Untrue Wikipedia statements need correction Wikipedia on Nicolaus Copernicus now states Born 19 February 1473 1473 02 19 Toru Thorn Royal Prussia Poland Died 24 May 1543 aged 70 Frombork Frauenburg Warmia Poland The city of birth was Thorn Thorun in the country of Prussia It was not Poland even though western Prussia or Prussia Occidentalis or Royal Prussia or West Prussia was for a time protectorate of the crown of Poland Lithuania and Wikipedia also has much wrong onesided POV enforced by a large group of Polish speakers in those articles The part of Prussia where Nicolaus Copernicus lived worked and died was the Prince Bishopric of Ermland Latin Warmia and the name of the city where Copernicus lived for most years and where he died was Frauenburg in Ermland in Prussia Again it was not Poland Prussians in all parts of Prussia western eastern and Ermland held continous PRUSSIAN INDIGENAT Prussian citizenship NOT POLISH Wikipedia article repeatedly disregard International Law in articles about history and people from east of the Oder Neisse line making everything and everyone east of the Oder Neisse appear as Polish Wikipedia mainly reflects Polish POV most of it from books from Communist Polish Historiography POV The irony is that honest Polish writers distance themselves from the Communist Polish Historiography yet Wikipedia has become Communist Polish POV s greatest perpetrator and now spreads it as universal knowledge all across the globe by multiple mirrors An Observer 70 133 67 155