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what is the purpose of this page other than citing "Civilizations, Empires, and Wars: A Quantitative History of War"?
also quality of the aforementioned work seems to be really poor, i really wonder what author meant by stating that Persia was "great power" from 1400 to 1450, did he meant Timurids? Mongol Empire lasting till 1450? Lithuania being "great power" (by whatever criteria he used) by 1450? i guess if you consider duke of Lithuania also being ruler of Poland.
Poorly done article that in its current form should be deleted. 145.14.242.173 (talk) 13:23, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes the whole article is very problematic and is nearly entirely based on one questionable source. There are many polities excluded from the article which could conceivably be regarded as "great powers". Even the concept of "medieval" feels very confused (e.g. Spanish empire and Grand Duchy of Moscow are dated in years which arguably fall outside the generally accepted definition of medieval). Tomclarke (talk) 12:14, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have twice nominated it for deletion. It failed both times. Currently I police it to make sure only sources that actually use the term of art "great power" make it in. To quote myself from 2020 (see archive 2): it has nothing to do with what we want. It is all about sources! Which I think are inadequate for the task, hence the two previous AFDs. Unfortunately, the community seems to think—because of these kinds of Google exercises—that there is a topic here. There isn't. But if the community insists on an article, I will insist on adequate sourcing for each and every item, however incoherent I think the result may be. I believe any attempt to make the article more coherent will be based on SYNTH and OR. Which may well be better than the current article! But it won't be encyclopedic, it will be a project more fit for a blog. I favour deletion. Srnec (talk) 14:50, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
