Talk:Gideon Force

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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 19:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did Wingate ever meet David Stirling in Cairo in 1941 ?

The article on the Gideon Force states "The Gideon Force was officially disbanded June 1, 1941. Wingate returned to Egypt".

Col David Stirling founder of the SAS was in Cairo at that time. I wonder if he and Orde Wingate ever meet in Cairo and if Wingate passed on his ideas about special forces and guerrilla warfare to Stirling who later formed the SAS ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.165.20 (talk) 08:25, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Am doing a summary for East African Campaign (World War II) and putting the excess here to kill two birds but the OH has place names spelt different. If anyone knows the modern equivalents pls link. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 18:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lang

@BalinKingOfMoria: Why wrong? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 08:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My thinking is that, because "Amharic" is itself an English word and that's how it's being used here, it is inappropriate to mark it with a lang template.

With regards to "Arbegnoch": As I understand the lang template for Amharic, the text parameter is for text in the Ge'ez script specifically. I'd suggest the use of Template:transliteration instead, but—as I understand the main article for Arbegnoch—"Arbegnoch" isn't the standard romanization either. Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Foreign_words does seem to imply that some sort of template should be used, but I don't know which one really applies here.... Seeing as how Arbegnoch itself doesn't use a template in the lede for "Arbegnoch", I figure it's probably safe to do the same here. What do you think? BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 18:56, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it's more complicated than I thought, I'll defer you your expertise. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 22:42, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]