== Suggestions from an uninvolved party == 

 At the risk of throwing myself into a highly controversial article, I thought I'd give some feedback from an outsider's POV. Several important facts need to be sourced:  
 * On April 24, 1915, the Young Turk government arrested several hundred - or, according to Turkish records, over two thousand - Armenian intellectuals. 
 ** Records are referred to here, and two conflicting figures are given. What are the sources for the several hundred arrests? What Turkish records are referred to that support the arrest of over 2,000 Armenian intellectuals? 
 * It is believed that most of these were soon executed. 
 ** Who believes this? 
 * Most historians believe that the government did not provide any facilities to care for the Armenians during their evacuation, nor when they arrived. 
 ** If many historians believe this, then we must provide their names.  
 * Rather, records suggest that the Ottoman troops escorting the Armenians as a matter of course not only allowed others to rob, kill, and rape the Armenians, but often participated in this activity themselves. 
 ** This is a bold claim. Evidence (in the form of sources) must be provided to show where this information is coming from. Note that I am not denying it happened (my knowledge of this event is almost non-existent), I am merely asking for sources. Records are mentioned here, therefore there must be a source that can be cited. 
 * Most Western sources maintain that a million or over Armenians lost their lives as a result. 
 ** Which Western sources are being referred to here? 
 * After the recruitment of most men and the arrests of certain intellectuals, widespread massacres have been reported taking place throughout the Ottoman Empire 
 ** If they were widely reported, may I request that the source of these reports be given? 
 * In Van, it is said that the governor Djevdet ordered irregulars to commit crimes and force the Armenians to rebel to justify the encircling of the town by the Ottoman army. 
 ** Who said this? Again, a source should be cited. 
 *  It is believed that over a million were deported, though this figure has not been conclusively established. 
 ** Who believes this? If the figure has not been conclusively established, why is this not speculation? 
 * Some historians believe that the deportations were, in practice, a method of mass execution which led to the deaths of many of the Armenian population by forcing them to march endlessly through desert, without food or water or enough protection from local Kurdish or Turkish bandits, and members of the special organization were charged to escort the convoys (which meant their destruction). 
 ** Which historians are being referred to here? We need a source here.  

 That is only one section (The Armenian Genocide). I have not had a chance to comment on the rest of the article. I suggest that if the article is to proceed then sourcing must be done. I suggest the extensive use of footnotes: see Template:Ref and Template:Note (a good example of its use is Windows 2000 and W. Mark Felt). -