Talk:Armenian Quarter

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[edit] Neutrality

Could the contributor who tagged this article as non-neutral please explain why he/she did so? Hakob 21:19, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed evaluative and awkward sentence

I have removed this concluding sentence of the article:

"The Armenian community is but a smaller example of Israel as whole, of a community's ability to survive and persevere for such long periods."

Two reasons. One, this is a triple evaluative opinion, expressing praise for Israel, expressing praise for the Armenians in Jerusalem, and comparing them. This is not an encyclopedic fact. It is a generous opinion, maybe, but it is still an opinion. It also might not be acceptable to all the people being discussed without some modulation.

Second, the sentence is poorly phrased. The Armenians are not an "example" of Israel, that's not the intended word. And smaller than what? "Examples" are not "smaller" than the things they are "examples" of, exactly. Is "2+2=4" "smaller" than "addition"? It's just an--example!

Perhaps the contributor of the sentence could find quotations from figures in the community being discussed expressing the sentiments he or she means to document. That would be more informative, perhaps.

— Inacurate statement "With the outbreak of World War I the Armenians found themselves cut off from their sources of support among the western powers. In 1915, using the excuse that the Armenians were allied with the Russians, the Young Turks ordered all Armenians expelled from Armenia in north eastern Turkey. The Soviets meanwhile marched into Russian Armenia and annexed it as a Soviet Socialist Republic." First of all, the paragraph seems to imply that East Armenia was annexed by Soviet Union in 1915, as we all know USSR did not exist at the time. Armenia became a Soviet Republic only in 1922. Anyone care to rewrite? 209.195.110.247 06:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)