Hello Waffentrager,
I am making my first post on these boards in concern to what you wrote in the quote above. "The article" must be implying a single article about Japanese heavy tanks which I will assume is the one I will link below.
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/11/19/superheavy-japanese-tanks/
First correction is that Daigensui had no involvement in "Superheavy Japanese Tanks." She contributed to the STB-1 article, not to "Superheavy Japanese Tanks."
Second correction, "to make something thats actually accurate to the reports" can be interpreted that the same sources were available when "Superheavy Japanese Tanks" was created. That is incorrect. "Superheavytanks" was posted in November 2013. Including the process of searching for and acquiring the books, the article was the result of many months of research. In respects to those materials, "Superheavy Japanese Tanks" attempted the most accurate and fair presentation possible out of materials that presented different interpretations.
What is changing what is now acknowledged as true history about the O-I are the materials you sourced below:
- O-I documentation, Finemolds
- O-I project report notebook 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 (Finemolds)
These documents were not available at the time. They only just became available in the Autumn/winter of 2015, about two years after "Superheavy Japanese Tanks." There was no way of knowing what and when such new information would be released.
What would have been fair to say is instead of "to make something thats actually accurate to the reports" but something to the effect of "upon the release of new information about the O-I".
Please do be more careful about how you reflect on previous work of others. Congratulations on your article.
