Talk:Atrocity crime

Major construction/edit just completed
This article was flagged as needing attention from an expert in international law. I hold this expertise so I've just made major edits adding more depth, citations, and accuracy to the article. Here's a summary of my edits:


 * 1) Addressed the confusion/time-sensitive ambiguity around crimes of aggression. Despite being included in the ICC's jurisdiction, they are not mass atrocity crimes because it is a violation of state sovereignty rather than against individuals.
 * 2) Added ethnic cleansing which major INGOs, scholars, and UN documents have recognized as a mass atrocity crime.
 * 3) Added citations to verify information.
 * 4) Added general information on how the crimes are related and distinguishable.
 * 5) Added minor historic development of legal definition.

--SeymourJustice (talk) 21:34, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 31 July 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Judekkan (talk) 10:26, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Mass atrocity crimes → Atrocity crime – Current name is less common than its more WP:CONCISE synonym per NGRAMS (even subtracting the results for the longer string). In addition, the term "mass atrocity crime" has the potential to mislead our readers. War crime does not require mass atrocity since murdering a single person could be a war crime. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  06:41, 31 July 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Addenum: I'm agnostic to singular vs plural ("Atrocity crimes is the set of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide" vs. "An atrocity crime is a violation of international criminal law that falls under war crimes, etc.") but I believe WP:SINGULAR favors the latter. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  06:41, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:CONCISE ("mass" here is redundant), and not in plural form per WP:SINGULAR. Rewrite the lead as necessary, e.g. using Buidhe's addendum text.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  08:50, 1 August 2022 (UTC)