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Archive 1

Making the map greater

How can we improve the map? It would be awesome if it could look like this map here.--Rævhuld (talk) 13:46, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

43

AP, Reuters put toll at 43. Sca (talk) 16:19, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Recent event template

Information may change rapidly as the event progresses....

This should be reworded. As with most bombings and other terrorist attacks, the event itself was over quickly; thus, it's not "progressing." Tag should say something like, "Information may change as details become available." Sca (talk) 14:33, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
While you are right (!) it's just a template tag. So we would have to change the whole template, which is a lot of work for a t[[ag that is removed in the next week.--Rævhuld (talk) 14:59, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Rævhuld, yeah, but this tag is used on other sudden, quick events, too – in which case it is equally erroneous. Sca (talk) 16:03, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Sca That is true. But if you want to change the template, I think you might write on the talk page of the template?--Rævhuld (talk) 16:05, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
I looked for this one at Wikipedia:Template messages/Maintenance and Help:Maintenance template removal but didn't find it. Sca (talk) 16:23, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

News footage in Tanta

I have viewed the news footage and added the YouTube link as a reference to the article. The assembly is not "singing hymns" but chanting the Alexandrian Rite Divine Liturgy. 72.201.104.140 (talk) 01:31, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

You're going to need more than just YouTube as a source, you know... Cyrus the Penner (talk) 01:49, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
No WP:OR is being performed, it is simply reporting what was in the video. I don't know why you think unsourced incorrect information is better than WP:PRIMARY sourced correct information. That is what you have been defending. 72.201.104.140 (talk) 01:51, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Really doubt a video alone counts as a reliable source... Cyrus the Penner (talk) 01:52, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Please read WP:PRIMARY 72.201.104.140 (talk) 01:56, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
"Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources." Hence my argument that YouTube isn't enough, and that you need a secondary source. Cyrus the Penner (talk) 01:58, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
I provided a source when there was none. That was an improvement. You deleted the source leaving unsourced text. That is destructive. 72.201.104.140 (talk) 01:59, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
The video is now published by Levant Media and heavy.com, so now has secondary sources. WWGB (talk) 02:00, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. Those can be used in lieu of YouTube. Cyrus the Penner (talk) 02:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
The YouTube link uses Levant Media's channel ALREADY. 72.201.104.140 (talk) 02:03, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Oh. Cyrus the Penner (talk) 02:04, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Smartquotes

@Fitzcarmalan: My edit repairing smartquotes and verb tense was undone without explanation, but I restored it. Please be careful with recent edits. 72.201.104.140 (talk) 13:10, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Category

@WWGB: there is categry indicate that it is done in the name of islam which is :Islamist attacks on churches. So there is no need to repeat categories--مصعب (talk) 09:22, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't think so.208.114.36.245 (talk) 21:41, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

ISIS or ISIL?

I Change ISIL to ISIS. Is that a good edit? I'm Trying to make it so that laymen will understand.208.114.36.245 (talk) 21:43, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Perpetrator

The Bombing section names one perpetrator per a non-English source. The Responsibility section names a different perpetrator. I only read English so this discrepancy needs to be addressed by someone else. Prancingzebra (talk) 17:35, 13 October 2018 (UTC)