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Ian.thomson (talk) 14:52, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Zeus

Thank you for not omitting what was taught by Plato. That´s the least we can do to honour those who first tried to now and to teach us about the nature of the gods.

About the summary of site policies - they are fair. However,

-"Always cite a source for any new information": Although I admit my editings weren´t properly announced, nonetheless I provided the sources through a link. I don´t the see the problem with linking pages, do you?

-"Wikipedia does not tolerate copyright violations or plagiarism": none of them did I do.

-"Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is": funny you mention it, because people want to stress "indo-european" origins of words, when they´re nothing but hypothesis. It´s an academic study alright, but it´s not verifiable proof of anything. Just merely conjectures.

-"Articles are to be written from a neutral point of view": I contributed according to the view greek philosophy. If this is biased, then the others who contributed according to the indo-european etymology of the name of Zeus are biased too, because: a) it has not been proven, it´s still an hypothesis. b) they want to attribute it an indo-european orogin by force. If that´s not biased, I don´t know what is. c) The connection between the names Zeus, Deus and sanskrit Deva or Dyaus are irrelevant to the point in question. Zeus was a greek god, perceived according to greek mentality, philosophy and religious thought. One cannot learn about the name and nature of Zeus by studying Deus or Dyaus. Irrelevant and idiotic.

-"Material must be proportionate to what is found in the source cited": targeting the inquiring mind of the readers on the nature of Zeus, my contribution was even in itself, and to the point. To say otherwise just shows partiality towards indo-european linguistics and rejection of the primary sources on the gods.

-"We do not give equal validity to topics which reject and are rejected by mainstream academia": like I said previously, the mainstream academia hypothesize on the indo-european origin of names, that´s all. I shouldn´t have deleted that information, I confess, but what is known about the names of the gods in greek philosophy shouldn´t be omitted either. In the overall, indo-european etymologies, not only are they highly doubtfull, they are also irrelevant to the article in question. Zeus, not Deus nor Dyaus. Can you tell me who Zeus is? Who expounds on Zeus? The latin flamen? The hindu bramans? Indo-european linguists? I don´t think so...

Merry Christmass by the way!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nemoswlewa (talk • contribs)

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