Talk:Mayerling Incident
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Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?, The Chronicle, 27 October 2006, comments on this page:
'But errors on Wikipedia are not confined to its margins. C. Earl Edmondson, a professor of history at Davidson College, recalls visiting Wikipedia's article on the Mayerling Incident, a 19th-century scandal in which Rudolf, crown prince of Austria, died along with his mistress under mysterious circumstances. European historians consider the incident important. But Wikipedia's treatment of it, says Mr. Edmondson, is troubling.
"Much of the article seems to be valid, even if not comprehensive," he says, but its concluding comments — including a passage that cites the incident as "the end of the ancient house of Habsburg" — are "atrociously erroneous." (In fact, the Habsburgs were deposed in 1918. And Wikipedia's article on the royal house makes no mention of the Mayerling Incident.)'
[edit] What a mess
Ah, I leave this article feeling that I know less about Mayerling than I did when I started. Why is it that topics like this always attract the nuts? What is needed is a good narrative of what historians generally believe happened. There have surely been numerous accounts of what happened that could be used. john k 00:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
There's a good account here. john k 00:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
