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I have cleaned up this article again because it seems that a bunch of my edits were incorrectly reverted. Here are my edits:

• Per Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style, for quotations, use only quotation marks (for short quotations) or block quoting (for long ones), not italics.
• remove date links
• remove repeated links (e.g., "genocide") and links to plain English words per WP:REPEATLINK (e.g., nation, disease)
• remove boldface per WP:BOLDFACE
• spell out acronyms (like PKK) on first use per WP:MOS
• use a person's first and last name the first time he/she is mentioned (Tito, Obote, Mao)

Ground Zero (talk) 29 November 2010

Can I edit andcontribute to this this source

Can I edit this source? I really want to contribute to this wikipage.

Edit "Argentina"

At the moment it is stated that the "CPPCG does not include the elimination of political groups (because that group was removed at the behest of Stalin) ". While this maybe should just show the opinion of Judge Carlos Rozanski, it does not represent the more diverse historical facts. Actually, several states opposed the deletion of "political groups" from the convention and the finally successful attempt was led by Iran, Uruguay, and Egypt. Therefore, I think, that the Stalin part should be removed and the discussion of whose fault it is that "political groups" are not part of the Convention should be transferred to the Convention-article.

References

1. LeBlanc, Lawrence J. (1988). "The United Nations Genocide Convention and Political Groups: Should the United States Propose an Amendment?". Yale Journal of International Law. 13 (2): 277.

Massacres

This article indeed has many examples of people murdering other people, but massacres of dissidents or rebels is not genocide, nor is people dying it introduced diseases unless such massacres or introduction of disease were intentional acts to exterminate a people. Are we deliberately watering down the definition of genocide for some nefarious means? 120.22.17.10 (talk) 23:16, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

It is a loaded and political question. High above us, humble Wikipedians to decide. If we find a couple of RSes which say smth is a genocide, we construct an argument here, taking POV amd DUE etc. into account. Pls correct me if I am wrong. Zezen (talk) 03:19, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

You mentioned: Determining what historical events constitute a genocide and which are merely criminal or inhuman behavior is not a clear-cut matter.

Two American colloquialisms for that are semigenocide, semiholocaust due to:

1. not enough data
2. not enough deaths
3. not a single criminal side
4. not enough international acceptance of the facts

or some of the above. {{subst:xsign:18:40, 9 July 2020‎ 2a02:587:410e:ca26:206c:5769:e396:a34f}}

They may be colloquialisms to you, but I've never heard them before, and neither has Google. , , so I don;t think they'd be of much use to us. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:17, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

"Euthanasia" problem use in article

Use of the term 'euthanasia' here is not appropriate.

In modern terms, the use of "euthanasia" in the context of Action T4 is seen to be a euphemism to disguise a program of genocide, in which people were killed on the grounds of "disabilities, religious beliefs, and discordant individual values".

Mentions of it appear in the above-linked Aktion T4 article in inverted commas, e.g. "euthanasia campaign".

While informally we may discuss the Nazi "euthanasia" program, with full understanding that we are speaking of an atrocity, it is unencyclopedic to use it here in this way. A person seeking understanding of Nazi genocide should not need to parse that, read between the lines, or contextualise.

Reversion rationale - I have reverted your non-neutral edit. It is true that the Germans misused the term euthanasia, but it is the official term in many cases. See for example Aktion T4. The Banner talk 15:06, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Non-neutral to remove "euthanasia"?

Your reply suggests the Nazi term is the only way to be non-POV (!), while saying nothing about how it may be confusing to the reader, as I contend.

People commonly use and understand euthanasia as in the definition above.

When people are all on the same page, or there is a fuller discussion around the issue, and Nazi use of the term euthanasia is contextualised, then referring to this mass murder program as “euthanasia" is not problematic.

When it appears in a list of contemporaneous, associated crimes that contrast starkly with the blunt labels assigned them, as here, then that has the potential to obscure clarity.

I was surprised to be directed to the Aktion T4 page, as it was evidence from that article that I used to support my change. The opening reads: "Aktion T4 was a postwar name for mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany". Note here, as I mentioned in my earlier discussion, “euthanasia" appears in that article, but is perfectly clearly contextualised as mass murder, even if involuntary "euthanasia". As mentioned above, several WP articles use the word, but signal its dubious use by putting "-" around it, or other markers of non-standard usage. A similar understanding of the relevance and connotation of the terms is not present in, (and would not really be suitable for) the brief overview in Genocides in history article.

In any case, I strongly reject that it is a non-neutral edit. My edit (and talk page discussion) was nothing to do with the fact that the Germans misused the term "euthanasia". I would welcome others' views and comments. 122.105.187.37 (talk) 08:54, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

I too find it utterly jarring to see the use of "euthanasia" as it is employed here, exactly as described above – divorced from context, it reads as indicated: like its vernacular definition; a reference to humane death, applied to those for whom it is a mercy, which in this context couldn't be more non-neutral. It reads like something a nazi apologist might write. Don't get me wrong – I don't for a moment believe that is what's going on here in any way, shape or form – but that's the result, given the nature of the subject, and we should not minimize how bad it really does sound. That is why that context absolutely needs to be either provided, if the word is to remain in use, or a term or phrase needs to be used that doesn't read like this, but can stand on its own without context. Yet, providing that context very well may be beyond the scope of an article that provides only summary entries. If any form of "euthenasia" is to remain, then, it needs some device to impart that context, such as scare quotes and linking to involuntary euthenasia at the least, but I think "mass murder" suits fine, because it needs no context to pull it back from an unintended, naturally imparted meaning by its common, vernacular use.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:45, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

P.S. the capping of the above as "extended content" feels inappropriate – as if the capped sections are not normal discussion, important to the point being made, and have likely tendentious, tl;dr content. They do not.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 06:00, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Agreed Fuhghettaboutit (talk · contribs)! Couldn't work out how to hide (because it's too long), in a more "blended-in" way. If it's easy for you, would you do as a favour? Title something like, "excess verbiage"(!) and with a less obtrusive colour? Sorry, from a very hit-and-miss layout & formatting editor! 180.216.180.68 (talk) 06:56, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Late to the party, but in my opinion, "euthanasia" is a controversial concept that can be considered as applying to decisions about individual cases, whereas when it was done as a government policy justifying the killing of tens of thousands, more context is definitely needed. David notMD (talk) 11:09, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Just throwing in my 2 cents to the discussion, by pointing to the German terms currently in use (I am a native German). While "euthanasia" was certainly employed at the time, this phrasing has fallen out of favour for the very obvious reasons stated above. For example, the edit by IP concerned the site of Schloss Hartheim, which has a page in the German Misplaced Pages called de:Tötungsanstalt Hartheim. This literally translates to "killing institution Hartheim", so no euthanasia euphemism there. This is also repeated in the sources, and also applies to the T4 program. If you zoom in, you can even see it in this picture to the right, you can read that T4 is referred to as a "Mordprogramm", which translates as "murder scheme". The only usage of euthanasia (German: Euthanasie) on that memorial is in quotation marks, to indicate that the term is not the proper one. Heck, even the English articles about Child euthanasia in Nazi Germany and Aktion T4 promptly state that these were "organised murder" or "mass murder", and euthanasia is at best the historical title given to it by the Nazis. Involuntary euthanasia is a bit technical, and could probably only be applied in an appropriate way to individual cases (similar to what David notMD has pointed out); in this industrialized context it would still translate to mass murder in disguise.

In conclusion, I fail to see where IP has been wrong or applying a POV. If the term euthanasia is kept at all in the section, it needs to be thoroughly explained why that is not an appropriate description, and merely a historical Nazi term. --LordPeterII (talk) 12:13, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Maybe something like this would work (it's a little awkward; I only have a moment; more throwing out a thought for a form of action, than saying this language is perfect):

"...the ], often cloaked by Nazis under the euphemism, "euthanasia"<ref name="Friedlander1997">{{cite book|last=Friedlander|first=Henry |title=The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqLDEKVk2nMC&pg=PR11|year=1997|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-4675-9|page=xi}}</ref>--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:08, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

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