Talk:1946 Bihar riots
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Vanamonde93 in topic Misuse of sources.
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Misuse of sources.
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edit- Mitra 1990 deals predominantly with Calcutta riots (clear from the title too). It makes passing reference to Bihar riots and emphatically puts the cause as the Noakhali riots.
- Das 2000 deals exclusively with Calcutta riots (clear from the title too). All it has about 1946 Bihar riot is: The Great Calcutta Killings spread to Bihar.
Neither give a summary of "Hindu mobs targeted Muslim families". Neither give "between 2,000 and 30,000 people were killed".
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edit- Khan 2007, p. 68. Has no mention of Bihar at all.
- Markovitz 2015. gives one line description which says it was in "retaliation" to Noakhali riots.
- The Washington Post, New York Times is not WP:HISTRS source, they are news source, the content sourced to them have no other backing.
- Wilkinson 2006, p. 5. Makes a passing mention, with the objective to implicate Congress party, as the book explores connection of riots to politics.
--AmritasyaPutraT 10:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
- There is not a single substantive complaint here. To take your "misuses" in order; 1) Neither of those are used for what you claim them to be used for. 2) I don't use Khan to talk about Bihar; the sentence refers to Noakhali. Which is exactly what page 68 talks about 3) So? I haven't stated a single thing from that source in Wikipedia's voice. 4) Again, so what?
- Seriously, go find something more useful to do with your time; there is no substance in anything you've said here. If you think there is, take it to RSN; I am not responding to further meaninglessness. And if this is not stalking, I don't know what is. Vanamonde93 (talk) 11:05, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
- With you extreme level of personal bias and attack I humbly admit it is useless to try to have a conversation with you. Any person can trivially easily validate my points. --AmritasyaPutraT 04:32, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- So go find this "any person", or come back with more substantive arguments. Vanamonde93 (talk) 06:25, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- With you extreme level of personal bias and attack I humbly admit it is useless to try to have a conversation with you. Any person can trivially easily validate my points. --AmritasyaPutraT 04:32, 7 December 2015 (UTC)