Talk:October 2009 Lahore attacks

If the focus of the attacks is on government personnel and not on the general populous, it's not really terrorism. The group may themselves be terrorists, and several bystanders were reportedly killed, but the goal of the attacks was to demoralize the government, not the general population. The word terrorism should be used properly, and not white washed onto any kind of attack. That gets done far too much today and is certainly biased when misapplied. --66.188.84.217 (talk) 13:59, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I would agree for the most part. We should probably use the word "militant" in place of the more subjective and emotive term "terrorist." This would adhere to WP:Terrorist. --RDavi404 (talk) 14:17, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. Terrorism is the use or threat of force against civilian targets, which this wasn't. Replaced with 'militant' which is a factual NPOV descriptor. Cynical (talk) 16:14, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree, this can't be held as terrorist incidents. Government installations were mainly hit. Although there was some collateral damage.--yousaf465' 02:09, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

I am wondering what people's opinions are about merging this article with 2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack. Both attacks happened within a week of each other and seem to have been carried out by the same group, they could be put into one article called something like 'October 2009 Pakistan attacks.' Caleb Jon^talk 04:42, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm against all merging of any kind because merging is how Wikipedia is manipulated stealthily. After a page merges into another it can be reduced in detail, size, and scope or deleted all together with much less fuss and often with little notice. --66.188.84.217 (talk) 12:55, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Ok, it has been over a week since I first posted this and the only response has been negative, so I will not be merging them. Caleb Jon^talk 01:30, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

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