Talk:List of state leaders in the 1st century BC

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Merge from years

I'm currently merging the List of state leaders in 1 BC - List of state leaders in 100 BC articles together here. They heavily overlap, and given that state leaders in most areas didn't change all that often in the 1st century BC, this will make it easier for people to navigate to the information they're looking for. I'm not using a typical merge template because it would get messy, but attribution information for the editors who edited the previous articles can be found at the various original pages. ~ Rob^Talk 16:06, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for working on this. tahc ^chat 18:13, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Roman Prefects

Since Roman Prefect are regional governers, I think they should be omited (unless maybe we plan to add all such regional governers). They we would also have to consider regional governers for other empires, etc. What do you think of omited them and maybe just anding a link to such things elsewhere? tahc ^chat 18:13, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

@Tahc: I agree with omitting them. What's your opinion on consuls during the Empire? They were not the highest office in the Empire, so it may be worth omitting them or just linking to List_of_Roman_consuls#1st_century_BC. I've been just blindly merging from the individual articles with intent to worry about trimming this down at a later date, so feel free to do some of the trimming as I go. ~ Rob^Talk 18:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

I think consuls should be omited for the Roman Empire, but listed for the Roman Republic. I might also omit them from the dictatorship of Julius Caesar but don't feel very strongly either way on that. tahc ^chat 18:26, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

I agree. I'll keep them up until the establishment of the Empire in 27 BC for now. We can always revisit the period of Caesar's dictatorship and transition into the Empire following his assassination at a later time. ~ Rob^Talk 18:29, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

@Tahc: I'm leaning toward only listing Julius Caesar during his dictatorship and the triumvirs during the Second Triumvirate. The consuls were clearly not the heads of state during this time, even though it was still a high-ranking position. Any issues with that? ~ Rob^Talk 21:44, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

No, that all sounds good. tahc ^chat 23:08, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Formatting merge

Check out the formatting for List of state leaders in 49 BC onward (or backward, I suppose). How should we merge these? ~ Rob^Talk 22:06, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

If you want to merge 100-49 BC into one page, then I can change the wiki-table format to the list format, and then add it to List of state leaders in the 1st century BC when it is ready.

Otherwise, if you know how to use Excel, wiki tables can be converted to Excel and Excel to wiki tables. This how I may edit it. tahc ^chat 23:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Would it be possible for you to convert this article to the table format when it's convenient for you? I kind of like it better. Then I can just merge everything here. I'm not a huge fan of creating a temporary page, since that would be kind of ugly to have in the mainspace. It appears that everything is in tables for the rest of the BC articles, so it also makes sense to keep all the BC articles formatted the same. We can keep the list format for AD, since I doubt the effort to convert to tables is worth it. ~ Rob^Talk 00:37, 19 March 2016 (UTC)