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Hi Constantine, I'll get to this one today. - Dank ( push to talk) 14:19, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Precious again, your battle, "one of the few where we have a complete description of its course and the manoeuvrings of the opposing armies"!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:41, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Constantine. Do you remember the entire bibliographical source for Hisbein (1992) that you used on Khuzayma ibn Khazim?-- Renato de carvalho ferreira ( talk) 05:36, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Constantine (and late happy new year). I'd like to have your advice: some articles I follow are constantly disruptively edited by a dynamic ip (same country of origin, same profil of edits, different ip every day) and I don't know if it is possible to ask a blocking on the DUCK principle nor how to do it (which board to ask? Sockpupettry request first? or ask directly an admin?). Do you know what to do in these cases? Cheers.-- Phso2 ( talk) 08:15, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi, regarding your recent reverts please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PavelStaykov#13 February 2016.-- Crovata ( talk) 15:25, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
It appears that a variety of maps is in favor of a specific pov. I've commented in talk:First Bulgarian Empire [ [1]], where a newly created account insist on a collection of not so accurate maps. Alexikoua ( talk) 12:52, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Hey Cplakidas :), I was wondering, is there a quick way to have a article reviewed for GA? Because by the time someone reviews the article i have nominated for GA I will lose interest in it/won't have time to fix it. -- HistoryofIran ( talk) 23:19, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello Constantine, I fear the term "Despot" may not be used here in its proper meaning... Greets -- SJuergen ( talk) 21:16, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
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Sorry about the mess, I used open office to redo the page after some questionable edits and managed to remove word spaces. I thought that I'd found them all. Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 17:08, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
If you are a German King from a line of German Kings of Germanic dynasty in Medieval times, this is hypothetical question, and let's say you have a Japanese mother and a Japanese great-grandmother, are you Japanese or German? Assuming you realize this king is 5/8 Japanese in his blood and assuming he doesn't speak Japanese or care about Japan that much. Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 22:28, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for that. These articles originate in a rescue job for Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina, which had been put up for AfD by User:Boleyn – rather silly for the main public gallery in a city this size. With all of them the artist's work is held by the museum and they have an entry in the :el wiki. I wish I had access to enough information to do more than short thumbnail bios, and really wish the copyright laws allowed for more examples of their work. Better than nothing, I suppose. Thanks again, Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Well, I'm back to the Gospel Riots and the GLQ (after rather a long time, I have to admit). I've just posted something on Talk:Greek language question in reply to your last message. Many apologies for the ridiculously long delay! And many thanks for such a considered and helpful response!
But this is a different question. I want to start a new article on Βλάσης Γαβριηλίδης the founder and proprietor of Akropolis, but which transliteration should I use for the title? Searching WP gives 14 hits for "Gavrielides" and 42 for "Gavriilidis", and both Mackridge and Merry's Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature (2004) use Gavriilidis. But many other WP titles use "e" for "η", like Penelope Delta not Pinelopi. Is there a consensus view about this? And what about Βλάσης ?
