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Featured listList of sieges of Gibraltar is a featured list, which means it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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May 15, 2013WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
July 9, 2013Featured list candidatePromoted
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 11, 2013.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that there have been fourteen sieges of Gibraltar, making it one of the most fought-over places in Europe?
Current status: Featured list

Made some minor changes and tweaks

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Per my comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of sieges of Gibraltar/archive1, I was WP:BOLD and made some changes to show how the page would look incorporating recommendations. If these changes stay in the page and are part of its stable history, I think the overall quality and look of the page stands much improved, and I'd be happy to say it would be ready for Featured quality, at that point in time. :) Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 14:40, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What about transfers?

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This is great, but what about transfers of the territory that didn't involve any siege or war? Has Gibraltar ever been traded like that? If so we might want to modify the table to include them, or make another table if we really want to separate sieges and transfers. DrZygote214 (talk) 03:43, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. If it's not a siege, it's out of scope for this list, and belongs somewhere like History of Gibraltar, as does material about the many other conflicts and military operations that have involved Gibraltar. This article is just about the sieges. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:25, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it has been traded like that. On every occasion that I can think of when it's changed hands, force has been involved. Prioryman (talk) 18:23, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]