Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mongol conquests and Jerusalem
The editor who created this article, PHG, has been making multiple |POV forks, as he tries to push this idea that the Mongols conquered Jerusalem in 1299/1300.  He's been attempting to insert false information into the Knights Templar article about this, and has been edit warring for weeks at Franco-Mongol alliance.  He has ignored comments from an RfC, has refused mediation, and is now creating multiple articles such as Mongol conquest of Jerusalem and Mongol conquests and Jerusalem to push his POV. I've researched the matter extensively (checking dozens of books and peer-reviewed articles), and there was no such battle, no such "conquest." The most that could be said is that there were a few Mongol raids in the area in 1260 and 1300, during two periods of a few months before the Mongols got kicked out again by the Egyptian Mamluks.  ''Some'' scholars say that there ''may'' have been Mongol raids on Jerusalem while the Mongols were raiding other parts of the area in 1300, but they're not even in agreement on whether or not Mongols were in the city, let alone conquering it or setting up a permanent administration (which is what's needed to distinguish between a "raid" and "conquest").  What they do agree on is that Jerusalem was still in ruins from earlier battles in the Crusades, it had no walls, and even the Mamluks didn't see it as a settlement of strategic importance (see Karen Armstrong's book ''Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths''). In short, Wikipedia is already well-served by the articles History of Jerusalem (Middle Ages) and Mongol raids into Palestine.  We don't need yet another article about an event that didn't even happen
— User:Elonka, 23:43, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:POVFORK (Wikipedia:Content forking)