Thanks again for your help and attention (and of course for the Barnstar) -- SteepLearningCurve ( talk) 19:18, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
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Perhaps my ping didn't work, but you have comments at Talk:Theoktistos/GA1. Johanna (talk to me!) 02:13, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
I thought you might want to take a look at this one. - Dank ( push to talk) 21:18, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Constantine -- I was just looking at the lead in Athena, and I saw near the beginning of the article a list of things of which Athena is the goddess. In the list is "olive oil". Following that is a "citation needed" tag. I wondered whether "olive oil" was correct at all. I thought, maybe the cultivation of olives, but olive oil? Anyway, perhaps you could find a source if indeed the phrase should stay. I was also curious to find out more about the word "Pallas". Is there any place in WP that would explain this word? I thought of it when I read the first line of Pallaqucha. Do you see the Quechua definition of "palla"? I thought, wow, could it be possible that, other than a possible import through Spanish, there could be any connection between Quechua and Greek? Or is that out of the realm of possibility? – Corinne ( talk) 21:03, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
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One source is saying Circassian, and I have verified by going and digging for the primary source to get an extra detail here and there, while the other doesn't give a references and calls this Sultan a Prussian or Greek, I went to the library and I feel disappointed now. The author doesn't tell where he got it from, and just mentions it casually, it is un-verifiable. I'm more inclined to the Circassian ancestry of the Sultan, I have hard time accepting the author without him giving reasons and another source giving a better source which is verifiable. I have presented my argument here. At this point I don't know what to do, tag it by saying we need more verification? Throw it out in place of the Circassian source? Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 00:29, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, there's an issue with the dab page you created for Battle of Andros as it doesn't respect WP:MOSDAB guidelines, WP:DABMENTION in particular. On top of that, the 1696 battle was set up as a primary topic with 150 links pointing to it, so the move was rather disruptive as it broke those links. Before the dab page could be considered legitimate, could you find out if the 1790 and 1825 battles are referenced on Wikipedia, as I can't find any trace of them? Thanks, -- Midas02 ( talk) 03:37, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
If you get a chance, could you put your eye on the Minoan civilization article? I tried to improve the lead. It could well be GA with some improvement. Cheers. Cake ( talk) 14:55, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
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May I ask your help to deal with a persistent vandalism happening on el Wikipedia? My written Greek is not strong enough for me to do it myself...
An anonymous user is repeatedly adding the following paragraph to the el:Τσάρος page in the Σέρβοι τσάροι section. It's a blatant hoax: no dynasty called Zoupanos has ever reigned as tsars in Serbia, and the Tsardom of Serbia only had two tsars, both of the Nemanjić dynasty, with no heirs known since the 14th century. There was also a modern Serbian/Yugoslav monarchy, but they never used the title of tsar and its heir and pretender is called Alexander, unrelated to the IPs' claim.
However, this paragraph keeps returning to the page every time it is deleted:
My connections in Corfu tell me that the individual pretending to be a Serbian imperial pretender of this title is a subject of laughter over there, and the creator of many "royal" facebook profiles. I don't think that this joke deserves a place on Wikipedia, but, again, my Greek is not enough to argue for it over there, if arguing is needed. Do you think a semi-protection could be in order? (Also pinging @ Dr.K.: for input.) Place Clichy ( talk) 16:23, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Constantine -- Is this edit to Demeter changing "barley" to "spelt" correct? – Corinne ( talk) 01:17, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Constantine, would you mind taking a look at the caption for the first image in Athena? It says "1st century BC/AD". It took me a minute to figure out what this meant. I realized that it meant that art historians are not sure whether it dates from the 1st century BC or the 1st century AD, but that it is from one of them. I think this could be confusing to some readers. I'm wondering whether you think it makes sense to insert "or" there, as in "1st century BC or 1st century AD" or express it as a range: "1st century BC – 1st century AD". What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 03:56, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hallo Constantine
Alessandro writing! How are you doing? I have a question for you: do you have online access to the yearbook named "Scripta Classica Israelitica"? The reason is that the main source about our
Trajan's article, Julian Bennett, has been demolished in this magazine (W. Eck, Scripta Classica Israelitica 17, 1998, p. 231-234). I found this critic in the book of Karl Strobel "Kaiser Trajan", reported it on the talk page, and two fellow users who are trying to bring the article to GA status asked me if I can find these 4 pages. About Rome, I will write you a mail, since these last months have been very tumultuous... Cheers
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I notice you moved this page I was writing with the edit summary "in Greece, they are universally designated with their US class name". I've moved it back, per BRD, and opened a discussion
there. If you have any hard evidence for your assertion perhaps you would be good enough to present it there, so we can work out how to include it in the article.
On a personal note, seeing as how I only started the article a couple of days ago, I'd have thought the most reasonable assumption was that I'd actually looked into the subject before starting, and that the most collegial approach (if you thought I was mistaken) would have been to drop me a line or open a discussion, instead of piling in with both feet: As it is, a page move is a lot more disruptive (and a lot more awkward to undo) than a simple text edit, so moving stuff around should be done more circumspectly, not less.
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/info/en/?search=Bertrand_of_Les_Baux seems irregular. He has always been known in English as Bertrand des Baux. Why torture the language by creating a new name? It would be better to indicate that he was in control of Les Baux, but he was not. By then the House of Baux was spreading to different locations. Please consider changing his name back. 68.37.168.37 ( talk) 14:12, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for your deprod of Giannis Bezos. I agree that he is notable and should have an article in English Wikipedia. Note that a page about him was deleted in 2014, with most of the AfD participants commenting that he was very probably notable but that the Greek sources were too difficult for non-Greek speakers to deal with. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yannis Bezos. I've added a news source (about his most recently announced TV series) and a link to his English-language IMDb page, but (notwithstanding my user name) at this point in my life the amount of Greek--ancient or modern--that I can muster from my school days is very limited, and any assistance you could provide to add more sources or otherwise improve the article would be extremely welcome. Best, -- Arxiloxos ( talk) 16:01, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Constantine -- Do you have Greek Dark Ages on your watch list? If you do, then you may already have seen this edit and the one right after it. If you don't, then perhaps you might like to take a look at it. I don't know whether the removal of the Doric invasion phrase was a good edit, but it left a small grammatical error. (If you think the edit should stand, then "the" needs to be added before "end".) Also, regarding the change from "are" to "is", I don't know whether the subject is singular or plural. It looks plural because of the word "and" before "Geometric or Homeric Age", but I don't know. I agree with the editor that the subject, or "antecedent", of the sentence is confusing. – Corinne ( talk) 03:02, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Cplakidas. This is Zee money. Thank you for reviewing my 2 articles about the Greek resistance. I created articles for 5 Byzantine-era patriarchs from the 12th century. They are Constantine IV of Constantinople, Chariton of Constantinople, Nicetas II of Constantinople, Leontius of Constantinople and Dositheus of Constantinople. They already have articles in a number of wikis in other languages, so I think having English-language articles for them are needed. I'm not completely familiar with the circumstances surrounding their tenure. Also, there is another article I created, Sotirios Gotzamanis, which I think is significant to the WP Greece. Zee money ( talk) 14:19, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Constantine, hope you have a good time. Hopefully the article is nearly on GA status, but there is small but serious disagreement about the spelling of the locations. Since you are an expert on promoting articles of this era and with a good understanding on wp:NC/GN your opinion will be appreciated. Alexikoua ( talk) 10:39, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hey Constantinos, long time no talk, hope you're doing well! I just created this very small article; even though alot of the stuff was already covered in the article about the war (Roman–Parthian War of 58–63) all historians I've stumbled across mention it as a genuine treaty, namely the Treaty of Rhandeia. Therefore I thought it should be created. That all said; I was wondering; how come there is no Category:Treaties of the Roman Empire category? Is there a specific reason for it? This treaty was namely signed by the Roman Empire under Nero, but I could not the appropriate category for it. Wanted to check up first before actually creating it myself. Btw, if you think certain things need some tweaking on the article, feel absolutely free do to so! :-) Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 01:59, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
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I was working on creating an infobox for the wife of Uzun Hassan after someone delivered a journal to me that included a valuable information, anyway her burial place interested me, she is buried in St.George's Church in Diyarbakir in late 15th century. Evidently once I google the Church name I get an Armenian church St. Giragos Armenian Church, I highly doubt her body or tomb survived the Armenian Genocide or any conflict in the region that it has faced. Do you recommend changing the name to St.Giragos or just keep it St.George. Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 06:02, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Good evening Constantine. Considering you edit a lot using svg maps I wonder if you know how to stop the superimposing of subtitles that occurs when I upload my images? For exemple, I translated this tree and look the result here. I used the same size for all letters and I adjusted the space because some names in Portuguese were bigger then the English ones. However, I'm still having problems. This also occurs when I translate some maps.-- Renato de carvalho ferreira ( talk) 21:39, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
There is a requested move at Talk:Ayşe Hafsa Sultan#Requested move 13 June 2016 on a page that you have edited in the past. You are invited to come to the talk page and give your input. OUR Wikipedia (not "mine")! Paine 02:39, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
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User talk:Muhammad Umair Mirza is going rampage with articles, I stumbled upon him while editing the Selim 1 article, he gave a precise date of caliphate transition that seems absurd when you think about. If you look at his Contribution page I worry that huge amount of misinformation is being dumped on the site. I don't know what to do with, you can't make him stop editing. Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 00:06, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello Constantine, I was wondering, the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 states that the "naval base at Rhodes may have fallen in 622 or 623, threatening a naval assault on Constantinople, though this event is difficult to confirm". I could view Kaegi (2003) who indeed asserts such thing, but I found several more recent references who are more clear regarding the capture, e.g.;
I thought I'd state the matter first to you as well, as I wanted either to; a) entirely remove the mention of Kaegi and his doubts 2) specifically mention that only Kaegi (and Foss 1975?) doubt the matter after, the insertion of the three references as listed above. Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 22:49, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Constantine! As usual you made another splendid work, now with the Kontostephanos family. Despite this, I'm having a little problem with some officials who were mentioned in some of our articles before your contributions. For intance: in Kilij Arslan II there is a phrase about one John Kontostephanos, a Manuel's nephew, who defeated Kilij in 1161; in Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus there is another John, but now commanding one fleet against Isaac in 1185; in Maria of Antioch there is another (too much!) John, who was an nonspecific official; and in John Rogerios Dalassenos it is necessary to update the information about John's marriage with Theodora. Could you please help me with this stuff?-- Renato de carvalho ferreira ( talk) 03:18, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Constantine,
In Kinnamos, John Kontostephanos, presumably the son of Stephen, is mentioned as recruiting an army in the Crusader states and inflicting a defeat on an army of 22,000 Turks, at an unnamed place, in 1160-1161. This defeat is described as being the stimulus which induced the Seljuq sultan to sue for peace. I will modify the article on John in this light if you feel the attribution is correct. Urselius ( talk) 10:29, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Also, please remember to indicate in your edit summary reasons for removing fully cited material e.g. Manuel Erotikos Komnenos.
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The article Timeline of Orthodoxy in Greece (from 1974) has been tagged to be split up, due to its length. I was thinking that one possibility is to split it at 2008, and I wanted to ask your opinion on that (i.e. "1974-2008"; and "2008-Present"). It was in 2008 that Abp. Christodoulos passed away, and one might say that a new era began with Abp. Ieronymos. Also, 2008 was one year before the onset of the debt crisis in crisis; and although this is an economic issue, it has obviously affected the entire society, including an exodus of nearly half-a-million Greeks from Greece since 2008, according to a recent Bank of Greece report. At any rate, any suggestions for a good place to split it up would be appreciated. Salut. ΙΣΧΣΝΙΚΑ-888 ( talk) 00:52, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
In the article it states "Ibn Tulun stands out as the first governor of a major province of the Abbasid Caliphate to not only establish himself as its master independently of the Abbasid court", I would argue that Idris ibn Abdallah in Maghrib (789 C.E.), Ibrahim ibn Aghlab in Ifriqiyah (800 C.E.) and Tahir ibn Husayn in Khurasan/Transoxania (821 C.E.) were much earlier, and both governed a major province that in turn became the seat of their respective dynasties/Emirate much earlier than ibn Tulun had done in Egypt (868 C.E.). Idris is unique since he was outright a rebel and governed as an independent since day 1. Abbasids lost the Maghrib province first (if we exclude Andalus). Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 01:59, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
I based my assumption of all things roman based upon the fact that within the category many non-roman city related articles already existed before I came upon it, however upon review I have to agree with you. I will desist from tagging other articles as such. Iazyges ( talk) 23:39, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Hey I was additionally working on a subpage of the military history currently in the incubator, as i am the only active member, the founder having not done anything since 2013, i was wondering if you were interested in joining, here is a link if you are interested. Iazyges ( talk) 23:58, 11 July 2016 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Roman military history
Someone down in Britannica made a mistake, and you won't believe it, they made the mistake of confusing Bursa, Byzantine Empire (now, in Turkey) to Bosra, Mamluk Sultante (now, in Syria), we are talking c.1300 C.E. In the page of Ibn Kathir in the Britannica they claimed that the great historian Ibn Kathir was born in Bursa, Byzantine Empire. I just felt something was wrong, when I saw that, and on the Wikipedia page it claimed he was born in Bosra, Byzantine Empire, this is where confusion strikes the hardest, since I didn't believe Byzantine Empire can have a foothold so deep in Syria in that time frame. I checked the maps and rules of the area, and I have taken the matter in my own hands to go back to the second edition of Encyclopedia of Islam, which ended the argument in my favor he was indeed born in Bosra, Syria c.1300 C.E. which is under Mamluk Sultanate at that time. You don't have to open the book, on Brill Online you can read the first sentences of his biography that was published online from the book. ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl b. ʿUmar b. Kat̲h̲īr , born in Boṣrā circa 700/1300 and died in Damascus in S̲h̲aʿbān 774/February 1373, was one of the best-known historians and traditionists of Syria under the Baḥrī Mamlūk dynasty. Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 22:41, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
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Would you say that with this edit ( diff) I completely ignored the valid point of criticism raised by another editor? -- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 18:18, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
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I would like your to see your approval of the Template:Campaignbox Muslim conquest of Transoxiana, my mentor @ Irondome: believes it might be a WP:BOLD move that will get reverted, coincidentally I see you editing the Battle of Kharistan article which looks good. Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 20:45, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
This remains unaddressed and still tagged inline in the article. – Finnusertop ( talk ⋅ contribs) 01:48, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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I noticed that you made an edit to my edit of the line "Léōn ho Mathēmatikós or ho Philósophos" in the article Leo the Mathematician some time ago.
This current pronunciation guide "ho" seems incorrect and ahistorical to me, given that the rough breathing was not pronounced after the Hellenistic Period. (From the rough breathing article, "It remained in the polytonic orthography even after the Hellenistic period, when the sound disappeared from the Greek language.") We would not put such a pronunciation in an article for a modern Greek personage (even during the period when the use of polytonic orthography was still in effect), so I think we should not put it here for a medieval personage whose title ὁ Μαθηματικός was not pronounced during his lifetime (or in the byzantine centuries following) as "ho Mathēmatikós." Piledhighandeep ( talk) 01:51, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Constantine, I made a new category ( Category:Byzantine people of Iranian descent). As you're better versed regarding the wide array of Byzantine articles, would you mind adding it there where needed? Thanks much. - LouisAragon ( talk) 03:36, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
This looks familiar. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 22:43, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Constantine -- I stumbled upon the article Ex nihilo and made a few copy-edits as I read it. I thought I'd mention three things to you; maybe if you have time and interest you can work on them:
1) In the second and third paragraphs in the section Ex nihilo#History, there are two "citation needed" tags. The first one has been there since April 2010.
2) The phrases ex nihilo and creatio ex nihilo appear initially in italics, but later on in the article they sometimes do not. According to MOS:FOREIGNITALIC,
If looking for a good rule of thumb, do not italicize words that appear in Merriam-Webster Online,
and ex nihilo appears in Merriam-Webster Online. What do you recommend for the text formatting of these phrases in this article?
