Talk:British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since 2001

message: Could somebody please put this information into a table? Example:
09/06/06 Muirhead, Paul, Lance Corporal, age 29,UK British Army, 1st BN, The Royal Irish Regiment, Hostile,, Musa Quala (Helmand Province) Afghanistan, Bearley, Warwickshire,, England 
The first date is the date of death, then the surname, then the first name and rank, then the age, then the branch of service and unit, then the cause of death, then where they where killed, then where they came from. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Boris Johnson VC (talk • contribs) .
Done, but bits of it still look stupid. Maybe you could clean these up? Hut 8.5 18:28, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: General

message: *Speedy keep I don't care whether the aricle breaks any guidelines but simply pasting a "delete" notice without giving giving any comments on the discussion page must break basic rules of courtesy to other users. 
:Having said that, without some changes the article clearly isn't appropriate to Wikipedia (perhaps there some other place - if not then why not create your own web page?) (To see how easy it is see: []). To be worth of an encyclopedia entry, the article must do more than simply list the names and dates of death - it needs to provide information that someone e.g. writing an essay in a school/university would need to know. You could e.g. analyse the causes of death, mention the engagement, draw a graph of number of deaths by month, but the names couldn't be the central item of the article only a coincidental piece of information. It may sound cold, but I think of anyway to use your table. I hope this helps. --Mike 22:16, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Even so, simply needing some work isn't a good reason to delete the article. You can already gain some information from the table, such as the common causes of death. I agree that this article may need some work, but I don't think it should simply be deleted. Hut 8.5 08:39, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

text: What to do with the page? My personal opinion (I don't know about policy) is that since no one has put any comments on this talk page in favour of deleting it, and you intent doing a radical change then remove all the contents of the the page to your user space and put an 
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notice on it!(remove the '*' to make it active!) --Mike 09:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: 12/05/06 Wigley, Jonathan Marine, 21, UK, British Royal Marine, Zulu Company 45 Commando, Royal Marines, Hostile - hostile fire, Southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire England 
 10/18/06 Wright, Gary Marine, 22, UK, Royal Marine, 45, Commando Royal Marines, Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber, Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Glasgow Scotland 
could somebody pz add them, coz i'm not sure i can—Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.108.129.151 (talk • contribs) 
:Done. Hut 8.5 18:26, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops - I thought it was chronological rather than reverse chronological order! Hut 8.5 18:39, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Done. I've noticed one minor problem though - all the dates are in the American format, and they shouldn't be as the article is about a Commonwealth topic. I'll fix them sometime. Hut 8.5 18:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Just done it. Hut 8.5 18:54, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  more deaths 

message: Can anybody work out how to stop one ref coming up 10 times???--Boris Johnson VC 21:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I've got it. Hang on. Hut 8.5 21:15, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It worked!Hut 8.5 21:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  We have a problem 

message: Is that table up to date, could someone let me know me know plz, coz a friend of mine was under the impression that there hadn't been any casualties since JAN 13th, which unforunately hasn't been the case this week. Can someone let me know plz Ryan4314 21:29, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Table 

message: I've just done just done a massive table update, to anyone else who is interested in keeping it updated all the info can be found at this reference . By the looks of things, it looks like the earlier part of the table needs updating n all, so I'll do that as well. Ryan4314 23:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done a bit more wotk on the Table, I actually now regret removing the counties personnal were born in, and only leaving a link to the town, I was trying to be neat, but I forgot "wikipedia is about adding information". There's still more work to be done, in the long run, I'd like to put links the ranks as well as link names that may actually have their own article e.g Bryan Budd or Jabron Hashmi. Ryan4314 03:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Starting re-adding counties, also removed the ref link from names of personnal from the nimrod crash, as the ref only leads to the "edit article" page. Ryan4314 04:23, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Re-did entries from present day back to April 07 in new format. Ryan4314 13:53, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table update 

message: Could we have one table, with sortable columns, so that other facts can sorted into clusters. See for example List of Victoria Crosses by school and List of events named massacres. If someone wishes to go to a specific year then there is a template that can be used called "section" which if embedded into the table would still allow a person go to the start of year see for example this link List of Latin phrases (C–E)#dulce bellum inexpertis --PBS (talk) 20:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have done the tables for 2009 & 2008 into a sortable format, however this causes some minor problems with the search, for example under the 'Unit' heading if the soldiers sub-unit precedes the unit then the sort order is by the sub-unit not the unit. So in the first table I have added sub-unit column. If anyone would like to check this out and comment then I wold appreciate that. A similar problem occurs with the date column, but short of using YYYY MM DD as the format then I can not see how that can be resolved. Trevor Marron (talk) 11:21, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sortable table. 

message: Please can someone update the number of Britsh troops killed in afghanistan from "As of 7 April 2010 there has been a total of 281[1]  fatalities of British Forces personnel including MoD civilians." to "As of 15 June 2010 there has been a total of 298 fatalities of British Forces personnel including MoD civilians." (my source is the MOD website and articles published by the BBC, The Guardian and Sky News.) Also could the figure of combat deaths be updated in accordance with the MOD website?Crewdson (talk) 15:14, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, —  Cargoking  talk  15:35, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Crewdson, 18 June 2010 

message: Please update link for British Casualty Monitor - Tracking the War in Afghanistan to read: 
http://www.casualty-monitor.org/p/british-casualties-in-afghanistan.html
Thanks!
Readknowwrite (talk) 20:08, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Thanks.  The link you provided is more specific than the previous link, which was to the site's homepage.  Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 06:12, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Readknowwrite, 26 June 2010 

message: Is anyone prepared to update the "Tables showing British fatalities" from July 2009 to today? Otherwise I will delete all of them because they just copy what is written above. Gavbadger (talk) 16:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tables showing British fatalities 

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