Talk:Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan

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Given this is a repeat of information at Canada's role in the invasion of Afghanistan, can't we just delete this page? Michael Dorosh 05:35, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• We need consensus on which of the two formats we want. Motorfix 12:13, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
  • DeleteI'd say the table looks fine, so this page can be deleted after a merge of any information not already captured by the table. Michael Dorosh 13:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
  • DeleteI would still like to see links to specific articals on soldiers that have been lost as per the original format. Other than that, the duplication is not required.Motorfix 12:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Clearify? -b 14:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, per Michael Dorosh. -b 14:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Merged 2 Title 3 friendly fire 4 april 22 incident 5 interesting stat. 6 Photographs of memorial

[edit] Merged

I've taken the info from the other article, including the table, and put it here. I'm tired of seeing two seperate articles, and I think this would have been inevitable anyway. I also think there is enough notable discussion that this can be more than just a table - there is lots of political "stuff" going on regarding casualties that this is a viable indepdenent article - also due to it length now. We will need to source stuff and my start on it will need a cleanup.Michael Dorosh 13:57, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title

This is a list of fatalities, not casualties. We could change the title to reflect that. --M4-10 18:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Disagree. We should expand to provide information on the other casualties - wounded, PTSD, etc.Michael Dorosh^Talk 18:35, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Good luck finding that information! --M4-10 18:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

The PPCLI have a book out on their intial deployment in 2002. I realize information will be hard to come by (rightfully so) during the war itself, but at some point will be made public information. I am sure some journalist will be doing a major story on wounded soldiers or PTSD sooner rather than later.Michael Dorosh^Talk 18:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] friendly fire

What percentage of all the casualties so far were friendly fire incidents? --Sonjaaa 22:25, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Very low - I don't know that the number of wounded has ever been published though. Why do you ask?Michael Dorosh^Talk 22:35, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry I meant the percentage of actual deaths... not just injuries.--Sonjaaa 22:57, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

That information is in the table in the article.Michael Dorosh^Talk 00:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] april 22 incident

I'm trying to add unit info to the entry for the april 22 incident, but I'm having a hell of a time with the formating. If someone else wants to take a stab at it, here's the code:

feel free to delete this section once the problem is sorted out... Mike McGregor (Can) 15:07, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

You didn't leave out the rowspan="3". That's telling wikipedia that whatever comes after the next | should take up the next three rows of the table. --Bobblehead 15:59, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll figure this out yet! ; ) Mike McGregor (Can) 20:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] interesting stat.

I heard a stat being thown around on the news yesterday indicating that a Canadian solder in Afghanistan is about six times more likely to die then his/her Amarican counterparts in Iraq. If I can find a source for this, I think its worth including. Thoughts? Mike McGregor (Can) 11:19, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

It's probably more a function of numbers. There is only a couple of thousand Canadian troops in Afghanistan while there is over 150,000 US troops in Iraq. So if one Canadian soldier dies in Afghanistan that means there's a 1 in 2,000+ chance a Canadian soldier will die, but in order to get that 1 in 2,000+ for Iraq the 75 US soldiers would have to die. Granted, both numbers are higher than that but when you take into account the number of US troops that have been stationed in Iraq vs the number of Canadian troops that have been stationed in Afghanistan, the numbers game continues to work against Canada. --Bobblehead 17:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I Was trying to add some thin to the table but mess up can some fix it thanks :)

Done. -=Straxus=- 03:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photographs of memorial

There is a very well-put-together memorial in Kandahar for the Canadians killed in this country so far. Would a photograph of that memorial be appropriate here? Flakeloaf 18:49, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes! If you got it, upload it. -b 19:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)