I think we’re talking past each other a bit. My concern is that your personal assessment of whether the tax is "significant" is being treated as settled fact. That’s the same kind of issue I flagged earlier. Reasonable people can disagree here without that disagreement implying a "pathological failure."

I hear you that this is about finding sources, but even perfect coverage of primary sources wouldn’t remove the need for judgment. We’d still have to define what counts as "Georgian," "inspired by George," and "significant" as a tax. Those are contestable choices. What you have is a thesis about the evidence—potentially a strong one—but it isn’t an indisputable fact.

On sourcing: I’m aware ChatGPT won’t surface every primary source, and I’m not sure that should be the default goal. In many fields (e.g., cancer research), the right starting point is literature reviews and meta-analyses, not raw studies. History may differ, but many primary sources live offline in archives, and the digitized subset may not be representative. Over-weighting primary materials in that context can mislead. Primary sources also demand more expertise to interpret than secondary syntheses—Wikipedia itself cautions about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wikiWikipedia:Identifying_and_using...

To be clear, I’m not saying you’re wrong about the tax or that Silagi is right. I’m saying that framing this as a “pathological failure” overstates the situation. What I see is a legitimate disagreement among competent researchers.