Talk:Aswan Dam

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What about the geopolitical/geostrategic implications of the dam? If the dam were destroyed (for example by an Israeli nuclear strike), the resulting flood would effectively destroy Egypt completely. It has been suggested that this realization was the main reason for the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. GCarty, 18 Nov 2003 09:52 UTC

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1 Useful Aswan High Dam picture 2 References 3 not really _that_ useful high dam pictures... 4 just one tiny remark about Hajor's pics rearrangement... 5 Vandilism 6 Re: comment about the Russian engineer, Zuk

Useful Aswan High Dam picture

I retrieved this picture from NASA's 'Earth from Space (http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/EFS/lores.pl?PHOTO=STS102-303-17)' website. It definitely should be used in the article, but I don't have the time right now to find a nice place, so I'm parking it here for anyone to insert. — mark ✎ 20:55, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for inserting it, Sluj! — mark ✎ 00:21, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Utterly breathtaking photo. Kudos to you for finding it. Sluj

References

This article is overall well-written and informative, but lacks references. Does anyone know where exactly the information comes from? — mark ✎ 00:14, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

not really _that_ useful high dam pictures...

i, on the other hand, have two pics that are quite loosely related to the high dam... i.e. they depict the lotus flower tower (soviet-egyptian friendship monument) itself... i'm not sure they fit this article, nor i am truly convinced that there should be a separate article concerning the tower... i seek advice... regards, Blueshade 18:11, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

and here are the pics...

Missing image High_Dam_Burg_Closeup,_Aswan,_Egypt,_Oct_2004.jpg

Missing image High_Dam_Burg_Memorial_Wall,_Aswan,_Egypt,_Oct_2004.jpg

ps: the second one is, imho, nice since it contains some text in russian and arabic commemorating the completion of the dam...

ok... since, noone answered my question, i decided to just put the images in the article and see how it works out... regards, Blueshade 13:49, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

just one tiny remark about Hajor's pics rearrangement...

it now breaks miserably on larger-resolution screens... - Blueshade

Really? I'm running 1280x1024 (but maybe that's not considered large any more, at least in your town). Is it a browser issue with the "< div >" command? It looks ok here in Opera 7 and IE 6, with 2 different skins. Would you like to try placing them individually at different points of the article instead of stacking them, see if that works? –Hajor 13:48, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

uh... i'm running at 1280x960 under Opera 7.54... and this is indeed considered a rather large resolution here... but to the point - just to clarify what i mean, i uploaded the screenshot (on the right), so you know what i'm talking about... anyway, i already had no idea how to arrange the pics so they could render correctly enough in most situations and that's why i had put them all aligned to the right at the beginning of the article (they aligned themselves nicely along the right edge - i know that's not too interesting a way to put the images into an article but i know no better as for now)... - Blueshade 12:21, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

OK, our setups aren't that dissimilar, then -- except from what I can see, you can get by with a much smaller default font! I'll put 'em all in a single stack, see if that resolves the overlap. (Are there any guidelines anywhere on how to include a large number of pics in an article without causing display problems?) BTW, when you say, they "aligned themselves nicely along the right edge," do you mean vertically or horizontally? It sounds like you mean vertically, but what I was seeing was horizontal: looked pretty rough, that's why I changed it. –Hajor 01:47, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

hmm... it certainly was "vertically"... i assumed that's how they would look elsewhere, but apparently, i assumed wrong... - Blueshade 11:38, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

does it look ok in your browser now, after your "pic layout fun" ;) ? - it looks all right from here... regards, Blueshade 11:41, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Looks fine here, now, sure. Re the "vertical" vs. "horizontal" layout in your edit of 07:39, 8 Feb 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aswan_Dam&oldid=10087216), here's a screenshot of what I get in Opera (similar to what I get in IE, too). I'm really curious about why your Opera 7.54 and my Opera 7.54 (Win 2000) would render the page differently. I see a fair number of articles with the pics jaggedly aligned like that in a horizontal line (admittedly, normally only two at a time, not seven as in this case), and I could be really quite upset if those pages display correctly everywhere else other than my machine. Does anyone know? –Hajor 14:14, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Vandilism

Is it just or does it seem like someone is deliberately trying to vandalize this page? I'm not sure if anything can be done about it, unless we can see some pattern to the vandalism, and some how block that. - Rhorn 16:50, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I wonder why this article gets vandalized relatively often — how do people find it and why do they pick it? However, I fail to see a pattern in the last few instances of vandalism. There are a lot of tests and first contributions. It's a mystery. — mark ✎ 22:09, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: comment about the Russian engineer, Zuk

There appears to be no information on the web about Zuk, a Russian engineer or a Hydroproject Institute. I understand that there have been some recent concerns and problems with the Russians about the Aswan Dam. Can anyone direct me to further information about this engineer and the interaction between Egypt and Russia and the problems with the Dam? Thanks.