I see that you are working in some pretty abstruse areas. Let me know if I can be of help. Not that I'm an expert on things medieval, but I'm pretty knowledgable on things Wikipedian. - Jmabel | Talk 00:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Why not return to Paul the Deacon for colorful details? Give the article some juicy quotes instead. -- Wetman 21:32, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Could you offer some suggestions on this page since you attached the cleanup tag? I think the article could benefit from greater detail, but may not need the cleanup tag at this time. I'll give you a couple of days before I remove the tag. Hiberniantears 16:16, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Nice work! Hiberniantears 20:23, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thanks for ur help on the kingdom of galicia article Jfreyre
Dear Srnec, could you please tell me whether you have found something about Norbert, mayor of Neustria, whom I added to the list of mayors. I had in mind that he was a brother to Pepin, but couldn't find anything about that. Since you added him to sons of Ansegisel, I presume that you know more. Cheers, Str1977 14:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Dear Srnec, all elements of my last edit I have taken straight from the "Lexikon des Mittelalters", a standard reference work for Mediaevistic studies, from the articles on "Pippin der Mittlere", "Grimoald", "Drogo", "Karl Martell". Nobert was only mentioned under Pippin. It explicitely stated that Pepin became mayor of Neustria after Berchar's death (one year after his victory at Tetry) and also that he didn't use the title of mayor after Grimoald took over Neustria and that only Charles Martell again called himself mayor. Of course, de facto P. was the mayor in Austria and it is a bit tricky to draw conclusions from titles to offices. Str1977 09:18, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Please don't forget to announce your new articles on medieval subjects here. Thanks. -- Ghirla | talk 07:38, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
no, sorry, I don't remember where that was from. Possibly from the article without checking, feel free to ignore it. The Origo says just that Cleph was de beleos, and I don't know what to make of this. We don't know any Beleos or Beleus at any rate. dab (á›) 21:11, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I reverted it because Neustria is generally mentioned first, before Austria and Burgundy. Str1977 08:05, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
User: SrnecGood point on the crowning of Charlamagne as the ultimate "he who has the power" principle. There was no way that the Pope had the authority to revive the empire of the west, since the regalia of the west had been sent to the Eastern Emperor when the West fell, with the specific note from the first barbarian king of Italy that now there was but one Roman Emperor! Justinian's forays into the West, and the establishment of the authority of the Bzyantines there, had clearly shown there still was a Roman Emperor, even if his authority, as you originally noted in that article, had shrunk, and was minimal. Anyway, nice addition. We have been working on that article the past six months trying to get it completely historically accurate, and I think it is close. It is important to note, as you did, that while for Martel power was sufficient, he could care less about titles, his son and grandson were a little more into the regalia thing! Isn't it ironic that the Pope crowned Charlamagne as "Emperor of the Romans," (supposedly without Charlamagne knowing he would do so, though as you know most historians doubt that) on Christmas Day, 800 a.d.? old windy bear 14:20, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
User: Srnec OUTSTANDING job of tweaking and finishing an article I had been working half a year on; your renaming the sections, and emphasizing his reaching the point at 737 that he did not even bother with the facade of naming a King - so completely did he and Europe know where the power lay. It is especially vital, because in an age, the dark age, basically berift of great figures Martel was one. He pretty much singlehandedly stopped Islamic conquest of Europe while they could have done it, and tried! Great job of integrating the defeat he inflicted on the Muslims at Narbonne specifically, once again, his phalanx withstood their cavalry. He then began the integration of heavy cavalty into Frankish forces, laid the basis for the Carolingian Empire, (sure, Pippin the Elder had conquered a large of it, but he never bothered to actually incorporate it, as Charles did, or christianize those who were Pagan, which Charles also did, uniting them to him with those two most powerful of weapons: religion and taxes! And his brilliant use of the phalanx did, as you put it, make him a brilliant general in an age berift of same. I would argue his surprise use of armoured horsemen plus his planax at Narbonne was also proof of his generalship. (and I added a little to the article also) GREAT JOB, old windy bear 11:05, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Srnec I just wanted to say what an honor it was to work with you on the Charles Martel article. You are bright, eloguent, (far more of both than I!), but willing to listen to folks like myself. You are a thoroughly nice person in addition to being a thoroughly outstanding historian, and I thank you. old windy bear 21:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Srnec Once again thanks for the help on the Martel article. i consider him such a vital figure in medivial history - do you think, if he, or his grandson, had been in power when the vikings came, they could have stopped them? I actually believe Martel could have, and perhaps Charlemagne. They would have done what no one else thought to -- struck directly at Dane's land, at their homes, ship building ports, and strongholds. What do you think? old windy bear 01:38, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
It was accidental. There was a spate of vandlism and at first glance, your edits appeared to be that. I will change it back right away.
