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The article was created from 1911 EB write-up, which serves as the starting point for so many articles. In the case of this particular topic a lot of discoveries have been made since then. The topics also are not very clear. For example, what documentation? It can't mean biographies as there are plenty of those. What, does it mean inscriptions? What is the assertion looking for, a birth certificate? The underlying problem is variability in the assertions of the extensive sources. I see this as a total rewrite. Nothing is being said here. We need to say something. Too sparse, too general, too devoid of content, too full of vague and undefined terms.Botteville (talk) 18:51, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]