Talk:Direct Action Day

Removed personal opinion
added the following to the article in this edit:

"'In fact nothing was planned for Direct Action Day except large-scale meetings all over the country and it was while the Muslims of Calcutta were attending such a meeting that the riot broke out, NOT IN the area of the meeting, but in the areas of the unprotected homes of these people. And the carnage that took place during these first few hours, where women and children fell as completely helpless and defenseless victims was greater than the subsequent retaliatory attacks by the Muslims on the predominantly Hindu areas.'"

I removed it from the article because the source is a book edited by McDermott, who is not a historian, and should not be cited for points of historical fact. Worse, the page from which the text is taken is condensed, without analysis, from From Purdah to Parliament, an autobiography by Shaista Ikramullah (who is not a historian either, nor a journalist). Ikramullah cites no sources for her assertions, simply saying "As far as I can judge the matter dispassionately I feel that this is not true" and then launching into her perceptions above. This has no place in a Wikipedia article about history. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:56, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Restored clarification of Chatterji
In re-inserting the above text in this edit, also undid unrelated clarifications to what Chatterji wrote. Based on Evox777's edit summary, their comment above, and this comment left on my talk page, I assume that their reversion of the Chatterji clarifications was unintended. But if they or anyone else thinks that Chatterji blamed only the Muslim League for the riots, I would be happy to discuss it here. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:56, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Selective removal of sourced content
User:AhmedQureshi has selectively removed content about Muslims being targeted on dubious reasons. I also have other issues but will discuss them later. There was a revert by an IP address before Qureshi, I don't know if it's him since Qureshi created the account after. First he says there is no reliable source. That too when the article itself says with reliable sources there were killings of not only Hindus, but Muslims as well. I have quoted the article with references later on.

Then when I add several sources he frivolously them as non-reliable. Also he cites a reason that there a category "Persecution of Bengali Hindus". However, Direct Action Day there is also a "Violence against Muslims in India" category. He dismissed all the sources I cited as "non-reliable", though I doubt he himself knows completely about WP:RELIABLE. One of the source I added is well-known publishers Taylor & Francis who also publishes books as academic journals, and it is reputed. One of the known author Tanika Sarkar. Another author Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is also a known scholar. The other two sources, Mahatma Gandhi: A Selected Biography page 26, Report to Lord Pethick-Lawrence are already in source which I also cite below.

Also here's some of the quotes from the articles contents woth sources that Muslims were targeted as well, it was violence between Hindus and Muslims both and not just on Hindus.

"Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the Great Calcutta Killings, was a day of widespread riot and manslaughter between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India."

"Some authors have claimed that most of the victims were Muslims."

Hindus and Sikhs were just as fierce as the Muslims in the beginning. Parties of one community would lie in wait, and as soon as they caught one of the other community, they would cut him to pieces.

AhmedQureshi is engaging in disruptive behavior by selectively removing text from the infobox which is sourced. I aks him to stop this. 117.215.225.128 (talk) 18:18, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

I agree, it's unnecessary to present only Hindus as the target. Therefore I changed it to civil conflict. 103.40.196.34 (talk) 14:17, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

Supposedly sourced content
I see three sentences in the lead that say:

An IP removed the last of these sentences, and suddenly our attention to this problematic content. All this is completely wrong. There is nothing of this kind in any source. I see that fragments of the second sentence were added by User:Dwaipayanc way back in 2008 under a citation, making it appear as a sourced statement. Please don't do this. It destroys WP:Text-source integrity, and all kinds of junk passes for sourced content. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 23:30, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Partisan article?
I know nothing about this event, but phrases like "a hardline Muslim hooligan" suggest that I am not likely to find many answers here Gwaka Lumpa (talk) 16:10, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Crimes against humanity category removal
Crimes against humanity is a specific legal concept. In order to be included in the category, the event (s) must have been prosecuted as a crime against humanity, or at a bare minimum be described as such by most reliable sources. Most of the articles that were formerly in this category did not mention crimes against humanity at all, and the inclusion of the category was purely original research. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)