-- Gurubrahma 17:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Srnec I moved that paragraph which you so rightly observed needed to be in a different location. I moved it to legacy -- please check it, I think it fits there, but if you do not, i will move it again. But I believe you will find it appropriately there. old windy bear 03:22, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Srnec Hi -- 209.116.79.33 is vandalizing the charles martel article we worked so hard on - can you get Kirill to take a look at it, and bann this idiot. old windy bear 19:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Srnec Hi -- good catches tonight, as usual! I was in the process of reverting them when you did so! Tell me great minds do not think alike! old windy bear 02:10, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Srnec GREAT rewording on the Norwich quote! You are a better writer than I am. Thanks! old windy bear 19:03, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
His nickname entered English usage through modern scholars, from the Latin of William of Tyre (and French translations thereof). 12C Montferrat was not Italian-speaking, but Piemonteis, which at that time was still an Occitan dialect. (Montferrat was one of the great troubadour courts.) The Peire Bremon song is the earliest known reference to his nickname. Silverwhistle 08:40, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
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Srnec Good afternoon! I am beginning to work on battles of the early Roman Republic - could I interest you in helping me? My goal literally is to work my way up the Roman ladder, republic to empire, to Eastern Empire, to Carolingians, to the Holy Roman Empire, to the almost unbearably tragic end of the Bzyantine Empire. I enjoy working with you, and thought I would ask? (I think we did a great job on Martel and Tours, and you did a superb job on Charlemagne... old windy bear 19:42, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Srnec Om the issue of historical accuracy in the Martel article, technically, "Catholic" means universal in latin, (or as close a translation as is possible, but it carries connotations that modern users could misconstrue). At that point, in 734a.d. the split between the Greek and Roman wings of the church had not taken place, and there was only ONE christian church. For that reason, I would suggest that christian is more historically correct, since there was no christian church except that of Rome and Constandinople, which at that point, were feuding, but not broken. Feelings? Srnec, my worry is that people would misunderstand, and think there were more than one church, when at that point in christian history, it was not true. It would be hundreds of years before the two wings of the catholic church split, and hundreds more after that before there were christians who were not "catholic." therefore, historically, for accuracy, I believe the word christian is most approrpriate. Thoughts? (rememeber many of our users are students who assume, and would assume from the word catholic there was more than one church to defend, when in fact, there was only one at that point in history.(unless we are talking about the Copts, a relatively minor sect, which has no bearing on this issue! old windy bear 03:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Srnec Hey my friend, was the new wording okay on Martel!? Do you think it suffices to make the point you were emphasizing, that there were other christians than those in western europe, although "protestants" were three quarters of a milinium off. Was it acceptable? old windy bear 20:17, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Srnec Hey my friend, please look at the expansion I have done to the article on Pippin the Short. I want your help to polish it off. He had the fortune to be left in a great position by a great man as his father, and is forgotten by history for being sandwiched in between two of history's great men, Charles Martel, and Charlemagne. But he was actually a fairly good ruler, and certainly continued his father's work, and set the table for his son. Help finish it off and give it that Smec touch? old windy bear 03:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Srnec Hey my friend, good catch on Martel not being a surname. (as you well know, it means "Hammer" and essentially was what today we would call a nickname for his merciless hammering of his enemies in battle). Would you take a look at the work I have started on his other son, Carloman? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carloman%2C_son_of_Charles_Martel Though he only ruled as major domo of Austrasia and Chrotrud for a few short years, he actually accomplished a startling amount in terms of consolidating the family's power, and strengthening the ties to the Church. I have just started on expanding the article, but wanted your usual magic editing touch and opinion! Thanks! old windy bear 00:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Check my recent edit, since you're probably the only one interested. Would the start be signalled by the marriage of Otto and Adelaide, 951? -- Wetman 10:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I added a mention of your stub to Portal:Germany/New article announcements. Please add any other relevant articles you create there. Thank you, and happy editing, Kusma (討論) 06:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
You moved Lothar II of Arles to Lothair II of Italy. I have no thoughts of what he ought to be "of", Early Medieval Italian history means nothing to me. However, you say "Lothair is English spelling". The first book I looked at had four Lothars and a Lotharingia in the index, and no Lothairs at all (it also had several Chlothars, rather than the frenchified Clothaires we see on WP, but that's another story). The The New Cambridge Medieval History uses Lothar prodigously. I could go on, but I think that's enough for now. Thoughts ? Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you require as "credible" references for the surname Remy. As you know, Royal surnames are seldom utilized, ie. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, etc. Aside from the Official record of the Louvre, in Paris, France, there are a couple of other references that have been published. The one I have a complete (except for ISBN#) reference for is:
"The Remy Family in America, 1650 - 1942" compiled by Bonnelle William Rhamy of Fort Wayne, Indiana, produced in 1942, consisting of 526 pages. It is complete with a surname index. It was published by Westward the Families' Publications of Shelton, Washington.
Had Desiderio not been exiled to that area, I don't know whether it would have even been recorded in the records of the Louvre.
Most of the records and sources are from churches. Desiderio's bloodline is established through SAINT REMY, born in 437 AD at Cerny in Lorraine near Leon of Croanne, ancient Picardy (now dept of Ainna),died jan 13 533 AD at rheims. He was the son of Count Emile de Laon Remy and Celinie and brother of Priciple, Bishop of Goismons. he studied literature in which his great virtue and noble birth caused him to succeed at Gannade, the metropolitan seat in 459 AD. where he acquired great knowledge and piety. Authoritative records of his life and works are rare nevertheless, a few of his writings are preserved in the church records he was considered the greatest orator of his time. He was the first Bishop of Rheims and annointed and crowned Clovis, First King of France in 496 AD. He was ennobled in 497."D'or a une tet d'aigle arracha de aable."
Hi! Thanks for your revertion to Pandulf II article. I have just added some material to Duchy of Benevento sub-article (by they way, you could judge if move the section to a separate article or not). As I am not of English mother tongue, if you've time you can check it and maybe copy edit as your will. Also Battle of Garigliano is new and could interest you. Attilios 09:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Thankyou. Srnec 17:37, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks very very much for your good addings of articles about Salerno Princes. I have a question: do you have infos als about hypati of Gaeta to add? Attilios 10:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
In the section of historical hypati, written by me, there's something a mess about dates of reigns. It seems the source I used made a big confusion with names and etc. Can you help? Attilios
I'd like an outside opinion, from people who won't be afraid to speak their mind, on the discussion at Talk:House of Dunkeld. Do you have any thoughts on the subject ? Thanks ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:26, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
See discussion on User talk:Witger
User:SrnecI liked your edits, were mine okay? I spent a couple hours last night (old wounds hurting!) working on it, deleting redundent material, condensing, and trying to capture what we had intended from the start, that this was a complex, brilliant man in an age generally berift of them, who basically set the structures in place that carried Europe through the middle ages, and pretty much single handedly is responsible for stemming the Islamic tide into Europe while the Caliphate was able to mount a real invasion, and occupation. Your help is always greatly appreciated - I really work, with study and drafting, to try to make these good articles, and your help in creating them is truly appreciated. old windy bear 22:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
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I just wrote from scratch the article about Alife. Being not an English mothertongue, it'd probably need some copyedit: if you have time, give it a check. As it was a Norman county, morevoer, if you have info you can add some about it. Let me know. Attilios 21:24, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Srnec,
Thanks for the clean up. Why did you remove the link to Regintrud? -- imars 06:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Kudos to you on your work on the Bavarian dukes. You bring a lot to the topics.-- imars 06:33, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
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User:SrnecI had forgotten that, and it really is relevant, since the first "Knights" were created during the reign of Martel, and that edict was vital later on. Also your wording is as usual better than mine - I thought the introduction needed to emphasize your point that he is more than the victor of one battle, he was a brilliant general in an age generally berift of same, a social innovator, and an obviously incredibly complex man - certainly he could have simply named himself King, and not needed the Pope, as his son did - but simply did not bother! Your wording better captures his complexities. Thanks! old windy bear 10:29, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I noticed your comments regarding spelling of this word on someone else's talk page. As I understand it, Moslem either phonetically or when translated sound similar to 'Oppressor' in Arabic, and as a result, it is now considered polite to use Muslim in general conversation. I cannot claim to have read extensively on this subject, but it is something I wondered about a few years ago as well and if I recall arite, this is what my brief research threw up. - Hayter 18:11, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
It may sound similiar, but it does not mean that, it means "he who submits to God," or "one who submits to God." old windy bear 10:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
User:Srnec Help! I cannot for some reason get the original article on the Battle of Tours restored. I was trying to add some quotes by Schelgal, and ended up deleting most of the article, which for some reason, my computer won't let me restore - can you restore it to the orgiinal? THANKS, we both worked hard on that article, and this was inadvertant, and I cannot seem to reverse it. THANKS AGAIN! old windy bear 10:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Never mind, i finally figured out where I was fouling up! Thanks though! old windy bear 11:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
To tell you quite frankly, Srnec, I did not have any special information. I reviewed the several references to this and the other Gaitelgrimas found in the Wikipedia and tried to put some order by normalizing them, i.e. accepting the version that seemed the most clearly argued for and referencing it in the other other articles. Pasquale 21:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Good work on tightening the opening. You are simply a better writer than I am. old windy bear 18:41, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
As you are medievalist, Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)#Consorts may interest you, among other points there. Marrtel 12:54, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Nice article. Can you point me to any details of his activities in Greece? Andrew Dalby 19:48, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Could you please follow the Wikipedia guidelines in naming articles. Ecclesiastical and ruling individuals are quite well directed at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles) Marrtel 11:00, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I saw you changed the redirect to Frederick III of Sicily... however, if it's true that it is more correct, you should change at the same time all the occurrences of Frederick II of Sicily referring to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (some 100, I seem)! Otherwise, there will remain wrong linkings in all those articles. Let me know. Attilios
I observed that you decided to add your "two cent" to some article stating something with ordinals. Please kindly familiarize yourself with how little medieval they actually used numerals. A consequence is that if one (such as Emperor Frederick II) actually used that, it somewhat illogically had some impact in his other realms too, and in their future. It is quite certain that in Middle Ages, no ruler organized explicitly his regnal numbers for each realm separately. Marrtel 21:55, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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P.S.: in exchange, I'd like to receive from you the Working Man Barnstar for my working on Frederick's II disambig, and the countless boring things for Italian communes, sights and provinces, sport templates etc. etc. (Today I just edited with new stuff Alphonso II of Naples and his sons' articles. Give them a glance if you've time). Silly and tiiiiired Attilio)
Would you care to visit at Talk:Wladyslaw_II_Jagiellon_of_Poland#Survey. YOu indicated that you support the simple "Jagiello" - now there is a formal listing going on to sign supoirt or opposition. ObRoy 21:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Just added a little entry for Duchy of Sora, with info taken from the Italian edition. Also used it for the History section in the Province of Frosinone. Do you have some time to check what I wrote? Let me know and thanks. user:Attilios.
Hi. I have proposed to move the following monarchs from their current, generally Polish-spelled names (with diacriticals) to the systematical English name, citing my general ground that English should be used, not Polish. Would you share your opinion at Talk:Bolesław I the Brave , Talk:Bolesław II the Bold, Talk:Mieszko II Lambert, Talk:Władysław III Spindleshanks, Talk:Jan I Olbracht and Talk:Kazimierz III the Great. Marrtel 19:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
the key to remember is that wikipedia is not about your opinion about whether the sydney opera house is or is not postmodern, modern, or otherwise. the evidence is in google and several scholarly articles and books that describe it in that set. when i said it was widely accepted when i reverted, that is what i meant. -- Buridan 12:02, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello. It seems that there are a fair many Medieval/Renaissance Moroccan rulers on fr.wikipedia that we don't have. Translating them is easy enough, but I would like to get the article naming sorted. I updated Wattasid today and I wondered if you could have a look and comment on naming of the red-links, if you have any books which name these folks in English. Thanks in advance ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:23, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello Srnec.I thought it only polite to give you a reply but as we are getting badly off topic I thought I would do so on your user page.
I don’t know much about psychoanalysis, though I did read a few of those little paperback editions of Freud as a teenager. Based on this knowledge ,I would say Freud is not scientific ,as his assertions cannot be tested by experiment. He may not even be rational by which I mean logical and internally consistent.
Despite describing myself as a scientific rationalist I do not actually believe strict scientific reductionism is an appropriate tool for all situations. If applied to literary criticism it would certainly lead to some pretty sterile work. I don’t think there is any way to prove whether or not Lewis’s children’s stories have any sexual content, there are clearly some intelligent people who believe they do and probably an equal number who believe they don’t. We probably aren’t going to get much further than that and science isn’t much help. I have my own opinions and I have stated them.I must admit to getting into the debate partly from motives of mischief making but having said that the standard of debate seems to have improved since my contribution.
I have some sympathy for your view that this whole thing has become rather distasteful. I suspect if Lewis himself was still available for comment we might all be treated to some robust Ulster invective. Dave59 17:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious to know why you oppose Jogaila on the vote taking place at Talk:Jogaila (sorry can't be bothered pasting the diacritics)? I ask, because some of the reasoning you gave for your support for Jagiello also applies to Jogaila. Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 01:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Good work! I've been trawling around trying to find out where the battle of La Falconara (Falconaria, Falconeria) was fought; apparently it's a plain near Trapani, but it doesn't appear on modern maps. There's a description of the battle http://www-dot-cronologia-dot-it/storia/aa1282b.htm - link disabled because it's on Wiki blacklist - here, as well as various other events in the later war; my Italian is non-existent, but perhaps you might get something out of it. (I've found a nice history of Frankish Greece 1301-1460 online and am mining that.) Choess 03:00, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your excellent work on the article. CyrilleDunant 20:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Your point was well taken, Srnec. I have now adjusted the redlinks I made. They now point to Isabella of Villehardouin and Margaret of Villehardouin, Lady of Mategrifon. I will go ahead and make stubs on these two, unless you happened to have articles ready! I have not adjusted the other Villehardouin names, e.g. William II Villehardouin, though they ought to be changed really. Andrew Dalby 17:19, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
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Hi. How can it be anachronistical? The title of Infante is used in the Iberian peninsula since the 10th century. In Iberia, a Prince is almost always the heir to the throne and has to have a propper principality inside the Kingdom to be prince. This guy was born Infante Fernando of Portugal (and was it for the rest of his life). He became Count consort of Flanders by marriage to Jeanne, Countess of Flanders. I do not object if the article is moved to Infante Ferdinand or Infante Ferrand. As for the historical relevance: Fernando forced his father to give him the Templar Knights lands near today's Castelo Branco, Portugal. He founded Vila Franca da Cardosa, that would later become Castelo Branco (a distric capital today). In 1214 he gave the town to the Templars, receiving half of the income of the lands and under the condition that the Templars populated the zone, building a castle. This donation was confirmed by a papal bull by pope Innocence III in 1245. The depart of Fernando to Central Europe created a small wave of Portuguese merchants (and immigrants) to the region. As you see, he has equal importance in both countries. What do you suggest? Joao pais 05:01, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
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Srnec What is this foolishness? This poor guy is basically trying to force original research on everyone else? I have been out of touch, but what sources does he have, other than his opinions? old windy bear 11:53, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Dear Srnec, I have replied on the List's talk page. Re your comments on the aforementioned article. I can tell you that that certain user has a bit of history of adding dodgy stuff. So don't bother. I don't want to say more out here. Str1977 (smile back) 16:06, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I was just reading your comments on Talk:Charlemagne and had some comments myself, although I wanna stress beforehand that I agree fully with your main point that one can clearly speak of a Germany long before the Pragmatic sanction.
Crix 02:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Crix 02:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick correction of Crix's post: Luxemburg was "an Imperial estate of the HRE" not "until it became a part of the Burgundian Netherlands" but beyond that, until it was annexed by the French Republic.
Dear Srnec, I have seen your merger note on some of Germanus' recent creations and I must disagree. There is no basis for merging this as it was only created by splitting a viable article. I changed it into a redirect, but now Germanus is using your merge tag as an excuse to revert me. Please have a look into Monarchic rulers of Germany, 1806 onwards (what a silly title) and [[[Kings of East Francia / Germany]] (hardly better). Cheers, Str1977 (smile back) 09:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Srnec Greetings my friend, I don't know if you are interested, but there are elections for the military history project coordinator and assistant coordinators ongoing. I believe Kirill should be reelected as coordinator, and have nominated myself for one assistant spot, but there are six open, and if you are interested, I will nominate you (I am going to ask Ewulp as well, you both would be good). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Coordinators/August_2006 is the link if you are interested in going and looking, or commenting on the current nominations. If you are interested yourself, let me know, and I will nominate you, I think your research and writing skills are superior, and I personally find you a pleasure to work with. I wonder if Angus knows about this, he is another good candidate. old windy bear 22:57, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. Despite a whopping victory for the name Jogaila on the previous vote, the Polish users have got upset and called yet another vote. They want to get it moved back to the old unpopular name Władysław II Jagiełło. If you are interested in stopping this, you'll need to cast your vote again. Sorry for all this tediousness. Regards, Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 03:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
This article is about a battle on Anglo-Scottish borders and takes its place in the Battles of Scotland section, along with others of the same kind that I have written. It also describes an important episode in the political relations between England and Scotland in the late Middle Ages, and the decline and fall of a Scottish noble house. It forms a small part of my wider attempt to fill the gaps in Scottish medieval history, and to correct the quite enormous number of errors I have encountered on the subject in these pages. You are at liberty to flush it altogether, if you wish; but stop corrupting what I have done with your puerile and half-witted tags. If you have knowledge of the subject in question-which I assume you do not-I will deal with any specific issues you may care to raise. Otherwise please continue to devote your talents to lists of central European monarchs and the like. Rcpaterson 00:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks to you this has now been abandoned; a great pity. Anyway, back to your lists. Rcpaterson 07:26, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you've made some edits on Italian history, and was wondering if you'd be able to join a new Military History WikiProject Task Force opening up on Italian military history. It will just be a small division of the main project, but it will be devoted to helping the fairly sad Italian history articles on Wikipedia right now, (for instance, all articles on their WWII tanks are stubs), and we need a few editors before we can actually create the project. Thank you for any support.- KingPenguin 11:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick note about Thomas Aquinas - this past July, you expanded on an introduction to the Thomas Aquinas#Epistemology section of the article. It turns out that the material you quoted did, in fact, come from the Summa Theologiae, but what you quoted was one of the "objections" that Aquinas was about to refute in that article. Another user pointed out the error, and I've changed the introduction to reflect Aquinas's true thoughts. Just thought you might like to know... - David aukerman talk 02:05, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
There is currently a vote going on regarding the names of early Scottish monarchs at Talk: Cináed I of Scotland. Your contribution would be most welcome. -- Nydas 19:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Finally managed to add some news to one of the most underdeveloped articles here, Alfonso V of Aragon. As usual, maybe you'll be able to give it a glance and correct my poor English. I included especially detailed news abaout the 1420s-1430s war with Louis III of Anjou, and it could be a good idea to find a way to make it recognizable also in the History of Naples, in some way. Ciao and compliments for your excellent work (I just noticed your work about southern Italy topics, I'm just back from a 1.5 month stay in Gaeta!).
Bye. Attilios 23:24, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
I see that he's still at it. I don't have an issue with having children added to an article, so long as what's done matches reliable sources, but grandchildren and great-grandchildren is just silly. I changed Boso of Provence to match Riché. I don't care which is right, but between a website and reliable sources there's no argument. I'll have a go at cleaning some of this up later in the week. All the best ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 08:27, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
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The article List of Castilian monarchs links to a disambiguation page, [[Castile]], in the opening sentence. If you have a moment, could you please repair that disambiguation link by specifying which Castile (or Castiles, perhaps?)is referred to:
Thanks for your time & trouble -- Ling.Nut 23:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Help again needed for copyediting in Joan II of Naples, Muzio Attendolo and Giovanni Caracciolo. Ciao and thanks in advance!! Attilios 15:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
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Nice article. Some questions: when you say "Philip I of Taranto took reinforcements and was successful", at what was he successful? It isn't clear. Wasn't it Philip who retreated toward Fuecchio, Peter being dead on the field? And was Peter Count of Gravina as well as of Eboli? Choess 02:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
That seems to be a sentence fragment so it's hard to decipher it...do you have any more of the text? It looks like Bernard is being affected by womanly deceits and evil tricks etc, but I'm not totally sure. Adam Bishop 04:20, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Ciao! I wrote some biographies of House of Malatesta members. Can I ask your help for the usual copyedit (really tell me if my repeated requests annoy you, I won't offend!)? Bye and thanks in advance! -- Attilios 21:32, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Can ask your help for Arborea? I explain: there's a huge lot of red links, and in recent times a stupid user removed ALL the giudicato di Arborea section, I think because he disliked all those redlinks... Bye and thanks (PS: Emilia of Gaeta was a surprise for me also)!! -- Attilios 09:27, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
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Good work on the Prices of Achaia. Just an idea: The French wikipedians have made a nice table (better than the one we had here). Check fr:Principauté d'Achaïe.-- FocalPoint 06:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
The Catalan nationalism article mentions a "Ferdinand I, a Castillian", who was chosen as ruler, before John II of Aragon. I couldn't see a mention of this person at Ferdinand I. Is there an article on him ? Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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I saw your interest in editing, among others, pages related to the Byzantine history. That is why I thought to inform you about the History of Greece Wikiproject. The project is new and it definitely needs the contributions of users with appetite for initiatives. You can visit the main page and the various sections, most of which are stil underdevelopped; if you decide that you wish to participate and contribute, we'll be happy to see you there. Cheers!-- Yannismarou 08:55, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you for contributing this article, which I have again announced at the Germany portal page P:DE/A. We now have a project to go with the portal, the Germany WikiProject, which is still new - if you have any ideas what we should do or want to help, you'd be welcome. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 09:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Srnec, and thanks for all your hard work. I was attempting to trace the article about the Byzantine renegade Leo of Tripoli and can't find it anywhere. How can it be that Wikipedia lacks an entry about this legendary pirate? -- Ghirla -трёп- 12:09, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Ciao! I've recently done a grat effort to improve that which was a really shitty article on such in important figure. However, I seem something is still missing. Do you have some further material to add? If you've time, of course... Or maybe you could simply check my Italianized English language... Thanks in advance and good work. -- Attilios 14:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
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I've added the "{{ prod}}" template to the article De Nerio II et Antonio II Acciaiolis fratribus ducibus Athenarum, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also " What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:De Nerio II et Antonio II Acciaiolis fratribus ducibus Athenarum. You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Brianyoumans 18:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words regarding my map. I do not understand the reference to ' "Southern Italy circa 1000" not showing up '. I would like to investigate if you tell me where to look.
Regarding the edits, I was just trying to put some flow into the article, in part by occasionally removing what I thought were digressions, deleting placenames I could not verify (e.g. Amitenno and Ceprani in the Alfonso article) and also changing some of the modern-day phrases (e.g. "mopped up") to more formal wordings.
I did review my edits on the 4 articles ( Alfonso of Hauteville, Robert II of Capua, Ranulf II of Alife, and Roger II of Sicily) and they looked reasonable -- at least to me : ) . I did re-insert the note about Ranulf appearing at Lothair's coronation back into Ranulf's article. You are right -- it is appropriate. You are welcome to change anything I added or to re-insert anything I deleted. These are very good and much-needed articles and you are to be congratulated for creating them! MapMaster 15:54, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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I know you did some work on the early dukes of Bavaria, especially cleaning up the legendary Agilofing dukes Theodo I-V. I just wanted to let you know that someone went and added Garibald I of Bavaria, Tassilo I of Bavaria, and Garibald II of Bavaria, as well as Theodon I and Theodon. These I moved to standard naming and redirected the Theodon to Theodo. I thought you might be interested in looking at the Garibalds and Tassilo I. imars 08:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
There is Wikipedia:Requests for translation, but I don't know how effective that is, or how to tie it into the medieval project. You could create a project subpage for translations, though. I have noticed the same thing recently, for example the German Wikipedia has much better info about Roman and canon law. Adam Bishop 06:43, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
What's wrong with Clothar? It you discount the false positives, it's almost exactly as common as Chlothar and less shocking to the reader.
No, I don't believe you are a German nationalist; I know nationalists. I do think that you have been reading scholarship influenced by Germany, as whoever wrote the article has clearly been reading French. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:23, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Frankly, I have no idea. It looks a bit a weird category. Don't know. But keep good work as usual (my last additions in history field are Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor Sigismund, Obizzo II d'Este, Azzo VIII d'Este, Niccolò II d'Este. For the first two, I merged 1911 stuff with the few additions in the previsou (poor) articles. Maybe, if you've time, you can give them a glance. Bye. -- Attilios 14:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Since year's end, i've been too busy to work on Wikipedia, but I feel we left a couple of points in the air, which i will address here
First, on the value of Marcel Rouche's book: For those of us without access to JSTOR, i've found two other reviews of Rouche (in french, but open) (review by Pierre Riche@Annales) and (review by Gerard Moyse@Bibliotheque de la Ecole de Chartes ) for a clear view of the nature of the (still) main controversial point in the book. The book has, though, stood the test of time, and appears again and again in almost all the recent authors I've perused, used as a guide for the events in Aquitaine (f.i. Wood (1994) and -more critically- Larrea (1998)). Thus is why it seems to have become the "must read" book on Aquitaine and the Merovingian era.
A seemingly very common view of the book can be found in the words of french arqueologist Françoise STUTZ, footnote 3)
La première partie relate les événements historiques en une synthèse rigoureuse. On ne peut en revanche être d’accord avec l’analyse culturelle écrite en seconde partie.
I have tried to buy the book (second hand) but it seems unavailable at the moment. Another book which has poped-up frequently in my research and might be of your interest is Renee Mussot-Goulard's "Les princes de Gascogne" (CTR, 1982, ISBNÂ 2904159002), also sadly unavailable. But perhaps you can get then thru interlibrary loans. There are more recent books y the same author on similar subjects
I'll try to add some data for Lupus_I_of_Aquitaine when i'm free for a while Wllacer 09:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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Can I ask your help in the poll to dirime this edit war at Castelseprio (see talk:Castelseprio)? I've stumbled in somebody with awful style layout, nad probably one of those guys getting stuck like children in their version of any article. Bye and good work. -- Attilios 09:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Srnec, I need your input on the question of whether the spelling of Bohemond I of Antioch should be "Bohemund" or "Bohemond". Can you please chime in on the talk page?? Also, please look at what is now Logudoro/Torres? I had moved it to Giudicato of Logudoro, but an apparently-avengeful user has reverted all my moves in the past month. I would value your input as an expert in the field. Thanks, MapMaster 03:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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Dear Srnec, I have no idea. I could only provide some German lanugage text books/works of reference. Str1977 (smile back) 19:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Could you please have a look into this and related edits by this editor. What shall we do? Cheers, Str1977 (smile back) 10:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
D'u have anything about Jacopo and Uberto da Carrara (or Ubertino)? Bye and good work. -- Attilios 22:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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Do you have birt/death data for Ranuccio Farnese il Vecchio? Bye and good work. -- Attilios 18:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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Dear Srnec, may I request your input to the recent debate/conflict at Talk:List_of_Frankish_Kings#Revert_disimprovements. Thanks. BTW, I like the quote of the day. Str1977 (smile back) 14:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm sure that Count of Orléans must be missing some Merovingian counts, but apart from Willachar, I can't find any. Can you help? Thanks in advance, Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
