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Did you know... that Osama bin Laden was at least 9 feet (2.7 m) tall?
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A geographic anomaly
The sources are in conflict as the relative position and distance between
Gauhati and Behali, India (not to be confused with
Behali, Pakistan. I did my own research and came up with distance and direction which is consistent with one of the sources. However, the conflicting information has been left in the article, and one of the claims probably should be removed. 7&6=thirteen (
☎)18:44, 3 January 2015 (UTC)reply
He or it?
The elephant is referred to as 'he' at first and later as 'it'. Not being able to ascertain WP's style on animal pronouns, I have changed 'it' to 'he' everywhere except in the quotations. However, I am happy to be contradicted, as long as consistency is maintained.
PhilUK (
talk)
16:56, 1 April 2015 (UTC)reply
I don't know about the
WP:MOS on the subject. FWIW, I agree with you. Sorry that I missed that, but sometimes one loses the trees for the forest, and vice versa. 7&6=thirteen (
☎)17:24, 1 April 2015 (UTC)reply