Talk:Causes of the Armenian genocide

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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 08:06, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that the causes of the Armenian genocide are considered to include both long-term structural problems of the Ottoman Empire and wartime radicalization? Source: Naimark 2019, p. 50.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Willa Cather

Created by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 07:52, 15 June 2021 (UTC).

• Article moved to mainspace June 14 and is new enough. Article and hook are length-compliant, article is NPOV, hook is interesting, no photo to judge, Earwig shows copyvio violation unlikely (after ignoring a major false positive). Source is offline, however, it appears plausibly RS based on author (Norman Naimark) and publisher (Cornell University Press); AGF. The only (minor) issue is that of inline citation. The article, in one part, cites scholarship attributing genocide to structural problems and, in another part, cites scholarship attributing it to wartime radicalization, however, there is no inline citation that specifically attributes it to both structural problems and radicalization. I'm personally fine with the article as-is but I don't think the unforgiving nature of the Reviewing Guide would permit this through, unfortunately. Chetsford (talk) 18:52, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks for the review! I would consider Akcam's statement "the Armenian genocide was less the product of wartime contingencies than of the empire’s long-term structural problems" (quoted in the article) to state that both aspects played a role (he also discusses wartime contingency in his many publications). Naimark discusses "the difficult problem of finding the right balance between immediate and long- term causes", for the latter he discusses structural issues with the Empire such as its diplomatic relations and the breakdown of the millet system. (t · c) buidhe 19:17, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Makes sense to me! Chetsford (talk) 19:22, 17 June 2021 (UTC)