SpidErxD

November 2017

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• You can't use neews magazines and blogs and so on to cite a fact like that. They are on the thin margin of WP:RS in this case, and the sources cited already are incomparably more sound academically. Thanks for listening.  Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 12:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

@SpidErxD: The three sources you cited all take the 3 million figure from one book, Mukerjee 2011. You could cite that source, but before doing so please consider Talk:Bengal famine of 1943#Estimates and make your case there.

Mukerjee 2011 mentions all of the estimates outlined in footnote C. She attributes the 3 million figure to Sen 1981, who estimated between 2.7 and 3 million. The talk page argument is that in the subsequent years historians have uncovered sources that weren't available to Sen and applied different models to them, resulting in better estimates. According to Ó Gráda 2007, "today the scholarly consensus is about 2.1 million". Sen hasn't disputed the newer consensus. Some academic would have to dispute the 2.1 million figure, and with the strength of their argument persuade the academic community to shift its consensus, for Wikipedia to go with a different figure. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:22, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

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