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On 7 November 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from Protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in Canada to Protests in Canada against the Sri Lankan Civil War. The result of the discussion was moved. |
What world organizations are calling this a genocide? Why are we calling it an anti-genocide strike, when it is not certain by any means that it is a genocide?
The language in this article is heavily biased in a pro-Tamil Tigers direction. That bias may or may not be correct, but especially on current events we need to maintain a neutral point of view. Captainktainer * Talk 21:06, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
This article needs to be cleaned up fast! It might as well be a PR piece for the Tamil Tigers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.232.241.204 ( talk) 06:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I've just put up a POV tag on this article. It seems that whenever I check this article, I find unsubstantiated claims of genocide reported as fact, unverifiable claims of the use of chemical warfare by the SLA, inflated casualty numbers and un-cited numbers of protesters, all slanted towards a pro-Tamil bias. Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 08:09, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
The Guardian, a national newspaper in the UK quotes the Dr working in the warzone as estimating over 1000 deaths:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/11/sri-lanka-civilian-deaths Nagadeepa ( talk) 18:07, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I still think that this is not a neutral article. it appears to have been written by one of the protestors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.188.246 ( talk) 05:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Put a picture of the protests in the top part of the page. Makes the page more informative. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.75.103 ( talk) 01:02, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to start going through the article section by section over the next few days to try and improve the flow of the article. I'm going to try and stay away from changing the content and stick to the wording. Help and input would greatly be appreciated. Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 18:12, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm thinking it may be helpful to reorganise the article into sections by city (i.e. a Toronto section, and Ottawa section, as well as a section for 'other cities') with subsections for each major demonstration in that city in chronological order. Right now it seems like mention of specific demonstrations is repeated throughout the article while there is no clear differentiation between other demonstrations. To this ends, I'm going to keep the opening section to general info about the demonstrations across Canada and their aims: I'm going to pull info specific to the Toronto demonstrations out of the opening section to be re-added into the sections about the T.O. demos. Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 18:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Here's what I've pulled out of the opening section to be worked into other sections: Several Tamil organizations and businesses in the Greater Toronto Area, which is home to nearly 200,000 Tamil immigrants and citizens, had closed businesses and took part in rallies in the downtown area of the city. [1]
The first notable protest took place on January 28, 2009 in front of the Sri Lankan Consulate in Toronto involving a few hundred people. [2] The following day, several thousands gathered in front of the United States Consulate in Toronto to appeal to the American government to take action regarding the hostilities. A human chain, as long as 5 kilometres, [3] of several thousands of people took place the next day in Downtown Toronto.
and the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Toronto, Bandula Jayasekara,
After the January 30th human chain, several protests have followed till date, including the non-stop protests at Parliament Hill and the US consulate in Toronto during April and the Gardiner Expressway blockade in May. Canadian Tamils have helped active protesting in the United States as well. Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 18:58, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Here's my idea for how the sections could breakdown:
I think this puts the demonstrations in a roughly chronological order (with online and student activity coming 1st, ottawa demos before toronto demos...). Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 19:06, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
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I can do this review. I'll start soon. -- Noleander ( talk) 19:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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Done EelamStyleZ ( talk) 19:43, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
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Done EelamStyleZ ( talk) 19:43, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Done, I've included a one line portion of smaller scale demonstrations happening in Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary in the body, but couldn't add more since they weren't as notable as the events that occurred in Toronto and Ottawa, so I still kept that line in the lead. Otherwise, the Tamil American demonstrations line has been removed. Also, the sidebar navbox was removed and footer navbox was kept. All citations in the lead have also been removed from lead and kept in the body. EelamStyleZ ( talk) 01:57, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Done Previously, I made sure that links were linked at first occurrence after every level 2 heading, but now I've removed all repeating links altogether. Let me know if there's anymore. EelamStyleZ ( talk) 02:39, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) SkyWarrior 23:01, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in Canada → Protests in Canada against the Sri Lankan Civil War – the civil war was not in Canada. The protests were in Canada. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 22:10, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
@ Petextrodon @ UtoD The allegation for the attack on the Buddhist temple is clearly linked to the protests. From the CBC article:
Dozens of them stopped at the site Saturday, shaking their heads at what they consider a violation of a sacred place.
"This is not just in Canada," said Chaturi Dissa. "It's not only this temple, the temple in Holland, France and England has been attacked. So it's kind of a pattern.
"These were other countries that had mass protests on the Sri Lankan issue and there's no other reason why the temple should be attacked."
I suggest this as a compromise: we can say something like, "members of the Sinhalese community alleged that the violence was connected to the protests." SinhalaLion ( talk) 20:06, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
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On 7 November 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from Protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in Canada to Protests in Canada against the Sri Lankan Civil War. The result of the discussion was moved. |
What world organizations are calling this a genocide? Why are we calling it an anti-genocide strike, when it is not certain by any means that it is a genocide?
