03:2903:29, 7 July 2019diffhist−26
Assyrian people
NO RELIABLE SOURCE states that Assyrians are "Semitic people" as a race. If so, please list them. They are a Semitic-speaking people. Not part of an unfounded "race" of Semites. Either way, them being "Semitic-speaking" also does not need mentioning in the lead as the languages are clearly written in the infobox and readers will know they are "Semites". Again, please look at the sources -- NONE state "Semitic people".
03:2403:24, 7 July 2019diffhist−1
Haplogroup R-M269
→Distribution: The content regarding Assyrians intermixing with northerners, or sharing ancient ancestry with northwestern Europeans, was also based on an article that I unfortunately lost track of and cannot find it. I'll try to look for it ASAP -- This content doesn't come out of thin air.
03:1503:15, 7 July 2019diffhist−26
Assyrian people
The term "Semitic" used to address a race of people is obsolete and is pseudoscience at best. No anthropologist takes it seriously, or utilises it, in present day. If anything, it is only used informally to differentiate Assyrians and Arabs, linguistically, from Indo-Iranian speaking neighbours. Besides, as you can see in the genetic section here, Assyrians are partially mixed with "non-Semites" as well, and are distinct from them too.
15:1315:13, 6 July 2019diffhist−54
Assyrian people
→Genetics: Actually though, on page 49 of the sourced article, it states "Secondly, Semitic-speaking four Arabic populations (Bedouins, Palestinian Arabs, Syrians and Yemenis) form a rather distinct cluster of comparative data sets which is genetically distant from Assyrians". Ergo, this statement is already sourced and described in the source per se, except it is just worded differently in here, and mostly paraphrased (mainly to avoid WP:COPYVIO).
11:4011:40, 6 July 2019diffhist+1,596
Assyrian people
→Genetics: This was based on a PDF article which had a FST study that stated Assyrians are related to the Armenians in Syunik and Karabakh - I cannot find that article anymore unfortunately. Instead of senselessly removing informative and essential content, you could have just inserted an 'citation needed' bracket. Not much research is made on Assyrians anyway. Instead of removing content, we should help each other and find sources for them.