Talk:Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia

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Wow! I'm very much impressed by your talents of fictional writer and anti-Georgian demagogue. However, I'm afraid you'll need to provide credible sources for your theories. The article is so far well written and referenced. I'd also suggest not using ethnic slurs so as to prevent yourself from being blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Kober 13:20, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is ultra-nationalist and chauvinist post; it should be removed due to provocation nature which was the intent of this user. Wikipedia is not a place for ultra-nationalistic and fundamentalist propaganda. Please use other web sites for such garbage.Ldingley 14:54, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What's the point in keeping such an inflammatory post here? It should obviously be reomved. I think Ghilrandajo is deeply mistaken when he considers its author a Wikipedian. Although registered in January 2006, Zone has not so far done even a single contribution to Wikipedia, except, of course, slamming Georgians and calling them fascists. --Kober 15:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please review the content of that inflammatory post. Its full of provocative slander which is unacceptable for Wikipedia. If you disagree with the article (and you are very welcome to do so), please help us out and present your claims in civilized way (the way you have done above) and site sources not slanders and anti-georgian propaganda slogans. Ghilrandajo please refrain from personal attacks and lest work together instead of vandalizing articles which took time to research and find sources Ldingley 15:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this provocative post should immediately be removed. Ldingley 15:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ldingley, please consider action after Ghirlandajo called you a rabid nationalist, which qualifies under Wikipedia:Civility, as his insultive spree cannot be tolerated any longer. Though there is no use in reporting him to his patron, Alex Bakharev. Truthseeker 85.5 15:18, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Truthseeker, thank you. I would rather work with him and co-operate. I hope he will refrain from personal attacks, However, my patience has boundaries. I’m anything but "rabid nationalist" :) In fact im anti-nationalist and anti so called "patriotic." Thanks again for your help, I appreciate it ! All the best Truthseeker. Ldingley 15:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Irpen, im warning you, if you vandilize this article one more time I will report you to admins. The text was not copy righted or protected, and I have contacts with the author whos accounts (he took from UN observers report) i modified and added citations and references. Im still working on this article and taking references from various human rights reports and UN observers protocols (I have about 120 protocols from UN and OSCE concerning this issue). I need more time to modify this article so it can be in full compliance with Wiki regulations. Do not vandilize the article! Ldingley 01:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ldingley, you are free to report anything to anyone. However, most of the text is a verbatim repetition from the published book that does not disclaim the copyright, thus making the text copyrighted. It is totally OK to use the outside source when writing an article (with acknowledgement). Moreover, using the sources is necessary. However, there is a line between using an outside source and mere copying it or copying with adding some small insignificant changes to the text. The article should be your work rather than someone else's. As for your being in contact with the book's author, this is all good and useful, but please reread Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ. Also note, that in most cases the book publisher rather than the author owns a copyright. Also, the owner should explicitly and irrevocably release the copyright under GFDL (or PD) not just say that "I don't mind if you publish this in Wikipedia".

Even under the circumstances when you obtain all the releases from the cp holders, it is preferable that the articles are our own work. Otherwise, what's the point in Wikipedia. However, without the release, this is simply unacceptable. If you want to bring people to the book you like, post a link to it to a relevant article rather than copy it to Wikipedia.

Please read the content of the copyvio template too. --Irpen 01:16, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Listen, 80% of that article is writen by me. Do not delete anything before i start to investigate and attack proper copyright tags. I repeat, I wrote 80% of that article, from various sources and references. Ldingley 01:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should I list the comparison with the source paragraph by paragraph? I suggest you write your own article in using the link provided in the template and calmly reread the whole discussion and the links I gave you. --Irpen 01:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you did recieve permission to use the material please use follow the proper procedure at Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission --24fan24 01:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's ok (although not encouraged) to copy & paste from websites as long as you have permission. See Tats, Mountain Jews and Derbent. If there is material in this article that Luis does not have permission to copy, then it should be removed. —Khoikhoi 01:22, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Give me time, I'll do everything. All those quotes and all those numbers i took from variosu reports. all of them were trabslated from French and so on. I give up. Ldingley 01:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's fine to copy & paste quotes, btw. It's just the paragraphs that can be the problem. —Khoikhoi 01:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ldingley, I repeat that I don't mind that you use your sources. I also think that being in contact with real scholars is extremely useful. We may even end up with them helping us editing and improving articles. I am not accusing you in the willful cpr infringement. I am only accusing you in being stubborn and trigger happy. I found long pieces in the article that merely duplicate the stuff written elsewhere. You might have thought that this is OK. The copyvio template has all the links you need to find out what the procedures are and how you can comply. You instead jumped to silly accusations (in vandalism) and revert warring. Please calmly set aside writing the article for 20 minutes or so reading on the copyrights. Once done, please get back on the train and cool your temper when you disagree with other editors.

