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A fact from Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 December 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Different sources seem to suggest different answers to who lead the siege - Herod or Sosius. It likely depends whether you put more weighting to either Josephus or Cassius in your sourcing. From what I can tell, Sosius was in effect Herod's boss, and Herod's troops were also Roman legions. This does not come across in this article at all - all the glory is given to Herod, in contrast with a number of the sources linked above. I suggest a paragraph is added in the article covering the differences between the accounts of Josephus and Cassius in this regard. Oncenawhile (talk) 15:46, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Likely depends" Oncenawhile? Dio Cassius wrote a sentence about the siege, Josephus was a native who wrote two books. Feel free to find scholarly sources discussing the difference between the two accounts or giving more weight to the former, but otherwise you're just engaging in WP:OR. If you wish to suggest a paragraph about effective leadership of the siege, then do so, I'm sure you'll find plenty of secondary sources for whatever it is you so valiantly wish to say. Everything you'll find will be based on Josephus. Poliocretes (talk) 20:54, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with Poliocretes. Josephus is the authority here. His book is exhaustive. There's nothing that comes remotely close to it.--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 04:01, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I propose to make this article a BCE, as CE/BCE is the standard neutral dating system, while AD/BC is obviously Christian one. Since this article has not much to do with Christianity it should better be made BCE format.GreyShark (dibra) 13:11, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
