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Section sizes

Section size for Bosnian War (55 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	19,561	19,561
Chronology	2,542	2,542
Background	18	27,717
Breakup of Yugoslavia	4,590	4,590
Beginning of the Yugoslav Wars	8,489	8,489
Final political crisis	7,887	7,887
March 1992 unrest	6,733	6,733
Factions	548	24,412
Bosnian	10,188	10,188
Croat	1,878	1,878
Serb	1,414	1,414
Paramilitary and volunteers	10,384	10,384
Prelude	1,520	1,520
Course of the war	24	76,261
1992	25,274	28,332
Croat–Bosniak relations in late 1992	3,058	3,058
1993	6,947	22,295
Outbreak of the Croat–Bosniak War	2,362	2,362
Central Bosnia	5,991	5,991
Herzegovina	1,961	1,961
June–July Offensives	3,161	3,161
May–June 1993 UN Safe Areas extension	1,873	1,873
1994	2,853	12,859
Markale massacre	1,803	1,803
Washington Agreement	1,921	1,921
UNPROFOR and NATO	6,282	6,282
1995	12,751	12,751
Casualties	3,304	20,473
RDC figures	8,526	8,526
ICTY figures	3,090	3,090
Other statistics	5,553	5,553
War crimes	2,036	35,761
Ethnic cleansing	7,061	7,061
Genocide	5,210	5,210
Rape	3,872	3,872
Prosecutions and legal proceedings	14,870	14,870
Reconciliation	2,712	2,712
Assessment	15	7,452
Civil war or a war of aggression	6,512	6,512
Ethnic war	925	925
In popular culture	25	22,873
Film	10,664	14,276
Drama series	777	777
Documentaries	2,835	2,835
Books	5,319	5,319
Music	2,267	2,267
Video games	986	986
See also	392	392
Notes	587	587
References	35	35
Bibliography	20	16,155
Books	8,478	8,478
Journals	2,789	2,789
Other sources	4,868	4,868
External links	2,990	2,990
Total	258,731	258,731

"Course of War"

I'm reading this part in the section "Course of War":

"Shellings on Sarajevo on 24, 26, 28 and 29 May were attributed to Mladić by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Civilian casualties of a 27 May shelling of the city led to Western intervention, in the form of sanctions imposed on 30 May through United Nations Security Council Resolution 757."

And I'm trying to figure out why it's written this way, short of the reason being that it almost lifted walmost directly from the source material. Was the shelling on the 27th of May not also attributed to Mladic? Is it written simply to highlight that the 27th was important? Because even if that's the case, there is still no reason to remove that date from the list of dates in the sentence immediately prior to it. Criticalthinker (talk) 04:33, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also, in the Belligerents sections of the infobox, specifically the "May 1992–94:" why isn't the FR Yugoslavia again mentioned as a belligerent. They are listed in both the previous and proceeding time frames in the infobox. As far as I can tell, they were still very much "Support" for Republika Srpska and Krajina during the Bosniak-Croat conflict which this period covers. FR Yugoslavia didn't just stop fighting from 1992-1994. Criticalthinker (talk) 12:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

War in Slovenia

You are definitely missing a lot of information about how this started and how was attack happened in Slovenia, I was there and I know.Please don’t write something that wasn’t true 69.156.24.128 (talk) 15:19, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're probably referring to the Ten-Day War, which preceded the Bosnian War by about a year. They were both part of the Breakup of Yugoslavia.Pincrete (talk) 18:09, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring over outcome

Hungarianhistorian97, can you please stop edit warring over this and instead discuss the changes you want to make here on the article talk page? Cordless Larry (talk) 11:28, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]