Talk:Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)

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Could split (or spin off) a subarticle on the Line of Death, to avoid repeating background info in the 2 Gulf of Sidra incident articles. --Uncle Ed 19:20, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I have created "Line of Death" as a redirect to the Gulf of Sidra article - it's probably the best place for the material. I don't have any good sources to hand about the details - in particular exactly what Gaddafi said in 1973. Megapixie 00:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Deleted entire (unsourced) section titled "Commercial Products" on patches which refer to a series of engagments 23-25 March 1986 (during Operation Attain Document). The text showed confusion about why fighter pilots would wear the patches and why an A-6E would be depicted on the patches. Discussion of these patches belongs in a separate article on the 23-25 March incidents. I did not find such an article. Can someone create one? However, those incidents are described in the USS America article. There have been, however, T-shirts, and possibly also patches, created and sold to commemorate the 1981 incident. The T-shirts said something like, "U. S. 2, Libya 0. Anytime, Khadafi, baby!" Similar T-shirts came out in 1989 after the January 1989 shootdown of 2 Libyan MiG-23s by U. S. F-14 Tomcats. The T-shirts updated the "score" to 4-0. Someone should add this info to the relevant articles if he has a source. Thanks! HolyT 17:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image

I do not see the point of having a computer generated image. Why do we have it? Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 00:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Well to put it simply; Because we can, and the Wikipedia:Image use policy encourages it. Anynobody 01:19, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up my F14 photo. I am trying to get into the habit of taking photos of interest to the Wikipedia community when I visit places.--Dr.michael.benjamin 07:26, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Even though I didn't have anything to do with it, I'll say you're welcome and thanks for uploading the photo on behalf of the community. :) Anynobody 20:31, 18 October 2007 (UTC)