[Wikipedia-l] Sensitive subjects on some Wikipedias

Steven Walling steven.walling at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 21:47:33 UTC 2007


Because it would "insult Turkishness."

On 7/13/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
>
> The Turkish Wikipedia has no article on Armenian Genocide.
>
> However, unlike all the other 38 Wikipedias which have articles
> on the "Armenian Genocide", it has an article on "Claims of
> an Armenian Genocide".
>
> I'm sure that if German Wikipedia had "Holocaust" redirect to
> "Claims of a Holocaust", there'd be an outcry, but why doesn't the
> same thing happen about this article on Turkish Wikipedia?
>
>
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