Talk:Battle of Tabqa Airbase

"Evacuated" or "routed"?
The following talk item was originally contributed by user:Tgoll774 within Talk:2014 Eastern Syria offensive, 4 days after the proposal to create the article page accompanying this talk page, but weeks before the proposal was acted on. I have now eliminated the essentially verbatim duplication of the long section that resulted, by turning 2014 Eastern Syria offensive into a section-stub that links to the article accompanying this talk page. --Jerzy•t 08:19, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Pictures released by IS show at least four maybe five MiG 21Bs captured. Base clearly looks overrun, so it was not evacuated but routed. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/08/islamic_state_photos.php --Tgoll774 (talk) 13:00, 28 August 2014 (UTC) Preceding talk contrib & its sig copied here from Talk:2014 Eastern Syria offensive by Jerzy•t 08:19, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Tgoll's lk provides numerous photos with Arabic captions, what may or not be translations of them, and lots of chat (w/o evidence of credentials that i noticed). I don't see any sign of a reliable source, tho the pics could be reason to go looking for RSs.  Tangentially but perhaps far more importantly, MiG 21B? (Not, i assume, same as MiG 21bis.) And readers deserve RS better than the page at that ext-lk, which mentions only who-knows-whose supposed identification of "MiG[s]" -- and without even mention of  "MiG 21", let alone  "MiG 21B".   One should let
 * the mis-identification of the East-Bloc K-13 Atoll missiles (as the U.S. Sidewinder that it emulates) persisting for 8 or 9 weeks and about 230 edits (in spite of its attribution on WP being to a Twitter tweet, and the casual "clearly looks", as if there were not a specialties called "photo interpretation" and forensic investigation, and the lack of seasoning of the editor --14 edits and 9 days)
 * jointly and severally serve as object-lessons on making a decent effort to get it right the first time, and on frequently paying attention to others' additions and changes. --Jerzy•t 08:19, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

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