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External Link, Tuareg Culture and News[edit]

I added an external link to Tuareg Culture and News http://tuaregcultureandnews.blogspot.com/ because it offers reviews of articles as well as English translations of pertinent news items and interviews with members of the Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ) which are highly relevant to this Wikipedia article. It is a particularly good resource for English-speakers seeking to learn more about the Second Tuareg Rebellion. This website provides many additional sources and articles on the Tuareg people, and is an excellent resource base for research and study of the Tuareg people in general. This website lists helpful, relevant, reliable, accurate, on-topic sources on the Tuaregs, with a complete listing of books written about the Tuaregs in English, and many other relevant sources that are not included in the Wikipedia article on Tuaregs. This website makes the Tuareg literature in English accessible to English-speakers - the majority of resources are in French. The website provides a great deal of useful, helpful, informative, and factual information that permits English-speakers (and others) to learn more about Tuareg culture. This site includes reviews and interviews. It includes the full details of verifiable sources. It is not a commercial website, and is intended solely for educational purposes, focused on the Tuareg people. FoxezandHedgehogs (talk) 15:31, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While it seems a reasonable link, your addition of it in a dozen articles, as well as you description of it as "an educational website" seem chancy at best. This is a pro - MNJ blog (YOUR pro-MNJ blog), which is fine, but it teeters on the edge of being acceptable as a wikipedia source. Also adding long quotes from the MNJ tacked onto the end of the article is poor writing and NOT WP:NPOV. Please read the style and tone guides in Help:Contents. You may be passionate abot this conflict, but it is a conflict with many sides, and we must represent them all in the fairest manner possible. T L Miles (talk) 22:02, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to cut down on the sprawl, cap the Malian sections[edit]

It appears the Malian peace will hold, or at most go back to the pattern of ever smaller splinter groups breaking out and moving to rebellion/banditry. With a month of cease fire and the release of all the Mailan prisoners, I'm trying to cap this section.

I'm also attempting to bring the Niger section up to date, bring in the amazing VOA photos from earlier this year, and move the entire structure from a log of events to something that actually makes sense. The problem is that anything could happen (especially in Niger) so it's hard to impose a stucture. More refs are comming for the Niger 2008 section. I'll create a pool of refs and outline at User:T_L_Miles/Tuareg insurgencies of 2007 and 2008 which I welcome others to add to. Opinions and (especially) proofreading is much desired! T L Miles (talk) 18:56, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TRRRRRRRRURF —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.179.105 (talk) 14:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Title change?[edit]

It's been suggested this page should be retitled as Tuareg Rebellion (2007–2009), since it seems to have stopped - any thoughts?

If there's no opposition, I'll go ahead and move it in a week, on the 15th. Shimgray | talk | 18:51, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

...and done. Shimgray | talk | 16:03, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Reopen?[edit]

This conflict seems to have started again with the return of many tuareg fighters from Libya to Mali. Should we reopen this article as ongoing or start new article.? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.224.32.144 (talk) 12:45, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

see 2012 insurgency in the Azawad --Reader1987 (talk) 13:38, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

tweaking article title[edit]

I've moved the page from "Tuareg Rebellion" to "Tuareg rebellion" per WP:CAPS and WP:COMMONNAME. A cursory examination of the article's sources show that most refer to it this way and none appear to use the capitalized phrase "Tuareg Rebellion". (see [1], [2], etc.) If I'm wrong, though, just let me know, and I'll be glad to apologize and correct my error. Khazar2 (talk) 15:58, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]