Talk:February 15, 2003 anti-war protest

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[edit] Archive

[edit] Evidence of Laugh Not War and War is a Drag participation in CT

If you need evidence, I have the pictures. Will upload as soon as I'm near a scanner. Also some amazing picks of Peace Barbie Ethnopunk 11:19, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

It would be great to have some pictures of the South Africa demonstration, one thing that this article is missing is more photos. Unfortunatly I don't think that photos are appropreate to show that the demonstration was organised by Laugh Not War and War is a Drag (as was the assersion in the previous version). They may be okay to back up the statment that those groups were involved but idealy we need referances to writtern sources (they don't have to be internet baced). The reason for evidence isn't that i don't belive you, it is just so the article is verifyable, see Cite your sources.--JK the unwise 14:22, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
I have some Cape Town photos at indybay, and will dual license under the GFDL and upload to commons if they are useful. I think the in-the-crowd photos are better than the fuzzy mass photos, if only because the Stop the war poster became a Stop W poster :). -- Jeandré, 2006-05-03t20:38z
Check Peace Barbie —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ethnopunk (talk • contribs) .

Photo's look good and would certianly add some thing to the article.--JK the unwise 13:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

Should the article name refer to which war was protested, or that it was an international event? At present, the name seems to be lacking something as it is extremely vague. Harro5 08:12, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

There has been some eariler discusion of the name when Violetriga suggested that wemove the page to Global day of protests against the invasion of Iraq however I pointed out that there were at least two other such days (though none as big)(Talk:February 15, 2003 anti-war protest/Archive1#Article name). Prehaps we could change the name to February 15, 2003 protests against the Iraq war but thats rather long.--JK the unwise 08:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Or just "February 15, 2003 anti-Iraq war protests". I think it needs that plural for protest as it was a series of protests interconnected but nor directly related. Thoughts? Harro5 09:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I personally see nothing wrong with the present name. It's quick and simple, and matches other similar protest days in its format. SchuminWeb (Talk) 13:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beirut

Beirut information seems to have been anonymously removed without comment. I suggest that someone re-check sources and either restore it or indicate here why it was removed. - Jmabel | Talk 04:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I replaced the Beirut info' as it is sourced in the Green left review article; to quote; "In the Middle East, 10,000 protested in Damascus, Syria, on February 15, as did 10,000 in Beirut, Lebanon, and 5000 in Amman, Jordan."[1].--JK the unwise 22:05, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Hollywood Bl.

event also included Sunset Bl., & Highland Av. That would be more accurate. Do you want more accuracy? @ the time, I'd been a Koreatown | Westlake District resident {Southeastern Hollywood}.

Thank You.

{Koreatown,_Los_Angeles,_California.}

{Green Left Weekly (GLW), World Socialist Web Site (WSWS).}

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[edit] London, Hyde Park

This London Telegraph article supports the view that considerably more than 750,000 protesters turned out on that cold day. [2] SMB

[edit] GA Delisting

In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of January 4,

2008, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.
The biggest problem with this article is the prose; it simply does not flow. Once the initial summary is complete, there is little cohesion within and amongst sections, it quickly devolves into short groupings of facts passed off as paragraphs in most of the sections. Many of the Level 3 headings do not have enough information under them to sustain the headings and should be either expanded or merged into a more general heading. There are manual of style concerns; the biggest one is the lead, which does not satisfy the requirements laid out in WP:LEAD as it does not adequately summarize the article in its entirety. In an article of this size, the lead should be far large and should cover every major point/heading made in the body of the article. In its current state, it is far too small and general to accomplish this. Furthermore, while the article has many citations, it does not have enough and there are several "citation needed" tags throughout the article, and many smaller paragraphs and even direct quotations (most noticeable in the final "Effect" section) that will require more referencing and in-line citations. Finally, as a minor but very noticeable point, Image:Feb15 Poster Amsterdam.jpg is floating in the ether of the article without an accompanying caption to place it in context. As these are the largest (but not all-encompassing) problems with the article, and as they are significant enough to require a substantial effort to repair, I am boldly delisting the article at this time. Cheers, CP 06:10, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Great article

Great article -- well done to all concerned! Rosa Lichtenstein (talk) 15:28, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ummm... Washington, DC?!?

Apparently nothing happened in DC that day... Samstein (talk) 20:49, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Find a good quotable source and sick some stuff in.--JK the unwise (talk) 19:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Indeed, it appears that nothing happened in DC that particular time, as we've not found any reliable sources to substantiate a DC action. And it's not that surprising. Generally, DC will be the main demonstration, or DC will be completely out of it. SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Style of London section

There's various parts here that read more like a personal account of the day, or a blog: e.g.

  • "On the day of the protest, the weather was grey and cold, but people were in high spirits..."
  • "Those that had to get coaches back to their home locations had to abandon the march before it had finished "
  • "Protesters who managed to reach Hyde Park in time .....but many protesters missed out"

Paulbrock (talk) 19:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Then go ahead in and fix it. See if you can remove some of the worst offenses. SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I've edited it best I can, does it read more like an encyclopaedia now? can I remove the tag?--JK the unwise (talk) 11:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)