Talk:Siege of Nishapur (1221)

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Reviewer comment

Thus new article duplicates material already covered at Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire. There isn’t enough material about thus siege specifically to support a separate stand-alone article. Mccapra (talk) 17:49, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shadow. 547 states "Fuck off theres more information on this article than the mongol invasion of khwarazmian empire article it doesnt even mention much about nishapur ". Let's investigate this claim.

In this version of the article, there are three paragraphs about the background, siege, and aftermath (the first paragraph of the "Aftermath" section—the rest of the section deals with centuries-later events). However, the three citations present do not verify what they claim to: there is nothing on page 45 of Jackson 2005 about the Khwarazmian Empire, there is nothing on p. 156 of Man 2004 about Genghis Khan or Nishapur, and much of the "Aftermath" paragraph is not verified by this website.

So the actual amount of sourced information in this article about the "Siege of Nishapur" is: "their skulls were reputedly piled in pyramids by the Mongols. Women, Infants, children, and even cats and dogs were among the beheaded. It is estimated that potentially up to 1,747,000 people were slaughtered", or 33 words.

By comparison, we see in Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire#Khorasan that two lengthy, fully sourced paragraphs are entirely devoted to the the background, siege, and aftermath at Nishapur. The wordcount here (from "Tolui had meanwhile..." to "...subsequently ploughed over.") is 291 words.

So to put it another way, there is almost nine times as much information in Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire than there ever has been at this "article". And yet 291 words is not enough for anything more than a stub, much better incorporated into the larger article. Well, that is, if youre goal is not creating "your" articles, lying about what's in them, forbidding others to work on them, and writing uncivil rants. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:47, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]