Talk:Second Sudanese Civil War

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Contents 1 Early discussion 2 Copyright problem? 3 Infuriating 4 WP:MILHIST Assessment 5 1002 agreement and the Darfur conflict?

[edit] Early discussion

The section under the heading "Outbreak" has some problems with chronology; the first two paragraphs need to be disentangled. Also, why is "Outbreak" an appropriate heading?

--babbage 13:09, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You're right. It is confused. Hopefully we can sort that out. Why is "outbreak" not an appropriate heading? If you can think of a better one, feel free to put it in.

Peregrine981 03:49, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Reading the content of this article, and considering the lack of an article on the first Sudanese civil war, I think it would be better if we retitled the article Sudanese Civil War. This would make the article better because it would be more holistic. If that article approached size limits we could think again about splitting the articles. :ChrisG 18:59, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Allright, if you like the idea. I suppose it makes sense considering the lack of expertise on the area available on Wikipedia.

Peregrine981 02:12, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

I disagree. Lack of expertise shouldn't mean we ignore facts. The first Sudanese civil war can be a candidate of WP:Bias if necessary - Xed 02:15, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In the current revision, the last three paragraphs of the section "Background and causes" and the start of "Outbreak" are still a bit confused. The narrative doesn't flow smoothly. -- Jmabel | Talk 09:15, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

And the tail end of "Outbreak" cuts off mid-sentence. -- Jmabel | Talk 09:20, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC) And that fragment seems identical to the beginning of "1985-1991". -- Jmabel | Talk 09:25, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

What can possibly be meant by, "The civil war was particularly divisive (see “Civil Strife” below)." No such section, and it should go without saying that war is divisive. -- Jmabel | Talk 09:31, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

I've addressed the cut off sentence and "divisive" problem. The divisive sentence was redundant, and the repeating sentence is an artifact of cut and paste from "History of Sudan". The flow problems result from being cut and paste from that article, which was in its own turn cut and pasted from the U.S. Dept of State. Since then many minor revisions and additions have been made, making it slightly convoluted. Hopefully we can slowly clean it up. Peregrine981 11:18, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright problem?

The last paragraph on this website is copyrighted. [1] (It starts with "In August 1991, internal dissention")

The second paragraph under Conduct of the war: 1991-2001 has the first sentence of the copyrighted paragraph word for word. In the fourth paragraph under the same title the rest of the copyrighted paragraph can be found. The fourth paragraph begins with "In September 1992, William Nyon Bany"

I was wondering if we have permission from GlobalSecurity.org or if I am wrong. Also other parts of our article is copied from the same website.

I wasn't sure who to ask about this or what to do so I posted it here.NeoJustin 17:01 Nov. 14, 2004 (UTC)

I got that text from History of Sudan. Looking back I see that User:Stan Shebs got it from the U.S. department of State website. [2] I think that clears us of any copyright violation, although it is somewhat dismaying for the quality of this article, as it now seems that about 75-80% is lifted straight from the US government. Peregrine981 03:57, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Infuriating

"This has infuriated many groups…": Are you saying that the Borgen project has infuriated these groups? Or what? On a second read, I suspect that is not what you mean. Could you reword this more clearly, and also with some thought as to what is relevant to an article on an African war, not one on U.S. politics? -- Jmabel | Talk 05:21, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:MILHIST Assessment

A very nice article, long, detailed, and with pictures, maps, and infobox. Needs references though. LordAmeth 20:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1002 agreement and the Darfur conflict?

From the article:

The agreement reached during this war in 2002 is also one of the causes of the Darfur conflict.

Should "2002" be replaced with "2005" or was there some agreement in 2002 that our article glosses over? AxelBoldt 01:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC)