User talk:Ppmet1949
Blocked[edit]
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, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Nick-D (talk) 04:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)Ppmet1949 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
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I agree with all the editing criticisms that resulted in my blocking, and am chagrined at my recent run of sloppiness. #1 I agree that I too liberally used unattributed language in the following edit: September 8, 2008 - Chora District Governor and tribal leader Rozi Khan Barekzai was among a number of people killed when an Australian patrol became involved in a firefight. In a 2011 interview on Australian television, the son of Rozi Khan (the first democratically elected leader of Uruzgan province) said his father's death had encouraged many to join the insurgency. ?UNIQ43bfa6d57d663789-nowiki-00000003-QINU?1?UNIQ43bfa6d57d663789-nowiki-00000004-QINU? ?UNIQ43bfa6d57d663789-nowiki-00000006-QINU?2?UNIQ43bfa6d57d663789-nowiki-00000007-QINU? The summary could have been much shorter in any event. #2 I agree that I used an obviously unreliable source, as follows: *December 11, 2010 - At least 8 Afghan Civilians were killed in an ISAF Airstrike in Zermatt in Paktia province. Jets attacked in an area where some Afghan workers were working on road construction. ?UNIQ43bfa6d57d663789-nowiki-00000009-QINU?3?UNIQ43bfa6d57d663789-nowiki-0000000A-QINU? Quite frankly, I just missed the fact that it was a blog and not a recognized news source. I shall not repeat this error. #3 I admit I improperly inserted a POV in the following edit: August 26. 2011 - Six Afghani civilians (all members of the same family) were the recipients of enduring freedom from an ISAF air strike in the Baraki Barak district of Logar province according to a local official. I apologize for this. A non-POV edit is very simple to implement. #4 I used an incorrect citation for an event dated August 8, 2011. The incorrect citation was inadvertently copied from the penultimate page of my search (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/08/us-afghanistan-violence-idUSTRE7750UW20110808) The correct citation is: http://www.reuters.com/article/video/idUSTRE7750UW20110808?videoId=218070479 and is a video report. #5 I admit that I used an incorrect citation as follows: http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/08/21/3-killed-13-injured-paktia-kunar-incidents I do not understand what happened to the link to make the citation invalid, and I was aware that an editor had posted a "dead link" notice next to the entry. Pajhwok Afghan News is a good site for reporting casualties that the larger press organizations do not cover, so my plan was to try to figure out what had happened to the original story. Normally I cross verify if I can when a larger news organization runs the same story. However, I simply got busy getting the kids ready for school the past week, and I should have just deleted the event. In the future if a link becomes dead I would plan to keep a separate "tickler" file in a word document rather than keep the dead link up, so I can investigate it when I have time. I apologize for the inconvenience I have caused. Ppmet1949 (talk) 12:43, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
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Civilian casualties in the War in Afghanistan[edit]
There's a discussion at Talk:Civilian casualties in the War in Afghanistan (2001–present) that largely concerns editing work you have done, if you would like to add your thoughts. Formats (talk) 06:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)