This document summarizes the chronology of edits made to the Wikipedia article on the 2020 Delhi riots and the development of a narrative portraying the riots as targeted anti-Muslim violence. It describes how one editor, DBigXRay, was the main contributor who framed the riots as a "pogrom" and "mass murder" directed at Muslims, removing any mentions of violence by Muslim rioters. While other editors attempted to add more neutral or alternative perspectives, DBigXRay reversed those edits and strengthened the portrayal of Muslims as the primary victims by citing selective news sources. There was ongoing debate between editors on how to characterize the violence and whether the article's framing met Wikipedia's neutrality standards.
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1. #DelhiRiots - Wiki Article
Chronology of Building the Muslim narrative in Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_East_Delhi_riots
https://www.opindia.com/2020/02/delhi-riots-wikipedia-article-biased-anti-
hindu/
2. DBigXRay – root author of wiki falsehood
• 24th , 25th Feb Updates
• Created the delhi riots using the wiki template from Guj 2002 riots
• Main contributor for article with Pogrom narrative
• Mohammad Shahrukh added was another wiki user deliberately removed by DBigXRay
• DBigXray brings in Kapil Mishra calls Violent protests as violent clashes and tags this as a pogrom ,
massmurder
• “A person later identified as Mohammed Shahrukh shot 8 rounds during the violence” was added by a wiki
user (120.57.21.235)
• Consequently DbigXray brings in Chapter “ Threats by KapilMishra”
• Another wiki (203.192.83.208) user adds Waris Pathan provocative speech, removed by DBigXRay
• Another wiki user(115.97.123.155 ) corrects the non violent protest as Violent protest, but not taken in by
DBigXray
• Adûnâi joins to add more anti-bjp references only
• Now DBigXray shifts the goal post of Kapil Mishra speech from ShaheenBagh protesters to Anti-CAA Protesters
• DBigXray extends the goal post by bringing in all articles referring NPR, NRC police brutality etc.
• DBigXray now adds BBC references to shame india during Trump visit
• Now Jaffrabad, seelampur Maujpur reference of CAA protests gets added
• DeySubrata joins in with quint references and anti-caa blockade at Seelampur-jaffrabad
3. Narrative Fight
• Generaliized then converts clashes as “Muslim's Suffrage
• “Hindus wielding sticks and iron rods were reported to be killing any Muslims seen on the streets. Muslims have been giving flowers only to
have bullets in return.”
• Another reason violence occurred was because Trump was supporting Pakistan and its Muslims. This therefore angered many Hindus and they
decided to kill Muslims
• On 24 February, many clashes occurred in which Hindus were seen killing, torturing ,and sexually harassing women. A very viral video was
posted on Twitter which included an Indian Hindu climbing up a Masjid, destroying it's loudspeakers, and replacing an Islamic Flag with the
[[Indian flag]].<ref>https://twitter.com/ThePeopleOfIN/status/1232283307867607040</ref> Another very viral video was also posted which
included Indian Hindus carrying a naked Muslim around and beating him up. He was tortured and beaten up a lot
• DBigXRay removes comments by Generaliized with a revert
• Aman.kumar.goel - Per clear consensus on Talk:North_East_Delhi_riots#Removing_Kapil_Mishra_photo)
• Dey Subrata adds it back
• Editormallu adds muslim rioters attack on journalists
• Taukeerppw removes it
• Editormallu reverts it and adds opindia reference
• DBigXray steps and modifies again 42 people killed to 42 people , most of whom were muslims killed and removes all Editormallu video attack
on journalists by Muslim rioters as Opindia is not a reliable source, please do not add it to Wikipedia articles anywhere
• Big conversation where is source reference for mostly muslims killed and DBigXray quotes
• Wire.in , cbsnews and firstpost as the source
• InedibleHulk fights to remove the mostly muslims killed reference
4. Narrative standardized using CBS
DBigXray gets it back reasoning WP:BURDEN has been met, enough sources stating the text.
please stop this whitewashing
Source : https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-delhi-riots-leave-35-dead-as-india-balks-at-
us-reaction-to-the-religious-violence/ written by ARSHAD R. ZARGAR
5. DBigXRay history
• Has a history on https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Wikipedia-user-
DBigXray-paid-to-push-anti-BJP-material-on-Wikipedia