Wikipedia's community maintained article on World War I casualties, citing official government casualty reports from the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its noncombatant death estimate. Its strength is drawing together many national tallies into one comparable range. Its limit is that no single named historian stands behind the combined total, which the article itself states only as a range rather than a settled figure.
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Citation
AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A community edited encyclopedia article with no named author or peer review, but citing named official government casualty reports and a named reference historian. Placed at reference tier rather than higher because no single scholar stands behind its own synthesis. NotesCited for the widely reproduced range of fifteen to twenty two million combined military and civilian deaths for the First World War.
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This source names Austria directly: "France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its noncombatant death estimate."
This source names Belgium directly: "United States, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its noncombatant..."
This source names France directly: "from the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its..."
This source names Germany directly: "Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its noncombatant death estimate."
This source names Italy directly: "the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its noncombatant..."
This source names Russia directly: "Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its noncombatant death estimate."
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This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 14 claims: 8 well-attested, 6 holds.
- Wars & Conflicts, 3 claims: 2 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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