute over the validity of including MAo the uk story as a source in so many articles. 17:37, 10 October 2006 (hist) (diff) People's Liberation Army (rv; don't need forums - professional websites are better)

John Smith's removes a link i put up

1. 17:45, 10 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Red Star Over China (→Unknown VIRUS)

Posts a nasty comment on the talk page of ana article where I complained about the unknown story orignally.

17:52, 10 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Frank Hogan (google search does not indicate this was an important person)

suggests speedy deletion of an article in a category he knows nothing about despie other users with any knowledge of NYC knowing Hogan's great importance.

19:18, 11 October 2006 (hist) (diff) People's Volunteer Army (→Links)

Removes links in an article I created.

19:19, 11 October 2006 (hist) (diff) m Korean War (→External links)

Removes links in an article I created.

1. 18:41, 13 October 2006 (hist) (diff) People's Volunteer Army (→Links)

Fights revert war ignoring my talk page comments. Refuses to post on talk page!

18:41, 13 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Korean War (→External links)

Fights revert war ignoring my talk page comments.

09:35, 14 October 2006 (hist) (diff) People's Volunteer Army (→Links)

Fights revert war ignoring my talk page comments. Refuses to post on talk page!

23:06, 14 October 2006 (hist) (diff) People's Volunteer Army (→Links) Fights revert war ignoring my talk page comments. Refuses to post on talk page!

10:42, 15 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:People's Volunteer Army Fights revert war ignoring my talk page comments. Refuses to post on talk page!

This is a clear pattern and clear retaliation for our dispute on the unkown story! --Gary123 15:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Off-topic comment: wow, people are using the Unknown Story as references?? That's ridiculous! It's a work of fiction for godssake. --Sumple (Talk) 23:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I know and it spread all over wikipedia, and because I challenged it I've been the target of user:Johnsmith's vendetta. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mao:_The_Unknown_Story#Unknown_History_VIRUS_INFECTING__wikipedia_one_article_at_a_time --Gary123 15:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bevin "book review"

Okay, it's so-late-it's-early here (slight touch of insomnia), so I may not be too with it right now. However, assuming that it is necessary to add a bit about Bevin's POV, might it not make sense to do so in the section where Bevin is quoted? And, if it is necessary to discuss Bevin's POV, could it possible be handled in a more graceful manner than just dropping in a random quote from a book review? Lastly, why do we need to discuss Bevin's POV? crazyeddie 08:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

Looks like I'm paying attention a bit after the fact. Overall, the article doesn't look to bad, but there are what appear to be, POV issues in several spots. It would also be nice if some of the 'conflicts' could be resloved between this this article and other Wiki articles, so that they both say the same, even if it means re-writing both articles to say "In the view of the Chinese..." and "In the View of the U.S...." or "however, the South Korean ...". In the articles I've been working on, I've been trying to keep the POV out of it, by changing "enemy" to say "Chinese" or "North Korean", and replacing "friendly" with "United Nations Command", etc. For however else is working on this, I would appreciate it you could see if you might be able to add additional information to the various articles under. I've created a lot of Stub-class articles there where I've been copying in information (and the references) I've found so far while going through various Korean War and other military related articles. Like in the Intelligence circles, I figured if we could start adding classifiable information on the various units that participated, POV issues aside, eventually there might be enough information to make a decent article.

I would have to say that I'm definately anti-communist, that doesn't mean they were all cowards and not worthy of mention. On the contrary, everything I've found seems to show while they did suffer some high casualties in various battles, they were were a resourceful and fairly commited opponent, worthy of respect. wbfergus 21:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

just doing some fact checking and was surprised to see how the chinese nationalists are doing their work here on wikipedia too. it would be a good idea to remove the chinese propaganda—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.172.73.193 (talk • contribs).