Talk:World War II casualties/Archives/2019/November
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Dead links
The URL is dead: “The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Annual Report 2014–2015[1] is the source of the military dead for the British Empire.” Mazarin07 (talk) 20:08, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Jewish deaths: Yad Vashem's database
I updated the number of records in Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names to from four to 4.8 million. Unfortunately, the site is not absolutely clear on the number of entries; sometimes it's stated as 4.6 million. Given the nature of such a project, it is reasonable to think that the highest figure is the most recent; more importantly, the FAQ page added as a reference is the only place where a date is given (4.8 million at the beginning of 2019). The Database collects biographical information from survivors and their relatives (the Name Recovery Project) and examines historical documents. I considered mentioning that many entries contain details such as date and place of birth, pre-war place of residence, professions, names of relatives, circumstances of death, and photographs, since that should inspire confidence in the accuracy of the project, but, given the scope of the article, I didn't include that. I also didn't mention that the Database contains "hundreds of thousands" of records for people whose ultimate fate is unknown. Roches (talk) 04:07, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Faulty metadata? Serious problem: Google Home uses image caption as response
My 11-year-old asked Google Home this morning how many people were killed in the second world war. Google Home answered "According to Wikipedia, over 6,000 American and Japanese troops died in the fighting." This is a TERRIBLE answer. The sentence is taken from the caption to the third image on this Wikipedia page, and obviously taken out of context in a bad way. A friend tried asking the same question and gets this answer about 20% of the time, other times more or lesscorrect answers from this article and elsewhere. I get it every time I ask. Could Google Home be using this phrase from the caption because of some metadata or formatting in the caption? How would Google Home be choosing that particular phrase for its answer rather than the correct answers, and is there a way to fix this? Here is a video of Google Home giving this answer. --Lijil (talk) 17:40, 27 November 2019 (UTC)