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A fact from Muntadhar al-Zaidi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 December 2008 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a Saudi businessman offered US$10 million to buy the shoes thrown by al-Baghdadia TV correspondent Muntadhar al-Zaidi at U.S. President George W. Bush during a recent press conference?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December.

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A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on December 14, 2016.

Bias, and Quotation marks.

Whether your for or against the guy, people need to stop putting stuff, like "the protestors were broken up", etc. And the "plight of Iraws children" should of been quoted. It isnt the same to everyone. Use qoutation symbols too. That way we can avoid confusion —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.191.49.80 (talk) 22:25, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Shoeing

The Section under incidents inspired by al zaidi is word for word already in the article Shoeing and should be removed to decrease the size of this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.38.59.162 (talk) 17:50, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reason the shoes were destroyed?

The lead says that the shoes were destroyed to keep them out of a museum, but the linked source (and the article, further down) says that they were destroyed while searching them for explosives. Which one is true? (Or was it both?) In any case, if the lead is going to say that they were destroyed for that reason, we need a source specifically saying so. --Aquillion (talk) 02:14, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So much detail

Is this not an insanely long and detailed article for a guy who threw a shoe at the President? Was this really such an important incident to warrant a twenty-page Wikipedia entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.119.49.213 (talk) 13:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

agreed, if only he hit the target.... 131.176.243.9 (talk) 09:56, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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"Official" transliteration

On Muntadhar's Twitter page he calls himself "muntadher al-zaidi".^[1] Should this be the spelling we use? puggo (talk) 16:46, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "الصحافي منتظر الزيدي muntadher al-zaidi (@muntazer_zaidi) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2019-05-19.

This

What do you make of this? not sure if it is RS. Lightburst (talk) 22:40, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add a reference and move references at the end of the "George W. Bush shoeing" section, as follows: (nowiki applied for clarity in sharing markup)

Existing: He vowed to release the names of those who he said tortured him, including senior officials in the government and the army. After being interviewed by [[Reuters]] on 7 February 2023, al-Zaidi stated that he never regretted throwing his shoes at President Bush.<ref name="WapoFreed"/><ref name="times_freed"/>

New: He vowed to release the names of those who he said tortured him, including senior officials in the government and the army.<ref name="WapoFreed"/><ref name="times_freed"/> After being interviewed by [[Reuters]] on 7 February 2023, al-Zaidi stated that he never regretted throwing his shoes at President Bush.<ref>{{cite news|title=No regrets from the Iraqi who threw his shoes at Bush|author=Maher Nazeh|work=[[Reuters]]|date=14 March 2023|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/no-regrets-iraqi-who-threw-his-shoes-bush-2023-03-14/|accessdate=14 December 2023}}</ref> 125.239.152.135 (talk) 02:34, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "الصحافي منتظر الزيدي muntadher al-zaidi (@muntazer_zaidi) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2019-05-19.

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