User talk:Mam1220

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Hi

Dear Instructor of the wiki course and @Krv1325: .

That essay is full of errors, inaccuracies and imbalance. It will take me forever to rectify all of them. Rajiv Gandhi assassination was not the 'first successful' attack by the LTTE women fighters! LTTE women fighters have been fighting for years before that.

The assassination attempt of Sarath Fonseka was not confirmed to be committed by pregnant women (but by a woman posing as pregnant). Many of the sources used for this essay are partisan and highly biased, known to distort facts in order to paint the LTTE in the worst possible light, for example the south asian terrorist portal, is an Indian run anti rebel thinktank, which has resorted to lies in the past (one such example is the Pottuvil massacre which all reputed human rights groups indicated was committed by the Sri Lankan security forces, but the SATP lied and blamed the LTTE). They are not objective NGOs or human rights groups, they cannot be cited willy nilly. Secondly, what is the rationale for that select 'list of attacks' in the attack timeline?

The LTTE women fighters have engaged in thousands upon thousands of attacks, the vast majority in conventional warfare against the Sri Lankan Armed forces. But this small select list of attacks has selected the much smaller minority suicide bomb attacks/assasinations on the politicians and higher ups in the security forces. It is not an objective timeline at all, and I'm sure its just a quick paraphrasing of the Stanford partisan source which aims to portray the LTTE as pure terrorists by only mentioning these 'terroristic' attacks, which in the overall scheme of things, is a drop in the ocean compared to the women cadres attacks in conventional warfare against the armed forces. This rationale is not befitting of an objective encyclopaedia (it maybe for anti-rebel think tanks and propaganda mouthpieces).

Most important of all, it also far too long to be put in the general LTTE and LTTE divisions pages. It deserves it own dedicated page (of course hyperlinks to the page can be put in those aforementioned parent pages). Please get your senior Wiki editor @Guettarda: to get involved, because the huge reams of text you and your student are trying to insert is definitely disproportionate to the article's main focus, which is on the LTTE in general.

And if the course is aiming to readdress the imbalances of female representation on wikipedia, and of female stories (particularly the women of the LTTE), I am shocked that not a single word is said in this essay about the mass sex slavery of LTTE women fighters and Tamil women in general. This is was one of the reasons why many women joined in the first place. The 'aftermath' section does not mention this at all, which in a way is not surprising considering the propaganda sources used are meant to demonise them. Oz346 (talk) 20:51, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

And in reference to a dedicated page for this subject, if any assistance is needed to ensure it is objective and balanced, I can try and help time permitting. Oz346 (talk) 21:02, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Did you delete the entire page? Can you instead please move it into a draft space so that it can continue to be improved? Mam1220 (talk) 17:25, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dair09/Divisions_of_the_Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam

The draft space is here, and should probably be renamed to 'Women's participation in the LTTE' Oz346 (talk) 18:45, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

@Oz346 Thanks for bringing up the concerns about the additions made to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. After reviewing the student contribution and the articles involved, I think @Oz346 proposed a fair solution to the issues at hand. The student's contribution on the women's participation in the LTTE is extensive, detailed and deserving of its own article to provide a fair, balanced coverage of the topic. @Mam1220 The work is preserved in the draftspace to be improved on, if @Krv1325 wishes to continue to work on the topic outside of the classroom assignment. @Mam1220 & @Krv1325, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:37, 11 December 2022 (UTC)