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Aaron Bandler (May 23, 2024). "Seven Tactics Wikipedia Editors Used to Spread Anti-Israel Bias Since Oct. 7". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved May 24, 2024. To be fair, there was consensus among Wikipedia editors to include the massacre in the "List of major terrorist incidents" Wikipedia page. But there wasn't consensus for including it in the "List of Islamist terrorist attacks" Wikipedia page, as enough editors argued in an RfC that doing so would violate Wikipedia policy banning "original research," (WP:OR), which states that "all material added to articles must be verifiable in a reliable, published source."

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Why do the October 7th Attack death toll only include Israeli deaths?

I ask because all the other incidents on the list count both. 9/11's 2996 number is both the perpetrators and victims, so is Beslan's, the ones with militant attacks like Camp Speicher/Tikrit is usually both, why single this one out?

It's 2785 deaths (that last missing person was confirmed dead this morning so also that) to the standard of everything else 2604:3D09:1F80:CA00:2990:4B3C:893D:360 (talk) 22:31, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit 7/7 bombings date column

The column for date states the 7/7 London bombings took place in 2004, while this attack took place in 2005 (as the linked page correctly states multiple times).

Thanks! DimiCot (talk) 04:44, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add 2025 Pahalgam Attacks

It's missing one terrorist attack from India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Pahalgam_attack. 45.118.75.94 (talk) 12:02, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]