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Merger

I'm working to merge crimes against peace into this article because as stated in this source, these are two terms for the same concept and "crime of aggression" is more commonly used now. (t · c) buidhe 03:59, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • No, based on our disagreement here [1], the terms appear to be different. The term "war of aggression" can only include an actual war, while the "crime against peace" also includes a conspiracy to commit war of aggression. My very best wishes (talk) 00:55, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    My very best wishes Partly true; the Nuremberg charter does define crimes against peace as including conspiracy, but at the Nuremberg trials, there were separate charges for crimes against peace and conspiracy to commit crimes against peace. The Rome Statue definition does not include conspiracy but does include planning. More importantly, there was no crime of aggression in international law at the time the Soviet Union did invasions in 1939 and 1940. The criminalization was ex post facto in the case of Nazi aggression, but the Nuremberg Charter specifically excluded the Allies from prosecution. These are important nuances that are covered in legal sources but may not be fully understood by non-specialist sources. Needless to say, this article is not about wars of aggression throughout history but specifically the crime and how it came about.
    Note that the RS cited such as Sayapin, Kemp, the Cambridge commentary on the crime of aggression, etc. discuss the Nuremberg and Tokyo charter, international customary law, Rome Statute, domestic law, as aspects of the same international crime. Additionally, the content that you restored at crime against peace is pretty bad and misleading (for example, the Kellogg-Briand pact does not include a crime against peace), because it just quotes a bunch of legal instruments with minimal context. The WWII- and postwar-era developments are already better covered in this article. (t · c) buidhe 02:44, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
So, I understand you agree that "war of aggression" and "crime against peace" are not exactly the same? Can we simply quote directly the definitions of these terms from RS? I understand there are clear definitions. My very best wishes (talk) 14:03, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
My very best wishes There are different definitions of crimes against peace used at different postwar tribunals. They are already quoted in the body of the article. I believe it would be giving undue prominence to selectively quote a particular definition in the lead. Indeed, war of aggression and crime of aggression are not equivalent, the article discusses the differences in several places already. (t · c) buidhe 17:02, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
So, are you saying that "crime of aggression" and "crime against peace" is exactly same subject? But then why did you remove content that clearly fall under definition of "crime against peace" according to the cited source with such edit summary? My very best wishes (talk) 17:21, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
They're different names for the same international crime. The Soviet invasions of 1939 and 1940 and the German-Soviet pact are already mentioned in the article, but we must not mislead readers by saying it was criminal at the time as I explained above. This article is about legal aspects, historical aspects are covered in war of aggression. (t · c) buidhe 17:30, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 00:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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5x expanded by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 22:53, 3 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Showing as high risk of copyright violation compared with this source... But the word-for-word match is the part on how "the crime of aggression is distinguished from the act of aggression, defined as follows" with its a-g points. I imagine these probably need to match precisely the original because it is a legal definition, and it is well-cited, so I think that this is fine but wanted to state that I had run the check and investigated the high probable match. Zeromonk (talk) 08:48, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To Prep 1. I agree with the reviewer that the article does have a lot of comparison with a source, but this is because the article uses quotes of legal definitions which cannot be modified or paraphrased. All instances of direct quotes are cited, and I do not think there is a copyright violation. Z1720 (talk) 00:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Definition and examples

According to definition of the term (note that I cited a scholarly source, which in term cites an international legal document), this is not only an actual war of aggression, but also a conspiracy to commit a war of aggression. But you first reverted the definition [2], and then reverted a textbook example of the crime against peace that falls under such definition [3]. I insist that the definition (or definitions) of the term must be cited as defined in scholarly RS, and that the examples from scholarly RS should also be included. That is if you insist that the "crime of aggression" and "crime against peace" are the same subject. It well could be that "crime of aggression" and "crime against peace" are actually different terms (the "conspiracy" was said specifically about the crime against peace), and therefore, your unilateral merging of these pages was incorrect and need to be fixed. My very best wishes (talk) 00:39, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Anglo–Soviet invasion of Iran

Shimbo none of the sources I consulted indicate that this event was relevant to the legal development of the crime of aggression. This crime has been committed many times, but very few of them are not mentioned in the article. Possibly the reason that Iran wasn't mentioned in these discussions is because of Eurocentrism, but nevertheless it wasn't considered important. Furthermore, per WP:NOR, we need an actual source, not just what seems obvious to you. (t · c) buidhe 01:11, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not that it "seems obvious to me" that there was an Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran during WW2, it's that there's a fully sourced article about it. I defies common sense that things that have sourced articles already need citing before they can be mentioned in another article.
I'm well aware what OR is having been contributing to Wikipedia for decades. If you insist the edit needs a cite it would seem more reasonable to add a 'citation needed' tag rather than just deleting information that you said yourself is a 'good point'.
I find it hard to believe that the sources say that a (likely unknown at the time as it would have been secret) invasion of Norway that never actually took place was an important issue during the development of the crime of aggression, while a clear and obvious act of aggression by the Allies wasn't. If that's what the sources say then okay, but I'd like you to post the relevant paragraphs. Do you have the references available?
IIRC there's something about it in Churchill by Roy Jenkins, but I don't have it to hand. I will try to dig it out.
I'm not going to get into an edit war over this, but please re-consider or start an RFC. Shimbo (talk) 18:57, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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