Template talk:History of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Formatting issues
First, the box should be narrower, perhaps 315px (328x456 now). Second, which template was this based off of? Third, wlinks are non-standard - could lead to unwanted or confusing behavior.~Technophant (talk) 02:54, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * User: ༆, User:P123ct1, User:TRAJAN 117 & User:Atifabbasi8. There's two open threads discussing the formatting of this sidebar. One is at Village Pump/Technical here and the other at Talk:ISIL., User:Gregkaye has reverted my change to use a normal link for ISIL here because " "bold is not necesssary and spoils the layout". I tried a test edit of using no selflink here and tried previewing pages that it's used on, however as with other Article_series sidebars it's expected that when the page you are on is shown in the box it will show up as bold. It's currently being used on ISIL and the self-link is blue and causes the page to reload and jump to the top. This isn't what should happen. Also, changes to this template should be discussed here as this template is now being transcluded on almost a dozen articles.~Technophant (talk) 06:41, 7 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I created Template:History of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/sandbox for test edits.~Technophant (talk) 13:04, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Great Seal of the Islamic State
"Great Seal of the Islamic State" is a proper name however I can not find a reliable source (or any source outside enwiki to confirm that this is the correct title. So without verification I'm going to change it to "Seal of the Islamic State" for now. FYI: To see list of other pages starting with "Great Seal of" click here.~Technophant (talk) 07:03, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, we have an article now on the Flag of the Islamic State perhaps that could be included with the seal or in place of the seal. If this was series was about the government of ISIL then perhaps the seal would more appropriate for that. ~Technophant (talk) 07:41, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Hilf al-Mutayyabin
On IS offical Vedio they said that Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad was established in 2003 and then AQI then MSC then Hilf al-Mutayyabin حلف المطيبين which was an alliance between MSC and Iraqi Sunni tribes and then the ISI. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ekZQXGZcM So I think Hilf al-Mutayyabin should be in this list 3bdulelah (talk) 14:56, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 3bdulelah The link now connects to a standard YouTube "This video has been removed because its content violated YouTube's Terms of Service." The reference we use is from http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/ResearchNote_20_Zelin.pdf . Internet searches on variations of the groups names from 2002 and earlier get results and I am unsure of connection to other groups with the same name.  Information needs to be corroborated.  GregKaye 13:42, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Width
Some of the lines in this sidebar make the entire box take up 397 pixels of width - this is problematic for some screen sizes in articles where the sidebar is included at the top of the article (eg Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL).

Many screen sizes on old laptops are only 1024 pixels wide.

I've added two breaks in the longest lines. This reduces the width of the box by about 100 pixels. -- Callinus (talk) 02:24, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Lost territory in Syria does not mean the terrorist group no longer exists. Legacypac (talk) 00:24, 25 March 2019 (UTC)