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Section sizes

Section size for Bosnian War (55 sections)
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(Top)	19,561	19,561
Chronology	2,542	2,542
Background	18	27,717
Breakup of Yugoslavia	4,590	4,590
Beginning of the Yugoslav Wars	8,489	8,489
Final political crisis	7,887	7,887
March 1992 unrest	6,733	6,733
Factions	548	24,412
Bosnian	10,188	10,188
Croat	1,878	1,878
Serb	1,414	1,414
Paramilitary and volunteers	10,384	10,384
Prelude	1,520	1,520
Course of the war	24	75,540
1992	24,553	27,611
Croat–Bosniak relations in late 1992	3,058	3,058
1993	6,947	22,295
Outbreak of the Croat–Bosniak War	2,362	2,362
Central Bosnia	5,991	5,991
Herzegovina	1,961	1,961
June–July Offensives	3,161	3,161
May–June 1993 UN Safe Areas extension	1,873	1,873
1994	2,853	12,859
Markale massacre	1,803	1,803
Washington Agreement	1,921	1,921
UNPROFOR and NATO	6,282	6,282
1995	12,751	12,751
Casualties	3,304	20,473
RDC figures	8,526	8,526
ICTY figures	3,090	3,090
Other statistics	5,553	5,553
War crimes	2,036	35,767
Ethnic cleansing	7,061	7,061
Genocide	5,210	5,210
Rape	3,872	3,872
Prosecutions and legal proceedings	14,876	14,876
Reconciliation	2,712	2,712
Assessment	15	7,452
Civil war or a war of aggression	6,512	6,512
Ethnic war	925	925
In popular culture	25	22,873
Film	10,664	14,276
Drama series	777	777
Documentaries	2,835	2,835
Books	5,319	5,319
Music	2,267	2,267
Video games	986	986
See also	392	392
Notes	587	587
References	35	35
Bibliography	20	16,155
Books	8,478	8,478
Journals	2,789	2,789
Other sources	4,868	4,868
External links	2,990	2,990
Total	258,016	258,016

Edit warring over outcome

Hungarianhistorian97, can you please stop edit warring over this and instead discuss the changes you want to make here on the article talk page? Cordless Larry (talk) 11:28, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Battles won is not a result

@Dupexz1256 please stop edit warring and explain your rationale why number of battles won is in your opinion a valid result of a war and not just it's statistic? YBSOne (talk) 08:41, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dupexz1256, apart from not being a result and , not being grammatical English, (until today, when it became grammatical, but fairly vague - "VRS achieved military success during the war") , apart from these, the infobox is meant to be a summary of the article and of sources. The article says "The Serbs, although initially militarily superior due to the weapons and resources provided by the JNA, eventually lost momentum as the Bosniaks and Croats allied against the Republika Srpska ", so it's a massive simplification to say "VRS achieved military success during the war", if it were that simple, the war would have been a clear Serb victory. Most sources agree that despite early success, the VRS had 'run out of steam' and lost its early advantages by the end of the war. You are simply making stuff up to create a false 'score card', which isn't even a result of the war, it's what happened during the course of the war.Pincrete (talk) 17:02, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]