Talk:2013 Camp Ashraf massacre

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Stop promoting anti-Iranian terrorism, Plot Spoiler. Attack against terrorist groups is never a massacre. No civilians were harmed, only MKO terrorists.Kermanshahi (talk) 12:37, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Problematic additions reverted[edit]

I am reverting the article back to a version from before this [1] large-scale set of additions made by Jgeoffreys (talk · contribs) in February. These edits were problematic for a number of reasons:

First, much of the added text was very closely paraphrased, to the point of being plagiarized, from the hscentre.org report [2]. This includes multiple alleged references that were taken over directly from identical footnotes in the hscentre.org report, without acknowledging the immediate source.

In at least one instance, such a reference has contained a very serious error of fact, apparently committed by the hscentre.org report and covertly repeated here. This concerns the following sentence:

two officials within Iraq's Interior Ministry reported on the day of the massacre that security forces had raided the camp after firing mortar rounds at the residents

(ostensibly sourced to Tawfeeq, Mohammed (1 September 2013). "Deadly raid hits Iranian exile group's camp in Iraq". CNN.)

This is evidenly based on a passage in the hscentre.org report, which states:

two officials within Iraq’s Interior Ministry told CNN the same day that security forces had raided the camp after hitting it with mortar rounds.

The passage in the hscentre.org report is footnoted to the same CNN article. However, what the CNN article actually says is something entirely different:

But two officials with Iraq's Interior Ministry told CNN that security forces raided the camp after their base was hit by mortar rounds.

Note that according to CNN, the officials were claiming that it had been the security forces' own camp that had been targeted by mortar fire, not that the security forces had fired mortar rounds at the refugee camp.

The uncritical copying of the report and the failure to check its purported sources in copying them here demonstrates severely irresponsible editing on the part of the editor who edited this to the article. At the same time, an error like this must place the entire reliability of the report in doubt.

Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:34, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moves[edit]

I have moved this back per WP:COMMONNAME Three years ago an editor move warred this article, lets not repeat that, anyone wishing to move this article neefs to do a WP:RM Darkness Shines (talk) 16:21, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]