Talk:Al Dhafra Air Base

Using authoritative references rather than blogs

To whomever has added the blog osgeoint.blogspot.com please note Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:External links to try and focus on authority, and also to note that as the link is behind a login wall it is not a preferred point of reference. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:32, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

At the time the link was added it was freely accessible. It changed to invite-only about August 2012. Since it isn't now accessible I cannot determine how authoritative it is. I did look at in April last year, and the information did appear to be backed by satellite images. Are there any available archives or cached views of the entries we link to?-gadfium 21:43, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Number of French aircraft deployed

Quote: "the French Air Force use the base as French Military Settlement, French Air Force has 600 Mirage 2000-5F, 600 Dassault Rafale C, 51 C-135FR, 21 E-3 Sentry." Somehow I don't think these are the numbers actually deployed to this base. Are they they numbers that the French Air Force has in total? Why are they in this article? The article Abu Dhabi base gives more believable numbers for this base. Oktal (talk) 20:06, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism

• "French Air Force has 600 Mirage 2000-5F, 600 Dassault Rafale C, 51 C-135FR, 21 E-3 Sentry" - nope, this numbers are BS!! the French Air Force in total doesn't even have nearly that many planes! (i.e. in total: 58x Mirage 2000-5F, 76x Dassault Rafale C, 14x C-135FR, 4x E-3 Sentry)
• "380th Air Expeditionary Wing has 120 KC-10 Extender, 14 Boeing E-3 Sentry, 40 U-2 Dragon Lady, 50 RQ-4A/B block 20-30 / EQ-4/RQ-4N Global Hawk deployed to the air base... 240 F-15E strike eagle, 400 F/A-18E Super Hornet, 150 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Bombers, and 53 Nuclear silos on the base" Garbage!!! The Air Force has i.e. 76x Boeing B-52 in total... also all other numbers are BS!!
• Also the US does not have a permanently deployed Patriot Battalion in the UAE!

removed all this crap, that was added by an IP! noclador (talk) 09:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

fr:Base aérienne 104 Al Dhafra

The corresponding French article has significant differences, at least as to location. The distance from Abu Dhabi differs by about 10 km and the GeoCoord differs by about 30 seconds of latitude and 15 seconds of longitude. I can't read French well even to determine if there are other differences. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:53, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

27 January 2022

Hello, with regards to your latest entry to the article Al Dhafra Air Base I see that you have deleted a sound source replacing it with another one. You can always add additional sources but you cannot call any source "better" and delete it. Therefore I would like you to reinclude the omitted source to the article please. İyi vikiler...Ogün Eratalay ^message 11:37, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

User:Ertly I have moved your comment from my UP to here where it belongs. Reuters is written in English, is RS and so is by every measure a "better" source for English WP. Mztourist (talk) 13:13, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

User:Mztourist you add information, not delete it. That should be the attitude for Wiki contributors. Furthermore the event was covered earlier than Reuters in the mentioned source so chronologically it has to be in the sources. Also be it in English or not, it is a source whether you like it or not. Sorry...Ogün Eratalay ^message 13:34, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

No, if there is a better source that supersedes what's there there is no obligation to retain the original source. It doesn't matter what came first, what matters is what Reliable Source(s) contain the most detail. The Reuters story detailed the missiles used by the Houthis (Zulfiqars), the missiles used to shoot them down (Patriots) and who fired them (US), none of which was contained in the earlier Turkish language source. Mztourist (talk) 14:12, 27 January 2022 (UTC)