Talk:Syrian opposition to Bashar al-Assad

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Good reference

This is a great article by Arabic BBC about opposition parties in Syria. (translated here). Bahraini Activist ^{Talk to me} 11:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

POV concerns

Far be it from me to defend the Assad dynasty, but there are some outrageously POV statements in this article - "appalling conditions", "no regard for human rights or due process", etc. - and not enough reliable sources. I'm not a regular editor on this article, but if someone who is could go through and find sources for each of these claims and reword things that aren't direct quotes in a more neutral way, that would go a long way toward making this page more credible. -Kudzu1 (talk) 18:58, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More importantly, it is becoming clear that this is just a front for Islamists. Ghalyoun and the rest are mere token-secularists. FunkMonk (talk) 23:54, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cities and towns during the Syrian civil war

I just created Cities and towns during the Syrian civil war to help us in the future in having a supporting reference about the geography of the conflict and maybe even allow us to create a map for the conflict. I thought it would be a starting point to have editors start compiling sourced information and keep track of the evolution of the situation on the ground. As indicated by Syria’s Maturing Insurgency, 5. “Syria’s maturing insurgency has begun to carve out its own de facto safe zones around Homs city, in northern Hama, and in the Idlib countryside.” So it seems helpful to have this list to keep track of these “safe zones”. In the future, this list will make the creation of a map easy since the map creator would just need to go down the list and put the colored dots (or whatever) on a template map (the list gives the district and province of each town…) Unfortunately, the article was nominated for deletion and receiving delete votes from editors who are not involved in editing Syria articles. Take a look at the article (List of areas currently held by Syrian opposition) and see if you find it could be useful and if you would like to vote in the deletion discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_areas_currently_held_by_Syrian_opposition Tradedia (talk) 19:32, 10 July 2012 (UTC) Updated Tradedia (talk) 19:46, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]