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Contents 1 Article change 2 "Alleged" Chechen Incident 3 answer 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Saboteurs1.jpg 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Saboteurs2.jpg

[edit] Article change

I was bold to change a bit this article. Now we have this article for the overall conflict and South Ossetian War for the 1991-1992 war. Much like Georgian-Abkhazian conflict and War in Abkhazia. --TheFEARgod (Ч) 15:34, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Alleged" Chechen Incident

Kober, would you kindly justify ignoring the Euronews article that clearly states "Four Chechen gunmen killed in South Ossetia"? Óðinn 05:49, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Óðinn, would you kindly justify ignoring the Euronews article that clearly states that the "Chechen incident" was just the Tskhinvali regime's accusation?

I believe the "incident" is given an undue weight. Skirmishes in the region, wars of words and exchange of accusations occur on a daily basis. --Kober^Talk 06:19, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Accusations were made regarding the perpetrators of the incident. When you have 4 dead bodies, it's really hard to call the incident itself "alleged". As for "undue weight", elimination of the Chechen saboteurs who happened to have come from Pankisi is hardly a daily occurrence.Óðinn 08:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] answer

There are thousands of Georgians in S.O. as well as peaceful Ossetians who did not fight against Georgia

If the same logic is applied to Georgia then we'll see that there were many Ossetians and other peoples who didn't fight against Ossetia and also not all Georgians did it. Since Georgian side is not called something like 'Georgian imperialists' (not that I'm proposing it) the 'separatists' shouldn't be used either imho. 14:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

You arguments don't hold any water. It is the Georgian state that is involved in the conflict. Furthermore, the term South Ossetia has recently been revived by the Gov't of Georgia to apply to the provisional administrative entity headed by Dmitry Sanakoyev. Therefore, it needs to be clarified which "South Ossetia" is involved in the conflict with Georgia. Also, you've removed "North Ossetian volunteers" without any obvious reason. --Kober^Talk 14:44, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

And I'm also wondering since when is the term "separatism" a slur? If you want, we can change it to "secessionists".--Kober^Talk 14:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

both of you, please source your additions --TheFEARgod (Ч) 14:56, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Saboteurs1.jpg

Image:Saboteurs1.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 09:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Saboteurs2.jpg

Image:Saboteurs2.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 09:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC)