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I have added it since last month :) NickTheRipper (talk) 06:36, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
It's ok, I've just didn't notice you are already a member.Alexikoua (talk) 19:29, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
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Ok, I didn't know this. Thanks! NickTheRipper (talk) 12:30, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Macedonian Greek or Greek Macedonian for Ancient Macedonians
editHello. Please refrain from adding the clarification "Greek" next to the word "Macedonian" like how you have done in the following page here: [1].
Your motives are very understandable, however, the use of modern-day clarifications stemming from the Macedonia Naming Dispute to describe ancient Greek figures such as Ptolemy I Soter, is not very appropriate.
The use of "Macedonian Greek" for ancient Macedonians, gives the false impression that there might have been non-Greek Ancient Macedonians besides the Greek Ancient Macedonians. And therefore, I am asking you very kindly to refrain from repeating this mistake in the future and rather call them all simply "Ancient Macedonians" without any further qualifiers just like how it was done for Athenians and Spartans too. Ancient Greek figures must be left out of the naming dispute that has affected modern-day Balkan-related articles. -- SILENTRESIDENT 08:46, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
The references themselves use the term "Macedonian Greeks" to describe them and that's why I used it. But I understand what you mean and I totally agree with you that the modern dispute mustn't get involved in this. Anyway, have a nice day! NickTheRipper (talk) 20:16, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
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editNote that edit summaries should be detached, encyclopaedic, and convey enough information as to the changes you've made (policy-based explanations such as WP:UNDUE, etc. are a good example of making it clear to other editors why content is being changed), not summaries such as this. Please read WP:SUMMARYNO and WP:SHOUT. It's off-putting for other editors to encounter combative remarks which are uncalled for. Cheers, and happy editing! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:03, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
- Ok, I'm sorry, I guess. NickTheRipper (talk) 21:10, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
- That's fine. It wasn't my intention to sound like an old nag. I'm just trying to forewarn you that there are editors who have a low threshold for forming grudges. We know this is resource anyone can edit, and that slightly silly content can be added in good faith. If you were the editor who'd added the content without realising that it was awkwardly phrased and were watching the article, it might get your hackles up to basically be called a fool. If you were to start editing on more controversial articles using strident edit summaries, you'd be in hot water before you knew what was happening. It's best to stick to neutral summaries.
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- That's fine. It wasn't my intention to sound like an old nag. I'm just trying to forewarn you that there are editors who have a low threshold for forming grudges. We know this is resource anyone can edit, and that slightly silly content can be added in good faith. If you were the editor who'd added the content without realising that it was awkwardly phrased and were watching the article, it might get your hackles up to basically be called a fool. If you were to start editing on more controversial articles using strident edit summaries, you'd be in hot water before you knew what was happening. It's best to stick to neutral summaries.
Can you explain why you added template:dubious in this edit? Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 13:34, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
- Of course I can. Who says that she is a "symbol" of homosexuality? An unknown and unreliable homosexual writer maybe? How is this possible while in reality she was not even homosexual and on top of that these claims came into existence only during the 18th century. Even the fact that some people classified Sappho as homosexual cannot explain why there is such an absolute definition of her being a "symbol" of homosexuality in the lead sentence of the sexuality section. Thank you. NickTheRipper (talk) 16:56, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
- Well, Glenn Most, whose paper is cited at the end of that sentence, for one. Margaret Reynolds agrees in The Sappho Companion, saying that today Sappho is more famous for being a lesbian than for her poetry. Daniel Mendehlson says that for "many readers" she is "a gay role model". Susan Gubar (in "Sapphistries") calls Sappho a symbol of lesbian artists whose works have been suppressed or heterosexualised, and a model for lesbian literature.
- As for how it's possible: one does not need to be a membewr of some group to be a symbol of or for that group. I don't believe that any doves are actually members of the Liberal Democrats, nor trees members of the Conservative Party, but those things are still symbols of those parties. And, at any rate the claim that Sappho was not homosexual is not at all agreed on, and the claim that she had sex with women goes back at least to the second century AD with Maximus of Tyre. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 12:38, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
- ... while she was born at 630 BC(!). So, an author came about 800+ years later to support that Sappho was indeed homosexual. Very convincing. Anyway, I still don't think that she is a symbol of homosexuality just because some writers of the past century told this. However, if you and the other editors think so, then I have nothing more to say. Thank you. NickTheRipper (talk) 17:53, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
Cappadocian Greeks
editHey! I think we probably fundamentally agree on this article. Thanks for cleaning up my word choice, which I realize could be seen as suggesting that Cappadocian Greeks are somehow not Greek, which is not what I wished to say...I'm the one who added some famous Cappadocian Greeks, like John Chrysostomos, Mimar Sinan, and the Emperor Maurice, to other articles (if you want to see real edit wars, the last two are both claimed by Armenians as well). The point that I think should be made is that the Cappadocian Greeks are both Greek and native to Cappadocia. That is, they are the indigenous people of Cappadocia, since the indigenous Indo-European groups of Anatolia, groups like the Phrygians of King Midas of the golden-touch, who spoke an Indo-European language related to Greek, came to speak only Greek by early Roman times and were some of the first to embrace christianity, which would become Greek Orthodoxy after the schism. Thus the expulsion of the Greek Orthodox Cappadocians by the modern Turkish state was all the more tragic, because it was, in the colonialist parlance of our times, the expulsion of the natives from their native land by the colonizers. There is sometimes a misconception that the Greeks of Turkey were interlopers in Turkey, but this is not correct. They were Greek, and had played a huge role in ancient Greek history, supplying Hellenistic mathematicians, famous Greek church figures in Roman times, imperial Greek dynasties in Byzantine times, and Greek architects and patriarchs in Ottoman times, but they were also native Anatolians. Population genetics also bears this out, as studies have shown regional differences in Hellenic populations attributable to their archaic indigenous roots (Minoans in Crete, Phrygians etc in Anatolia).
Btw I agree with you (in the Lemnos article) that Kaldellis overstates his case on the use of the term "Romioi," particularly when he says "preserved in isolation," as if the term were some relic on the island, rather than being widely used by Greeks throughout the Ottoman Empire at the time. I didn't at first understand your concern in that article, and apologies for that, but now I do. Piledhighandeep (talk) 00:36, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Piledhighandeep! I am glad you understood my point in doing this. To be honest, at the beginning I thought you were trying to spoil such articles with controversial edits but now I can see that it was just a misconception. Also, thank you for your edits at articles like the ones which you mentioned above. Continue your good work and have a nice day! NickTheRipper (talk) 21:47, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
Can you please ...
edit... explain this edit? Notice that you left that sentence ungrammatical. DId you read through the cited Plutarch work? Paul August ☎ 19:19, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
- Sorry for that. I don't quite remember making this edit and the reason I did it. I maybe thought that the phrase was not in the source and was added later to dismiss the opinion of Herodotus making the article subjective and not according to POV rules. Anyway, sorry for this and I will try not to edit Wikipedia while drunk again! NickTheRipper (talk) 21:14, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
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Please stop adding that map
editPlease stop mass inserting that hoax map. Assuming WP:GF, I guess you didn't view the image details. It was made by a sock of CU blocked sockmaster who was indeffed for persistent hoaxing, socking, and making copyvios.[2][3] - LouisAragon (talk) 16:48, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
- @LouisAragon: Well, whoever the creator was, the map seemed accurate enough and is the only one in wikipedia depicting all the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire together. That's why I thought it was essential to insert this map on many of the satrapies articles, considering that the majority of them did not have one (or even a single image). However, if you think that the particular map contains serious mistakes then I am willing to help you remove the images. Also, I noticed that you reverted some of my other edits which have nothing to do with the map itself. Can you explain that? The rv button is not a game and I am sure you know that. Nevertheless, thank you for letting me know about this. NickTheRipper (talk) 17:15, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
- Ehm. You dropped that map on literally 30 +/- articles. Sorry, but separating the wheat from the chaff (and it was definetely mostly chaff, in other words most of the edits, were about the map) would cost ridiculous amounts of time. Feel absolutely free to restore the good copy-edits and fixes. I already restored a few of them. All the best, - LouisAragon (talk) 19:58, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
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For your recent article Rheomithres that I read with great interest. Keep it up, just make sure to add a variety of sources.
Battle of Gaugamela edits
editYour edits seem to have made some of the information on troop numbers nonsensical, and I was hoping you could fix it up. Specifically, you took a range of 10K to 30K for "Peltasts" and changed it to a range of >40K (low) to 30K (high) (and made it refer to "Infantry"), which is clearly nonsensical. Could you please clear that up? I'm guessing it should be 10K to >40K, but you clearly checked a lot of sources and I'd prefer you recheck that one bit. —ShadowRanger (talk|stalk) 01:37, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. The "30,000" number was there before I start edditing the page and I was planning to replace it. However, I didn't have the time to do it and I ultimately forgot it. I guess now makes some sense until someone finds a source to specify the number. Unfortunately I do not have the time to make edits in wiki this period so I hope someone deals with this. Have a nice day. NickTheRipper (talk) 10:41, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
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Aesop
editWhile I accept that there is no ethnicity parameter in the Infobox, to label Aesop as Greek is still contentious and requires discussion on the Talk page. There you will find suggestions that he was of African origin - or he might equally have been of Thracian or West Asian origin. Added to which there was no such 'nationality' as Greek at the time of his supposed dates. There wasn't even a standard Greek language, just a collection of dialects. You will need consensus for your change and I am therefore reversing it. Sweetpool50 (talk) 18:43, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
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