Talk:Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria

The Peerage web site by Darryl Lundy
Peerage.com is not a reliable source. However Darryl Lundy usually cites his sources and they are often but not always reliable sources. There is no evidence that Lundy is not honest so it is possible to use his site under WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT providing the site that he cites is a Wikipedia reliable site. However with this article we have a problem:

The first inline is a Lundy article which relies on one reliable source and two unreliable sources (one of them Wikipedia! and the other an email): The only fact that is supported by [S16] is "Karl Prinz von Bayern", the rest either relies on the reliable source in conjunction with this article or the email, or on this article or the email.
 * [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 97. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
 * [S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
 * [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty."
 * [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty."

The second inline citation is a Lundy article that relies on two of the same sources as the first one: Unfortunately the only fact that is not supported by both citations or the unreliable one is "She gained the title of Baronin von Bayerstorff".
 * [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 97. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
 * [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty."
 * [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty."

The third inline citation is to the three children linked from the Lundy page above "Marie-Anne-Sophie Baronin von Bayerstorff" all rely on the unreliable source of the previously mentioned email.
 * [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty.
 * [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty.

The fourth inline citation is to the husband of one of the daughters of "Marie-Anne-Sophie Baronin von Bayerstorff" and like the third citation only cites the unreliable source of the previously mentioned email:
 * [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty.
 * [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty.

The result is that most of this article is built on sand. The only two facts that can be stated with reliable sources to back them up is None of the rest of the information in the article has its origins in a reliable source. So I am going to remove the article and replace it with text copied from The American Cyclopædia (1879) -- PBS (talk) 21:09, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Karl Prinz von Bayern (Louda & MacLagan 1999, Table 97)
 * 2) [Marie-Anne-Sophie Baronin von Bayerstorff] gained the title of Baronin von Bayerstorff.(Louda & MacLagan 1999, Table 97)

Kaiser Kitkat (talk) 16:56, 16 October 2019 (UTC)