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Insurgency in Ogaden was one of the Warfare good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 17, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
January 11, 2011	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Citations[edit]

The internet inline citations used in this article are improperly formatted and this problem may hinder a GA nomination. Internet citations require at the very least information on the title, publisher and last access date of any webpages used. If the source is a news article then the date of publication and the author are also important. This information is useful because it allows a reader to a) rapidly identify a source's origin b) ascertain the reliability of that source and c) find other copies of the source should the website that hosts it become unavaliable for any reason. It may also in some circumstances aid in determining the existance or status of potential copyright infringments. Finally, it looks much tidier, making the article appear more professional. There are various ways in which this information can be represented in the citation, listed at length at Wikipedia:Citing sources. The simplest way of doing this is in the following format:

<ref>{{cite web|(insert URL)|title=|publisher=|work=|date=|author=|accessdate=}}</ref>

As an example:

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discovery.org/a/3859|title=Avoiding a Thirty Years War|publisher=www.discovery.org|work=[[The Washington Post]]|date=2006-12-21|author=Richard W. Rahn|accessdate=2008-05-25}}</ref>

which looks like:

Richard W. Rahn (2006-12-21). "Avoiding a Thirty Years War". The Washington Post. www.discovery.org. Retrieved 2008-05-25.

If any information is unknown then simply omit it, but title, publisher and last access dates are always required. I strongly recommend that all internet inline references in this article be formatted properly before this article undergoes GA review, and indeed this is something that a reviewer should insist you do before promoting your article. If you have any further questions please contact me and as mentioned above, more information on this issue can be found at Wikipedia:Citing sources. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 22:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. References must be formatted. Please look at WP:CITE/ES for more information. Gary King (talk) 00:34, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done at the best of my abilities. Grr what a nasty work why the brackets remain, I'm sure a bot will be able to do it next time. --TheFEARgod (Ч) 09:08, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

oh, I've found a simpler way:

Collective Punishment: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Human Rights Watch, June 2008 --TheFEARgod (Ч) 16:18, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing or ended conflict[edit]

Hi Wikipedia! I´m very interesting in XXI century conflicts. In your page you show that Ogaden conflict was between 1995 and 2009, and later you said that there is a ongoing conflict. Please, change the information because it´s bad for the image of Wikipedia. Greetings! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.14.171.72 (talk) 20:12, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

5000 ethiopians killed?[edit]

are those numbers accurate? from what ive learned government forces typically take lower deaths than rebels.... are we sure 10 ethiopians died for every rebel?--Lv171998 (talk) 16:52, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]