Talk:Randy Shughart
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This page is a waste of precious disk space. Peace.
- Would you mind saying why? You've also said this in the entry on Master Sergeant Gordon. Douglasnicol 16:26, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
It is with honor and humility that I write this short note.
I was not aware of anything ever happening in Africa untill the movie "Blackhawk down" was released in the year 2001. From what I have been able to collect and read concerning the incident Randall Shughart and Gary Gordon acted with courage,determination and thought nothing of them selves and only for their comrade in arms.
I salute them and bow to their actions and pray that if I am ever faced with an dillema such as this that God will grant me strength and purity of heart to do as those two fine men did.
Forgive me if there are spelling mistakes I am only 15 years of age and english is not my first language.
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[edit] Moved:
[1] "Randy" is more common. --Jiang 02:00, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Why was this moved to SFC Randall Shughart (US Army)? --Jiang
- Ditto - UtherSRG 03:11, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Because when search engines list pages they use the title of the page as the main link. Being detailed and precise in the title removes all confussion from users of what they should click. For example, if they see a page titled "Randy Shughart" and one named "SFC Randall 'Randy' Shughart (US Army)" which one do you think they would click? Check out Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision). Btw, before you use Google Fight as a resource, you should do a deep through of the search. If you didn't notice, most of the pages that come up with "Randy Shughart" have the title "SFC Randall Shughart". IMO, the page should be moved to SFC Randall 'Randy' Shughart (US Army), but that's just me. :) --Maio 12:52, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)
The proper US military naming convention would be SFC Randall "Randy" Shughart, USA. Or Sergeant First Class Randall "Randy" Shughart, U.S. Army. Or SFC Randall "Randy" Shughart, U.S. Army. (most commonly used.) Swatjester 07:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
As a convention its (Rank Abbreviation) (First name) "Nickname if any" (Last Name), U.S. (branch of service).
Whoever wrote that this page was a waste of disk space needs hit with a brick.
[edit] POV
"only" "intense", c'mon, these words like these make this a novelization of a movie, not an encyclopaedic entry. Fix it up. Sherurcij (talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject) 07:29, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Looks better a year later now. Jmlk17 06:57, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What happened to his body?
Was it ever recovered or what. Gary Gordon's page says nothing about this either. The army didn't just leave them behind did they? - Tronno ( t | c ) 06:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article needs attention
The Biography section is not a biography, but rather a rehash, practically verbatim, of the events leading up to Shughart's death as published here.[2] While the information on that site is in the public domain, and should be included here somehow, a proper biography still should be here.
As for the Medal of Honor citation section, it's a mess, repeating almost word-for-word what was cut and pasted above. That's just stupidity or laziness, or both. Alcarillo 17:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- I already stared cleaning up the article on Shughart's teammante, Gary Gordon. There I edited down to the essentials the actions leading to their deaths. I think the text on Gordon's page could easily be adapted for this one.Alcarillo 15:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
