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Battle of Fallujah

Information to the editors here: I'm making up a SVG map for the battle of Fallujah. Could someone help me later including it to the map?--Ermanarich (talk) 17:31, 23 May 2016 (UTC) Ok, the map won't come. It's too small for the map. Furthermore I have problems to get exact positions inside the city...--Ermanarich (talk) 21:09, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Sources for my edit

Sources for this edit [1] are [2] and [3]. --Ahmedo Semsurî (talk) 21:29, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Southeastern Kirkuk Province

Too many Daesh-held villages are coloured yellow in Southeastern Kirkuk Province. Peshmerga never took these villages. Now the problem is how do we change them back to black without sources? I also remember someone changing them to Kurdish-held without sources months ago. --Ahmedo Semsurî (talk) 12:25, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

So I guess we have to find the edit and revert it? I'm not sure if thats how it works. --Ahmedo Semsurî (talk) 12:26, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Are you sure that you mean southeastern Kirkuk province and not southwestern Erbil province? Because there I'd even have some sources, some of the daeshdaily.com articles of the last weeks.--Ermanarich (talk) 16:30, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Too many villages are wrongfully coloured yellow, east of Tuz Khurmatu, in Kirkuk Governorate (villages like Yorghun, Sayyid Hasshun, Safhal, and dozen others). I've tried searching on Google, but nothing indicates Peshmerga having control over these. [4] usually names the villages Peshmerga liberated. --Ahmedo Semsurî (talk) 18:51, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Is this even acceptable? The source doesn't say anything about the villages getting changed? [5] --Ahmedo Semsurî (talk) 14:39, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Same map but from yesterday, notice eastern Kirkuk Governorate. [6] --Ahmedo Semsurî (talk) 14:45, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

I undid the changes according to the rules concerning maps. --Ahmedo Semsurî (talk) 17:01, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Hit

http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/100420161 States town is still being fought over and should be changed to contested.

Update: Reports on Twitter are saying IS has retaken Hit. All I see in MSM is a mention of fighting in Hit with no details. I'm not making any edits right now. If someone finds something concrete, go ahead.Tgoll774 (talk) 11:31, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, I really appreciate the help. I was going to include this, but according to this source, Iraqi Forces managed to defeat Daesh in Hit completely: http://www.daeshdaily.com/june-1-2016/ (section Hit/Kubaisa)--Ermanarich (talk) 18:00, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

H3 Airbase, Anbar

Can we remove the H3 Airbase from the template? It has been abandoned since 2003 and therefore poses no strategical or logistical importance to the current war, rendering it effectively irrelevant.

I will do this. Pbfreespace3 (talk) 21:41, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

US Military Map of ISIS

We have a prohibition on maps: 2- Copying from maps is strictly prohibited. Maps from mainstream media are approximate and therefore unreliable for any edit. Maps from amateur sources are below the standards of Wikipedia for any edit. They violate WP:RS and WP:CIRCULAR.

This prohibition was put in place last year because of amateur maps on Twitter and other online venues that are generally not regarded as reliable and accurate sources of information. Now I would like to draw to your attention to this map. This map is produced by the United States Department of Defense, who opposes ISIL. Although the map is admittedly inaccurate in certain frontline areas, it shows a variety of locations held by ISIL which are not marked by our map. Such areas include sites along the Iraq/Syria border, and areas between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. I ask the community: should we be able to use this map, which is anti-ISIL and from an official military source, to make constructive edits on the Syrian and Iraqi maps? I think we should be able to use it for some locations. Pbfreespace3 (talk) 04:08, 4 July 2016 (UTC)