User talk:Arrow Trail

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Poor-quality sources on Hun bow
I'm sorry to say that I have removed all of your recent contribution, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Huns&action=historysubmit&diff=321493818&oldid=321343514. I don't know where you got it from but almost none of it is correct and very little seems to have come from Wikipedia:Reliable sources.

Just to outline some of the problems, the Huns may often have used asymmetric bows but they were probably not the only ones. There is no evidence on exactly how strong their bows were nor how they compared with those of the Germanic tribes, nor that whatever degree of asymmetry led to any problems with accuracy. These is no evidence that the Hungarian bow was any better or more accurate. The Huns may well have spoken a Turkic language but evidence is scanty and in any case composite bows are a widespread tradition whose details can cross linguistic and ethnic boundaries; the Huns did not introduce them to Europe or the Middle East. The nineteenth-century Turkish flight bow is indeed improved as a flight bow, but it isn't necessarily better for war or hunting. The modern Mongol bow is derived from the Manchu tradition rather than that of Genghis Khan's forces, and again the idea of "improved form" would need definition and discussion from reliable sources which simply don't exist. Finally, the quotation from Norse is mis-spelled.

The whole thing reads like a mishmash of misinterpreted and over-interpreted tertiary sources, sources that have happily invented to fill in the gaps in the evidence and their own knowledge. I have inserted a brief comment, derived from reviews by recognised experts. Richard Keatinge (talk) 09:39, 23 October 2009 (UTC)