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:::: As for the McMahon Line, the content that you deleted makes it amply clear that its alignment was being actively disputed by the two sides when the conflict started. So it is certainly not clear-cut from Misplaced Pages point of view, as to which side it belongs. Titling a page as ] would constitute ]. Right now, the OpenStreetMap puts it on the Indian side of the LAC, and Google Maps puts it on the Chinese side, and the road infrastructure makes it look like OpenStreetMap is correct. :::: As for the McMahon Line, the content that you deleted makes it amply clear that its alignment was being actively disputed by the two sides when the conflict started. So it is certainly not clear-cut from Misplaced Pages point of view, as to which side it belongs. Titling a page as ] would constitute ]. Right now, the OpenStreetMap puts it on the Indian side of the LAC, and Google Maps puts it on the Chinese side, and the road infrastructure makes it look like OpenStreetMap is correct.
:::: In any case, since you haven't provided any policy-based reason for deleting 12,000 bytes of well-sourced content, I am going to reinstate it. -- ] (]) 21:39, 17 June 2020 (UTC) :::: In any case, since you haven't provided any policy-based reason for deleting 12,000 bytes of well-sourced content, I am going to reinstate it. -- ] (]) 21:39, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

::::: {{reply to|Kautilya3}} You are extremely hypocritical if you think it's acceptable for you to offhandedly imply that I am motivated by "certain nationalistic posturings," but it's a "cheap shot" for me to flip it back at you by pointing out that the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report was commissioned by the Government of India.
::::: Although I find your hypocrisy quite annoying, pointing it out is not productive to achieving the consensus that you purport to value. So in terms of resolutions, I am fine with a separate page called "Dhola, Tibet" and a separate page called "Dhola Post." Alternatively, I'm fine with one page called "Dhola Post" which clarifies that Dhola Post was established north of the McMahon Line and therefore was situated in Tibet, China.
::::: Because if the best evidence you have for Dhola being in India or being in disputed territory is that OpenStreetMaps, a wiki-like crowdsourced map, places Dhola in India, that's painfully weak "evidence" and in no way contradicts the fact that in Part I of the Henderson-Brooks Bhagat report, Dhola Post was repeatedly noted to have been established north of the McMahon Line (and therefore outside of the disputed area). You might as well cite your own edits as evidence for your edits if you're going to rely on OpenStreetMaps.] (]) 23:19, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Dhola Post; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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@Kautilya3: Where was the "consensus" when you unilaterally made the significant changes to the article on 22 February 2020? You didn't open any section on the article talk page. You simply took it upon yourself to claim that Dhola isn't in Tibet and that "Dhola Post" is still under Indian Army control.Erik-the-red (talk) 18:54, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
There was no substance in the stub that I found there, nor any evidence that Dhola is in Tibet now. Is it in Tibet now? If so, can you provide sources for it?
Even assuming it is in Tibet now, there is no content for it that warrants a Misplaced Pages article. So, I still don't see how you can maintain that reams of well-sourced and informative content should be deleted and the useless stub should be reinstated just to appease certain nationalistic posturings. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 19:40, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
@Kautilya3: Thanks for admitting that you unilaterally decided by yourself to make extensive changes to the article without appealing to "consensus" first. So it is quite hypocritical for you to posture about consensus when I reverted the article to the last version prior to your changes that you unilaterally made without consensus. As to your (rhetorical) questions, I already provided you a source that Dhola not only is in Tibet now, but was in Tibet in 1962.
That source is Part I of the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report. You dismissed it on account of it being a primary source (which is yet another false statement from you: Part I is a secondary source because it "relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere" in Part II.)
I would also like to point out how hilarious and ironic it is that you offhandedly mention "certain nationalistic posturings" when Part I of the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report was commissioned by the Government of India. I advise that you look in the mirror more often.
Lastly, as I wrote to you elsewhere, if you would like to claim that Dhola Post is an active Indian Army base, then by all means, I'm happy to read your sources for that claim. I ask only that they're in English and readily accessible online.Erik-the-red (talk) 20:27, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
There is nothing nationalistic about the title or content I wrote for that page. So please refrain from making cheap shots.
If there was genuinely a place called Dhola in Tibet that was notable I would have left it alone, and started a new page. But the stub that you or whoever else created was only talking about the Indian post, despite claiming it to be in Tibet.
I stand by what I said about the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat Report. Please feel free to take it to WP:RSN if you don't believe me.
As for the McMahon Line, the content that you deleted makes it amply clear that its alignment was being actively disputed by the two sides when the conflict started. So it is certainly not clear-cut from Misplaced Pages point of view, as to which side it belongs. Titling a page as Dhola, Tibet would constitute WP:POV. Right now, the OpenStreetMap puts it on the Indian side of the LAC, and Google Maps puts it on the Chinese side, and the road infrastructure makes it look like OpenStreetMap is correct.
In any case, since you haven't provided any policy-based reason for deleting 12,000 bytes of well-sourced content, I am going to reinstate it. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:39, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
@Kautilya3: You are extremely hypocritical if you think it's acceptable for you to offhandedly imply that I am motivated by "certain nationalistic posturings," but it's a "cheap shot" for me to flip it back at you by pointing out that the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report was commissioned by the Government of India.
Although I find your hypocrisy quite annoying, pointing it out is not productive to achieving the consensus that you purport to value. So in terms of resolutions, I am fine with a separate page called "Dhola, Tibet" and a separate page called "Dhola Post." Alternatively, I'm fine with one page called "Dhola Post" which clarifies that Dhola Post was established north of the McMahon Line and therefore was situated in Tibet, China.
Because if the best evidence you have for Dhola being in India or being in disputed territory is that OpenStreetMaps, a wiki-like crowdsourced map, places Dhola in India, that's painfully weak "evidence" and in no way contradicts the fact that in Part I of the Henderson-Brooks Bhagat report, Dhola Post was repeatedly noted to have been established north of the McMahon Line (and therefore outside of the disputed area). You might as well cite your own edits as evidence for your edits if you're going to rely on OpenStreetMaps.Erik-the-red (talk) 23:19, 17 June 2020 (UTC)