Talk:Armenian genocide

64.134.238.56 (talk) 08:01, 25 April 2012 (UTC)MALTA Trials64.134.238.56 (talk) 08:01, 25 April 2012 (UTC) Malta trials proves that there was no armenian genocide . this trials were very similar to Nuremberg trials , we should add here what the international court decided at malta .if we don't , this article will look very silly . it is already very silly but we need to improve it little .

Edit proposal

I propose removing the "The origin of the word genocide and its connection to Armenia" thing that currently squats at the head of this article. It is off-topic (this article is about the Armenian Genocide, not about the coining of a word) and already appears on the "genocide" article which this article is linked to. Anyone wanting to pursue the meaning of the word genocide would go to that other article so there is no need to duplicate part of its content here. It is also visually ugly and disrupts the flow of this article. Meowy 20:45, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Since nobody has objected, I have now removed it. Meowy 20:26, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Why did you remove it instead of moving it to the defining genocide section inside the article ?Ali55te (talk) 23:45, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Because it is off-topic for this article. This article is about the Armenian Genocide, it is not about the coining of the word or a definition of the word genocide. This article is already far to long becasue it is full of off-topic material. Meowy 01:46, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

That time of the year came and went quietly this year. Was this because the topic is no longer controversial, or because this article is too useless for anyone to bother about? Meowy 02:14, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Section 5.8 - Persia

The following sentence: "Islamic Turks invaded the town of Salmas in northwestern Persia and tortured and massacred the Christian Armenian inhabitants in the cruelest possible manner" is obviously passionate opinion and not an attempt at objectivity. It should be removed or modified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.190.150.98 (talk) 16:20, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I object. There is no room for historic revisionism on an encyclopaedia. Refute the source if you can.188.118.181.9 (talk) 14:00, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

The event happened, though of course "cruelest possible manner" is a matter of opinion and should go (along with the cringing preliminary bit about Persia). The mention of this particular event should really be inserted into the main content of the article - it is important because these massacres predated the main 1915 genocide events. However, because the whole article is in such a mess, I don't see the point in doing it. Meowy 02:04, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

armenian genocide

To correct a point of fact in this otherwise excellent article, the painting by Arshile Gorky "the Artist and his Mother" is not in the Cafesjian museum in Yerevan. It is in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Other paintings by Gorky are in the MoMA and Metropolitan museums in that city. ---- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arshilovna (talk • contribs) 17:26, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I have removed that incorrect information. But I think your "this otherwise excellent article" comment is equally incorrect! I don't know of a worse-written article. Meowy 01:55, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Մեծ Եղեռն translated incorrectly

Մեծ Եղեռն does not mean the Great Crime. The literal translation is the Great Enormity or the Great Atrocity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rotbandito (talk • contribs) 20:24, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

I thought "The Great Calamity" was the usual translation. Meowy 02:07, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

death count?

1st paragraph: ..."to have been between 1 million and 1.5 million." sidebox: Deaths 600,000 - 1,800,000[1][2][3] Smashkeyboardcreateusername (talk) 23:05, 24 April 2012 (UTC)