User talk:212.96.60.27

Bloody Sunday (1939)
Hello,

I've now reverted your edits at Bloody Sunday (1939) twice today, so I wanted to offer you an explanation. I understand that you may be a new user and unfamiliar with all of Wikipedia's policies. The main reason I've reverted you in both cases is that the figure you gave (7000 German dead) conflicts with the consensus given in the rest of the article, which is supported by reliable secondary sources. If you're unaware of what that means here, please see WP:RS. When reverting your first edits on this article I mentioned that this figure doesn't belong in the lead, but really, unless you can supply reliable sources for it, it doesn't belong anywhere in the article. Broszat is a very well respected historian, but even he, writing in the early 1960s, can't override more recent scholarship. Further, without a page number it's onerous for a skeptical reader to check this reference for themselves to see if he in fact argues for the number you claim. The other references you gave are both primary sources and incompletely cited. But even if properly cited, neither of them would be acceptable sources for overturning consensus casualty numbers on Wikipedia. If you have further questions about any of this, let's discuss them on the article's talk page. I hope this is helpful.

Best regards, Generalrelative (talk) 22:30, 27 July 2020 (UTC)