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> I saw a number of politically motivated powerful contributors vandalizing a calm and mature page about an old historical topic by introducing irrelevant if not made up content.

No need to be cryptic here. Link to the content in question and the relevant edits so others can make a judgement about your experience. Otherwise why post this?



Yes you are right, I was going to, but I guess I didn't want to drag the subject.

Here is the article I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence

Its talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Turkish_War_of_Independen...

In the introduction, the war was painted as basically an "ethnic cleansing campaign", which nowhere in the article was such words used, and is a gross oversimplification. Although both sides massacred each other (mostly the actions of irregulars), the independence war itself was never defined like that before. Additinally, an odd "Historiography" section was added. To me, it looks pretty clear that these edits were made in bad faith.

I think this comment sums it up: https://www.reddit.com/r/WikipediaVandalism/comments/n4lfcr/...

The "switch" mentioned in the comment is the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey following an agreement between Greek and Turkish governments, which I think shouldn't have happened as both countries would be more diverse.

If only people valued the idea of "world citizenship" and rejected all forms of extreme nationalism...




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