Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Massacre
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
— User:Colonel, 09:32, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:DICDEF||WP:PRESERVE (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)