Disputed Statements

Vlad the Impaler, Historical Figures

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Death Year

Currently States 1476

Wikipedia's infobox gives his death as December 1476 or January 1477; this uses the earlier month's year.

Source Vlad the Impaler (Wikipedia) tier 2

War of the Third Coalition, Events

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate

Currently States 62050.000000

French and allied forces' own killed, wounded or captured across the 1805-1806 campaign, per the aggregate casualty figures on record for this conflict. This is the SMALLER of two reasonable readings of the war's toll; see death-toll-max for the combined-both-sides figure.

Source Wikipedia: War of the Third Coalition tier 2

War of the Third Coalition, Events

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Death Toll, High Estimate

Currently States 222050.000000

Combined killed, wounded or captured across BOTH sides (allied forces 160,000 plus French and allied forces 62,050), the larger of two reasonable readings; see death-toll-min for the French/allied-only figure. The two numbers answer different questions (one side vs. both) rather than representing a genuine high/low disagreement about the same quantity.

Source Wikipedia: War of the Third Coalition tier 2

Wars of Alexander the Great, Events

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate

Currently States 1000000.000000

Aggregate order-of-magnitude estimate across all of Alexander's campaigns (336-323 BCE, Greece through Persia to India). Ancient battle-casualty figures (Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch) are notoriously unreliable, often propagandistic in either direction, so this figure is treated as illustrative of scale rather than a precise count.

Source Wikipedia: Wars of Alexander the Great tier 2

Wat Tyler, Historical Figures

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1341

Sources give two competing birth years, 1341 or circa 1320; both are recorded here as separate claims.

Source Wat Tyler (Wikipedia) tier 2

Wat Tyler, Historical Figures

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1320

Sources give two competing birth years, 1341 or circa 1320; both are recorded here as separate claims.

Source Wat Tyler (Wikipedia) tier 2

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Historical Figures

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1146

Wikipedia gives 1146 or 1147 as the two candidate birth years; 1146 is recorded here.

Source Wikipedia: William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke tier 2

William Shakespeare, Historical Figures

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Birth Date

Currently States 1564-04-23

Traditional date only; his actual birth date is unrecorded. The cited source gives only his baptism date, 26 April 1564, and notes 23 April as a traditional inference tied to that baptism and to Saint George's Day.

Source Wikipedia: William Shakespeare tier 2

William Wallace, Historical Figures

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1270

Wikipedia gives the birth year as c. 1270 according to tradition; no precise attested date exists.

Source Wikipedia: William Wallace tier 2

World War I, Events

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate

Currently States 15000000.000000

The lower end of commonly cited total death estimates, military and civilian combined. Estimates of military deaths alone generally run from nine to eleven million; adding an estimated six to thirteen million civilian deaths from military action, starvation, disease, exposure and massacre produces the wider fifteen to twenty two million range this entity carries. Some totals additionally fold in the 1918 to 1919 influenza pandemic, which overlapped with and was worsened by wartime conditions but is conventionally treated as a separate event.

Source World War I: Killed, Wounded, and Missing (Britannica) tier 2

World War I, Events

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Death Toll, High Estimate

Currently States 22000000.000000

The higher end of commonly cited total death estimates; Britannica's own figures of roughly 8.5 million military deaths and roughly 13 million civilian deaths sum to close to this range.

Source World War I: Killed, Wounded, and Missing (Britannica) tier 2

Xia dynasty, Polities

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Start Year

Currently States -2070

There are no contemporaneous records of the Xia dynasty and it is not mentioned in the oldest Chinese texts; some Western historians and Sinologists consider it legendary or unsubstantiated, while most Chinese archaeologists identify it with the Erlitou culture (c. 1900-1500 BC). c. 2070 BC is the traditional date given in Chinese historiography, recorded here as the traditional account, not as settled fact.

Source Wikipedia: Xia dynasty tier 2

Xia dynasty, Polities

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns End Year

Currently States -1600

Same historicity caveat as start-year: c. 1600 BC is the traditional end date, not a settled fact given the absence of contemporaneous records.

Source Wikipedia: Xia dynasty tier 2

Xia dynasty, Polities

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Government Type

Currently States Monarchy (per traditional account; historicity of the dynasty itself is contested)

Recorded as the traditional account's own government form; the dynasty's historicity itself is disputed (see start-year), so this describes what the tradition claims, not a verified fact about a verified state.

Source Wikipedia: Xia dynasty tier 2

Yohannes IV, Historical Figures

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Birth Date

Currently States 1837-07-11

Infobox gives 11 July 1837, but the article body states the date is poorly documented and given between 1831 and 1837 in the sources.

Source Wikipedia: Yohannes IV tier 2

Yohannes IV, Historical Figures

Standing Scholarly debate

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1837

Infobox gives 1837, but the article body states the date is poorly documented and given between 1831 and 1837 in the sources.

Source Wikipedia: Yohannes IV tier 2