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Armenian genocide[edit]

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 24, 2022 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:37, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Russian soldiers in a former Armenian village, 1915

The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. At the orders of Talaat Pasha, an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenian women, children, and elderly or infirm people were sent on death marches to the Syrian Desert in 1915 and 1916. Driven forward by paramilitary escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to robbery, rape, and massacres. In the Syrian Desert, the survivors were dispersed into concentration camps. In 1916 another wave of massacres was ordered, leaving about 200,000 deportees alive by the end of 1916. Around 100,000 to 200,000 Armenian women and children were forcibly converted to Islam and integrated into Muslim households. Massacres and ethnic cleansing of Armenian survivors were carried out by the Turkish nationalist movement during the Turkish War of Independence after World War I. The Armenian genocide resulted in the destruction of more than two millennia of Armenian civilization in eastern Anatolia. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): Perhaps Assassination of Talat Pasha on 15 March
Main editors: Buidhe
Promoted: 2022
Reasons for nomination: Armenian Genocide Memorial Day
Support as nominator. (t · c) buidhe 19:29, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Kevo327 since you suggested this (t · c) buidhe 19:31, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

support: Buidhe, the blurb contains the major facts and is easily understood. optionally, can you concisely include the perpetrators of the Genocide? Amazing job on improving the article to it's current state. - Kevo³²⁷ (talk) 22:35, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:04, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support an article of this sort should be preemptively semi-protected for the days it is listed in the TFA window, and I encourage the TFA coords to do that. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:04, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support A worthy article for Memorial Day. Watch out for trollers when the article is being featured on the day, however. ZKang123 (talk) 01:33, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]