Template:Did you know nominations/Moral equality of combatants
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 11:05, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
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Moral equality of combatants
- ... that moral equality of combatants regardless of whether they fight for a just cause is "one of the stickiest problems in the ethics of war"?
- ALT1: ... that according to the principle of moral equality of combatants, Russian soldiers invading Ukraine and Ukrainian soldiers fighting back are morally equivalent? Source: https://dailynous.com/2022/03/02/philosophers-on-the-russian-attack-on-ukraine/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Corozal (dredger)
Created by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 18:49, 17 March 2022 (UTC).
new enough, long enough (648 readable words), no copy-vio concerns (28% on earwig, but mostly quotes and legal terms). Interesting stuff, and I found the article well written, balanced and engaging. I do wonder however if the hook is too open to misinterpretation, as in wiki (or the voice of) is using this principle to make statement that might upset quite a lot of readers, especially given the number of war crimes recorded since the origional nom on 17/march? But to be clear, the article itself is very well done. Ceoil (talk) 21:06, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review. I think the hook makes it clear that this view is according to MEC, rather than according to Wikipedia. (t · c) buidhe 21:38, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
- Your welcome, and yeah, agree having read again and mulled over, and just to be careful have split the "one of the stickiest problems in the ethics of war" sentance into the 2nd lead para so it stands out more for people skimming the page. Nice work; GTG.
Ceoil (talk) 21:48, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Buidhe and Ceoil: hmm, I'm not sure I'm totally convinced? Sometimes authors use this style of leaping right into the quote to say something like "these aren't my words, but this is my view". Mind if I change ALT0 to "is said to be"? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 05:30, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
- Your welcome, and yeah, agree having read again and mulled over, and just to be careful have split the "one of the stickiest problems in the ethics of war" sentance into the 2nd lead para so it stands out more for people skimming the page. Nice work; GTG.
- Thanks for the review. I think the hook makes it clear that this view is according to MEC, rather than according to Wikipedia. (t · c) buidhe 21:38, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
