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Article milestones Date Process Result March 29, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted March 31, 2014 Peer review Reviewed
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The little kid with the stripes pajamas and the person lying with long black trousers on this picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Dead_woman_child-My_Lai.jpg are clearly the same as on this picture, still alive: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/My_Lai_massacre_woman_and_children.jpg 2A0C:5A84:9508:1500:4093:E83D:38C6:829E (talk) 10:57, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why the use of dmy dates in this article, and the note to do so specifically? Its topic is overwhelmingly about the U.S., for which I thought Wikipedia always recommended mdy format. PacificBoy (talk) 01:09, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The My Lai massacre was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968... Photograph credit: Ronald L. Haeberle Recently featured: Archive More featured pictures

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 09:51, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have never edited Wikipedia, so I will leave this to people with knowledge of how this works.

The article states: "Howard Callaway, Secretary of the Army, was quoted in The New York Times in 1976 as stating that Calley's sentence was reduced because Calley honestly believed that what he did was a part of his orders—a rationale that contradicts the standards set at Nuremberg and Tokyo, where following orders was not a defense for committing war crimes."

Citation 105 is also attached to the quote: "Some have argued that the outcome of the Mỹ Lai courts-martial failed to uphold the laws of war established in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals." a few paragraphs prior.

Citation 105 leads to this New York Times article from 1976, entitled "Learning From My Lai: A Proposal on War Crimes": https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/02/archives/learning-from-my-lai-a-proposal-on-war-crimes.html

This article makes no reference to the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, only alluding to Nuremberg. It does not quote anyone named Howard Callaway, and does not reference Calley's reduction in sentence. Also, saying the article "argues that the court martial fails to uphold standards set at Nuremberg" is a bit of stretch, you can definitely infer this position from the article, but the article seems to be arguing for institutional changes. ~2026-14721-7 (talk) 23:26, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]