User talk:Brendumb

Thanks :)

Thank you for getting back to me and I hope to see you in the discussion forum helping to make this a great article :)

Cheers, Zuchinni one (talk) 02:44, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Also

You should really add better comments to your edits explaining what you are doing. It makes it easier for everyone to understand the changes you've made, why you've made them, and work with you to improve the article.

Cheers, Zuchinni one (talk) 12:03, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

hi Mr Zuchinni, do you have any examples? i noticed a few editors don't do this, but i will try to more. i hope you leave other editors the same comments. thanks, --Brendumb (talk) 17:07, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Dogan Photo

Brendumb,

Please remove the photo you recently added with the claim of the Dogan death.

There are several problems with this photo:

1. The photo already exists in a previous section of the article.
2. You re-added the photo without any additional proof as to its legitimacy as per Wikipedia:V#Burden_of_evidence
3. Even when I translated the Turkish report it said that this was claimed to be him getting killed, but did not say who claimed it or how they came to that conclusion.
4. The video edits together 2 pieces of film. In the first you can clearly see the soldiers are kicking someone ... but who they are kicking is unclear. In the second clip you can see the soldier doing something with his gun, but he is not firing it.
5. The actual photo used comes seems to come from a clip on this blog, which is not an RS, rather than either of the sources cited. http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/tag/furkan-dogan/

Bottom line is that this is an unverifiable claim by an unknown source an does not meet the wikipedia standards forWP:verify. Please remove it for the time being. If it can be verified then we can add it back in later or modify the caption of this photo that already exists in the article.

Zuchinni one (talk) 06:36, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Mr Zucchini, the best place to discuss this would be talk where multiple editors are arguing for inclusion. Haber and Cihan News Agency are both reliable sources, and the threshhold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability not truth. If we attribute to what reliable sources are saying, then it isn't up to editors to make any form of judgment. Let sources speak themselves.

--Brendumb (talk) 15:17, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Welcome

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