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Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 29 February 2024
Request to remove the word "myth" from the lead of the article.
The original sentence includes:
"... that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration."
I'm proposing changing this to:
"... that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a fabrication or exaggeration."
Wikipedia defines "myth" as "a genre of folklore or theology consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myth." There are a number of places in Wikipedia where it's emphasized that the encylopedic/academic/historical use of the word "myth" means "legend" or "origin story" (see here, here, here, and here). Here, it's being used to mean "false statement", which is explicitly discouraged in those links.
Also, if we take "myth" to mean "false statement", then it's a synonym for "fabrication", so "myth, fabrication, or exaggeration" is redundant. Crystalholm (talk) 05:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
- Done. HansVonStuttgart (talk) 09:52, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 6 March 2024
kindly change the picture under "Laws against Holocaust denial" from File:Holocaust_Denial_Laws_2023.png to the correct File:Holocaust_Denial_Laws_2022.svg, since it shows both Palestine and Israel borders under international law, while File:Holocaust_Denial_Laws_2023.png only shows only Israel Prosnu (talk) 14:39, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Soft Holocaust Denial should be added?
https://www.thetower.org/article/the-rise-of-soft-holocaust-denial/ The matter with JK Rowling because the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany points here, but this article doesn't mention Rromani, LGBT, who were part of the Holocaust, even though they were not the most public. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/deborah-lipstadt-historian-donald-trump-advisers-soft-holocaust-denial There are plenty of articles to support it. There are examples that can be pulled too. Addressing the arguments that it's more prevalent v. hard denial should also be addressed and added. --KimYunmi (talk) 14:18, 16 April 2024 (UTC)