::Thanks, no, what I'm asking is how to deal with those who will continue to want to tear down the article by finding ways to end-around Afd. Sources only matter if the people involved are willing to read them honestly (which has already proven not to be the case). And I cannot prevent individuals from continuing to put in tags and/or making semi-malicious edits (so far the malicious edits have been minimal but I expect if I try to push the article forward that will change). Ideally I would like to settle the direction of the article before investing too much more time on looking up page numbers in the references and so forth (i.e. make good use of my time). The other controversial article I took to GA was a nightmare (I took several others to GA and FA). It didn't matter how many references I put in that other article. I tried to find reasonable compromises but ultimately it was a war of attrition and the opposing factions simply got tired of fighting. I never felt good about how that ended but at least the article did go to GA. 
 ::In this case, though, I don't think that there will ever be an end to people who need to see this topic as invalid, either because of religious persuasions or for nationalistic reasons. But honestly I think the topic is an important one, which is why I was willing to delve into it knowing that it would be controversial.