User talk:Brother Nazif
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September 2025
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at War in Dagestan (1999), without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Mellk (talk) 22:20, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- @Mellk I did give two valid reasons, maybe you should have read the edit summary. Brother Nazif (talk) 16:29, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- You said the source does not support the statement, except you made this up. That is not a valid reason for removal. Mellk (talk) 16:32, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- Here is quote from the source: "The Islamist insurgents who invaded Dagestan were not attempting to liberate Chechnya... Rather the insurgents were attempting to impose radical Islamist rule upon populations who wanted no part of it... Those invasions involved approximately 2,000 insurgents, resulted in dozens of deaths, destroyed communities, displaced 32,000 Dagestanis, and were potentially genocidal in that they attacked mountain villages accommodating entire populations of small ethno-linguistic groups... The incursions into Dagestan are properly described as terrorist attacks because they initially involved attacks against Dagestani civilians and police officers." (pp. 82-83). Mellk (talk) 16:34, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- @Mellk
- The source precisely says the invasion resulted in dozens of deaths and destroyed communities, which is not the same as entire populations of small ethno-linguistic groups being destroyed. A community can be the people themselves or the physical place holding them together. Brother Nazif (talk) 16:46, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- So instead of correcting one word ("attacked" is closer to the source than "destroyed"), you decided to remove the entire paragraph, including the parts that are undisputedly supported? Mellk (talk) 16:49, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- @Mellk I removed the entire paragraph because I found it to be misleading. The author frames it within the context of a comparison to claims of genocidal war in Chechnya, placing it just as it is not very pertinent. Brother Nazif (talk) 17:09, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry, but you need policy-based reasons to remove content. It should not be removed simply because you disagree with it. I would suggest to start a talk page discussion and maybe find reliable sources that disagree with this view. Then if you will get consensus you can remove or significantly change the wording. Mellk (talk) 20:50, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- @Mellk I removed the entire paragraph because I found it to be misleading. The author frames it within the context of a comparison to claims of genocidal war in Chechnya, placing it just as it is not very pertinent. Brother Nazif (talk) 17:09, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- So instead of correcting one word ("attacked" is closer to the source than "destroyed"), you decided to remove the entire paragraph, including the parts that are undisputedly supported? Mellk (talk) 16:49, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- You said the source does not support the statement, except you made this up. That is not a valid reason for removal. Mellk (talk) 16:32, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
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