Template talk:AfghanCorr

Afghan

A quick note that I have reverted this; unfortunately as an encyclopaedia we have to assume we will be around for many years and not all our readers are American. For example, since I was born "the Afghan war" has always meant the Anglo-Afghan War to me. I'm sure to millions of other people, "the Afghan war" means the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and of course to today's generation of Americans, it means the 2001 invasion. To title a template simply "War correspondents killed in the Afghan war" tells me those are the names of people killed a hundred years ago, tells a Muslim that they're the names of people killed 30 years ago and tells an American they're the names of people killed in the past ten years. THat was why I changed "War in Afghanistan" to "American-led invasion of Afghanistan", exactly parallel to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (which has also had renaming issues in the past though). You could use "2001" instead of "American", but that would look a little silly if we referred to the "1867 invasion of Afghanistan" and the "1979 invasion of Afghanistan" articles as well. I'm of the opinion we're best to reference it based on the two armies involved; in this case, the United States and Afghanistan. Sherurcij ^{(speaker for the dead)} 17:41, 10 January 2010 (UTC)