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Info on flag of Mali Empire

Hi, Menah. I ran across some info that's very exciting regarding the flag of the Mali Empire. According to this (http://books.google.com/books?id=HwV2a-lPB70C&printsec=frontcover&dq=General+History+of+Africa#PPA60,M1) on page 60, an eyewitness describes the colors (flag/standard) of Mansa Musa as "yellow on a red ground". I wish the guy would have said what was yellow. Maybe it was a yellow a triangle as shown on that map you mentioned in the Mali Empire talk page. Regardless, we know the ground or field was red. i'll post this on the talk page too. holla back. Scott Free (talk) 07:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Paolo Maldini

First of all, sorry. I should've left you a note in your talk page...being use to revert mostly vandalism I'm losing my modals :). That said I still see your edit way too biased and unsourced [1], but I'm just one editor talk your modification in the talk page and let's see how it goes.

And I was checking the recent changes page, that's how I check your edit and revert it. I usually revert blatant vandalism, so once again sorry for not leaving a note in your talk page explaining my revert. Cheers!--Seba5618 (talk) 22:24, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Ifoghas

That article is about the battle in the Ifoghas mountains from February 22. What the French are involved in is a separate operation/battle in a separate part of northern Mali. What the Tuareg militants are involved in is also a separate skirmish. You can not combine all those separate battles into one battle. If you want to write about the French operations create a separate article. EkoGraf (talk) 20:56, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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List of serial killers before 1900

As you can see, many entries were rmeoved for having no sources. I added a lot back in . You can help here User:WikiOriginal-9/sandbox if you want. WikiOriginal-9 (talk)

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Belle Gunness is listed twice on the serial killers by number of victims

You probably already know this but u can press ctrl+f to find stuff on the page. She made a big jump from Serial killers with fewer than 15 proven victims to the top section, lol. Which is more appropiatre 13 or 42. - Murderpedia has the same numbers too. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 18:36, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

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Books you may find handy for sources

• Michael Newton (January 1, 2006). The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-6987-3.
• Tom Philbin; Michael Philbin (January 1, 2009). Killer Book of Serial Killers: Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the World of Serial Killers. Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4022-2647-2.
• Harold Schechter (December 30, 2003). The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-345-47200-7.

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Well, that's the English. What's the original text? Please let me know. --Corsican Warrah (talk) 15:33, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

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Edits on Spanish election articles

There are drawings and drawings. You may have high-quality paintings of people, or wild drawings where you can't even distinguish a person's age. You keep reverting it, and just put forward your "30 years forward argument". Cánovas looked like this in 1884, which is far closer to the photo used than to your drawing, which is a poor quality one.

Also, stop adding irrelevant parties to the infobox. Infobox should be intended as a summary, not as a means to depict every tiny party possible (specially at a time when the election "winner" - by means of electoral fraud - easily obtained supermajorities). Having in the infobox 2-seat parties out of the ~400 seats in Congress at the time is just absurd. Back at the period starting at 1876 there were only two large parties (three at times). The infobox should kept at three (even when in some elections it should really be limited to two by political relevance) in order to use the full width that the infobox template allow, but no more when they are not necessary. For full election details you can just go to the nice "Results" table that is in each article.

Cheers. Impru20 (talk) 18:21, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

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Murder of Marta del Castillo

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Guider

Hi. Are you Mick Guider? If so, I'm one of your old friends from the Crisis Centre, the one who used to write the guide books. Say hello if I've got the right person.

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Joan Vila

I've moved this to Draft:Joan Vila until it is finished. It's probably better to start such articles as drafts until you get all the sources added. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 20:49, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

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The Minotaur-class ironclads were iron-hulled, not wooden. I'll be deleting them, again, from the list of longest wooden ships.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:24, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

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