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Smiljan edits
Regarding this edit, please remember to assume good faith in the future. The text was referenced to a mainstream newspaper, Jutarnji list, which isn't quite likely to produce sleazy attempt[s] at revisionist history. You changed the text to say something else while keeping their reference, which made it that much harder for ordinary readers to verify the text. In the subsequent edits, you removed that reference solely because of a dead link (a technical problem that is easily worked around), and added a reference to a book printed by a church. That is a less relevant and a less reliable source on the face of it - please see Reliable sources. The new references didn't actually verify the text; for example the new reference doesn't even mention the year 1765.

More specifically, the Mileusnić source says:
 * In Autumn 1991, Parish Home-Museum vandalized by paramilitary Croatian forces. (Report of ECMM No. 1/94, 75).

A quick google can't find me that report, but I did find where it says:
 * Smiljan: The ECMM was unable to visit the Nikola Tesla museum, which is occupied by Croatian army; the location of the collection is unknown (6 June).

If there was an army outpost in a building, a claim that the same building was shelled by the opposing army can't possibly appear outside the realm of possibility. It's common knowledge that the warring parties in that war weren't necessarily trained soldiers, the assumption that shelling of a house where a Serb was born by Serbs is impossible - is wishful thinking at best.

In general, I'd advise against referencing books that are called "spiritual genocide", that conflate 1941 with 1991, and make egregiously tendentious claims such as "the Croatian aggression on the Republic of Serbian Krajina". There's probably many truthful claims in the book that appears to have many factoids, but we shouldn't ever prefer it as a source.

Since this is a bit too deep in Serbian nationalist territory for my taste, I have to issue a formal WP:ARBMAC notice below.

--Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 17:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)