Talk:Massacre of pensioners in Sderot

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There are massacres on a racial and religious background with much smaller numbers of victims, which have Wikipedia articles. In addition, the article "Massacre of pensioners in Sderot" appears as an independent article in 3 languages up to now, as seen here:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5

Pleade reconsider deletion. Ehud Amir (talk) 09:24, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello User:Ehud Amir, and thanks for your post. I WP:BOLDly merged the new article into the older one, because, unlike other articles about massacres of smaller or greater numbers of victims, there were two articles about the same event: the attack on Sderot, with a massacre of civilians and a prolonged firefight with the IDF. Separating the two seems to me wrong for two reasons:

Wikipedia only has multiple articles on the same subject if they are WP:SPINOFFs about different aspects of a topic,
Separating civilian killings from a fight with the IDF makes it seem almost like there were two attacks, not one. One group did the attacking on both civilians and soldiers: Hamas. There was not a "good Hamas" fighting the IDF and a "bad Hamas" slaughtering a minibus full of unarmed pensioners. I'm fairly certain that you don't think of it that way, but on a personal level, I know people who do, I'm sad to say. For me, keeping the two articles as one is important for a WP:Neutral point of view.

At the moment, the Hebrew, Russian and Ukrainian articles are almost identical to the English one I merged: a summary, an introduction to the October 2023 events, a section on the civilians massacred at Sderot, and a reference. I merged the section on the civilians massacred.

This is just my opinion, and my merge is subject to WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, if you or any editor really think that there should be two articles. Thanks, Wikishovel (talk) 12:00, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]