Talk:Musandaba massacre

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Wikipedia is not a news website

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@Jebiguess: WikiPedia is not a news website. I notice that this article, and several similar articles about massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo all seem to be based on routine news stories and lack any significant ongoing coverage that I would expect for a notable event. While the Ituri conflict and the Kivu conflict might well be notable, the articles about the individual massacres that are occurring during those conflicts do not appear to demonstrate any lasting impact or effect on their own, which suggests they are not really notable enough for having their own dedicated articles. Because of that, I think article like the April 2020 Virunga National Park massacre, the Boga and Tchabi massacres, the Kasanzi attack, the Lisasa massacre, the Maimoya highway massacre, the Makutano massacre, the Musandaba massacre, the Tingwe massacre could be incorporated into the broader conflict articles that they relate to. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 15:09, 21 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia is not a news website, correct. So why not also delete articles like the 2025 Ternopil strike, March 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing, Nir Oz attack, etc? There is little lasting coverage for these events, yet nobody is saying we should delete them. Few newspapers and organizations publish events like the above in Congo, and stuffing every event into a conflict page results in something like the Islamist insurgency in Niger where the entire page is a series of "x got attacked, y got massacred". These are also events in larger campaigns that have little written about them, or do not have enough analysis (like the 2020-2022 ISCAP resurgence) to merit a page. Jebiguess (talk) 16:27, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Jebiguess: You misunderstand my question. I am not in a rush to delete these articles. I am merely suggesting that on their own, these individual events probably do not warrant each of them having their own article, and wonder if it would be better if these articles were merged into an article about the broader conflict in the DRC. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 11:21, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

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