Talk:Battle of the Forward Defence Lines

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Contents 1 Number of LTTE fighters 2 Disputed tag 3 Recent edits 4 Extending the edit restriction (bluebox) 5 Start-date of the battle 6 Casualty accounts

[edit] Number of LTTE fighters

• The number of LTTE fighters is given here as 5000. But this is an estimation given by the army commander, and the actual number is believed to be much higher isn't it? Chamal (talk) 13:02, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed tag

Article only contain all claim by the Sri Lankan Army/ GoSL and nothing is even mentioned about the LTTE claim. In fact, even the casualty figure and the battles are only the story of the GoSL. As no LTTE, the second side of the conflict, is provided this article's neutrality and accuracy are both disputed. Watchdogb (talk) 15:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The Background and Battle sections are badly cited. Most claim in the section and article are not referenced to a source. Watchdogb (talk) 12:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Recent edits

The edit here violates many rules. First, the edit removes the fact tags that were added since no reference was provided for the strength of the two warring parties. Second, the addition of the casualty figure given is cited by a source that is an Anti-Rebel website per WP:SLR#List_of_sources we need to add the subscript that these claims come from an anti rebel website. These edits are in direct violations of wikipedia rules. Watchdogb (talk) 20:42, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Extending the edit restriction (bluebox)

As there seem to be an outbreak of edit war on this article, I propose the addition of the Sri Lanka Dispute Resolution to this article. Please refer to WP:SLR#Sri_Lanka_Dispute_Resolution_Agreement for further details. Thanks Watchdogb (talk) 19:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Start-date of the battle

The infobox indicates that the battle began on 1 January 2008. However, this timeline indicates that the government did not withdraw from the CFA until 2 January. What is the source for the 1 January date? Thanks, –Black Falcon ^(Talk) 19:41, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Casualty accounts

The "Casualty accounts" makes a claim that "it was established that the government was covering up its own casualty figures". While this source does confirm that, for a while, the Defence Ministry underreported the number of casualties suffered by security forces, nothing is said about a cover-up. (In theory, the underreporting may have been as a result of a failure in bureaucratic processes rather than a deliberate cover-up.) Can the claim of a cover-up be substantiated with another source? –Black Falcon ^(Talk) 19:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC)