User talk:Cbelisle

Portrayal of ISIS in American Media
I am not sure, as a regular editor, whether it is my place to say it but thanks for work done on the above named article. This is just a heads up that this article has been mentioned for editor input at Talk:ISIL and, after considering placing a first response there, I thought that I would defer to your talk page. I hope this is alright. Anyway, this is what I was in the midst of saying:
 * Clearly substantial work has been put into presenting a well written article but with the majority of the work being done by a single author which, in itself, is not necessarily bad.
 * My observations are that there is not yet an article on Portrayal of ISIS in Media and that the mentioned article might be moved so as to form a significant contribution for an more widely based article. I also think that the lead might be widened so as to cover a greater spread of issues.  It currently reads: "The American news media portrays the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant organization as a savage militant group who harbors a strong hatred for the American public. The media recognizes their advancements in terms of utilizing technology and social media, as seen in their beheading videos."  In Britain the main coverage is on ongoing confrontation with surrounding Shia, Sunni, international and other forces in Iraq and Syria region and of coverage by politicians.
 * The rest of the article starts, "After the killing of American journalist James Foley in August 2014 by members of ISIS" and I would hope that a future form of article could provide an earlier contextualisation of history than this. (Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād originated in 1999).
 * Media outlets like CNN are multinational and I don't know of the extent to which Al-Jazeera America is best categorised as being American.
 * I hope here for contributions from US and North American based editors and have also notified the pri...

[and I was about to say primary author when I pulled on the breaks].

If this is your first article then, from others I have seen, it is a lot better than most. I hope you don't mind my inputs here. I would personally prefer to see content be broadened and widened if possible. I am also wary of unnecessary focus being placed on ISIL vs the west presentations if, in any case, these representations go beyond situations that exist but this is just my perspective on things. GregKaye 10:55, 6 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I'd like to add my thanks for your work on this article. EastTN (talk) 20:41, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Ditto from me, I found it quite by accident since it is not linked yet from anywhere and posted a link to the ISIL talk page because it gets a lot of traffic. An interesting and worthwhile topic. We should do a page move to ISIL over ISIS to fit the naming conventions in wikipedia. Gregkeye you can't notify yourself LOL. Legacypac (talk) 03:55, 7 January 2015 (UTC)