Talk:World War II casualties/Archives/2012/May

Tajikistan

The population of Tajikistan as of 1939 census was 1.5m and 250,000 soldiers from Tajikistan participated in WWII. Of them 90,000 died.

http://ria.ru/politics/20100419/224129198.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Behruzhimo (talk • contribs) 13:39, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

This Wikipedia article should not be a collection of trivial information

There is no reliable breakout of the war dead from Africa and Asia in the armed forces of France and the UK. France and the UK have never published an ethnic breakout of their losses. A Russian Journalist published his own estimates in 2004 of losses in the colonies. He makes it clear that the figures are a general estimate. The US has never published a breakdown of war dead by place of birth or ethnic background. In fact there is no reliable breakout of the war dead by ethnic origin. We do not know how many Irish or African Americans died in the US forces, the beancounters in Washington never bothered to collect such information. I knew a German anti-Nazi who lived in the New York, he was not a US citizen when he served in the US Army Air Corps during the war. In 1944 was he a German or an American? You tell me. Another important point to consider is article size, back in Oct 2005 when I made my first edit on this page it was 12,495 bytes, today it is close to 200,000 bytes. To add anther 20,000 bytes with a collection dubious statistics by a Russian journalist makes no sense at all. This Wikipedia article should not be a collection of trivial information. I see no sense in nitpicking the numbers.

Please Comment- I am getting tired to talking to myself!--Woogie10w (talk) 00:26, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Just to clarify, which section of the article are you discussing here? Your arguments look reasonable to me. Nick-D (talk) 00:42, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I got this posted @ my talk page User talk:Woogie10w# == several topics ==. I moved the discussion here in order to include others in the discussion. I suppose the person wants to add 30 lines to the table with the military dead in all the French and British colonies and to ice the cake add 5 Mexican war dead--Woogie10w (talk) 00:52, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

OK, that's sensible. If editors want to go into this level of detail and have sources to support this, it would be better to cover it in specific articles. The availability of reliable sources on the number of people from country X who served in the military of country Y and their casualties tends to very limited, however - for instance, while it's known that many Australians enlisted directly in the British military (especially the RAF) no-one knows what the actual figure is or their casualties. Nick-D (talk) 01:24, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Serb Deaths

The page states between 320,000 and 340,000 were killed by Croatians and Bosnians however this figure is generally accepted to be much higher.

Jasenovac alone accounts for at least 500,000 with some sources claiming up to 1,000,000.

It also does not take into account the thousands murdered by the Albanian SS.

You wrote this figure is generally accepted to be much higher. by whom? The link you posted is dead. --Woogie10w (talk) 09:47, 15 May 2012 (UTC)