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 :::Alasdair, let's settle what a personal attack is. Pointing out that a user appears to be driven by a nationalist POV in his edit is not necessarily a personal attack, not it that POV is obvious from the user's edits. Calling another user ""pathetic"", and ""idiot"" and ""you're a complete idiot""  as you've recently done, that is what a personal attack is. What Ballinger says about the Foibe killings, the topic were discussing, is this ""Gigi had left in the face of partisan threats to 'finire nelle foibe', that is, to meet his end in the karstic pits (foibe) in which partisans executed several thousand persons in 1943 in Istria and in 1945 around Trieste."". Forcing out people based on ethnicity with the threat of killing them if they don't leave, that sounds pretty much like ""ethnic cleansing"". Apart from that source, there are three other valid sources all claiming it to be ethnic cleansing. Your only argument for dismissing the sources is that they are written by an Italian (the book), written in a French newspaper by an Italian journalist and written in an English newspaper by an English journalist based in Rome. The fact a journalist is writing an article based in Rome, or that he is Italian, is no reason to dismiss the source. We judge sources for their worth here, not by the ethnicity of their authors.  "