Talk:Battle of Ko Chang

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I am the copyright holder for this article - David Manley

Are you licensing your work under the GNU Free Documentation License? If so, my apologies and I will remove the copyright violation notice, or you can do it yourself. Geoff/Gsl 08:58, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Geoff, yes I am - could yu do it? I don't know how to :(

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Thai history[edit]

I added many fact claimed by Royal Thai Navy. Some are not match with france history. Analayo 04:13, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

POV?[edit]

Is it just me or is this article written from French POV? -- Adeptitus 22:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Place name[edit]

Satahib seems should be Sattahip - at the southern tip of Chonburi Province.

Mori Riyo (talk) 09:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Major revision needed[edit]

The article was created based on information from the French perspective, which contained the mistaken inclusion of the Sri Ayudhya and an extra torpedo boat in the battle. Most English-language sources repeat this mistake, in effect over-emphasising the French victory as they were (incorrectly) regarded as very outnumbered. Some of these details had been corrected, but most of the text hadn't been modified accordingly, and none of the article body is cited to a reliable source. The article needs to be thoroughly reworked to present facts from both sides as well as the discrepancies. It should also discuss the resulting differing analyses, with Western sources describing it as a decisive French victory, while Thai sources insist that the French failed to strategically achieve what they set out to. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:07, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a note that explains the argument for both sides, but parts of the body article may still need some revision. 67.232.21.14 (talk) 16:46, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Inflated Thai Strength?[edit]

The article lists a Thai force of 2 coastal defense ships, 12 torpedo boats, 2 avisos, 4 submarines, and 2 minelayers, but describes action involving a single Thai coastal defense ship and two torpedo boats. Something's clearly wrong, but I'm not sure what - though I do notice that the listed Thai strength is larger than [wiki pages] claim for the size of the entire Thai navy during this war. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:140:9100:8BC0:7CF7:E92:3B9E:1BF0 (talk) 20:59, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See the immediately preceding section. The inflated numbers are probably based on contemporary French sources; the article hasn't been properly reconciled. --Paul_012 (talk) 12:27, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The whole thing was recently and controversially changed by a French IP who's also going around changing numbers on multiple other articles, which has caused this dispute in the first place. EtherealGate (talk) 09:42, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your right . That’s probably all the force in the area.

And maybe some wartime propaganda .

it would be interesting to note both side claimed inflated cassualties on each side

But for be fair, some source claim inflated cassualties on thé french side .

Crazy_Defender_2

( 2A01:CB00:BEE:B000:F910:7D38:DC2E:13B9 (talk) 00:41, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]