Deletion of Massacre

Comment: the most delete !votes are correct in that the article currently looks similiar to a  and if expanded it will face issues with  and . Arguing for deletion of these ground is a little bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water, saying that it's impossible to write an encyclopedic article with the title 'massacre'. Since there's no problem with the notability of the subject, why not give this stub a chance to develop and deal with the problem as they arise
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:DICDEF||WP:POV||WP:SYNTHESIS)

Comment: We do not improve a topic of this kind by reaching for the dictionary or the delete button.  Nor should we just compile a catalog of examples.  The best approach, for our purposes, is to find sources which address the topic in a general, scholarly and analytical way.  Such sources exist for this topic and I have started a rewrite, citing two of them: ''The massacre in history'' and ''Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide''.  We have no dictionary content or sources now and so we should hear no more of  please.  That policy clearly explains that we may have short articles as stubs which we may expand and develop over time.  Deletion would be disruptive to this and contrary to our |editing policy
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:DICDEF||WP:PRESERVE)

Comment: So many reasons to delete.  Firstly, and most obviously, .  Colonel Warden's additions of irrelevant sentences haven't changed the fact that this article attempts to define what a massacre is, in my opinion.  Secondly, this article is a |content fork of various articles.  I don't believe it's possible to create an article here that includes information that isn't already available at Mass murder, Genocide, List of events named massacres, and so on.  The problem is that "massacre" doesn't have a clear definition distinct from "mass murder", they are synonyms.  "Massacre" is just a POV term that people apply to an event when they want to describe it in a more emotionally charged way than "mass murder".  My suggestion would be to delete this article, move the dab page back here where it was, and add a link to Mass murder and List of events named massacres to it
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:DICDEF||WP:CFORK)

Comment: This is a |stub, not a dictionary entry. It contains information that would not be found in a dictionary. Wikipedia can indeed have encyclopedic-quality articles about words describing they way they are used in society. This article has a lot of |potential for expansion too. Also, there are hundreds are pages in different namespaces that |link to this one, referring to the concept of a massacre, so deleting it would create a lot of |red links in places where currently, there are lots of blue links of the term leading to this meaning
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Stub (WP:STUB||WP:POTENTIAL||WP:LINKED||WP:REDLINK)