The article and its history contain the verbatim repetitions of the copyrighted info and I explained to you why it is unacceptable and the author of the book in most cases has no authority to allow you to use his book directly. It needs to be reworked from scratch. If you take it upon yourself, good luck to you in this noble goal. But instead of badmouthing your opponents, learn to work with them. --Irpen 01:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll fix that, im not a bastard who steals other peoples work. I'll do it tomorrow, i swear. Let me work on it before you delete anything. I didnt copy the quotes. I took them from reports. I can send you the scanned versions of them if required. Many of them are in french. Ldingley 01:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed text, I will provice all proper emails and so on for proper licencing and will review the Wikipedia policies. However, the text will be added after I start proper tagging or start writing new text witht he help of sources and references, see Bibliography. Ldingley 01:39, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Look, I am not the one who you have to send anything to. Simply understand the difference between writing relying on the other people's work (that is with quotes in quotation marks properly referred to and not excessive, giving all the refs you used and all the links that are available, etc) and copying other people's work. The article would not have been deleted, at least not at once. The template I placed clearly says that there is going to be at least seven days before any action is taken with the article. You could have worked from the latest version in article's history in the temporary space provided in the link. You should have read the text of the template and take some time browsing the useful links given in the template instead of "blindreverting" and accusing me of vandalism. --Irpen 01:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll fix it irpen, i'll fix it. I removed those paragraphs. As you recommended I will write a new text with full of references and proper sources and the author shall be 100% Luis Dingley and I hope others will join. Ldingley 01:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV

This is a clearly anti-Abkhaz and anti-Russian article. No background for the Abkhaz agression towards Georgians is given. The Abkhaz people were constantly discriminated by Georgians during the Soviet era. Most of Georgians living in Abkhazia by the 1990-s also moved there also during Soviet times.

During the Soviet period (especially under Stalin), Abkhazia underwent "Georgification", and Abkhazians experienced discrimination. Lavrenty Beria, the head of the Georgian Communist Party in 1930, played an active role in implementing this policy. As a result, the population of Abkhazians sharply changed during the life of two generations. By 1989, the number of Abkhazians was about 93,000 (18% of the population of the republic), while the Georgian population numbered 240,000 (45%). The number of Armenians (15% of the entire population) and Russians (14%) also substantially grew.[1]--Shakura 09:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No propaganda, please. --Kober 11:38, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen many similar remarks on Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide and Armenian Genocide articles. Denial is an ugly thing. Ldingley 14:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Denial is an ugly thing, but so is bias. The discussions of the above three make no sense without noting the issues which led to their occurrence. Rebecca 01:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bias? of which rebecca you are guilty as charged. Im sorry but I judge based on your contributions and edits. The article is very well referenced with reliable sources. However, the background shall be drafted as time will allow. Use references and books to review the subject further. Thanks. Ldingley 14:32, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1989 census

Could someone give a link to 1989 population census, which would include the minorities like Greeks (how many?), Jews or Estonians (around 2000)? I only managed to find a table of the 19th century (1886 if I remember correctly).Constanz - Talk 14:04, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I haven't seen any census on Abkhazia population but as I know from traveling there before the war, appr: 120 (only in Sukhumi) Estonian families lived in Abkhazia. Im not sure about the Greeks. During the war, most of those Estonians were expelled along with the majority population of Abkhazia (although some stayed) which was composed mainly of ethnic Georgians (Mingrelians and Svans). During the war, some Estonians and Greeks were killed during the ethnic cleansing. I say that because of the old Greek grandma told me that her son was shot by Abkhaz because they confused him for a Georgian. She even added that some other Greeks in Sukhumi were killed by the "liberators" in Sukhumi after September 27, 93. I also read th einfo on the killing of Estonians during the war in Gagra and in Sukhumi. However, I didn’t find anything in UN reports, Helsinki files or UNOMIG protocols. Its all based on witness data compiled by OSCE, Report on Abkhazia GN-982-Revision 01, I only have it as a hard copy. Cheers. Ldingley 20:43, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hugue tribunal

It's written now that "ICTY made the almost unprecedented decision to launch an investigation about genocide and crimes against humanity in Abkhazia." with this article as a source. However there's no mention of Abkhazia or Georgia in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 reports by ICTY (the article was written in 2004). Is the ICTY really investigating these events? Alaexis 09:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, I didn't notice this paragraph

On March 2006, the Hague War Crimes Tribunal announced that it had reviewed all the documents submitted by the Georgian side. After a full-scale investigation, the Tribunal concluded that it would prosecute and start hearings against the campaign of ethnic cleansing, war-crimes and terror inflicted on ethnic Georgians in Abkhazia.

There are no references supporting it though. Alaexis 09:26, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

references are available in these books: The conflict in Abkhazia: dilemmas in Russian 'peacekeeping' policy, Lynch, Dov, pp 36-37 and Challenges to peacebuilding : managing spoilers during conflict resolution Newman Edward, p 282 Ldingley 14:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

sources

Could someone present more sources confirming that the soccer with heads events took place (per WP:Exceptional_claims#Exceptional_claims_require_exceptional_sources? Particularly, does Mr. Murphy give some refs in his book? He wasn't an eyewitness to these events, wasn't he? Alaexis`

Do you also use exceptional sources when selectively picking up anti-Georgian slurs from the outdated HRW report?

That's just because all the anti-Abkhazian slurs from it had already been picked )) Alaexis 10:23, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As for Murphy, his account is based on the reports by eyewitnesses. Check also Chervonnaya's much more detailed info on the events. --Kober^Talk 08:20, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean "Conflict in the Caucasus: Georgia, Abkhazia, and the Russian Shadow" or some other work of hers? Alaexis 10:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

???

What is this supposed to mean? I think the removal of sourced information should be first proposed at the talk. Alæxis_¿question? 20:31, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence has no relevance to the campaign of ethnic-cleansing in Abkhazia. Germans had many available excuses for war crimes in WWII but they are not relevant to Holocaust . Ldingley 14:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]