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AxisBbiographical Research is a self-published defunct website by amateur historians and WWII buffs. The authors are not recognized experts in the field, and have not been previously published by reputable, independent, third-party publications. The Aerodrome.com is more of the same. Per WP:RS and WP:SPS, these kinds of sources cannot be used as references for Wikipedia articles. The most they can be used for is as External Links. Posting the bibliography from ABR is childish, pointless and irrelevant. Which of these dozens of citations actually support any of the material in this article? It is pretty obvious that most of not all of them have nothing whatsoever to do with this article, and have no business being cited here. If some of them actually do support specific information in this article, then those are the sources that should be cited, with specific reference to which information, which source, which page, and not these amateur websites. Anybody can start a webpage and post an extensively-researched article on it...but that does not mean that it is a reliable source. There were literally hundreds of articles at Wikipedia sourced to these sites, all done several years ago when Wikipedia wasn't so scrupulous about sourcing. That is no longer the case. Fladrif (talk) 16:03, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The Aerodrome website has a bibliography page which proves it is maintained by the very aviation experts such as Norman Franks and Greg VanWyngarden whom we quote when they are in print. This is about the 87th time I have pointed this out to the inattentively judgmental.Georgejdorner (talk) 21:45, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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