Talk:List of assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War

message: The article as it was waiting to get into an edit war today or tomorrow hence I proactively merged 2 articles without any attributions. I created them both to balance Wikipedia but now I think we should simply have one article without any attribution. Those who want to expand them can write about the individual victims and let us know who may have killed them. Hope you like itRaveenS 14:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New more neutral title

message: In Talk:Assassinations and murders attributed to the LTTE#redirect, Lahiru wrote:
* [...] Since only one for the GoSL side without even a cite, it should be remove from that section and intro should be rewrite without the GoSL name. I'm bit confused how Richard de Zoysa became a notable assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War. As I know he was killed at the time(regarding) of JVP upraising. 
These are good points. I assume by "one for the GoSL side", he refers to Ponnambalam. I agree that this does not justify writing "the government of Sri Lanka" in the intro. Also, the "citation needed" tag should be reflected in the intro. Moreover, since LTTE committed the vast majority of these crimes, it should be listed first. — Sebastian 20:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mentioning GoSL in intro 

message: I have made and will continue to make various changes to the article (see diff) and propose two others to improve the quality of the article and bring it more in line with its title.
First, I have added a "Background" section (please rename it if you think of a better title) in which I propose we add general information about assassinations during the Sri Lankan Civil War, but only information related to assassinations (and not bombings, massacres, etc.).  I have deliberately added one unsourced statement to that section stating that: "Most assassinations perpetrated during the conflict have been attributed to the LTTE."  I believe this to be true, but was unable to find an online source for it (though I admit I haven't yet looked very hard).  I have included this sentence primarily to reassure User:Iwazaki that it is not the purpose of this new title to "hide" the fact that the LTTE has assassinated many people.  I believe the statement (or an equivalent) can be sourced, perhaps even with one of the references already present in the article.  
Second, I propose that we gradually phase out footnotes in favour of various citation templates.  The reason I suggest this is that citation templates, unlike footnotes, are self-updating and thus reduce the possibility for accidental deletion or shuffling of order.  Also, all citation templates have a field requiring an "accessdate".  If an online link goes dead, it can still be validly used as a reference if it has an "accessdate" that is confirmed in the edit history.
We currently have two articles that are largely redundant to each other and both could use improvement (particularly sourcing).  I think the sooner we settle the issue, the sooner we can work on improving the version that remains (I believe the consensus is for this version).  -- Black Falcon 02:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Various changes 

message: I have removed the things that are attributed to LTTE without proper NPOV citations. Most of this come from alligations from the Srilankan government. I am sorry but this is wikipedia not a Srilankan government sponcered site.Watchdogb 17:53, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ho Watchdogb, Actually if you have a google on any of those names you will find plenty of international (not Sri Lankan government) sources which clearly blame the LTTE for the killings. I have re-added the citations.  Dutugemunu 21:49, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up 

message: Please do not re-add the part about criticising the LTTE as a possible cause for his death ... that constitutes an original synthesis. The BBC sources present that information in the context of noting that the TNA is not/may not be a proxy for the LTTE:
In addition, a few lines above that, the article states: "The day before he was killed, Raviraj ... demonstrated in front of the United Nations offices in Colombo at the deaths of civilians from military shelling in the east of the country." -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:49, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Raviraj and the BBC source

message: Hi BlackFalcon , you have removed the BBC article on the ground its doesnt blame the LTTE for Gandhis assasination 
Have a look at the following para from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4835142.stm and tell me whats ambiguous about that 
"It later emerged that a female Tamil Tiger (LTTE) suicide bomber had assassinated Rajiv Gandhi. "  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dutugemunu (talk • contribs) 22:14, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume you meant http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/newsid_2504000/2504739.stm. I overlooked the blue portion of the page, only reading through the text on the left side, and I apologise for my error. Nonetheless, I did not remove the source; I only removed the explicit mention of the BBC. While the opinions of organizations can be explicitly mentioned and attributed, I wonder whether this should be done for news organisations ... the BBC is not alone in blaming the LTTE. While the opinion of international bodies such as the EU or UN, and of the Indian government (in whose jurisdiction the attack took place), are certainly worth mentioning, it seems awkward to state that "the Indian government and the BBC" blame the LTTE, as if they are the only ones that do so. – Black Falcon (Talk) 22:40, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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