Talk:Elaine, Arkansas

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No reference supporting claims made in this article: "an estimated 237 black people were killed in the rural county by rampaging white mobs"[edit]

I was under the impression that Wikipedia had standards for weeding out opinion-based interpretations of historical events; standards that inhibited the creation of false narratives, and re-writing history to serve a specific ideology or point of view.

I am sorely disappointed to find this article parrots without citation or reference of any kind, the claim that: "an estimated 237 black people were killed in the rural county by rampaging white mobs"

Exactly whose estimate is this? How did they arrive at the estimate... a grave count, human remains, written records, census reports before and after, body counts??? Making a claim as horrific as this demands substantiation and references; irresponsible claims serve no one's best interests - save that for Twitter.

Similarly, the article on The Elaine Massacre also carries this "estimate" without citation or reference.

Falsehoods and exaggerations in a Wikipedia article documenting a historical event do not benefit anybody's cause. The truth is bad enough - exaggerations and made-up statistics only subtract from credibility, and give deniers a foothold. This is especially true in the current environment in the USA in 2020. IF YOU CANNOT SUBSTANTIATE IT, DO NOT PUBLISH IT ON WIKIPEDIA!

Seamusdemora (talk) 08:03, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please read this policy as well. The content which was removed here and at Elaine massacre is supported my numerous sources, some of which I've brought from the other article here. We have a duty to try to create the articles accurately, and removing easily sourced information such as this is not productive. Shouting by using all caps, is also not considered civil behavior. In the future, please take time to review sources already in articles before removing long-standing content and accusing other editors of "Falsehoods and exaggerations", especially when your accusations are easily proven false. Jacona (talk) 12:59, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]