Talk:Oklahoma D-Day

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Improvements

I've added a lot of additionial information and reworded and/or rearranged a lot of the pre-existing text. I'm sure my layout work could use some tinkering, but after a couple hours tweaking and verifiyng my information, my creative juices have hit empty. Garand70 (talk) 19:00, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Items needed:

Which side won from 1997 to 2005
When each unit was added
layout adjustments, for readability.

Garand70 (talk) 01:20, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I attended Oklahoma D-Day 2005 to 2010(on the German High Command for most of those years). I noticed that not much record keeping was occurring so this is what I recorded during my time there. I wrote down these results/scores that were either announced by Dewayne Convirs during the after-game awards ceremony or were posted by the staff on the OKDDay online forum(those posts no longer exist as the forum was hacked, deleted and recreated a few times over the years). These aren't exactly wiki quality sources, but I might be all you got because I dont know if anyone else was keeping track.

2004: Allies: 1700 Germans: 675(I didn't attend, but I recorded this from the OKDDay forum)

2005: Allies: 1775 Germans: 200

2006: German Victory(scores not recorded by me)

2007: Allied Victory(scores not recorded by me)

2008: Germans 2050 Allies 1500

2009: Germans 2700 Allies 1800(these numbers are approximate, I didn't write these down until a day or 2 after the announcement)

2010: Germans 2625 Allies 2110

These results I recorded from a post on the DDay forum from Michael Copeland(long time DDay tanker).

2000 - German Victory

2001 - German Victory

2002 - German Victory

2003 - Allied Victory

Odog502 (talk) 04:33, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GPS

These GPS coordinates are listed on Google Earth for OK DDay.

Latitude 36.764053 Longitude -94.664902°

Something amiss?

Right in the overview section - something appears to have gone haywire (suspiciously like a copy paste job). Any ideas what happened? I am tempted to give it a quick send-off... Jwoodger (talk) 00:54, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I edited the page a little (maxsizo@yahoo.com.mx), I am an avid paintball player and a player of Oklahoma d-day myself, I copy the info from another source, on wich, I twik a little to give more on a inside look to what really is this event, I really think this article, wich is great, lack more info and current resources of the field, I dont try to market the field but give more than a superficial look of the paintball game itself, I understand if u dont like it, I thought it was great info.....

Check this out...this article is very good:

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Seankubin/Oklahoma_D-Day

Apart from the issue about being "copied" from another soure, the text that was present was giant slabs of uncited and un-encyclopedic info. It seemed to be an in-depth run down and assessment of a particular years events - the article needs to be presented in wikified prose. If you can notify me of the source you used to get this info in the first place, we can have a look at it and see if there is a useful way to present what was previously here. Cheers Jwoodger (talk) 21:36, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Actually we have several ways to get info in a practical manner, The game itself has his own website on wich describes each unit in more encyclopedic way....On the other hand each army has their own website and forums, Allies and Axis are making a big effort to set the right interpretation of the game and not the tipycal 'good vs bad', We know is a game and the more info we can put outside the better and what a better resource than WIKIPEDIA, everybody knows about it... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.79.23.48 (talk) 20:49, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK - can you provide some links please? Jwoodger (talk) 21:27, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be another copy-paste job in the "Units" section detailing many of the individual officer positions. Is this information really necessary for an encyclopedic source? Consider the alternative of removing that information and instead adding an external link at the bottom of the page to redirect the reader toward that a site that would contain that information. Steven Dudick (talk) 07:12, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Additional sources

Additional sources were identified during AfD discussions. These could be helpful for improving the article:

Fayetteville Observer [1]
KOTV (in Tulsa) [2]
Reuters [3]
Photo feature from TIME [4]
Described as "the mother of all Scenario Games" in a Sports Illustrated article about paintball. [5]

Alsee (talk) 15:40, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]