User talk:Reader1987

Nigeri attacks/ITN

Just a heads up that the article is nominated at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Nigeria_attacks(Lihaas (talk) 22:07, 21 January 2012 (UTC)).

I have nominated the March 2012 Gaza-Israel clashes article for a mention on ITN.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:59, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Kandahar massacre

Hi Reader1987,

Few days ago you created an article about the events in Kandahar on 11 March 2012. Later this article was renamed by User:ThaddeusB without any discussions on the article's talk page. He replaced the term "massacre" with the term "shooting spree". At the moment there is a discussion and a straw poll on the article's talk page on a suggestion to rename Panjwai shooting spree back to Kandahar massacre. If you are still interested in this topic, you are very welcome, as a creator of this page, to express your opinion there. --Potorochin (talk) 07:51, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

2012 Sabha conflict

Thanks!--Vojvodae please be free to write :) 07:31, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 2012 Deir ez-Zor bombing

The article 2012 Deir ez-Zor bombing has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

per WP:NOTNEWSPAPER This info might be better if merged to 2011–2012 Syrian uprising

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2012 conflict - please do some background research

Dear Reader1987, I appreciate that you may be attached to the articles that you create, but I would implore you to read, first, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide article, the First Congo War article, the Second Congo War article, the FARDC article, the Kivu Conflict article, and the National Congress for the Defence of the People article. Saying this conflict 'started' in 2012 misrepresents what has actually been happening since 1994. Please if you're attached to the article at least make it more *accurate* and *contextual* Buckshot06 (talk) 07:13, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Better still, anything by Gérard Prunier... Buckshot06 (talk) 07:14, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Do you know how many hundred silly stubs I deal with that have not been edited for years, whose original editor is long gone? Better still, I'll quote some policies at you: WP:BRD and WP:BOLD!! Buckshot06 (talk) 21:37, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

You're crazy, no one forces you to do that--Reader1987 (talk) 08:19, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

No, I do it because it improves the encyclopedia. Instead of reading somebody's abstraction of three newspaper articles completely divorced from any context, if that paragraph is incorporated into a larger article, it adds to the picture presented there, and is supported and clarified by the overall picture presented there. This is exactly the point of the note above about the Syrian bombing article. Buckshot06 (talk) 07:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

This talk page indicates quite a history of creating WP: Recentism and WP:NOTNEWS stubs.

Please WIKINEWS for that or add some notability. Remember RS soruces doesnt mean notability automatically because they publish lots of news and all of it is not encyclopaedic.(Lihaas (talk) 13:02, 9 June 2012 (UTC)).

2012 Armenian-Azeri border clashes

Take care of your edits because its not AGF to have deceptive summaries: unexplained removal AGAIN, mocking edit summaries that makes a coc-upitseld on the singular, untrue, unsourced, OR -- see the source, not vandalism when it as explained its not notable. That said these were good: [1], [2](Lihaas (talk) 21:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)).

Battle of Sidon

Hi, I see you eliminated the redirect of Battle of Sidon. I had considered a CSD tag because it seemed a mere duplicate of a brief paragraph in Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon but thought that the redirect was a better choice. Two questions: Why have the Battle of Sidon page? Is there a reliable source that refers to the "Battle of Sidon". Thanks. Capitalismojo (talk) 16:41, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your note on my talk page. Of course I will not be hasty but I do, very much, want your thoughts on my questions before moving on. Capitalismojo (talk) 16:48, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

OK got your second note. Thanks again. I'll revisit it sometime in September or October. Capitalismojo (talk) 17:08, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

A heads-up on Iraq

Thanks for the heads-up. :) EkoGraf (talk) 15:38, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Campaignbox Egypt 2013

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