Talk:Foreign hostages in Iraq

message: This page could really benefit from a couple of us making a point to google some names that are currently unresolved, and find out what happened to them. Sherurcij 14:19, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google help 

message: Instead of colorizing this page needs tags instead it will make the page easier to read and more organized.
(Killed)
(Released) for those released by the kidnappers
(Freed) for those released by police or military forces
(Unknown) Status unknown
* (Coalition) (Released) Reporter Michal Kubal and cameraman Petr Klima, of Czech Television and Vit Pohanka from Czech Radio were kidnapped April 11, 2004. They were freed April 16.
The tags could be colorized but colorizing the entire text is excessive. SusanLarson 20:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree we need to distinguish those freed by police/military forces, though I'd simply suggest a third colour.  This isn't an article, it's a listing, which I think is an important distinction to make.  Thus colourising the entries, like listing whether a country is a member of the coalition, makes it much easier to get a clear indication of the context.  (One can look at Canada, see it's not a member of the coalition, but even only paying brief attention, sees that it has had hostages killed).  So ideally it seems, list the killed in red, the freed in green, and the rescued in orange or something.  Very few people will read the entire list, and even fewer will make little notes on a piece of paper to get a fair idea of what percentage are killed/freed/rescued, so it's important that we make a list like this one as visual as possible Sherurcij (talk) (bounties) 20:41, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The goal is for this to be easy to read not colorful please limit the excessive use of colors in this page. It's hard on the eyes and for the colorblind can be hard or impossible to read. Thank you SusanLarson 20:44, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: For the few colourblind people, I'm certain they have their browsers set up to ignore colour tag text anyways, so they'd be seeing it in b/w just like any other website.  As I explained, as a list of a highly debated nature, it's important that the list be not only easy to read, but easy to interpret.  Part of that means admitting that most people aren't going to read 200 entries, they will skim over it...so we should leave them an NPOV way of taking in the information.  You could use bold versus italic theoretically, but that would be worse I think.  I acknowledge this isn't a perfect system, but it's the best possible within the WP framework. Sherurcij (talk) (bounties) 20:47, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

text:  Not for colors however I did reformat the page perhaps that will suit both of our tastes :) SusanLarson 23:24, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: retouched the TOC, I assume this is an improvement still? Sherurcij (talk) (bounties) 21:47, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colorizing vs tagging 

message: I've gone through with google and tried to find references, and actual names (instead of "A Swiss couple" or "A truck driver") wherever possibile, and would just like to remind/encourage others to do the same. Sherurcij (talk) (bounties) 21:47, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: References/names

message: Eugene Armstrong isn't going anywhere as an article, and it's now failed AfD twice even though it's an obvious WP:COATRACK. I think the details of the execution should be merged here and then the article redirected. As-is, we're pretending that an article which contains almost no information barring the execution is a biography. Chris Cunningham (talk) 17:47, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: as it has been kept twice on afd there is noconsensus that it is not a suitable article by itself. DGG (talk) 18:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Merge - No sources. Subject is known for one event which is an encyclopedic topic. I'm going back right now to remove some of the speculation/OR/POV and see what's left. - Mdsummermsw (talk) 15:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Eugene Armstrong]] merge 

message: Since there's now been two, and soon probably three hostages captured, held, and executed in Syria by ISIS I think a new page similar to this page should be created for those individuals called Foreign hostages in Syria. ~Technophant (talk) 03:38, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split hostages held or executed in Syria 

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message: The updating ceased over a decade ago. There have been, of course, others since then. Such as John Cantlie, whose article linked here in "see also" only to have no trace of him here. 94.254.152.192 (talk) 10:18, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
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