User:Sonnyvalentino

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Hello. I'm interested in international relations and international history from the 19th century to the present.

My interests include several recent and contemporary armed conflicts, especially in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and political and social movements. The following is mostly for me to keep track of stuff:

Articles I've contributed to

Started

Major contributions

Other contributions

A select, incomplete list:

Sartawi is allegedly pictured in this detail from a January 1971 CIA report that was later declassified

Local page history sections somehow connected to my interests

Good Article nomination review

Resources to come back to

Places to receive or give input/feedback

Tools

Editing how-to guides and resources

Wikipedia macro-level questions

Questions

Places to ask questions: WP:Questions for various options, including WP:Teahouse for basics.

  • Is there somewhere a master template for the references created by the cite templates in the standard editor, so I can edit a citation that already exists?
    • A: List of templates (e.g. book, journal) in the box on the right at Help:Citation_Style_1 - seems to be no single master template.
    • So how can I add a note to the end of a citation without it running into the last character of the citation (see Abu Atiya)? A: Turns out You just write if after the }} and before the </... bit closing the reference.
  • Is there a chart or charts showing total admin numbers or admin activity anywhere?

Editing to do

Articles that are kind of a mess

  • Georgia-Russia relations
    • Check all details from the Abkhazia War subsection are already in the main Abkhazia War article, then heavily contract this subsection focusing on the broad implications for Georgia-Russia relations.
    • Rewrite the intro, first of all by making clear when Georgia was and was not independent, and establishing the main themes that have characterised relations between the two countries in distinct periods.
  • Terrorism in Azerbaijan
    • Debatable whether it's useful to thematically separate the different types of Islamist terrorism, a) on conceptual grounds (operative definition of Wahhabism is unclear), b) on factual grounds (incidents seem sometimes to involve persons described in more than one of these categories). A simpler chronological account could be better.

Categories, overview articles and lists

Question: How do subcategories relate to categories apart from their organisation in the categories index?

Look at how to organise/relate:

Relevant articles:

  • International incident (Diplomatic crisis also points here, which is definitely wrong, as does Diplomatic incident)
    • Article lede is written as if it is simply a concept within international law in which a dispute is not settled judicially.
    • Seems to be no proper political science/IR definition, but to be a lay or journalistic term.f. 1 2 3 4
  • International crisis
    • 1977 overview article 1
    • Should maybe note how major NGOs use the term - annual lists of top crises, etc. But this would also include humanitarian crises.
  • International Crisis Behavior Project
    • ICBe: a split from ICB 1 2
    • Concept of a "near crisis" derived from ICB framework 1 (PDF downloaded)
    • Introducing a new data set: "... three seminal data sources—the Military Intervention by Powerful States project, the International Crisis Behavior project, and the Militarized Interstate Disputes data set—have a single observation for the two-decade Afghanistan War." 1
  • (There is no international dispute article)

Possible approaches:

  • Clarify definitions of international crisis, incident and dispute
    • Clarify how they do or don't overlap
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This user is interested in modern warfare.
This user is interested in military history.
This user will never forget the Syrian Civil War.
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