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As a new user you not allowed to edit articles about the conflict per WP:ARBPIA3#500/30--Shrike (talk) 21:16, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Both.--Shrike (talk) 06:03, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

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March Madness 2017

G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
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As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

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March 2017

Hello, I'm Donner60. Misplaced Pages is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to List of genocides by death toll seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 02:44, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

I am striking the above message because you have given me a reasonable explanation for your position. Although I do not agree with your deletion, as I shall explain, I can see that there is a basis for disagreement which perhaps needs to be settled by some consensus.

As the template at the top of the page notes, there is controversy over what should be included as "genocide." Clearly the Holodomor was a case of extraordinary mass murder. I suppose it could be questioned whether it was "genocide", aimed at a specific ethnic group, religion or nationality because of their identity or "just" mass murder of large segment of a population.

It seems to me that this article is structured to include a broad range of mass murders since the template refers to "the legal definition in significant scholarship." The UN Convention certainly meets this criteria but it does not appear to be the sole criteria for inclusion in this list.

I would suggest not deleting the material, since there are supporting sources but adding a footnote about whether it was technically genocide and whether it should be omitted from the list for that reason. Of course, it would be best to support this with a specific explanation and a reliable, verifiable, neutral source or sources. I am not sure that your reason is this narrow but one could not expect the UN to speak on the particular occurrence because no resolution would be likely to pass. Certainly historians and others have addressed the details of the matter at length.

If you wish to include other incidents that meet the standard and are supported by such sources, this interpretation of the type of occurrences that can be in the article should cover those. I have not reviewed other changes or proposed changes because I have been reviewing new changes in the order in which they are made, not entire articles. This is a common practice and almost never will raise a question or issue.

You are no doubt familiar with the pertinent Misplaced Pages guideline pages. Perhaps overlooking whether the application of the word genocide to the Holodomor and whether there is any scholarship supporting that is the decisive point, I will note my basis in Misplaced Pages guidelines. In particular Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view states that articles should be "representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic" and, for more detail, especially Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view#Due and undue weight.

I would defer to the opinion of a task force or several users who have worked on the article or topic if there is a consensus that I am wrong about this. Donner60 (talk) 05:36, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Misplaced Pages articles, as you did to List of genocides by death toll. Doing so violates Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia.
This includes removing content because you WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT. Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:48, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

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Revert

Hello,

As a user of Misplaced Pages:Huggle the app is used to revert any suspicious or vandalism related edit. Unfortunately not all the talk pages or other information is necessarily displayed, and mistakes can be made. If you provide me more information as to which revert you are concerned about I can take this knowledge going forward.

Thanks for your feedback and apologies for any error.

Kind regards,

Krazytea(talk) 04:26, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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Copyright problem on Boston Massacre

Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinntyr4.html. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:17, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

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