Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1947–1948 Rajouri massacre


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure)

1947–1948 Rajouri massacre

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The term "Rajouri massacre" or even "massacre" to describe these events are not found in any reliable source. The creator of this page took a two-line blurb from 1947 Jammu massacres and built a shell around it. I can't see how this can be an independent topic worth its own page. Kautilya3 (talk) 20:10, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Withdrawn by nominator - I am withdrawing this nomination for now because new sources have been brought forward. The discussion will continue on the article's talk page. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 19:58, 1 October 2020 (UTC)


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Many Wikipedia articles are referred to as a "Massacre", even with as few deaths as 10-30 (nowhere close to 30,000 of which many are refugees). Also, the article fits the definition of massacre, exactly like the article 1947 Mirpur Massacre. Below are many reliable sources (note that many of these have not been used in the article 1947 Jammu Massacre, so it is a distinct event) to a Massacre in Rajouri, either using both words in the same sentences (eg. "Massacre of Hindus and Sikhs in Rajouri") or explicitly referring to the event as the "Rajouri Massacre":
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http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives1999/99february23.html

https://ikashmir.net/pakraid1947/rajouri.html

The term "Rajouri Massacre" used in the title: https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/tearful-homage-martyrs-1947-massacre-rajouri/

Used in the title again: https://www.dailyo.in/politics/pakistan-indian-army-azad-jammu-kashmir-rajouri-massacre-1947-china-pok/story/1/13643.html

https://www.satp.org/satporgtp/publication/faultlines/volume1/Fault1-Bloeriatext.htm

A Panun Kashmir (organisation of displaced Kashmiri Hindus) and the paper Kashmir Sentinel release which talks about an article in the Indian Express in 1947 which clearly refers to it as the "Rajouri Massacre" (PDF) http://www.panunkashmir.org/kashmirsentinel/pdf/2007/nov2007.pdf

https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.242704/2015.242704.Socio-economic-Roots_djvu.txt

Feel free to add these links as references to the article. I see no need to remove such an article.

Hindian1947 (talk) 01:32, 1 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep per extensive coverage on this scholary source from Cambridge University Press. ArvindPalaskar (talk) 08:50, 1 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep. The title (whether this should be described as a massacre or something else) is a matter for talk page discussion, but the events described in this article are clearly notable. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:24, 1 October 2020 (UTC)


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