Talk:Rupea Fortress

Unsourced, full with mistakes and questionable data

The article has clearly been translated from the Romanian Wiki, without much care for providing reliable sources according to the enWiki requirements. Some links are unavailable or dead by now, possibly the better ones. Most of the material is based on a "Ghid" (see "ref name=ghid"), which clearly states "sursa text: Wikipedia", i.e. "the source of this text is Wikipedia". Circular "reference", thus useless and unacceptable. Therefore, the entire article is liable to be removed. There are countless mistakes and inaccuracies (I have started removing some), questionable statements, mistranslated terms, illogical statements, and so forth. It should be rewritten from scratch, once acceptable and accessible sources have been found. Too bad that the 1900 book by Heinrich Müller is only available in snippets ("Die Repser Burg").

Nota bene: a citadel is a separate castle-like fortification standing next to a walled city and serving as a residence and last refuge for the ruler or governor and his garrison. Rupea has never in its history been a walled (fortified) city. One might argue about the merits of the term "Rupea Castle" (in 1357 it was a royal castle, but who did actually live in it?), but never about a "Rupea Citadel". Romanian vernacular often mixes up "cetate" (fortress) with "citadelă" (citadel), this is probably the root of the wrongly used term. Arminden (talk) 00:11, 19 July 2021 (UTC)