Talk:Bensayah Belkacem

message: I'd like third party input on the basic question addressed in the section immediately above this one.
Should articles on the Guantanamo captives contain long blocks of quotes from the memos that contain the allegations against the captives, or should they contain wikipedia contributor drafted summaries of those allegations?
My position is that:
# Articles that consist largely of long blocks of quotes are discouraged.
# In January 2009 the DoD released additional, more recent allegation memos. We have four years worth of memos now, and they are highly repetitious. The original memos, from 2004, published in 2006, were brief. Subsequent memos are much longer, and usually repeat the allegations present in the earlier memos. Summarizing the memos, and only reporting the changes, makes the articles easier to read.
# Almost every allegation memo has multiple allegations that include other topics on which we have articles. These articles should contain wikilinks to those articles. However wikilinks within quotes are discouraged.
My best good faith paraphrase of the current objections of the contributor who disagrees with me is that they think the OARDEC allegation memos are somehow unique and that they are unique in a manner that means no summary of them can be neutral, and that any summary of them will necessarily be misleading.
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 16:32, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Long blocks of quotes? Or wikipedia contributor drafted summaries? A summary

message: Another contributor removed :File talk:Andrew purvis's sidebar -- 'The Suspects- A Bosnian subplot.png from this article, even though it is relevant to half a dozen paragraphs in the article.
This contributor performed this excision with the one word edit summary "useless". This concerns me as one word edit summaries should be used with care, they should not be used to obfuscate controversial edits. Geo Swan (talk) 18:03, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As a courtesy to other editor could you just address the content issue instead of wasting out time with ad hominem attacks? There was nothing controversial in my edit and you are welcome to explain the value of this image. Unfortunately you simply reverted without satisfying explanation and you violated WP:BRD what if troublesome and can easily spark an edit war. So i am waiting for you to explaination and i will wait a few days and if you do not provide a sufficient explanation and you do not engage in a content focused debate without filibuster and ad hominem then i am going to bring you to the attention of the administrators again for disruptive editing. Cheers - IQinn (talk) 21:56, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See also Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Geo Swan and please do agree to be mentored when working on BLP's as suggested. Thank you. IQinn (talk) 14:37, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

text: You are edit warring and a copyright status discussion does not decide the value of the images for this discussion here. You still fail to explain the value of this images for the article the more troublesome is that you have reverted multiple other edits including the removal of primary sources that are against BLP. What is wrong with you? IQinn (talk) 15:04, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have removed the primary source materials from the article, which corresponds to the community's overwhelming sentiment on this issue. Thank you.--Yachtsman1 (talk) 18:04, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  As a courtesy to other contributors could we please discuss controversial issues on the talk page, not in our edit summaries? 

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