The language in this article is heavily biased in a pro-Tamil Tigers direction. That bias may or may not be correct, but especially on current events we need to maintain a neutral point of view. Captainktainer * Talk 21:06, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
This article needs to be cleaned up fast! It might as well be a PR piece for the Tamil Tigers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.232.241.204 ( talk) 06:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I've just put up a POV tag on this article. It seems that whenever I check this article, I find unsubstantiated claims of genocide reported as fact, unverifiable claims of the use of chemical warfare by the SLA, inflated casualty numbers and un-cited numbers of protesters, all slanted towards a pro-Tamil bias. Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 08:09, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
The Guardian, a national newspaper in the UK quotes the Dr working in the warzone as estimating over 1000 deaths:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/11/sri-lanka-civilian-deaths Nagadeepa ( talk) 18:07, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I still think that this is not a neutral article. it appears to have been written by one of the protestors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.188.246 ( talk) 05:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Put a picture of the protests in the top part of the page. Makes the page more informative. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.75.103 ( talk) 01:02, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to start going through the article section by section over the next few days to try and improve the flow of the article. I'm going to try and stay away from changing the content and stick to the wording. Help and input would greatly be appreciated. Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 18:12, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm thinking it may be helpful to reorganise the article into sections by city (i.e. a Toronto section, and Ottawa section, as well as a section for 'other cities') with subsections for each major demonstration in that city in chronological order. Right now it seems like mention of specific demonstrations is repeated throughout the article while there is no clear differentiation between other demonstrations. To this ends, I'm going to keep the opening section to general info about the demonstrations across Canada and their aims: I'm going to pull info specific to the Toronto demonstrations out of the opening section to be re-added into the sections about the T.O. demos. Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 18:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Here's what I've pulled out of the opening section to be worked into other sections: Several Tamil organizations and businesses in the Greater Toronto Area, which is home to nearly 200,000 Tamil immigrants and citizens, had closed businesses and took part in rallies in the downtown area of the city. [1]
The first notable protest took place on January 28, 2009 in front of the Sri Lankan Consulate in Toronto involving a few hundred people. [2] The following day, several thousands gathered in front of the United States Consulate in Toronto to appeal to the American government to take action regarding the hostilities. A human chain, as long as 5 kilometres, [3] of several thousands of people took place the next day in Downtown Toronto.
and the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Toronto, Bandula Jayasekara,
After the January 30th human chain, several protests have followed till date, including the non-stop protests at Parliament Hill and the US consulate in Toronto during April and the Gardiner Expressway blockade in May. Canadian Tamils have helped active protesting in the United States as well. Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 18:58, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Here's my idea for how the sections could breakdown:
I think this puts the demonstrations in a roughly chronological order (with online and student activity coming 1st, ottawa demos before toronto demos...). Mike McGregor (Can) ( talk) 19:06, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Noleander ( talk · contribs) 19:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
I can do this review. I'll start soon. -- Noleander ( talk) 19:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
-- Noleander ( talk) 16:27, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Done EelamStyleZ ( talk) 19:43, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
-- Noleander ( talk) 02:31, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Done EelamStyleZ ( talk) 19:43, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Done, I've included a one line portion of smaller scale demonstrations happening in Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary in the body, but couldn't add more since they weren't as notable as the events that occurred in Toronto and Ottawa, so I still kept that line in the lead. Otherwise, the Tamil American demonstrations line has been removed. Also, the sidebar navbox was removed and footer navbox was kept. All citations in the lead have also been removed from lead and kept in the body. EelamStyleZ ( talk) 01:57, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Done Previously, I made sure that links were linked at first occurrence after every level 2 heading, but now I've removed all repeating links altogether. Let me know if there's anymore. EelamStyleZ ( talk) 02:39, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
References
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) SkyWarrior 23:01, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in Canada → Protests in Canada against the Sri Lankan Civil War – the civil war was not in Canada. The protests were in Canada. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 22:10, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
@ Petextrodon @ UtoD The allegation for the attack on the Buddhist temple is clearly linked to the protests. From the CBC article:
Dozens of them stopped at the site Saturday, shaking their heads at what they consider a violation of a sacred place.
"This is not just in Canada," said Chaturi Dissa. "It's not only this temple, the temple in Holland, France and England has been attacked. So it's kind of a pattern.
"These were other countries that had mass protests on the Sri Lankan issue and there's no other reason why the temple should be attacked."
I suggest this as a compromise: we can say something like, "members of the Sinhalese community alleged that the violence was connected to the protests." SinhalaLion ( talk) 20:06, 21 April 2023 (UTC)