Talk:Toledo steel

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 5 September 2018 and 20 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ryannikki29.

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RFC Claims without references
The entire article contains redundancy, unclear meaning, no/improper citations and contains unattributed claims that are are false or misleading.

Key points:

- How does a hard and flexible weapon benefit against armor?

- "most sought after weapon"

- Implies the difficult and long process makes the swords "powerful", not specific portions of the process

- mentions having material properties of both hard and soft steel, but not what they are

- "absolute best"

- "Damascus and Tamahagane steels were created in hopes of being better than Toledo steel, but that was not the case" As far as I'm aware those steels were created independently, not with the intent of recreating/surpassing another like Bulat steel made by Anosov was.

- "Damascus steel was not at all flexible" It was historically believed to be very flexible.

Overall reads like a middle schooler's essay, and may need to be rewritten. Depurplecow (talk) 16:21, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Barely a reference on the page and some downright errors
This article reads like a bad transcription/translation of a piece of high-school level PR fluff. No references. No specifics about the qualities of the steel. Stuff that is (AFAIK) not true about Damascus steel. Twasonasummersmorn (talk) 22:57, 19 August 2019 (UTC)