Talk:Taliban Five

my recent edit
.... note: not that I'm against slamming McCain in principle, or calling out a flip flop of his. but make sure it's germane to the article subject. a slam is OK for outsidethebeltway.com, but Wikipedia has to be more careful about this I think. Tangy 303 Mamet Sauce (talk) 01:12, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

calling for discussion
In this edit excised the following passage with the edit summary ''"not sure what McCain's position change has to do with anything. also, "inclined to support.. depending on a lot of details" is hardly the stark, absolute opposite of "oppose". .. The cited article narrative is kind of a slam... probably not encyclopedic"'' WRT Tango303's question of "what McCain's position change has to do with anything." Excuse me, but isn't McCain a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee?

WRT the assertion "The cited article narrative is kind of a slam... probably not encyclopedic" -- Tango303, are you are arguing that Outside the beltway is not a WP:Reliable Source? Did you check the archives at WP:Reliable source noticeboard? My search shows nothing.

Very few of the references our articles use are, in and of themselves, written from what we would regard as a neutral point of view. You do understand that it is the responsibility of wikipedia contributors to make sure the generally biased sources we use as references are used in a non-biased way? Geo Swan (talk) 22:02, 1 June 2015 (UTC)


 * fine. I conceded everything, bro. don't hang all this on me. it's whatever. do your thing, man. everything's gravy. Tangy 303 Mamet Sauce (talk) 23:50, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Fixing inadequate references
The article had three references unnecessarily duplicated five times. I wrote to the contributor who was too careless or inexperienced to write the references they used in the standard way, and they told me my concerns were "OCD". So, I fixed it myself. Geo Swan (talk) 14:08, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Was money paid along with their release?
This article outlines the basics:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/19/inside-the-ring-ransom-paid-for-bergdahl/

The story is widely reported on less reputable right-wing sites as "Obama paid $5 billion in ransom", which seems implausible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZeroXero (talk • contribs) 23:45, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Involved in new Afghan government
Someone update articles with this:

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/current-taliban-leader-was-freed-exchange-deserter-bergdahl-obama-2014

https://nypost.com/2021/08/16/taliban-leader-was-freed-from-guantanamo-in-2014-swap-by-obama/

Too afraid any edits I make will get reverted due to violating some rule 73.65.167.168 (talk) 18:11, 17 August 2021 (UTC)