User talk:DylanLacey

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World War II
Hi Dylan, I've just reverted your change to this article again as the World War II casualties does not provide a source for this figure, while the figure in the World War II article is referenced. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 09:16, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Syria groups
The table in which you put the Future Movement and your references is for the main conflict in Syria. None of your sources confirm the Future Movement is involved in fighting in Syria. One only talks vaguely about arms support (like Turkey, Qatar, etc). Your references talk about the group's involvement in fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon. We have a separate table for that issue titled Spillover in Lebanon, where the group is already listed. EkoGraf (talk) 11:00, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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 * List of wars involving New Zealand (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
 * added links pointing to War in Afghanistan, Zangezur, Maori and Nakhichevan

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 * List of wars involving New Zealand (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
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Picking and choosing sources
Picking and choosing sources goes against the policy in wp:npov. Please don't do it again. Consider this a caution. Pass a Method  talk  22:57, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You never explained, or provided conflicting sources, or discussed on the talk page the conflicting sources regarding Iraq's presence in the Syrian civil war. It is at worst a grey area, considering that Iraq worked alongside Syria against the rebels in the spillover in Iraq. I don't believe I was being biased, since I derived my sources regarding Iraq from the page Foreign involvement in the Syrian civil war which lists Iraq as a supporter of the Syrian government, and provides four sources. DylanLacey (talk) 00:14, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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al qaeda
since you and i are involved in a dispute with Sopher99, please discuss the subjcet at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Al-Qaeda#al_nusra_front_direct_or_indirect_affiliate Ionchari (talk) 20:36, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * since you were involved, can you please fix the problem at the al qaeda article Ionchari (talk) 20:55, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Questionable deletions
You have already been cautioned in the past about questionable additions and deletions. Yesterday you made another deletion here. Please be more careful. Is there a reason you removed Syrian resistence? Pass a Method  talk  22:50, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Syrian resistance
Hey I agree with you about the Syrian resistance and not adding small groups. I already have my 1 revert on the infobox in the past 24 hours, but you don't, so you could simply remove it. Sopher99 (talk) 15:12, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

List of wars involving the United States
Hi,

to reduce formatting complexity. You initially formatted each cell with a specific background color (i.e. style="background:#efefef"). However, the "wikitable" style already applies a near-identical color by default. I removed your color overrides for each cell, and the resulting difference is imperceptible.

Likewise, I attempted to simplify your color styling of the header row (i.e. style="background:#002299"). Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the "wikitable" style refuses to accept row-level formatting for the background color (though it did accept row-level formatting for the text color). I went ahead and kept your cell-level coloring, but simplified the color choice to "navy". Again, this results in an imperceptible change.

Thank you for starting the cleanup on that page. It was a pathetic mess when I first visited it, and your new table is much improved. I, myself, have no knowledge about the article, so I'm hesitant to make the kind of change you implemented (like, I wasn't clear as to which data points were even valid for inclusion in that page, and which ones should be deleted for being outside the scope of the topic).

—Samatict (talk) 06:09, 24 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help with formatting. I copied the template from other "List of wars involving..." pages. My motivation was that there were pages for wars involving small African countries that had far better coverage than this one, which is kind of ridiculous considering the significance of U.S. foreign policy. I plan to continue reformatting, due to the systemic bias and inaccuracies of the older conflicts section. But I am not sure how to go about formatting WWII into the new format (with the different theaters). Any suggestions would be welcome. DylanLacey (talk) 06:23, 24 November 2013 (UTC)


 * You can solve the WWII theaters issue by giving that entire war its own table (and thus having the necessary number of columns). I actually think the page would be much improved if the wars were broken up across a few tables (e.g. Revolutionary War, 1785-1811, War of 1812, 1815-1845, Mexican-American War, 1847-1860, Civil War, etc). This would allow the Table of Contents at the top to provide quick access to various points in the chronology.


 * Currently, finding a war pretty much necessitates massive scrolling, or repetitive use of the CTRL+F find function of the browser. Large tables get really unwieldy, especially as new data points are added. Also, finding a specific cell to edit is difficult when the whole table has to be loaded for modification.
 * —Samatict (talk) 07:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Syrian civil war
Hey Dylan, I would appreciate it if you removed the taliban from the Syrian civil war infobox, as they are only a minor group and their leaders have said there has been no official decision to participate in Syria, and only arabs have went there on their own decision. Sopher99 (talk) 00:59, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks for letting me know. DylanLacey (talk) 01:05, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Sopher99 (talk) 01:28, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Inappropriate cut/pasting between articles
Dylan you seem to be cut/pasting the "Other deadly events" section of the article List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll to the article List of genocides by death toll. There's been discussion on the article's talk page about moving material around. Maybe you should join it. The material you're cutting and pasting is not the genocides portion of the article, it's "other deadly events". You'll notice that they're not listed in the "Genocides and alleged genocides" section of the articles because most of them are either clearly not genocides (Mao Zedong era, Nanking massacre, Operation Condor, Sanctions against Iraq, Great Fire of Smyrna, etc) or their scope is debated and either falls short of or exceeds the parameters of a genocide (Soviet Crimes, Crimes in the Congo Free State, etc). Please stop just cutting and pasting. If yo're still confused please utilize the talk pages of the articles in question. GraniteSand (talk) 19:00, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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List of wars involving Germany
East Germany's wars don't belong on that list in the same way as wars of the Republic of Hawaii or the Texas Republic don't belong on the list of war involving the USA. It's not the same country. There is probably not a list of Texan wars, but a chapter in the History of Texas. The same goes for East Germany.--Beliar (talk) 20:34, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey there, I disagree. Texas or Hawaii republics did not claim to represent the United States, as a whole. 'East Germany' is not the name of the country, it was the 'German Democratic Republic', meaning it claimed to be 'Germany' (As did West Germany). Germany has been a wide variety of political entities in its brief history as a sovereign state; and ideally this article should encompass all of them. I will add more information to the beginning of the article as clarification. DylanLacey (talk) 03:53, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you
Hey, thanks for showing support for my edit on "List of wars involving the United States". I've cleaned up the damage inflicted by vandals and have added more sourced information to prevent further vandalizing and edit warring. Thanks again for your support. UnbiasedVictory (talk) 09:24, 19 June 2014 (UTC)}}

