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I can't find any reference to that in the text of Guns, Germs and Steel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:EFC0:A9:D48A:1435:4787:5BB5 (talk) 04:50, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Neither can I. Moreover, the reference to a "counter-progressive Polish state" surprises me, as Poland–Lithuania (which is evidently meant) is actually widely considered to have been fairly progressive for its day, certainly more so than the Russian Empire, for example. I have tagged the relevant passage – I note that no page number is given, either, which would have been helpful. The user who originally contributed the passage is, unfortunately, not active on Wikipedia anymore. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 01:19, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The entire section on "State prohibition of new technology" seems unreferenced. Anyway, in Poland there was no prohibition of new technology, just the economy was focused on the agricultural sector rather than manufcatures. See also Vistula trade for context. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:48, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This might be translated into further languages, especially Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Arabic. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 01:10, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ricardo Duchesne material and references have recently been removed, see diff. Jonpatterns (talk) 16:55, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article is presently flagged as a long article (since November 2016). With one exception, this doesn't strike me as an article in need of drastic remedy (amputation by threshing machine / trash compactor / borg wedding).

On my scan, only the section "Culture" has the immediate appearance of being an inaccessible wall of text. I don't see how it justifies a sub-article. Perhaps sub headings? — MaxEnt 04:21, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The article isn't particularly long. The Culture section does get a bit fuzzy in the last two paragraphs, though. Kanguole 13:11, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Several sources cite "Huntington 1996" as the origin of the phrase. The only work Huntington seems to have written in that year is the Clash of civilizations, and the term does not appear in that book. Can anyone track down another reference to Huntington? Otherwise, this article and the book that its cites appear to be wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xenomorphologist (talk • contribs) 17:08, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits are mostly in conflict with mainstream research by a a number of leading authorities.Phmoreno (talk) 17:00, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]