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A fact from Battle for Lake Tanganyika appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Battle for Lake Tanganyika involved an expedition dragging two motor boats through Africa, led by a man who was "court-martialled for wrecking his own ships, an inveterate liar and a wearer of skirts"?

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Belgian Forces

The article makes little mention of the Belgian forces that were deployed along with the british, the Naval actions on the lake prior to 1915 are also given little detail.

Command of the Oceans

Is the "Command of the Oceans 1914-1917" template appropriate for this article. It was origionally intended for the battles between the German High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy forces sent to stop them. Since then it has expanded to include all naval actions fought in the Indian and Pacific oceans during World War I. The probelm is that Lake Tanganyika is not part of the said oceans and is basically land locked with the exception of the connecting river ways. It should only be included as being part of the East African Campaign, which it is, and not the campaign fought across the vast Pacific and Indian oceans.--Az81964444 (talk) 20:28, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Command of the oceans deals with actions fought by the German East Asian Squadron, the german sailors manning the vessels on the lake were part of the squadron. A german survey craft attached to the squadron was in east africa at the start of the war. It guns and men were transfered to the lake where they armed whatever vessels they could get their hands on.XavierGreen (talk) 16:34, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Based on fiction

This article is largely cited to Mimi and Toutou Go Forth which is fiction, a novel. Reading some reviews of the novel, people say it is clearly fiction and there is considerable leeway with the facts. -- GreenC 00:38, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's mischaracterising the work, which is not fiction, nor is it a novel, and hence it is classified and sold as non-fiction, and called such in RS's like The Guardian, the Literary Review and the Financial Times. Rather than the blanket tag, which is based on this confusion, please feel free to tag specific facts which are in dispute. Spokoyni (talk) 18:51, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]