Talk:Mahshahr massacre

Requested move 26 February 2020

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Nnadigoodluck 🇳🇬 11:43, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Mahshahr massacre → Mahshahr Killings – As I searched, the term "massacre" is not supported by RS and this killing is not described by massacre" with RSes, while Mahshahr Killings is. Saff V. (talk) 09:08, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Comment The RSes which support the Killings:reuters, NYT, nbcnews and amnesty. They are natural.Saff V. (talk) 07:44, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Telluride (talk) 12:08, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * @Telluride I advice you to study wp:RS, globalnews, share.america are not RS. reuters and nytimes suggest the Mahshahr killings.Saff V. (talk) 07:10, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Oppose Sources use "Mahshahr massacre". Keep this disruptive pattern up and you'll be reported, most likely get a topic ban this time. --HistoryofIran (talk) 14:53, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose U.S. sanctions Iranian general over 'Mahshahr Massacre' (Washington times), The Commander Who Was Behind A Bloody Massacre In Iran (Radio Farda), Rouhani’s chief of staff confirms massacre in Mahshahr city (Iran International), “He oversaw the massacre of 148 helpless Iranians in the Mahshahr region last November.” (The Wall Street Journal), During protests, Iran Guards said to massacre up to 100 people hiding in marsh (The Times of Israel), etc. The user's edits suggest we have a serious WP:CoI case: Articles_for_deletion/Pouya_Bakhtiari, (diff), ...  MS    会話  17:23, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Please avoid to use Biased or opinionated sources such Radio Farda and Iran International to support your opinion.Saff V. (talk) 07:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * There's nothing wrong with those sources. --HistoryofIran (talk) 13:37, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Oppose Per Telluride. BlUeRiVeR20 (talk) 22:11, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose Many reliable sources emphasis that what happened in Mahshahr was a real massacre by the Iranian regime. Nika2020 (talk) 18:43, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


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Another look
I'm also looking at the sources and I also don't find strong evidence that "massacre" is WP:COMMONNAME. Many of the most reliable sources don't use it, including Washington Post, and New York Times. In fact, Telluride quoted the NYT article as supporting the usage of the term massacre, but I don't see the article using that term anywhere (maybe I missed it?). Other major reliable sources that use "killing"/"killed", but don't use "massacre", include Guardian, Al-Jazeera, BBC News. Reuters uses both "killings" and "massacre" in its article. These events are old enough that they have now entered scholarly writing. They are described by Revolution and Dictatorship, published by Princeton University Press (page 246), which also doesn't describe them as "massacre" but rather uses the terms "killed" and "killing". Another scholarly source is The Rise of Digital Repression published by Oxford University Press (page 22-23) and again it doesn't use the word "massacre", but does use the word "killing". The term "massacre" is a WP:POVTITLE and hence "killing" would be preferred.VR talk 06:18, 10 December 2022 (UTC)