Talk:Mauritania–Senegal Border War

Merge suggestion
Someone has suggested 1989 events in Mauritania and Senegal be merged into this article. I would suggest that while these topics contain much overlap, the internal ethnic conflict and refugee crisis of the 1989 events in Mauritania and Senegal might be renamed to show the existing focus of that article is on Mauritania, and the events which caused a massive refugee outpouring into Senegal. This article, the Mauritania–Senegal_Border_War is one consequence of that crisis, but only one, and should remain a separate article. Should the other article be renamed 1989 events in Mauritania or 1989 ethnic conflict in Mauritania or 1989 Mauritanian refugee crisis? Suggestions and difference of opinion can only help here! T L Miles (talk) 18:53, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * In the interim, someone has both combined these articles (without discussion or even edit summaries) and then removed large sections of them, specifically removing anything referencing skin-color based conflict. I'm tempted to just revert several years of edits, as this thing now is almost worse than having no article at all (and for the riots, mass killings, ethnic violence etc in Mauritania that sparked this war, there IS no article). See changes here.  All in all, this is an unreferenced POV nationalist mess.  T L Miles (talk) 16:29, 21 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Agreed. The current article, even with the incorporation of the French article, still fails to mention a lot of the later violence. I'll try and expand these sections. MrPenguin20 (talk) 03:32, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Possible way out of this mess of an article
Take a look at fr:Conflit_sénégalo-mauritanien, the French language equivalent of this. It is short and does not fully cover the territory, but it is a neutral, well referenced, start. A complete wipe-out of the current English article and its replacement by a translation of the French article would be a good start. Below is the quite useful bibliography of the French language article (which contains English language sources).

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