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unclear wording

The testing section says "A German testing lab had found traces of mercury,[10] but the Polish government denied the cause as mercury poisoning and claimed their tests had found no such thing.[11] Later German laboratories believed this may have been the result of large amount of salt in the water.[12]".

It is not clear whether "this" in the last sentence refers to (a) German labs finding mercury or (b) polish labs _not_ finding mercury. 2A02:8108:4CBF:F59C:31FA:4F2:A4ED:5331 (talk) 17:35, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Screenshot Oder-Messwerte, Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Messtation Frankfurt an der Oder, Juli August 2022.png

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:22, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

how about using a map that shows the Oder

—Tamfang (talk) 20:09, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. It turns out there is a shape for the river on the current (15 Aug, 20:17 BST) infobox map but I'm struggling to get it to show, except in 'edit>preview' mode. Zooming out I at least forced the location pin to show (near Wroclaw), and some better-known place-names also provide context. I'm sure there's a better way - anybody? Yadsalohcin (talk) 19:20, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Tamfang @Yadsalohcin This article has a timeline and a map related to the event; it should be possible to make a free version of the map, but I don't have the skills for that. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:47, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]