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Thank you. I understand that I am a novice when it comes to editing and I don't have much experience here. I do want to state, provided that this talk topic is about the recent series of questions I have over Bryan Mark Riggs book Japans Holocaust, that I am merely asking questions here. I'm not trying to deny anything so much as asking the right questions to put things into perspective. Regardless of ones intentions objectivity seems to be dead and buried and is hard to achieve these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Japanese_war_crimes#Is_Japans_Holocaust_by_Mark_Bryan_Riggs_really_worth_being_titlized_in_the_introduction_paragraphs_for_this_page?

Undeadmerc3 (talk) 19:41, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One other thing I should mentioned(I hate to double post, but it's needed here) is that I have tried on many talk pages over the question marks over Riggs methods, most notable being the main page for Japanese War Crimes. Regrettably very few discuss this which leave me in a hard spot. Undeadmerc3 (talk) 18:31, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi--I don't know why you are emailing me with lengthy messages about how many people were killed or whatever. That's material for the article talk page, but no one is going to read such lengthy messages. Drmies (talk) 18:14, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for that. IronMaidenRocks made the request that I move the conversation off his talk page so i've figure that I honor his request. Yes, many of the messages i've been leaving are rather lengthy but i've been trying to exchange diolog on the matter of government policy vs total dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:IronMaidenRocks

The Wikipedia article for the victims of Nazi Germany focuses on the former and there are indeed alot of question marks and signs that Riggs and Mark Felton both rely on the total dead estimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Nazi_Germany

As i've mentioned before on IronMaidenRocks talk page, even Felton mentions(hinting his estimate is total dead) that:

While Allied soldiers were not blameless when it came to the mistreatment and, yes, occasional murder of captured enemy combatants and civilians, such infrequent events pale in comparison to the sheer magnitude and intentional brutality of Japan’s World War II crimes against humanity. Estimates of the number of people killed by Japanese military forces between the mid- 1930s and 1945 range as high as 30 million, the vast majority of whom were noncombatants.

https://www.historynet.com/a-culture-of-cruelty/

With the case of Mark Feltons estimate, I normally look up to Felton himself, but as Dogsrcool420 mentioned on the talk page Feltons book(which is mentioned on the page for Japanese War Crimes as a source for the 30 million estimate) doesn't cite where it comes from. I even got in touch with the people who made the book that Felton was involved in that included the estimate. They sent me a copy and it doesn't say where if from or how it came to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Japanese_war_crimes#Fatalities

There's more to my argument, but since my email was very long i'd rather not drag this on. I myself sometimes tend to be quite a chatterbox when it comes to messages and emails. Undeadmerc3 (talk) 18:29, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]