Talk:2021 Mediterranean oil spill

The oil spill didn't occur in Israel. As of now, there is no evidence that it came from an Israeli ship. Although much of the tar washed up in Israel, it also reached Lebanon (https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/ByMIOQbGd). Animal lover 666 (talk) 20:40, 24 February 2021 (UTC) [reply ]

One of the photos has a caption that reads:

a volunteer who cleans tar with a large lump of tar collected from smaller lumps of tar, on the beach ...

What is the meaning of "with" in "cleans tar with a large lump of tar"? At first I though it means that she *uses* the large lump of tar for doing that cleaning. But it seems more likely that "with a large lump of tar" means, simply, that she is *holding* a large lump of tar. The same caption in Hebrew on the corresponding Hebrew Wikipedia page

 מתנדבת העוסקת בניקוי זפת עם גוש זפת גדול שנאסף מגושי זפת קטנים יותר

is also somewhat unclear for the same reason. Except that perhaps the Hebrew version actually better supports the second interpretation just mentioned, because Hebrew "עם" is probably less likely than English "with" to be used in the sense of something used as an instrument or agent to accomplish a particular purpose. (But maybe not.)

The caption probably should be rewritten to be clearer. Even just a comma after the first "tar" could help:

a volunteer who cleans tar, with a large lump of tar collected from smaller lumps of tar, on the beach ...

But "holding" instead of "with" would make it even clearer still. Toddcs (talk) 00:25, 4 March 2021 (UTC) [reply ]

There are too many photos accompanying the article, most of them focusing on the clean-up operation, somewhat repetitively. They also need to be formatted and placed better.Leoseliv (talk) 18:17, 21 March 2021 (UTC) [reply ]