Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/War Crimes by Great Britain in Ceylon


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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

War Crimes by Great Britain in Ceylon

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This topic is highly controversal and the article itself states that actions are not documented and are mostly forgotten. Until credible sources are presented, this fails inclusion in my POV. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 14:18, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge whatever is usable with Great Rebellion of 1817–18. The editor who created the article appears to be active. 009o9 (talk) 19:12, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment There is not much information to merge. The info about Great Rebellion of 1817–18 is already there and the rest is just opinion of an editor. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 20:34, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:51, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:51, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Article seems intended to be critical of Great Britain and note the 'irony' of the British government in criticizing Sri Lanka on human rights- and it seems duplicative of existing articles(but there doesn't seem to be anything to merge here). 331dot (talk) 00:31, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with the nominator. There is no relevant information in the article that isn't already contained in other more specific articles. Dan arndt (talk) 07:36, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete "forgotten" crimes can be real, and are eligible for recovery by historians, however, war crimes allegations need substantive sourcing, which this fairly transparent attack page (WP:PLAGUE) presumably written in response to articles including Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War lacks.  Material about historic war crimes should be added to articles about specific historic events.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:11, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom ,and E.M.Gregory.There are specific events including Great Rebellion of 1817–18 and Matale Rebellion during the British  rule in Ceylon which have there own articles .Now British Ceylon refers to a period of over 150 years till 1948 now it clearly lacks substantive sourcing if one wishes to cover the entire period.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 09:24, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: the references used do not demonstrate notability of the topic as a stand alone topic, IMO, nor do they seem to be high quality. Serious claims of war crimes by any nation should have very sound sourcing. Additionally, it is currently written in a manner that seems non neutral. Information, if it can be reliably sourced, should probably just be added to the articles focused on the relevant battles/events etc, so long as WP:UNDUE is not breached. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 04:52, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: per AustralianRupert and others. As far as I can tell the article seems to have been created to make a point of something seen as being ironic. Whilst there would most certainly be events in the history of British Ceylon which would fall within the purported scope of this article that are worthy of coverage, but they should (if they are not already) be dealt with in the appropriate parent articles using reliable sources, not in a POINTY stand alone article. Anotherclown (talk) 08:48, 30 January 2016 (UTC)


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