Talk:Western Sahara War

message: I dispute with the date of 1973 as the beginning of the war, in 95% of the articles I've read about the issue puts on 1975 as the date of the starting of the hostilities (for some authors the date is 1976). Of course the Polisario Front fight against Spanish Army started in 1973, but this confrontation was more small raids on Spanish military posts on the north than a war. Also, for example, Polisario started to fight against Moroccan forces (Front Liberation & Unity) infiltrated in W. Sahara in 1974, but it were skirmishes on some parts of Saguia El-Hamra, not a war. It was in late 1975, with the invasion of the armies of Morocco & Mauritania when the war started, with generalized fighting (Farciya, Mahbes, Smara, Dakhla, Lagouira...).--HCPUNXKID (talk) 12:41, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Where's the proof the war started in 1975? Spain took part in this war. B-Machine (talk) 19:22, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Western Sahara War: '''1975-1991'''

message: Let's begin with the first paragraph :
The Western Sahara War was the armed conflict which saw the Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement Polisario Front battling Morocco and Mauritania for the decolonization and independence of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara from 1975 to 1991. The war resulted in the Spanish retreat in 1976 (Polisario had fought against Spanish forces since its creation in 1973), the Mauritanian retreat in 1979 and a cease fire agreement with Morocco. The bigger part of the territory remained under Moroccan control.
First : Polisario Front was fighting for independence not for decolonization, decolonization needs a referendum, the two parties were agreed for that after the war not during the war
Second : western sahara is not a former spanish colony but is still considered legally as a spanish colony despite the spanish retreat
Third : if polisario has fought spanish forces since 1973, morocc has fighted them since 1958 when the moroccan king Mohamed V claimed soereignty over western sahara in the same year
Fourth : "sahrawi rebel national liberation" is a secundary information that must be inserted in Polisario front article, if you insist that it should be mentionned in this article, then we should replace morocco by "The moroccan-Sahraoui liberation army", moreover many mauritanian soldiers enrolled polisario, so we can't speak about "sahrawi rebel national liberation" but only "a national movement of liberation"
Sincerely
--Yusuf ibn Tashfin (talk) 22:35, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  koavf's adds are not neutral 

message: This article is plenty of non-neutral Terms like "moroccan attack", it was a war between 2 armies, both of them are attacking and counter-attacking, not only morocco was attacking, this article is in general not neutral, and try to give a false reality about the war and the history of the territory, favoring one party over an other...(kind of propaganda) and using some questionable spanish antimoroccan sources 
--Yusuf ibn Tashfin (talk) 10:04, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately koavf is a well known POV-pusher on those articles, he's been blocked some 30 times for this but always finds a way to come back. There isn't much we can do about some of the fallacious stuff he inserts in these kind articles. --Tachfin (talk) 10:05, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non neutral Terms 

message: Dear user Stegop, please notice the difference between the Western Sahara conflict (Polisario Front dispute for Independence), which has lasted since 1975 till today; and its first phase - the Western Sahara War, which went on from 1975 until 1991. Mixing interiwikis of the "conflict" and the "war" is messing up things. Thank you for understanding.Greyshark09 (talk) 22:02, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Western Sahara conflict