Talk:2020 Assam mob lynchings

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what even is this wiki article? Some of the claims sourced lead to dead links and the sources are from tertiary if not completely terrible sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16a2:f94f:3600:887b:7d27:fe55:90f1 (talk) 12:26, 23 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I attempted to fix one source that was a dead link, only to find that it was a corrupted URL for a black-listed website, which had replaced another corrupted link for another black-listed website. I was able to find a source article that appeared to be the original article that was used by the black-listed sites. I note that other incidents have been removed, so I wonder if the issue with the lack of reliable sources is that editors hve found their contributed citations are blacklisted, and either haven't bothered to find an acceptable source to replace the black-listed one or cannot find a reliable source in the first place. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 09:55, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

No analysis
Wikipedia is not a news website, nor should it be a collection or list of incidents or exemplar cases, without having some degree of analysis about why such cases arise or are notable as a group, or even in their own right. The individual incidents discussed in this article have little or no surrounding analysis. Yet at least one of the sources mention that this violence between people of different religious faiths is due to political loyalties and religious intolerance. To improve the article, these themes need to be surfaced in the article, where the sources discuss these issues. This marks the difference between the journalistic news style of news sources, reporting individual news items, and an encyclopedic summary writing style that provides general analysis and commentary ahead of individual events. This article needs to answer the Why? question by mining the news sources deeply to get past the "Who?, What?, Where? and When? of the news story to find and include any analysis, or give reasons and explanations of why this is happening that are buried at the end of the story. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 10:44, 29 September 2023 (UTC)