Category talk:Murdered Hindu priests

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I changed the head categories on this page following the discussion of a parallel category at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 August 14#Category:Murdered Roman Catholic priests.

It was accepted there that not all murder victims who belong to a religion are martyrs.

This edit on 16 Jan 2008 undoes that distinction. I have already changed one head category from Murder victims to the more specific Murdered priests, but I propose to change the rest back as it was last August. In other words, murdered priests should not be a sub-category of martyrs, but should cross-refer to that category. Any objections? - Fayenatic (talk) 20:10, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I accidentally deleted "murdered priests" which you reinstated, that's done.

On the subject of martyrs, The LTTE and NLFT are mainly christian, and SP Kurukkal & Shanti Tripura were both martyred by these groups, dying for their religion. Ergo these fall under the basis of Hindu martyrs. People dying in the name of their religious profession are under the umbrella of martyrs, IMO.Bakaman 02:03, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

In that case, by all means add the Category:Hindu martyrs to those two articles. I'll revert the category page as the other Hindu victim does not appear to be properly catgorised as a martyr.

Not sure about the suggestion that LTTE are "mainly Christian" - the source given in Wikipedia for its leader being a "lapsed Methodist"[1] suggests rather that Christians are victims and mediators in Sri Lanka. Anyway, go ahead and change the categorisation on those articles - I won't change them back. - Fayenatic (talk) 07:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Christians are not the victims,they are more or less the perpetrators. Balasingham, Prabhakaran, and most of the leaders are Christian, and certainly I am not the only person fingering the Christians. However that is tangential. As for the scope of the cat, I think we can safely end discussion now, The structure seems fine to me.Bakaman 18:20, 19 January 2008 (UTC)