Talk:History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi

Mandela on Qaddafi
"This man helped us at a time when we were all alone." 1 "Libya was one of those countries that supported us during our struggle when others were working with the apartheid regime." 2 "It was pure expediency to call on democratic South Africa to turn its back on Libya and Qaddafi, who had assisted us in obtaining democracy at a time when those who now made that call were the friends of the enemies of democracy in South Africa." 3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.54.82.252 (talk) 03:42, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Libyan Arab Republic
Opinions on a separate page for the Libyan Arab Republic? If none are given, I shall go ahead and make it one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaptinkeiff (talk • contribs) 22:45, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Jamahiriya split, again
- Can you explain why you want to split off the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to another article, and why you used the awkward full name nobody uses rather than just Libyan Arab Jamahiriya?

Various editors have crawled out of the woodwork to do this without ever explaining why they think this is better, just doing it instead. Maybe an artifact of them being separate articles on other language wikis? Anyway, I remain opposed. Nothing interesting happened in 1977. The country was still referred to as "Libya" in English. Gaddafi was the dictator in charge before, and he was the dictator in charge after. If the argument is length, then it should be something like History of Libya, 1977–2011. This wasn't a "new country" that sprung up out of nowhere and then vanished: it was just Libya, and the era was that of Gaddafi, so it's appropriately covered in this article, which this change now makes appear as if Gaddafi's rule stopped in 1977. Which is not true. Even if there are summary-style spinoffs made, this article should still cover the entire period under Gaddafi as a relevant topic. I will again use the example of Francoist Spain, which covers all of Spain-under-Franco, and does not subdivide by the title he was calling it at the time, because the title really doesn't matter that much. SnowFire (talk) 19:08, 19 November 2022 (UTC)


 * @SnowFire honestly, it sounds like it needs it's own page, in a nation format Cash713 (talk) 14:11, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * True! WikiManUser21 (talk) 16:29, 5 May 2023 (UTC) strike sock --  Ponyo bons mots 22:24, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

"Old Libya" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Old Libya and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. — kashmīrī  TALK  09:09, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 5 May 2023
I think we should split this page into 2 new articles: Libyan Arab Republic and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Why? Well, @SnowFire, those two republics aren’t the same as the current one. For example, the Socialist Republic of Romania isn’t the same republic as the current state of Romania. Plus, it feels cleaner to have these 2 pages instead of this one. For example, there’s no History of Romania (1947-1989) page, but we have the Socialist Republic of Romania page. WikiManUser21 (talk) 16:37, 5 May 2023 (UTC)  strike sock --  Ponyo bons mots 22:25, 10 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I've stated my opinion above. If I ever have time, I'd love to rewrite the existing article's structure.  But the scale of the change in 1977 is not remotely comparable to the fall of Ceausescu in Romania.  In November 1989, Romania was governed by a communist dictator in Ceausescu, and by January 1990, it was governed by completely different people.  In all of 1976, 1977, and 1978, Libya was a dictatorship governed by Gaddafi.  He changed a title, that was it.  SnowFire (talk) 06:26, 7 May 2023 (UTC)