Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plav-Gusinje massacres (1912-13) (2nd nomination)
per lack of coverage in reliable sources. As Amanuensis Balkanicus explains very clearly, there is simply no mention of this rather large massacre in reliable sources. As far as I can see, we have activist schoolteachers, collections of primary documents, and an obscure symposium in Albania in 1993. Yet, had such a large massacre taken place, one would expect '''at least one''' modern scholar to have documented it. The Balkans are a heavily studied area; there are dozens of scholars who focus on Balkan history and politics. Surely one of them would have verified the existence of this massacre and put his name to that? Maleschreiber has had plenty of time to find reliable sources that document this purported massacre, but has failed to do so, likely because such sources do not exist (certainly not through lack of effort or motivation). The only reliable sources (BI and Pacariz) speak of commemorations by activists, but do not document the existence of the massacre itself. They are misused. I also find arguments of the type "there is no coverage because this was a small massacre" to be absolutely ridiculous and contrived. 2,000 killed is not a small number, it is a HUGE number (comparable to the 8,000 killed in Srebrenica). To suggest that this was a minor event and that  does not apply is highly intellectually dishonest
— User:Khirurg, 22:15, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:EXTRAORDINARY (Wikipedia:Verifiability)