Talk:Lebanese pound

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 * Lebanese Lira currency 2017 Issue.jpg

Deletion of £L
Per WP:BRD, I have reverted a bold edit that deleted most instances of £L from the article. Use of the abbreviation £L in Lebanon is well documented, even if the Government of Lebanon appears to have stopped using it. Any proposal to "de-emphasise" it in this article requires consensus. Better evidence than WP:OR examination of recent government-issue banknotes would be wise. "I have not been able to find" is a red flag – maybe you didn't look hard enough? John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:08, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The change may well be valid but it needs to be more soundly based. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:37, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to work on this to find a consensus. TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 14:03, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The World Bank's digitised documents use "LL" almost exclusively, as recommended on page 136 of their style guide.
 * World Bank documents using LL
 * World Bank - 7th of December, 1972
 * World Bank - 9th of February, 1993
 * World Bank - 13th of May, 2002
 * World Bank - May, 2005
 * World Bank - 31st of January, 2008
 * World Bank - 15th of June, 2017
 * IMF documents using LL
 * 10th of January, 2007, 3rd of November, 2008
 * It seems the Syrian and Lebanese pounds largely stopped being abbreviated as "£S" and "£L" in domestic sources sometime in the 1960s, with legacy use outside of the Levant continuing until the 1990s, although the World Bank seem to have wholeheartedly embraced Lebanon's standardising on "LL", with no documents at all on their site using "£L". TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 23:43, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
 * On that evidence and per the consensus reached at talk: Egyptian pound, please revise the article to show £L as historic and replace any instances of it in material describing modern usage with LL. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:54, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Recent changes
The Al Jazeera source specifically states plunges to 100000, not 143000. Also ISO codes are standard, widely understood, and linked anyway so there can be no confusion. I oppose all the proposed changes. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:9D1F:EAEC:2D9F:A5A2 (talk) 23:52, 7 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 08:21, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The code "GBP" was added out of spite by a malicious editor intent on upsetting somebody, so I oppose that usage. It is quite strange how they used decimal points and two zeroes even though sterling was not a decimal currency at the time. This was a WP:POINTy edit intended to cause trouble. The prior statement "to sterling at" and the use of the abbreviation "LL" for the Lebanese pound (curiously the POINTy editor did not change that to "LBP", again adding to my suspicion it was a purely malicious edit) already fully demarcated them. I have no issue with the specific numbers (I had not even noticed those). 86.187.233.43 (talk) 10:08, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * This shows all the signs of being another sock of banned editor TheCurrencyGuy, who is in no position to accuse anyone of making WP:POINTy edits. The changes you want to make do not have consensus. Do not attempt to make them again. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 13:44, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * If it is a banned user, then the unsourced changes were probably subtle vandalism. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:4897:3917:AD48:6470 (talk) 15:12, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

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