Talk:Barrancabermeja
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I introduced a big part of Barrancabermeja's page in Spanish Wikipedia and an Infobox.
[edit] Outdated Source
The report cited to prove the collaboration of Colombia's military with paramilitaries in the history section (http://www.hrw.org/reports98/colombia/Colom989-04.htm) seems out of date to me. I don't know whether the situation might have stayed the same, but I believe a 10-year-old source is too old for a current topic like this. Deivo 17:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Re: Outdated source Deivo, unless you have evidence that we can link to to support the case that the situation has indeed changed I don't think it would be fair to assume that it has. Even the US State Department recognizes that there has historically been a link between government and paramilitary forces. From a report from the Center for Defense Information: "Colombian and U.S. human rights organizations, the United Nations, and the U.S. State Department, have repeatedly reported collaboration between the military and paramilitary forces. According to a 2002 U.S. State Department report, "members of the security forces collaborated with paramilitary groups that committed abuses, in some instances allowing such groups to pass through roadblocks, sharing information, or providing them with supplies or ammunition." I will look for more recent official reports to document it but not to mention this controversial history would be disingenuous to say the least. barb 19:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)barb
[edit] Citation Style
I went through adding and updating citations to this article but am unsure of which citation style to use since I used a combination of web sources and non-web sources. I'd like to have the footnote numbers link to their respective full citations under the "References/Works Cited" section but I don't know how to do that. (I think a numbered system rather than the traditional author-date format would work better because some sources are websites).
Also I added the "References/Works Cited" section to be separate from the "Sources" section because while the latter may be general source information the former is a citation to back up a specific statement. If this is an incorrect assumption I apologize; it made sense to me! barb 21:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)barb
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