3) This is a tough subject, but I think an effort should be made to ensure that most of the article is comprehensible by an average, fairly educated person. Checkingfax has pointed out that the average Wikipedia reader is between the ages of 10 and 17, if I remember correctly. In that light, I wonder if you would take a look at the second paragraph of the section Ex nihilo#Modern physical (perhaps this heading needs filling out a bit?), which I will copy here:
I think there should be some explanation (more than the title) of what paper is being referred to here; also, I think "in information terms" is a bit sophisticated, don't you? I think this sentence needs to be brought down a notch from academic writing.
I thought you might be interested in working on this, but if not, you or I can copy this to the article's talk page. Best regards, – Corinne ( talk) 23:28, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
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Dear Constantine, good day and thank you for taking such keen interest in my edits.
Thank you for bringing to my attention certain guidelines with explanations, which I should better myself and my edits from.
Albeit, you revised my edit, though, I ask, why was the page from where I had received my information not edited as mine was, though I understand your point, had not the page I viewed, not had a reliable source.
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I think saying modern northern Afghanistan, is too vague, I would like to say "Kharistan, near Sheberghan, West of Balkh", I think this is much better as it gives the reader a good refence point which Balkh, the main city of Tokharistan. Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 22:23, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Constantine, I just created this article. However, upon working on the matter, I kinda felt that I need to refresh the detailed history of this particular era. Therefore, as I don't really feel "very" comfortable with this scope atm, I was wondering, if you don't mind, whether I could hand you this article over? Atm, I haven't added it to any other article, so its an orphan as well. I've added the most important sources for a start, and a simple infobox as well. I initially named the article "Mithridatid dynasty", but it seemed as if "Pontic dynasty" is actualy far more commonly used (per WP:COMMONNAME) compared to Mithridatid dynasty. But... amongst that much lower number of authors who often refer to it as the Mithridatids, there are some of, apparantly, the most important authors regarding this topic (e.g. Brian McGing). So I'm kinda at odds regarding that as well. So yeah, could you perhaps adopt it and help a bloke out? :-) - LouisAragon ( talk) 01:09, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Constantine -- I was just looking at the article Dardanus (city), and I came across a sentence that didn't sound right. I made a small edit to try and clarify it, but there is still something wrong. Here is the sentence as it is now:
The phrase "after the name of the city, the Dardanelles" seems misplaced, or the sentence needs re-wording. The present wording makes it sound like the Dardanelles is the name of the city, and I don't think that's correct. Can you clarify this sentence? – Corinne ( talk) 00:31, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Where have you been last week, I didn't see much activity in your account, hopefully everything is good Alexis Ivanov ( talk) 18:15, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Constantine -- If you have time, would you mind looking at this edit to Matthew the Apostle? Is this change correct? – Corinne ( talk) 23:47, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, yes, it is correct. Cheers, Constantine ✍ 18:31, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Please say hello to the big graveyard in Vienna for me, I was there some years ago (I'll remember the name when I am away from the computer I know). Dimadick was saying you were behind the Byzantine work. Thanks for that. It has been needed for a long time. JarrahTree 13:29, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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Γιατί διέγραψε ότι ανέβασα για την οικογένεια των Αργυρων? Γιατί τα θεωρισες άχρηστα? Katechis303 ( talk) 21:52, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Με έχεις πρήξει. Αλήθεια Katechis303 ( talk) 12:41, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
Που να πληρώσουν κιόλας Katechis303 ( talk) 17:23, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
Καλα. Κανε μου μήνυση Katechis303 ( talk) 21:01, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
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You redirected this category to "Roman fortifications in Macedonia" saying that no disambiguation was necessary. I disagree. The region of Macedonia is much wider than the province of Macedonia. So there are forts in wider Macedonia would actually be located in Thrace or Moesia (as they were known at the time). Disambiguation is necessary. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 11:45, 29 October 2016 (UTC)