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A fact from Surdulica massacre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 February 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Surdulica massacre took the lives of 2,000–3,000 people?
The background of that event was not the action of Gavrilo Princip in Bosna, but Bulgarian nationalism and the mixed ethnic sentiments of that area, as well the activity of Kosta Pećanac and especially the Toplica insurrection and its consequences. Jingiby (talk) 05:27, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The facts in this article are totally twisted. They are based on interviews of someone William A. Drayton who supposed to be a writer, but in fact is a businessman who fought on serbian side. These interviews are in his diary which is seen by nobody. For the sake of credibility the link in the article opens the page of William Drayton (December 30, 1776 – May 24, 1846) - totally different person who lived 100 years ago. D0ndudat (talk) 13:46, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am glad that as a first step to deny all the false statements in this article, a link to article about the writer William Drayton (1776-1846) was removed. Now at least the authors use as sources people living at the time of these events. That doesn't mean the truth is not raped. D0ndudat (talk) 12:41, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well, thank you for trying to improve the article but I am gonna ask you to assume good faith. I could not find the 2,000–4,000 figure in the sources. Mitrović gave the figure 2,000–3,000. Jovana Lazić also gave the same figure in the book The Routledge History of the First World War (ISBN9781032426020), p. 285. The dates in the article also appear to be wrong, since Lazić wrote that it happened between November 1915 and February 1916, and Mitrović also wrote that it happened in the first months of occupation. The pictures at Wikimedia Commons should also be checked. StephenMacky1 (talk) 14:07, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The bones and skulls photo is taken from here: Photos that shook the world - from Maximillien de Lafayette, page 38. It is named "Skulls and bones of Serbs, victims of the Austro-Hungarian occupation". It is taken from the Album of the War of 1914-1918 (Ratni Album 1914-1918) by Andra Popović, Belgrade 1926. No word of Bulgarians. D0ndudat (talk) 14:37, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
