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Le Monde an unreliable source

@Ymblanter, regarding your revert [1]. This is WP:OR. The source is not saying what you added to the article. There is no source for "as well as a Nazi". ManyAreasExpert (talk) 10:03, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I do not have access to the full article and can not verify your statement. However, you yourself in your (second) revert said that the sources are not reliable. Ymblanter (talk) 10:40, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The edit description says there are no reliable sources, and there are no reliable sources for the text added. LeMonde is here Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian anti-hero glorified following the Russian invasion (archive.ph) and while it links the subject with Nazi Germany, to make conclusions such as in the text added is WP:OR. Also, please don't encourage people to use peoplesdispatch or such, per your revert. Editors are supposed to come to the talk page and reach consensus, even for LeMonde. ManyAreasExpert (talk) 10:47, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Right, and this is what you should have been done instead of your first revert. Ymblanter (talk) 10:53, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, this is the responsibility of the editor insisting on the change - WP:CONS . Regardless, we discussed that at editor's talk page User talk:TruthfulSpeech#Nazi Stepan Bandera - ManyAreasExpert , where they provided no confirming quotes, yet continued insisting on their original research. ManyAreasExpert (talk) 11:00, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They obviously think otherwise. In addition, if your claim is that Stepan Bandera was not Nazi collaborator, it is hardly tenable, as it was discussed here zillions of times. Ymblanter (talk) 11:29, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is different topic. Now, what else is here regarding the original research introduced? ManyAreasExpert (talk) 11:37, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the description of being a "nazi" since clearly the source didn't say that Tristario (talk) 23:35, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mhorg, I removed that [2] because "not notable details" [3] , thanks! ManyAreasExpert (talk) 11:05, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for the explanation. I still find it interesting that there is a grandson of Bandera who picked up the award. Mhorg (talk) 12:10, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings @HanKim20, explain your "not in source" tag removal [4] . ManyAreasExpert (talk) 18:25, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless to what this single source says, one can not define him as a "Nazi" in the lead per content on the page. Not only he was not Nazi, but he was arrested and imprisoned by Nazi, among other things. In addition, first phrase is hardly the best description of him, even without "Nazi". Ruwiki does a much better job here, i.e. "украинский политический деятель, лидер и организатор украинского националистического движения на Западной Украине". My very best wishes (talk) 14:08, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[5] ? It is linked on the very same page about OUN. My very best wishes (talk) 16:48, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am pretty sure there was a discussion before on exact wording here. "Organizer of Ukrainian nationalist movement" does not sound precise. Mellk (talk) 16:57, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No one says that he was not a OUN-B leader. To the contrary, we are saying just that. My very best wishes (talk) 17:00, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The opening sentence should state clearly what the subject is most notable for. But I do not see the point of restarting this discussion. You have made the same argument about ruwiki before. Mellk (talk) 17:10, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I linked it to our page about OUN-B [6] and only fixed a couple or words. What my previous comments on this talk page are you talking about? That one? I only cited an academic source. How he needs to be described in the lead? I guess other good tertiary sources can provide some hints here. OK, Russian WP is not an RS. But how about that one? And if this is not good, then what a better tertiary RS/encyclopedia would you suggest? My very best wishes (talk) 19:54, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You linked it, but this was MOS:EGG. It should be made clear he was the leader of the radical faction. This is also already cited to secondary sources. Mellk (talk) 18:07, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

reference 77 is referring to nonexistent nuremberg trials document

reference 77 is referring to a nuremberg trials document with evidence code O14-USSR but the nuremberg trials archive at harvard does not have a document with evidence code that resembles the given one or contains what is quoted by the reference... Trashev (talk) 11:36, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spreading disinformation

@Mellk, please elaborate your removal [7] of The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics - Google Books . ManyAreasExpert (talk) 10:43, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are including an overly long quote so that the summary of the section pushes a certain view. I have already stated in the edit summary that this is undue. Mellk (talk) 10:45, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It does not fit with rules well to remove the content referenced to the academic source completely, instead of fixing it per how it would fit you.

so that the summary of the section pushes a certain view
What would be your fix? ManyAreasExpert (talk) 11:18, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like this belongs somewhere. This content is not saying the same things the other content is saying. I agree this was a bit overly long for that particular spot. It could go in a new paragraph or a new subsection. Tristario (talk) 23:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, because we have WP:ONUS. It is already mentioned that Russian propaganda and tactics are similar to those of Soviet authorities. Perhaps it could be used to rewrite the sentence about equating the development of Ukrainian national identity with Nazism because it is currently cited to the U.S. Helsinki Commission website and this is hardly reliable here. Mellk (talk) 06:27, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wording issue

The wiki article states, "Bandera did not actively support or participate in the Lviv pogroms or acts of violence against Jewish and Polish civilians..."

The cited source reads, "There are no indications that Stepan Bandera actively supported the..."

These sentences have two different meanings. 2601:1C2:4300:A6D0:78B3:32E1:8331:A264 (talk) 23:28, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]