You added some new infoboxes to some GWOT captives' articles. Can you let me know where interested wikipedians could learn about these inforboxes, and participate in the discussion of what fields they should contain?
I am a bit concerned about the "aliases" field.
- When a captive, like Guantanamo captive 1095, who the US calls "Jumma Jan" tells his Tribunal he has never heard of "Jumma Jan" and that he is really "Zain Al Abedin" does that make one of those names an "alias"? And, if so, which one?
- There are other strange anomalies among the naming of the GWOT captives, and I would really like to have some input on them, prior to more inforboxes being placed.
Cheers! Geo Swan 16:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Esemono, three items in the new infobox strike me as problematic: (1) Listing the SLA's "Role" as "Guerilla Warfare," (2) including a listing for "Battles/Wars," and (3) omitting the Hearst kidnapping. I would list the SLA's role as "Armed Political Action," and replace "Battles/Wars" with "Activities," and include the Hearst kidnapping. It is profoundly mistaken to describe the assassination of the two unarmed school administrators as a "battle." (I left these comments at the SLA talk page, as well.)-- Galliaz 12:18, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- Esemono, I'm still interested in discussing this important question, and hope you're amenable to a dialogue.-- Galliaz 23:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Greetings,
When you added some improvements here recently, you also removed a couple of links that looked okay to me. Was this an oversight?
Cheers! Geo Swan 22:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I am a tad bit puzzled as to why you created the page User:TomStar81/Archive 2; that would technically be a page I would create, and its not a talk page, its a user page. If you could explain that for me I would apreciate it. TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Who defines SLA as a terrorist organization? It was more of an anarchist organization, if anything. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 14:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, please take a look at Wikipedia talk:Featured pictures#Mess with USS Shaw. Conscious 05:27, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, thank you, I've just posted a reply.
Conscious
10:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
- I created a new nomination because the old one was closed long ago. Conscious 04:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Oh dear, I haven't noticed this: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/USS Shaw exploding. Conscious 09:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you think that the map which shows so called Republic of Serbian Krajina is suitable to show geographic area of Eastern Slavonia. I removed map simply because it is wrong. Area marked as "Eastern Slavonia", is simply part of Eastern Slavonia occupied from Serb forces in 1991-95 war. Eastern Slavonia is actually much bigger, approx. twice of this area, including cities Osijek (shown on the map but outside of marked area), Vinkovci and Djakovo (not shown on the map at all). That is the reason I removed picture, because it is misleading. Cheers,-- Plantago 17:44, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw you added this
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to Edith Shain. This is certainly not the case for external links, and I don't believe there is a policy on footnote style, see the section "Converting citation styles". Rich Farmbrough, 08:23 16 October 2007 (GMT).
Really? My take on the
guideline :
Some external links are welcome (see "What should be linked", below), but it is not Wikipedia's purpose to include a comprehensive list of external links related to each topic. No page should be linked from a Wikipedia article unless its inclusion is justified. ... Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article.
Means that if a website has the same info as the wiki page then it shouldn't be included in the External Link. A Wikipedia article should NOT be a collection of links. -- Esemono 14:16, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, I understand the guideline, but it says nothing about "<ref> form". Rich Farmbrough, 20:22 17 October 2007 (GMT).
Hi Esomono,
I am interested in making animated history maps. Do you know how i can make one of these? Daanschr ( talk) 10:25, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks! Daanschr ( talk) 10:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
You added a section to the Carlos Franqui bio with the following: "In early 2000s Castro began books that were deemed offensive ..."
Did you mean "In early 2000s Castro began burning [?] books that were deemed offensive ..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.216.169.42 ( talk) 18:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
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You added some new infoboxes to some GWOT captives' articles. Can you let me know where interested wikipedians could learn about these inforboxes, and participate in the discussion of what fields they should contain?
I am a bit concerned about the "aliases" field.
- When a captive, like Guantanamo captive 1095, who the US calls "Jumma Jan" tells his Tribunal he has never heard of "Jumma Jan" and that he is really "Zain Al Abedin" does that make one of those names an "alias"? And, if so, which one?
- There are other strange anomalies among the naming of the GWOT captives, and I would really like to have some input on them, prior to more inforboxes being placed.
Cheers! Geo Swan 16:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Esemono, three items in the new infobox strike me as problematic: (1) Listing the SLA's "Role" as "Guerilla Warfare," (2) including a listing for "Battles/Wars," and (3) omitting the Hearst kidnapping. I would list the SLA's role as "Armed Political Action," and replace "Battles/Wars" with "Activities," and include the Hearst kidnapping. It is profoundly mistaken to describe the assassination of the two unarmed school administrators as a "battle." (I left these comments at the SLA talk page, as well.)-- Galliaz 12:18, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- Esemono, I'm still interested in discussing this important question, and hope you're amenable to a dialogue.-- Galliaz 23:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Greetings,
When you added some improvements here recently, you also removed a couple of links that looked okay to me. Was this an oversight?
Cheers! Geo Swan 22:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I am a tad bit puzzled as to why you created the page User:TomStar81/Archive 2; that would technically be a page I would create, and its not a talk page, its a user page. If you could explain that for me I would apreciate it. TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Who defines SLA as a terrorist organization? It was more of an anarchist organization, if anything. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 14:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, please take a look at Wikipedia talk:Featured pictures#Mess with USS Shaw. Conscious 05:27, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, thank you, I've just posted a reply.
Conscious
10:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
- I created a new nomination because the old one was closed long ago. Conscious 04:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Oh dear, I haven't noticed this: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/USS Shaw exploding. Conscious 09:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you think that the map which shows so called Republic of Serbian Krajina is suitable to show geographic area of Eastern Slavonia. I removed map simply because it is wrong. Area marked as "Eastern Slavonia", is simply part of Eastern Slavonia occupied from Serb forces in 1991-95 war. Eastern Slavonia is actually much bigger, approx. twice of this area, including cities Osijek (shown on the map but outside of marked area), Vinkovci and Djakovo (not shown on the map at all). That is the reason I removed picture, because it is misleading. Cheers,-- Plantago 17:44, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading
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Hi, I saw you added this
------------------------------------------------------------ As per Wiki policy all external links should be in <ref> form. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for a discussion of different citation methods and how to generate footnotes using the <ref>, </ref> and <reference /> tags -------------------------------------------------------------
to Edith Shain. This is certainly not the case for external links, and I don't believe there is a policy on footnote style, see the section "Converting citation styles". Rich Farmbrough, 08:23 16 October 2007 (GMT).
Really? My take on the
guideline :
Some external links are welcome (see "What should be linked", below), but it is not Wikipedia's purpose to include a comprehensive list of external links related to each topic. No page should be linked from a Wikipedia article unless its inclusion is justified. ... Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article.
Means that if a website has the same info as the wiki page then it shouldn't be included in the External Link. A Wikipedia article should NOT be a collection of links. -- Esemono 14:16, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, I understand the guideline, but it says nothing about "<ref> form". Rich Farmbrough, 20:22 17 October 2007 (GMT).
Hi Esomono,
I am interested in making animated history maps. Do you know how i can make one of these? Daanschr ( talk) 10:25, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks! Daanschr ( talk) 10:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
You added a section to the Carlos Franqui bio with the following: "In early 2000s Castro began books that were deemed offensive ..."
Did you mean "In early 2000s Castro began burning [?] books that were deemed offensive ..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.216.169.42 ( talk) 18:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
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