Talk:1946 Bihar riots

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A fact from 1946 Bihar riots appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 December 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that between 2,000 and 30,000 people were killed in the communal riots in Bihar in 1946?

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Misuse of sources.

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Mitra 1990 deals predominantly with Calcutta riots (clear from the title too). It makes passing reference to Bihar riots and emphatically puts the cause as the Noakhali riots.
Das 2000 deals exclusively with Calcutta riots (clear from the title too). All it has about 1946 Bihar riot is: The Great Calcutta Killings spread to Bihar.

Neither give a summary of "Hindu mobs targeted Muslim families". Neither give "between 2,000 and 30,000 people were killed".

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Khan 2007, p. 68. Has no mention of Bihar at all.
Markovitz 2015. gives one line description which says it was in "retaliation" to Noakhali riots.
The Washington Post, New York Times is not WP:HISTRS source, they are news source, the content sourced to them have no other backing.
Wilkinson 2006, p. 5. Makes a passing mention, with the objective to implicate Congress party, as the book explores connection of riots to politics.

--AmritasyaPutra^T 10:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is not a single substantive complaint here. To take your "misuses" in order; 1) Neither of those are used for what you claim them to be used for. 2) I don't use Khan to talk about Bihar; the sentence refers to Noakhali. Which is exactly what page 68 talks about 3) So? I haven't stated a single thing from that source in Wikipedia's voice. 4) Again, so what?

Seriously, go find something more useful to do with your time; there is no substance in anything you've said here. If you think there is, take it to RSN; I am not responding to further meaninglessness. And if this is not stalking, I don't know what is. Vanamonde93 (talk) 11:05, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With you extreme level of personal bias and attack I humbly admit it is useless to try to have a conversation with you. Any person can trivially easily validate my points. --AmritasyaPutra^T 04:32, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So go find this "any person", or come back with more substantive arguments. Vanamonde93 (talk) 06:25, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]