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Fadix Analysis:
This section exist to answer Torque claims and is kept up to date (new materials posted as well as new answers). (VERY LONG PAGE)
Archive 1:
Hitler's quote and Holocaust, The rest of discussion, Strong bias, Events of Musa Mountain, Musa Mountain, Move Musa Dagh.
Archive 2:
Examining chiefly Turk-unsympathetic sources for the "Armenian Genocide" article, Response to Raffi Kojian, Continuing our Discussion, Reference and link titles, Is Raffi Responding Roughly?, Let us recap the foregoing discussion.
Archive 3:
Raffi, I thought you were "finished"!, 80.177.169.33, Do these people have scruples?, The original article is back, Armenian Genocide, The Vandal Speaks.
Archive 4:
Professional Denier Speaks, Denying is a Two-Way Street, Jewish lobby groups, Another Partisan at work, What does it mean when a nation recognizes the "genocide"?
Archive 5:
Need Link, The "Vigilante" has a name, History is written by winners.
Archive 6:
Disputing the Article, Fresh Overhaul, Fresh Overhaul -- Dialogue Continues. (LONG PAGE)
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FYI

Definition of NPOV is that both views have equal grounds, thats the wikipedia way. See how Ranks and Insignia of Starfleet was developed. I knew a lot regarding the matter so was my co-aurthor. We edited, and rechecked eachothers work, now the article was not contriverisal so its easy, you chose a very difficult and conriversial article to start your wiki career. --Cool Cat 15:00, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
FYI: 2+2 can equal 5 in complex math.
I have commented out several sections of the article which in my opinion are not neutral, they will not be visible to regular people viewing th article untill the comment tags <!-- --> are removed. Please make them neutral and remove the tags. I have made several sections neutral for you. Again neutral means the article does not favor neither side while taking into account the views of all parties regarding the matter. Words like "most of scholars" are not neutral, there is no widely accepted concensus from a scientific(history) convention that you can put here. Even if that would be the case you would add that to the recent history category while keeping the article neutral. You may not like it, I may not like it, but thats how wikipedia runs. Do not remove my entries, instead try rewriting them in a neutral tone. --Cool Cat 16:16, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The book links belong to external link category as they are one sided view I believe. --Cool Cat 22:06, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Onlu by placing Justin McCarthys book at the section supporting the genocide theses, you just have shown that you have absolutly no clue of what you are talking about. McCarthy is the only major Western Historian claiming there was no genocide. Anyone ignoring this should even not debate.Fadix 18:13, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Well, my bad. I'll recategorise it and tone down your language when you are talking to me. You cannot tell me to shut up. I am not telling you to shut up. I am telling you to "TALK" neutral. If I made an error in categorising things you put it to the "another view" actegory instead of hissing me. --Cool Cat 22:06, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
It wasn't just a mistake, you did that mistake more than once because you obviously ignore who McCarthy is. Can you be kind to present the books you have read about the topic please? Fadix 22:19, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Dear sir. I am not knowlegable in the Armenian Genocide article enough to comment. I am merely folowing wikipedia NPOV article. I lack a hidden agenda. I dont purposly make mistakes. Now when you have someone who insist on reverting your edits without reading them its hard to focus. --Cool Cat 22:32, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
You are not following Misplaced Pages policy, and if you have no knowledge of the subject, you can not introduce claims which are erronous, you are not neutralising the article, you are injecting in it claims you make yourself... Misplaced Pages present positions recognised and NOT your position, and that is what you are doing right now. And a last thing, you obviously do have an agenda, you live in Turkey(which libraries only contain one biased version of history), and do inject your biases in every Misplaced Pages articles which involve Turkey. And above all, you can't hide behind the claim that you are not Turk and that you only live in Turkey, unlike you, I do not hide my ethnicity because I believe that this is irrelevent and I support the position that one is credible for what he says and not based on the social construct called ethnicity he belongs to. The next time you would want to pass as a neutral individual, don't use the word "Armanian" repeatadly exposing that it is not only a mistake, but rather the Semitic(Arab/Hebrew) or Turkish pronounciation as in "Ermen" or "Arman." Now I commited a mistake, I should not have writen this I admit, but you provoked me by claiming you have no agenda which is obvious wrong.Fadix 22:44, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
