Talk:Iraq Military Operations 2003 to Current - Alphabetical

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--Kumioko 01:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Block user Kumioko 2 Relevant? 3 Iraq operations alphabetical 4 Iraq Operations

[edit] Block user Kumioko

Please quite blocking me. I am trying yo make valid changes. If you don't stop blocking me I am going to stop wasting my time with making changes.

[edit] Relevant?

I wonder why do we need an alphabetical order besides the existing chronological. I doubt someone will search US propaganda names by alph. order, IMO. --TheFEARgod (Ч) 06:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Iraq operations alphabetical

I believe we need both and the alphabetical listing has about 4 times more operations on it than the chronological listing does. --Kumioko 10:55, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

you could have simply added them to the chronol. page --TheFEARgod (Ч) 11:48, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

By putting the Operation Summary on the page as the Chronological does the page would have been too long, There are almost 350 Operations on the Alphabetical list and I know I don't have them all nor do I believe we have seen the last of them and I think its getting too long. I have been thinking about creating a couple of templates, that would allow the reader to expand if they want to see a certain grouping Alpohabetical, Chornological or maybe even by Operation type or location, What do you think about that--Kumioko 16:21, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Iraq Operations

There are currently 3 Different lists of Iraq Operations; Iraqi coalition counter-insurgency operations, a chonological list and an alphabetical list. I have added a lot of operations to the alphabetical listing but I haven't updated the counter insurgency or the Chonological listing yet. Before I do I recommend that we consider other methods. Perhaps there is a way to create a navigation template that has a column sort function. I am somewhat new to wikipedia so I don't know for sure but having seen the templates available it seems reasonable to think that its possible from a programming standpoint. If you have any suggestions please post it on the talk page.--Kumioko 20:25, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

I looked over all three articles and here is what I recomend. I say we write the names of all of the operations by year and date chronologicly. The article counter-insurgency operations of the iraq war is almost the same as the Iraq Military Operations 2003 to Current - Chronologicly. Merge those two. Merge all of the names of the operations in those two into one chronological list, and also add the names of all of the operations that are listed on the alphabetical list. As far as for the Alphabetical article I agree with FearGod, nobody will be interested in an alphabetical list, they will want to now the oeprations by date.--Top Gun

The article that lists in alphabetical order can be sorted by chronological order and I think I can set that as a default. This will allow those few who may want to see an alphabetical listing as well as by location and if I clean it up a little by the general purpose of the operation as well. This way we won't need to try and update 2 articles or to try and assimilate the difference (the alphabetical listing has about 200 more than the chronological listing does).--Kumioko 20:34, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

That sounds good, but leave the campaignbox with the major engagements of the war.--Top Gun