Template talk:Infobox terrorist attack
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[edit] Template
It's sad that the current events of the world we live in have dictated the creation of a "terrorist attack" template on wikipedia. May every human being on this lonely planet get a chance to live in peace and harmony. sikander 20:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. [1]
- ^ a b Sagan, Carl. A Thought by Astronomer Carl Sagan. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space.
[edit] Punctuation
This is a bit minor, but the time-begin and time-end should really be separated by an endash, rather than a hyphen. I'd fix it myself, but I can't even begin to figure out how. Salmar 15:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- I feel that would be much easier to type in if it's just a hyphen. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 15:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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- You don't have to type it in... the template adds it in automatically, someone just needs to change it.—Salmar 18:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Oh, I understand what you were saying. I thought you were saying that the time-begin and time-end parameters should really be time — begin and time — end. I made the change. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 19:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Sorry for bothering you even more, but you just changed the hyphen to an emdash, but it should be an endash (–) Salmar 21:24, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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- But then, by looking at your edit, I figured out how to fix it myself (-: Salmar 21:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Width
Some changes have been made to the template, and now it seems to be just slightly too narrow—on some pages (see, for example, World Trade Center bombing), the (s) in Perpetrator(s) is on the line under the word Perpetrator. —Salmar 01:01, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