You are constantly accusing me of a hidden agenda, accusing Turkey of a massacre and acusing a lot of people with things and claiming you are staying neutral. I dont hide my ethnicity. I have no reason to advertise it either. In english Armenian refers to the people living in Armenia proper spelling requires that and I am not a spelling genius. The word has 2 a's and one e. I am not Turkish. I lived in Turkey for quite some time due to my asignment. I am not making claims, I am rewording your claims. You cant quite see it as you arent reading, merely pasting/typing... Armenian Genocide did not happen as far as most of the world nations are concerned, since they have not recognised it. The Turks claim it wasn't a massacre. No mather HOW much stuff you throw at me that will not change the fact that Tuks claim otherwise. Not only that but you remove lots of productive edits (like spelling fixes) by other people. You declare that majority thinks this. While I am trying to keep this at EQUAL ground. Please GRAB a dictionary and READ WTF "Neutral" means ALSO read Misplaced Pages:Neutral Point of View. --Cool Cat 22:56, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
So you don't have any hidden agenda right? So, maybe you can all tell us why you only play this hijacking game in entries involving Turkey? And you are lying here, the Armenian genocide is not denied by most countries... not recognizing something by a government is not denying a genocide. Most US states have passed bills recognizing it, Canada did the same, France as well, Germany is thinking doing the same etc. and this even after the Turkish republic continual threats. It is as well a fact that most states have not passed bills recognizing the Shoah, according to you it would mean it did not happen. And only your above claims show that you are lying when you say you are neutral. You have admitted not knowing the subject, yet you claim it did not happen. How can one admit not knowing the subject at the same time having a position? This is called a preconceived belief. You can not participate in this article, because you have no knowledge of the event, and that you have a preconceived belief.
As for the spelling, you did that continuously, not only with the word Armenia but as well with the word Armenians... I won't call this a mistake at all, a mistake is something that is done once, twice etc. and not repeated after it is shown to you...
Again, NEUTRAL... presenting every sides.
International Community(UN etc.) answer. Genocide
Western Academia and even many Arabic and Iranian. Genocide
Turkish human right organization. Genocide
Some Turkish Academics. Genocide
Armenians position. Genocide
Even in Iran a bill was to be passed, prevented by Turkeys pressure, when did Iran ever considered passing such bill to recognize the Shoah?
There is this, against the Turkish government official version, there is no way that you will take those sides and present them with the Turkish government official version as equal, if you do that, you automatically give each opposing side to your claim less place than the official Turkish government version, and this is not neutral.
But this is not all, you make up things such as “Relocation camps,” that's completely ridiculous, you just made it up, you can not just invent expressions like this. A relocation camp does not make any sense... maybe it is time for you to check what a concentration camp mean. You have done many mistakes like this. And besides, you can not just shoot the 200,000-1,5 million, without indicating the sources... there are many such things that you have purposely deleted, and even some that are not denied by the official Turkish government diplomat publications, which mean that you just have made up things.Fadix 23:17, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Relocation camp is the neutral word for "concentration" which assumes a genocide has happened. Its a more neutral word. If you have a better word edit accordingly.
I dispute the way you say it not what you say. I am not in the position to dispute what you say, not my major. You refuse to comprihend this. I am knowlegable to know that the issue is disputed. "hijacking game". Sorces for 1.5 million is your sorces. sorces for 200,000 is official Turkish data according to you. I did not delete them, I commented them out so you and other mods can review them and make them neutral. AS I explained before thats how we do things in wikipedia. You are claiming by making this article pro genocide you are being neutral. I think you should cut back on crack. --Cool Cat 00:36, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Concentration camp mean a camp where people are concentrated, I haven't seen any works even those not supporting my position which claim such a concentration did not happen. That was the official name given by officials, including German officials. It is neutral, while you introduce an expression that does not make sense at all. As for “Turkish data,” they vary a lot, ATAA, the largest Turkish American organization, has even an article claiming 700,000 Armenians died... the official Ottoman statistics are of 800,000 killed(not casualties, but KILLED)... you can not present this as if from 200,000 to 1.5 million died, without including those facts, because you are are doing is misleading people. Even Turkish historians like Fikret Adanir who do not entirely support the official Western version, recognize that it is probably that over a million may have perished. All major German official records vary from 1.2-1.5 million, this is from where the Armenian figures of 1.5 million comes from. You can NOT just claim that from 200,000 to 1.5 million perished without noting the sources. The reader has the right to know those informations, but you are purposely deleting them. If you want to delete the article as I repeated, I am ready to make compromises, but I am not ready to delete important informations, when the deletion will mislead the reader... and that is what you are after. Oh and, are you suggesting that I am on drug? Cut the crap please.Fadix 00:46, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)