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This article contains misinformation and very serious accusations.
The article describes an incident such as "Ottoman troops raping rebellious Bulgarian women." However, it doesn't mention any sanctions imposed on these soldiers.
Please note:
Rape and similar acts were forbidden in the Ottoman Empire and never had any legal exceptions. Even if such an incident had occurred, the author should have mentioned the sanctions imposed on those soldiers. A person reading this article who lacks knowledge of Ottoman history is likely to develop misconceptions about the Ottomans. Murat Barış Baksi (talk) 10:58, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone with a knowledge of history in general derived from historiography rather than recent Turkish-nationalist propaganda will be fully aware that, with more or less every empire, during every time period, and with occupational troops more generally, rape has been a serious enough problem that it has frequently been seen as necessary to prohibit and/or legislate against it. It seems safe to assume that the Ottomans did the same, for the same reasons: i.e. they forbade rape because acts of rape had in fact been occurring. Furthermore, the text in question is a caption to an illustration: Konstantin Makovsky's The Bulgarian martyresses, painted in 1877, around the start of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). And frankly, if you want to discuss the behaviour of Ottoman troops, you have picked a poor place and time to do so, given the well-documented atrocities that occurred. They were not alone in this, needless to say (their opponents also carried out well-documented atrocities), but claims of innocence are frankly ridiculous. AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:34, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi there, I would like to contact you in regards to adressing that any unwanted physical contact is rape. The old world definition of it states this to keep people from touching eachother because it is an act of rape to touch an unwilling victim. Regardless if the contact is sexual. The context of this page describes rape as being sexual in many contexts but, the true definition is more broad to unwanted contact which is a sexual assault in any regard either way. This definitive meaning has peoples thoughts misconstrued as to what they are allowed to do to others. it's becoming blatant that these old world defined words having their meanings tuned to appropriate others cpaabilities to injure people. Such is the word molest also. They think molest is only sexual when in actuality any form of repeat unwanted contact is a molest. This needs to be more well known with people of the world as it creates a safer living and enviormentfor all asoriginal intended by the defining legal meanings of these words to begin with. LackofaNoun (talk) 12:59, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The legal defining definition doesn't entirely involve sexual conduct it can mean drugging a person to coerce them into actions it also means to take property of nother against their will both of which are not generalized or stated at all amidst the wiki page which leads English speaking people to commiting acts of such without thinking they are as abusive as the above offenses in which they truly are. Any unwanted contact of ones belongings orthemselves from another constitutes a rape. This need be adressed more clear on the page to broaden the knowledge to the abuse of it. It's very degrading for every language in the world to have and share those definitive meanings except for in English where people over the ages have misconstrued the words to make the English speaking people jokes of themselves for doing so. I suggest broadening the terminology to unwanted contact of a person and thei belongings as the original context of the word orignates from the Latin word Rapere which meant abuse of oneself or belongings even theft thereof. ~2026-14620-43 (talk) 15:07, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia isn't the one who decides the definition. We follow the generally accepted usage of terms in secondary sources. GMGtalk18:09, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Even in legal terms it's descreibed a rape when someone forces anything on someone under the influence which is the terminology of it used today and broadened. It's not only sexually explicit. It's used legally today in court cases where someone under the influence of a drug or alchohol or signs something while they aren't mentally capable. This usage extends to so to say having someone not mentally cpable sign a will with alterations they weren't mentally capable of. This is the usage and terminology used today. It's being foreshadowed by people that have ill intent towards the populace to cause more news stories and accidents overall entertainment at value of illiteracy,. ~2026-14590-40 (talk) 20:06, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
What I would like done is the opening statement on the page to be changed and the overall directive of the page focused more toward unwilling victims being abused of themselves or things. The origin terminology of Latin is ignored on the page with no reference to it's original source, which was the term "rapere" which, in Latin means "to seize or snatch". The word "rape": Is unwanted/unknnowing touch of another or their belongings and influence to deceive them out of and/or against their knowing/unknowing will. People today usually disregard how abusive it is to really touch another or their belongings without their knowledge. Definitive terminology written by scholars who designed these words to represent offenses being manipulated and degraded to allow abuse to seem less offensive for entertainment to occur. ~2026-15285-92 (talk) 09:12, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
In truth the same can be said for the word molest also. Which in many languages besides English at least 14 shares the same definition with harass. I would like that page appropriated around the same as the rape page. The extremes of rape and molest are that heinous as are the acts carried out and the origin terminology of the actions being from Latin. Latin designed these words so people wouldn't harm eachother with that intent and these words need to be adressed as they were written by the scholars who wrote them not a bunch of people trying to get away with legal proceedings. ~2026-15285-92 (talk) 09:16, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Semi-protected edit request: Militias and rape
The section stating that rape is done as an act of male bonding either a) needs a source to back up the claim, or b) is misrepresenting source 71 which is discussing militants using rape as a means of bonding and not men as a whole. If it is the latter, the claim in the current article is overbroad and needs to be revised.
On the other hand, the statement that only rebel groups with forced conscriptions is too narrow a representation of the source, as the claim applied to military groups who use forced conscription as a whole. The actions of commanders are also narrowly understood, as they not only encourage but in cases passively allow it to happen, the current article only notes the former. JeanJohnJones (talk) 00:17, 18 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
As per the first sentence of what I added, there should be additional sources attached to the claim, rather than the lone source which included claims made in the articles you provided but not the source itself. All I am requesting is an edit to properly source the claim, as to increase the reliability of the article. JeanJohnJones (talk) 17:58, 18 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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The redirect Digital rape has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 21 § Digital rape until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 22:55, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please detail the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 14:56, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
