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I see your edits on the language, I am morethan happy to have you collborate on a rewrite here. Thanks Taprobanus (talk) 18:42, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Just so you know for next time, move requests need to go on the talk page of the actual article you want to be moved, not directly on WP:Requested moves. I've moved it over to Talk:2011 Battle of Tripoli for you. Station1 (talk) 19:54, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
You should also cast your oppose vote and argument in the Rename to Libyan Revolution section of the discussion page of the main article on the war, not just the Rename proposals section. EkoGraf (talk) 04:26, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Those Pacific islands: look out of the range of the map to west there is little grey dot on the grey square (this island should symbolize French Polynesia) the last blue is Pitcairn and between Pitcairn and Chile coast is Easter Island belonging to Chile. Look here [1]Boniek1988 (talk) 21:53, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
That sir, is excatly the problem. Good day.Trying To Make Wikipedia At Least Better Than The ''Weekly World News.'' (talk) 21:51, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
/BEGINNING OF SANDBOX, from talk page on List of conspiracy theories/
(-> To do: use WP:RS and/or use sources talking about issues as conspiracies/conspiracy theories)
——————Proposed subsection to the "War" section——————
During the 2011 civil war in Libya, numerous websites and blogs have purported that much is not what it seems to be. Websites such as Above Top Secret and others have brought forward "evidence" that military successes by the Libyan opposition have been mere lies[1] or being conducted by ground troops from NATO countries, Qatar or the UAE.[2] During the August invasion of Tripoli, reports have been spreading that western TV reports have been fabricated en masse in Qatari studio set-ups, citing suspect visual details in these reports by western mainstream media.[3] The western mainstream media is generally discredited and thought to be bought by their "oil hungry" governments (see New World Order and The Grand Chessboard) or being threatened to present lies by secret agents from NATO countries. The Guardian reported in 9 april of the rumours abounding, about the west wanting a divided Libya in order to control its oil[4][5]
Several of the conspiracy reports have been orchestrated by blogs and websites presenting left-wing policies and/or Russian connections.[6][7] The Russian Federation has been a fervent criticiser of the NATO operations during the civil war,[8][9] and multilingual news channel Russia Today has lent their credibility to some of the conspiracy reports. It has been using independent correspondents and known political activists[10] in their reporting from Libya and interviewed controversial figures such as Susan Lindauer.[11]
During the summer of 2011, the spread of these reports has almost gone viral, including using websites such as YouTube for the distribution of these alternative views of current events.[12]
/END OF SANDBOX/
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I've been looking into it, but it doesn't seem reasonably possible without a lot of false positives. The problem is that MediaWiki's template syntax is pretty complex as it is; matching the brackets is hard even on correct code, and on incorrect code, there are too many ways to get it slightly wrong. Something like ((template|(({arg|((template|value)))))) is wrong, but it's almost impossible for a computer to figure out how it's wrong (and without looking at the names, a human would probably be hard-pressed to work out how to correct it).
Something I've been considering is just highlighting any braces that, according to the parse, aren't template syntax, but that runs into problems with <nowiki> (brackets there aren't meant to be matched). It might nonetheless be helpful, I guess? --ais523 19:49, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch and correction on Cochise; my attention was on the Mexican period.Parkwells (talk) 15:48, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
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Would you please think back to this edit, as to why you changed the date in the caption? Because if you look at the information about the photograph you'll see it was taken in 2010, and uploaded 2010-08-04. The photo file was retouched in 2011. If your change was because of the caption on the other picture, well that is wrong too. Compare with the picture seen at Jane_Birkin#Personal_life - same shirt! I'll be hassling whoever made the mistake on the other picture also.
The point of all this is this - if you don't actually *know* the truth or falsity of something, don't just assume something. Damaging articles is bad news. (stomps off in a huff) Shenme (talk) 16:14, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
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