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A fact from 2011 Itamar attack appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 March 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, in the Itamar attack, five members of a family were stabbed to death in their beds in the Israeli settlement of Itamar in the West Bank?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/March.

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On 21 April 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to Itamar massacre. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Decapitation

The JC source does is not by any politician, and does not quote any politician. Removal of this with a misleading edit summary that says "politicians are not reliable sources" is bad enough, doing it a second time without any edit summary or discussion on the talk page, and misleadingly marking this as a "minor" change is probably enough for an AE case. I am now adding another source, from a peer reviewed academic journal, which will hopefully put a stop to the disruption. 71.204.165.25 (talk) 03:17, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but claiming that someone was decapitated is an exceptional claim requiring exceptional sources. I have been completely unable to corroborate this claim from quality reliable sources. The only sources you have added are an opinion piece written by a British politician, Louise Bagshaw, and an opinion piece from a jewish journal citing the Bagshaw claim with a follow-up piece posted by the same author. Neither politicians nor opinion pieces are considered to be reliable sources. The fourth source you added, to ME forum, actually contradicts your claim as it states only that the infant was "nearly" decapitated. This simply isn't solid enough sourcing for such an exceptional claim, particularly as there appear to be no quality news sources supporting it. Gatoclass (talk) 14:23, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See [1] & [2].--brew crewer (yada, yada) 14:41, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, claiming that Islamic terrorists behead people is not an exceptional claim - it is a standard mode of operation for them. Regardless, the article originally had an op-ed making this claim, but I added 2 NEWS pieces, not op-eds,, which repeat the claim in the context of complaining about the lack of coverage, and a 4th source, which says nearly the same thing. I will shortly add several more ([3][4]), and let me warn you that further disruption - removal of well sourced information, misrepresentation of what the sources say (e.g: clamming they are quotes from politicians when they are not), misrepresentation of what the sources are (claiming they are op-eds when they are not) etc.. -will be taken to AE where such behavior has been found to be worthy of topic bans. 71.204.165.25 (talk) 15:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is not an "exceptional claim" to state that a person who used a knife to kill a bunch of children actually decapitated one of them.--brew crewer (yada, yada) 15:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is, because it is adding a charge of mutilation to one of murder. Regardless, I can accept the Jerusalem Post statement provided it is properly attributed and not in the lede per wp:undue, ie, it should say something like "according to David Ha'ivri of the Shomrom Liason Office". If any such mention is made however, it should also be mentioned that several sources have only said the infant was almost decapitated, while mention should also be made that major news sources reported the crime differently. Personally, I think the article would be better off without such details, but if you insist on adding them they should be reported in accordance with what the various sources have said. Gatoclass (talk) 16:13, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, we can also make it clear that major news sources have stated that the baby was almost decapitated instead of actually decapitated. --brew crewer (yada, yada) 16:29, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There's exactly one source that says "almost decapitated", and 5 reliable sources (JC, JL, WJD, NR and JP) that say decapitated , one of them attributing the claim to Ha'ivri. There's no need to attribute claims when 4 different sources state it as factual in a news report, but if it makes you happy, I'll include the attribution in the lead, and also clarify, in the body, that there was one source that said "almost decapitated". Note that you are now edit warring against the opinion of two editors. 71.204.165.25 (talk) 23:16, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The lede says this, and it is not good. According to David Ha'ivri[4], and as reported by multiple sources[5] the infant was decapitated.[6 Of the sources given DH and Louise Bagshawe say that the child was decapitated, and the world jewish daily acount says that the child was decapitated by some accounts. This does not constitute multiple sources, and neither DH or LB give any indication that this is anything other than a personal opinion.Dalai lama ding dong (talk) 13:03, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not following what the issue of simply saying that "the infant was decapitated." That's the news plain and simple (unfortunately).KenPAdams (talk) 14:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Irresponsible sourcing

