Talk:Timeline of the 2011 Libyan Civil War and military intervention (16 August – 23 October)

Lead Section

Added a small lead section using content from the main article. Sanpitch (talk) 06:40, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Gaddafi quote (Feb. 25th)

"The people who dont love me dont deserve to live" is a misquote by the source in question. Apparently he said, "if the people dont love me, I dont deserve to live". Check out aljazeera. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.29.108.181 (talk) 18:29, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't see the Al Jazeera report that says that quote, this wikipedia discussion is the only thing that comes up. Anyway on March 1 part Zweitina is linking to Syria, possibly a similarly named but different city, just thought I'd give a heads up. Closest thing I see is Port of Zueitina but being a newb I won't mess with that part. Cheers. 75.70.45.40 (talk) 10:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I was watching the Aljazeera news item as it happened, and I can confirm that (at least according to Aljazeera's translation), he said that he himself didn't deserve to live if the people didn't love him. I'm changing the quote in the article. Cheers, Alfons Åberg (talk) 17:08, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I also fixed the "Zwaitina" issue. Our article on it is at Az Zuwaytinah. Alfons Åberg (talk) 17:29, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

House arrest

The current version says on February 22, Younis "escaped from house arrest," but this is not supported by the given reference and is not mentioned in the article about Younis. When is this house arrest supposed to have begun? --LA2 (talk) 22:40, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

The sentence was added here by user:Zenithfel. --LA2 (talk) 22:59, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Al Manara Media et al

I'm going to remove some of the citations from this site because they appear to just be a propaganda outlet for the anti-Gadhaffi fighters, along with libyafeb17.com B-I-G and S-M-R-T!!1! (talk) 01:02, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Youtube and blog "updates" are not Reliable Sources

Youtube and fast moving blog "updates" are not Reliable Sources; get past Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard before reinserting,please, because these sources have already been disallowed . I have removed some good faith March 18th content from youtube and blog updates; if there is more similar content, it should also be taken out, I think. If anyone wishes to challenge my opinion, please take it to the noticeboard (link above). Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 21:12, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Rebel Plane shot down

The content related to this well reported event keeps getting removed. This event helps provide a little bit of balance perhaps to the article and the Gaddafi side claims it shows a no-fly zone violation by the rebel side, thus it is quite notable. The photo of the plane falling has been shown on both CNN and CBC backdrops for a few days now so it is notable too. Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 19:37, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Libya districts

As of 19 March, out of Libya's twenty-two districts, twelve were under government control, seven were under rebel control and five were contested territories (see map).

Something is wrong with the above statement, which is there from the start of the article. 12 government districts + 7 rebel districts + 5 contested districts is 24 total districts, yet the article says twenty-two. So obviously something isnt right there.Ratipok (talk) 07:30, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. —Nightstallion 09:30, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Prose tag remove or apply?

I believe we should remove the Prose-tag as calls for a complete overhaul of the article and the more because it would result in a text and not a facts list (the latter being a timeline in essence). - AlwaysUnite (talk) 14:12, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

New organization?

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but there's a lot of days in a month. Like, more than 30 in some cases. In any case, that's a lot of subheadings to fit under one heading and makes the ToC at the top a bit crowded. Should we maybe reformat this into, say, "1. Before the First Battle of Benghazi" or "Initial Protests", "2. Rebel Takeover of Cities" or "Fighting begins", "3. The First Rebel Offensive", "4. The Gaddafi Offensive" (or first Gaddafi offensive if more arise), and "5. The UN No-Fly Zone and the Second Rebel Offensive"?

First of all, that makes more sense in terms of the uprising (or war, or whatever term you prefer); and second of all it helps keep chunks a little smaller and the table of contents a little easier on the eyes. 140.247.147.170 (talk) 00:54, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

• Many people find it clearer to have a section per day. To reduce the amount of whitespace, I have used {{TOCright}}, and moved all images to the left to avoid clashing with the contents list. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:06, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I wasn't thinking completely eliminating the days, those are very helpful, but splitting the larger sections. As in, "1. Initial Protests, 1.1 15 February, 1.2 16 February; 2. Rebel Takeover of Cities, 2.1 17 February, 2.2 18 February, etc." But I'll definitely say it looks a lot nicer now with key dates highlighted! 140.247.12.151 (talk) 16:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Low importance

Is this really a low importance article in the project scale of Africa and Politics? I cannot imagine what the mid-importance borderline can be, if it's stuck in low category. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 10:19, 29 March 2011 (UTC)