Talk:Black Death in Poland

How DYK?
How did this get to DYK with so many poorly and inconsistently formatted references? But it is an interesting article.70.161.8.90 (talk) 23:10, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

How did this get published?
Why is this article seemingly so poorly written? After reading the annals written by Jan Długosz himself, it is said that the black death reached Poland in 1349, not 1351, also many Polish people apparently died from this and upwards of 20,000 in Crakow (Kraków). This article seems very misleading and many of the sources cited are not scholarly. I can't confirm whether the lack of decrease in shares of pollen is even true because the link sends me to an rudimentary web article which does not redirect to a scholarly paper. I also can't confirm whether Casimir III actually did close the borders or not because the source given is terrible.

Also the wording needs to be changed to "Poland was still significantly impacted by the Black death, but had less deaths comparatively to the rest of Europe", because I was falsely lead to believe that Poland had almost no deaths, when now I realize almost a quarter of their population was lost.

My recommendation is please find better sources and change the page to be more honest. I might do some of this myself but someone else should try to figure out the pollen claim because I don't know where to look for that. 2607:FEA8:2901:C00:F0C8:C92A:9CA5:C47D (talk) 18:43, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * You seem to base your opinion on a primary source (and one that was written a hundred years after the events it describes) but editors' interpretations of primary sources have no bearing - see WP:PRIMARY. The article seems consistent with the mainstream scholarly view of the impact on Poland - see this. If you have alternative scholarly sources please cite them so they can be reviewed. DeCausa (talk) 20:14, 16 March 2024 (UTC)