In this edit, user Plot Spoiler added a link to this web page on the site for daylife.com, a firm that hawks "simply amazing cloud publishing software" for managing website content, according to its "about us" page. I've reverted the addition of this; it's so obviously not a reliable source for the purpose that I'm amazed anyone would attempt to introduce it. --OhioStandard (talk) 21:28, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The publisher of that photo is Getty Images, which I believe is a reliable source (if you do a little digging, you'll find the image is actually credited to an AFP photog, but I'll leave that as an exercise). Daylife is just a place they chose to exhibit it. You can think of it as the photographer being the author, Getty being the publisher and daylife as the library. So it's not so "obvious" and no reason for you to be "amazed". No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 22:17, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed for now. We need to cite a reliable source for the description of the photo. I assume Getty/AFP or a media outlet that qualifies as an RS has published this image with this description or thereabouts somewhere. That's the source we need to cite. I only had a very quick look and couldn't find it. I'm short of time at the moment so if you know where it was published NMMNG could you restore it with the new URL ? I think it needs to stay out until then. Sean.hoyland - talk 04:31, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just had another quick look on Getty and elsewhere. Here's the image [5]. Caption reads "A Palestinian man distributes sweets in the streets of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on March 12, 2011 to celebrate an attack which killed five Israeli settlers at the Itamar settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus." We could cite that. Alternatively NYPost. Take your pick. Sean.hoyland - talk 04:40, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you think we shouldn't use daylife, by the way? As far as I'm aware, they keep original captions (they host stuff for a large number of news outlets including al-Jazeera, Reuters, etc, see http://www.daylife.com/our-clients/). I recently raised a similar question about youtube at RS/N, and my impression is that this sort of site is allowed, assuming the original source is a reliable one. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 05:32, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mainly because things like this will happen, it will get removed because it is not obviously an RS for anything (note that says 'not obviously' rather than 'obviously not'). I think the reliability of image-aggregation sites is ambiguous (or let's say legitimately 'questionable' to use the RS term) especially if they haven't been taken to RSN. www.daylife.com maybe be fine, I don't know, but the ambiguity is easily avoided but just citing the original source or a secondary source that published the photo. Sean.hoyland - talk 05:54, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This site is owned by Getty and the NYT, among others. It's not just some photo aggregation site. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 07:10, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you're right. Here's the page with the investors to save others looking if they stumble across this discussion. http://www.daylife.com/about-us/meet-the-team/ In that case it looks fine to use it directly as the source to me. Sean.hoyland - talk 15:38, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

BBC coverage

This might be useful. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 22:22, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 21 April 2022

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) NW1223<Howl at me•My hunts> 01:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2011 Itamar attack → Itamar massacre – Per WP:COMMONNAME the title of Itamar massacre is the most common English-language term used to describe this event. Searching up "2011 Itamar attack" in quotes will reveal 512 results compared to in 4,380 for "Itamar massacre." And this is excluding the possibility the wording could be rephrased to, say, "Massacre in Itamar." Looking at most news articles on this event show that most seem to refer to this as a massacre:

Washington Post, Haaretz, Business Insider, Openedition.org, Times of Israel, Ynet News, The Guardian (albeit as "Fogel Family massacre", The Atlantic, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Eurasia Review (a chapter of the Jamestown Foundation) and The Jewish Chronicle. A move would be most appropriate. Dunutubble (talk) (Contributions) 23:25, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - to begin with the Washington Post article is a blogpost by Jennifer Rubin, not a news article. What the Washington Post actually says in its news articles is killing. The NYTimes calls it a fatal stabbing, the BBC calls it killing, again BBC killings, the Guardian once used massacre, but also used killing, and again killings. It is simply not true that most third party reliable sources use massacre, and the ghits argument above is fatally flawed in that it uses "2011 Itamar attack" in quotes but just "Itamar massacre" without any date. Yes, Israeli sources predominantly use "massacre", just like they predominantly use "terrorist" for any Palestinian committing an act of violence but not any Israeli doing the same. We should follow the international usage and call this "killings" or some variant. nableezy - 23:48, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
All these articles (with the exception of one of the BBC links) were written shortly after the attack happened. A WP:COMMONNAME doesn't usually pop up in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

Look how English-language newspapers covered the Tiananmen square massacre right after it happened, for instance. Notice the apparent lack of the words "Tiananmen square massacre."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/06/03/heres-how-the-washington-post-covered-tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/

https://graphics.latimes.com/tiananmen-pages/

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/local-history/story/2020-06-05/remembering-the-1989-tiananmen-square-crackdown

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1950_tiananmen_newspapers.htm Dunutubble (talk) (Contributions) 01:28, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That international sources generally dont pay any attention to this at all after the immediate aftermath suggest more that this is a WP:NOTNEWS violation as opposed to having developed a common name later. The NYT for example never once refers to an Itamar massacre. Neither does the BBC, neither The Times of London, or the LA Times. The reliable books that I find using it generally do it in their references to some Israeli news article about it. If we are using a descriptive title because this event has no common name, and I think it very clear that there is no common name for this event, then it needs to be neutral. I'd support 2011 Itamar murders, as attack is a bit understated, but massacre is as identifiably POV as 2011 Itamar settlement operation would be on the opposing side of things. (And actually, look at your WaPo link on Tiananmen. Youll find it uses massacre almost immediately.) nableezy - 04:09, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I'm not seeing widespread use of the term massacre. This may potentially be because this would usually refer to a larger-scale attack involving more organised groups. Coverage from April 2011 by France24 for example refers to the crime as a "murder". Coverage about the sentencing of the perpetrators in 2012 by Haaretz did not use "massacre". I feel the sources using the term massacre tend to be more POV sources, such as the Washington Institute or the Israeli Foreign Ministry. AusLondonder (talk) 08:49, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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