Wikipedia:Requests for comment/History and geography
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Talk:Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet
There is a question into the validity of a quote in the article
Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet as shown in difference Special:Diff/1215143082. Edmund Patrick – confer 08:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC) |
Should the Minneapolis article begin its first section with A) an overview of the Native Americans who lived in the area (as it does now) with the heading "Dakota homeland, city founded", or B) the first European to view the area that became Minneapolis (as it does in this version) under the heading "Dakota people, city founded"? -SusanLesch (talk) 23:15, 23 March 2024 (UTC) |
Should the following sentence be included after the heading Deployments in Peacekeeping Missions:
? Robert McClenon (talk) 02:50, 19 March 2024 (UTC) |
The last paragraph on the Presidential Commission of Inquiry currently reads:
One editor wants the last paragraph to be changed to the following, as he believes both the Kearney and Manogaran sources have "accepted" the reasons attributed by Sansoni for the riots, whereas other editors believe that those sources are merely summarising Sansoni's reasons, and are not personal approvals. Do you agree with the proposed change below?
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The first sentence of the section on alleged war crimes in the Sri Lankan Civil War currently reads:
Should the last phrase read:
? Robert McClenon (talk) 23:06, 18 March 2024 (UTC) |
How should the place of birth of Mohamed Hadid be described? Prior RfC
FortunateSons (talk) 08:15, 18 March 2024 (UTC) |
Should Belarus be listed in the infobox, and accordingly described in other parts of the article concerning the events since 24 January 2024: (a). no (as at present); (b) as supported by; (c) as a co-belligerent; (d) without qualification?
Robert McClenon (talk) 07:27, 16 March 2024 (UTC) |
Should it be mentioned in this article, that the Canadian monarch resides in the United Kingdom? GoodDay (talk) 21:37, 13 March 2024 (UTC) |
Should we mention the exodus of Jews from Arab countries during and immediately after the war in the lede of this article? Alaexis¿question? 23:05, 7 March 2024 (UTC) |
Should the descriptor "charismatic" be used in the first lead paragraph, and if so, where? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:13, 7 March 2024 (UTC) |
In the lede, after the first casualty mentions, should we mention that some of the Israeli and Palestinian casualties were caused by friendly fire? If so, should we include this as a footnote or as direct text?
Specific wording would be determined through normal editing, but may be along the lines of:
04:07, 7 March 2024 (UTC) |
Is Talk:COVID-19_pandemic#Current_consensus #14 still valid?. It says: "Do not mention the theory that the virus was accidentally leaked from a laboratory in the article. (May 2020)" Jtbobwaysf (talk) 21:02, 4 March 2024 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
What is the reliability of OKO.press?
Previous RSN Discussion: February 2021 For some background, OKO.press is mentioned or cited on 129 articles across English Wikipedia. After a talk page discussion on Visegrád 24, it was mentioned that the source may not be reliable. Given this source is cited in CTOPS articles (including Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, LGBTQ articles, and Israel-Hamas war articles), an RFC is needed to reassess reliability. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 23:01, 3 March 2024 (UTC) |
- ^ "AP Investigation: UN troops lured kids into Haiti sex ring". AP News. 2017-04-12. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Kearney, Robert N. (March 1986). "Tension and Conflict in Sri Lanka". Current History. 85 (509): 110.
- ^ Hoole, Rajan (2001). "Chapter 2: Antecedents of July 1983 and the Foundations of Impunity". Sri Lanka: The Arrogance of Power : Myths, Decadence & Murder. University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna).
- ^ Sabaratnam, T. (23 November 2003). "Pirapaharan: Vol.1, Chap. 18 Tamils Lose Faith in Commissions". Ilankai Tamil Sangam.
- ^ Sivanayagam, S. (2005). Sri Lanka: Witness to History - A Journalist's Memoirs, 1930-2004. London: Sivayogam. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-9549647-0-2.
- ^ Manoharan, N. (2008). Democratic Dilemma: Ethnic Violence and Human Rights in Sri Lanka. New Delhi: Samskriti. p. 90. ISBN 9788187374503.
- ^ Amnesty International, June 11, 2009 Index Number: ASA 37/005/2009 Sri Lanka: Twenty years of make-believe. Sri Lanka’s Commissions of Inquiry, p.9, https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/asa370052009eng.pdf
- ^ Kishali Pinto Jayawardena, Sunday Times, Feb 17th 2008, Focus on Rights, Further reflections on commission inquiries and rights violations - Part Three, https://www.sundaytimes.lk/080217/Columns/focus.html
- ^ Kishali Pinto Jayawardena, Sunday Times, Oct 28th 2007, Discussing mock turtles and commissions of inquiry, https://www.sundaytimes.lk/080217/Columns/focus.html
- ^ de Silva, Premakumara; Haniffa, Farzana; Bastin, Rohan (2019), Ratuva, Steven (ed.), "Ethnicity and Violence in Sri Lanka: An Ethnohistorical Narrative", The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity, Singapore: Springer, p. 16, retrieved 2024-03-12
- ^ Manogaran, Chelvadurai (1987). Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 63–65. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Hoole, Rajan (2001). "Chapter 2: Antecedents of July 1983 and the Foundations of Impunity". Sri Lanka: The Arrogance of Power : Myths, Decadence & Murder. University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna).
- ^ Sabaratnam, T. (23 November 2003). "Pirapaharan: Vol.1, Chap. 18 Tamils Lose Faith in Commissions". Ilankai Tamil Sangam.