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As noted on the IP's talk page, I have tried to explain to them that the addition of controversial material needs to be sourced; they are claiming it is censorship to remove information which is not. I cannot revert them again per
WP:3RR, so just noting this here.
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (
talk) 08:49, 15 August 2023 (UTC)reply
It appears the article's edits have been the subject of continual vandalism. The linked events are not war crimes, and the (low quality) source do not indicate that they are.
I suggest that the user making the edits review the information contained within the page which describes what constitutes a war crime.
This means: a civilian massacre is not a war crime, a famine is not a war crime, a flu is not a war crime, etc.
I suggest requesting protected-edit status or escalating this to further arbitration if the user is going to continue making disruptive, unsourced edits.
Lostsandwich (
talk) 09:21, 15 August 2023 (UTC)reply
British military scientists sent hundreds of Indian soldiers into gas chambers and exposed them to mustard gas, documents uncovered by
The Guardian have revealed.[1]103.39.128.89 (
talk) 10:01, 15 August 2023 (UTC)reply
The act was not committed during war and was not committed against an enemy or civilian population. It is not a war crime.
Lostsandwich (
talk) 10:09, 15 August 2023 (UTC)reply
You have linked to the Geneva Conventions many times now; you have apparently not read the preamble, which clearly states "Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War".
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (
talk) 10:12, 15 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Why are we so high and mighty, have you all forgotten about the bombing of Dresden which was purposefully aimed at a civilian population?!!!
78.146.3.138 (
talk) 23:34, 30 October 2023 (UTC)reply
Dresden wasn’t a war crime, it was a strategic bombing target. At the time of the bombings Dresden had a high concentration of soldiers in the area as well as one of the last functioning rail lines leading to the eastern front. Therefore meaning it was a valuable area for the RAF to attack. Another important thing to note is that the estimated death toll was only about 3,000 to 3,500, you frequently hear of this massive death toll however that has been disproven because the death toll was inflated by Goebbles to make the British seem like horrible savages that would bomb a civilian target.
2600:6C5D:5100:AB2:34BF:4F3:7FFA:EED1 (
talk) 08:06, 4 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Violation of neutrality rule
The bombing of Dresden has been politicised by Holocaust deniers and pro-Nazi apologists—most notably in British writer David Irving's The Destruction of Dresden—in an attempt to establish a moral equivalence between Nazi war crimes and the killing of German civilians by Allied bombing raids.[106]
adding this section to the bombing of dresden is out of place. If Wikipedia editors really want to be neutral, this adds undue weight to an anti-german perspective. Not all Germans were Nazis in the 1930s-40s. Ignoring the atrocities of one faction but condemning the actions of another makes this article biased. I dont have much wiki skill to edit this but if anyone of you understands nuance you could make this better.
2600:100F:B1A6:FEE8:0:5:2701:5B01 (
talk) 00:32, 21 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Attack on Mers el khebir
Did Vichy was a neutral power during WW2 ??
The attack on their fleet was particularly brutal whive thousand of casualties.
78.243.242.142 (
talk) 03:38, 23 April 2024 (UTC)reply