Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1660 Safed massacre
by nominator. I would argue Peters is not a reliable source. At last no controversial assertion of historical fact should be sourced solely to Peters. (From our article on From Time Immemorial citing a 1985 NY Times article: "Israeli historian Yehoshua Porath described the book as a "sheer forgery," stating that "in Israel, at least, the book was almost universally dismissed as sheer rubbish except maybe as a propaganda weapon.") Nor could I find other reliable sources saying there was a massacre in Safed in 1660. Scholem, a reliable source, says there wasn't.  says, "Material must be attributable to a source with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy, which is appropriate for the claim being made." Peters doesn't qualify, so we have no such source to support the article
— User:Jonathanwallace, 06:41, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability)