Far too many lazy writers about.

It depends whether you’re writing for a relatively casual, popular audience or for a more scholarly crowd. There are writers who, for example, will provide day, date, time, squadron number, aircraft call sign and everything else they can think of to slow up the narrative, plus footnotes and obscure references. I, for one, try not to do that, since I am not writing for a scholarly audience.

Far too many non-writer critics about.