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Semi-protected edit request on 28 June 2025

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its says that his assasination was 110 years ago wich is completly wrong, he actually died 111 years ago, please change, thats a gross misinformation. 77.119.197.30 (talk) 07:11, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: The infobox has an automatic counter which will increment automatically at the end of today once 111 years have actually been completed. The difference between incrementing at the start or end of the day is not "gross misinformation". SI09 (talk) 08:01, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Okay, so it says the assasination happend 110 years ago, thats wrong. it actually happend 111 years ago, please correct that grave mistake. 77.119.197.30 (talk) 13:55, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: See the response to the previous edit request concerning this above. Day Creature (talk) 16:03, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 27 September 2025

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There is an unmatched '"' in 'The attackers threw the corpses of King Alexander and Queen Draga out of a palace window, ending any threat that loyalists would mount a counterattack."'. I believe there should be a '"' at the start of the sentence. 185.119.37.230 (talk) 11:46, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Partly done: Well no, but thanks for pointing it out. I have removed the " preceding the citation. This seems to have been a typo or something introduced in an enormous edit back in 14 april 2010. (another example of why we really should not be making such large changes. Now I cannot see how this went wrong) Slomo666 (talk) 13:32, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]