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Al-Qaida flag
Hello. Regarding your change of the flag image at al-Qaida from the generic white-on-black shahadah to the flag of Jabhat an-Nusrah: Why do you think should this flag be used as the main image for the article? Why is it "more relevant"? Jabhat an-Nusrah is only one of several direct affiliates of al-Qaida central. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, and al-Shabaab are also direct affiliates, but they use a very different flag (the same flag as ISIS).

Previously an image representing the Flag of al-Qaida in Iraq was used in the al-Qaida article. This caused a great deal of misinformation - many infoboxes still use as the Flag of al-Qaida. This was made worse by redirecting to Flag of al-Qaeda in Iraq.svg. I have redirected Flag of al-Qaeda.svg to. I provided a source identifying this as the flag of al-Qaida: "The traditional al-Qaeda flag has a black rectangular background with the words “There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God” written in the Thuluth Islamic script." (i.e., ) ... "After this split [between ISI and al-Qaida], Jabhat al-Nusra abandoned the ISI flag, which it raised for two years in Syria and adopted the original al-Qaeda flag, with the addition of the words “Jabhat al-Nusra”" ... "Osama bin Laden appeared in speeches, messages and photos with the original al-Qaeda flag in the background." See photo from Bin Laden's 1998 press conference: http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/images/zawahiri-bin-laden.jpg.

If it is appropriate to use the white-on-black shahadah flag to represent al-Qaida in infoboxes, then it should be fine to use it as the main image for the al-Qaida article. --Axiom292 (talk) 22:01, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

August 2014
Hello, I'm Iryna Harpy. I noticed that you made a change to an article, List of wars involving Russia, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't need a source; I was trimming redundant content in the table, like listing both parts of the Novorossiya confederation, when the table needs to briefly list the belligerents, or when 'Georgian government' was listed instead of just 'Georgia'. Did you even look at what my edit was? DylanLacey (talk) 07:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Correct protocol is to take it to the relevant talk page so as discuss major changes with other editors. It's known as WP:BRD, not WP:BRRRRRRD. Note, also, that the D stand for discuss, not disregard. Also, please provide WP:ES even for minor changes. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 07:19, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

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Intervention in Donbass
Hi mate, i just wondered why you reverted the change on intervention in Donbass. A supposed military itnervetnion is denied by Russia, and that is kind of essential to the context. Since is says denied by Russia on the page "War in Donbass", why can it not say so in this article aswell?
 * Hey, I believe that it's important to just keep very key details in that section, it should be very limited. I'll go ahead and take that whole line out, the Minsk Protocol should cover it. DylanLacey (talk) 21:47, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

WWII Infobox vote
Hello, I noticed that you voiced your opinion regarding the WWII Infobox debate, and I'd like to point to the formal voting mechanism in the Request for comment: WWII infobox section of the WWII talk page. There are three option available to anyone that wants to cast a vote. --E-960 (talk) 10:19, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

My apologies
...if I was a bit rough with you -- I was in a hurry, and should probably have left it until I had more time in my hands. We can discuss it later, ey? --Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 06:11, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Not a problem; I agree that the Peshmerga should be included (just other groups are more important). DylanLacey (talk) 06:20, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Israel is not a combatant in Syrian Civil War
This has been discussed many times and there just are no RS to add Israel into the infobox including the map key. You risk sanctions for making edits like this one. Legacypac (talk) 01:47, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * What do you mean no reliable sources? It's a map of Syria. Do you deny that the Golan Heights is controlled by Israel? Including Israel in the key does not infer that Israel is a combatant in the civil war. DylanLacey (talk) 03:07, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Obviously Golan is occupied by Israel for decades, but naming them in the map legend suggests strongly they are a combatant in the Civil War. We don't name other countries shown either. Legacypac (talk) 04:26, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Iraqi Insurgency fatalities
Hi. I see you’ve changed my edit about Iraqi insurgency cumulative fatalities, deleting the brackets “civilians only”. Since the introduction to the page says that “Fatality figures include both civilian and military deaths unless otherwise indicated”, and Iraq Body Count data include only civilian deaths, I think it should be indicated (with something more than just a plus sign), or another source for combatant deaths should be found. For the year 2014, an article of analysis by IBC included combatant deaths estimates, and I had indicated them distinguishing them from the civilian deaths, which are not estimates but documented deaths. I see you have added the two data and put a plus sign, which may be a bit misleading, but acceptable since the quotation clarifies the issue.Nykterinos (talk) 10:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

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