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List of ISAF installations in Afghanistan
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On the List of ISAF installations in Afghanistan article please do not link every instance of the unit the first couple mentions are fine but no more. WP:Overlink says "Generally, a link should appear only once in an article, but if helpful for readers, links may be repeated in infoboxes, tables, image captions, footnotes, and at the first occurrence after the lead."

Please do not change U.S. Army to USA in the forces column it's misleading and I doubt very much when someone thinks about the USA they are thinking about the army not the country.

Gavbadger (talk) 18:44, 16 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Good Evening, sorry about the change to your sandbox but Wikipedia does not allow categories in sandboxes but you can still click on them to see the actual category.
 * In the actual List of ISAF installations in Afghanistan article as we sorting the installations in their tables by TYPE and alphabetically or by something else? Gavbadger (talk) 23:21, 20 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Gavbadger(talk)
 * Good evening to you as well.


 * No worries, I had just copied 100% of the live list into the sandbox to tweak it without messing up the original in the process. I can now clean up the ol' sandbox it looks like - I think we have this page looking quite nice.  I'll keep digging for links and filling stuff in.  Thanks for letting me add to your article and great thanks for the help! Cheers!


 * VTCofC (talk) 23:30, 20 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Ok, by the way no-one on Wikipedia can own an article it's against the Wikipedia Core policies to do as such, I merely merged together several installations from numerous pages into one article, also we need to decide on the width of the tables as none of them match and the date format for the opening and closing dates, I have been using "20 Nov 03" format for the British ones but we could easily swap it around for the American one's. What do you think? Gavbadger (talk) 23:38, 20 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Gavbadger(talk)
 * Sorry about that, I missed the second part of your message. I hadn't put all that much thought into it, I was thinking ordering them by installation size with provincial HQs at the top (i.e.: Khost would be Salerno then other FOBs, Camps, COPs, FBs...) Thoughts?  I figure if an alphabetical (or chronological) list is desired, there is always the sort function. Take a gander at my sandbox, if you'd like, and look at Kabul Province, any thoughts on the way the country and forces cols are combined and now link the country flags to the garrisoned forces versus as opposed to two separate columns?


 * Policy or not, you put in the leg work into making it happen so in a round about way - you can claim it, hopefully I didn't butcher it too bad. On dates, I was trying to go through and use the date tag format in the top of the article edit of MM DD YYYY.  As a horrible American, I actually use the British date format, the military ingrained it in me, and since the majority of NATO uses the same (or similar) format I'm totally fine with keeping it MM DD YYYY.  VTCofC (talk) 23:48, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I reckon it should be provincial HQ -> Airfield -> Camp -> MOB -> FOB -> COP -> PB -> FB -> Strong Point. I completely agree with Kabul in your sandbox it looks much better. By the date do you mean 11-21-2013 (today) or November, 21 2003? Gavbadger (talk) 00:03, 21 November 2013 (UTC). Edited again (forgot Airfield) Gavbadger (talk) 00:19, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That makes sense to me, except in the cases of sub camps like the ones on Bagram or Pucino on Salerno. Put those right beneath the parent base?  I'll slowly get around to changing the flags over and merging the two columns.  Re: Dates, I was going by for dates, I was going off the first line in the edit of "Use dmy dates|date=October 2013" and was going dd mmm yyyy ergo... 20 Nov 2013 (today, over here) you're way smarter on the formatting than I so I will defer to you on that one, just let me know what to change em to.VTCofC (talk) 00:12, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, that sounds brilliant re the bases. Ok let's change them to 21 Nov 2013 then, I won't bother changing the dates within the references that only show up in the Reflist though unless it is specifically asked for. Gavbadger (talk) 00:19, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

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