-- ALoan (Talk) 10:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Srnec, thanks for your message. However, I must disagree with you. The title of these people was not "Mayor of the Palaces" but "Major Domus", Mayor of the Palace. The Domus is not a physical house as such but the household of the King. Originally there was one household for one king. Later, the stable sub-kingdoms developed with one mayor for Neustria and one for Austria (and for a while one for Burgundy) but there was still one Mayor for one Palace. As long as the offices are separate there is no problem at all, as every mayor was mayor of a palace. Your argument would only apply to the period when one man (Pippin, Charles and Pippin) combined all mayoral offices. However, at the time he was actually either the Mayor of the one King or he was the mayor of Neustria and the mayor of Austria in personal union. Either way "Mayor of the Palace" is the correct title. Compare the German: Hausmeier ... Häusermeier (Häuser being the plural of Haus) does not exist. Str1977 (smile back) 06:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your posting, but you are still wrong: Indeed there is a plural involved but it is the plural "mayors" - we have mayors of the palace, but no mayor of the palaces, just as it is "prime ministers" but not "primes ministers". Str1977 (smile back) 08:07, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I know that "prime minister" is not the perfect analogy. However the title is "prime minister" as "maior domus" is. "Prime minister of Ontario" corresponds to "Maior domus/Mayor of the palace of Neustria" - "The premiers of the provinces of Canada" to "Maior domus/Mayor of the Palace of the Frankish kingdoms". How do I distinguish? Well, there is no real need to distinguish in a morphological way ... the context is enough. Str1977 (smile back) 16:58, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Easy! "Danny Williams and Jean Charest are the premiers of the provinces of Québec and Newfoundland"? And I would say "Ebroin and Wulfhoad are the mayors of the palace of the kingdoms of Neutria and Austria". In either case we could take out the middle bit containing province and kingdom. So yes, I think "Ebroin and Wulfhoad are the mayors of the palace of Neutria and Austria" is correct. Maybe the other version is clearer but either is correct. Str1977 (smile back) 17:10, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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Srnec, I see you continue your excellent work on Medieval Italian history, including an article on the Giudicato of Agugliastra. If you have any information I can draw upon, I would be happy to craft a map for that article. Let me know, and keep up the good work, MapMaster 03:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
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The MoS quite specifically states that the bold section should be the person's name. The names of the Kings of France, in historiography at least, are [Name] [Ordinal] of France - the shortened [Name] [Ordinal] is only used when already disambiguated. The point remains that of France should be bolded in the first line since that is part of the person's name. Indeed, in some cases, it is necessary to disambiguate immediately - Louis X of France was also King of Navarre, but was not Louis X of Navarre; your actions risk sowing confusion. Nor do I understand why you seem intent on ignoring the Manual of Style - it is there for a reason, and I don't understand why you refuse to follow it due to 'redundancy'. As for the bold linking - fine, I won';t do that. I reasoned that since you clearly wanted the link in the first paragraph, it could stay there. If you don't, then that's fine. But I really don't understand your attitude. Michael Sanders 16:19, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I haven't reported you: but here's the breakdown of 4 full or partial reverts in less than 24 hours:
Three-revert rule violation on ARTICLE_NAME (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Example user ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log):
I haven't gone over 3 reverts in 24 hrs: partial or full. And I fail to see why a 'democratic' solution is required to a pretty clear point in the MoS, and the necessity for clear presentation of the subject.
Michael
Sanders
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Srnec, I completely agree with you concerning Michaelsander's behavior: for months now, he has been harassing me and reverting every single edit I do to articles, just because he wants to impose his own point of view. Whenever I clean up articles from OR or whatever, he's always behind me to blindly revert everything, always trying to twist the rules and to put forward his own "personal" (and often very different from the general consensus) interpretations of the rules. He never cares if he violates the "NPOV", "reliable source" and "No original research" rules, however he's always the first to report 3RRV, even if they are imaginary or not so obvious, and of course he never mentions that he is constantly gaming the 3RR rule in every single article he touches. He is always provoking edit wars, and his favorite technique is always to go up to 3 reverts, pushing his opponents to the fourth one, and then rushing to the 3RR notice board to try to get his opponents blocked, so that the next day he can quietly revert again to his version: of course, he'll never discuss with others before reverting.
We have to do something, because editing has become tiresome now. We can no longer tolerate such a person here, he was warned and blocked many times, involved in many POV and revert disputes, I think no admin will have difficulties to see his behavior is diruptive, so now we really have to do something. Folken de Fanel 22:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I fully agree with you, but I too am at a loss with how to deal with it. john k 21:47, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I may not have enough time to get seriously involved, but I'll check it out.
Aldrichio 20:40, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Would you like to tell me where? Michael Sanders 14:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Hallo Srnec, what do think of this situation? Cheers, Str1977 (smile back) 08:13, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your input. Could you also give your opinion on my solution of placing "Roman"(linked)-"German King"(linked) in the succession boxes? Cheers, Str1977 (smile back) 09:46, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I made many new articles about Italian middle-Ages and Renaissance figures. Maybe you're interested in them, and/or want to clean up them (most notable: Braccio da Montone, Anguillara family). You can see them in my contributions page... Let me know and good work as usual. -- Attilios 21:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
What source did you copy from? Caravale? RandomCritic 16:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Hallo Srnec, you changed the year of birth from 1301 to 1306. I found no outher sources for this date. Could you tell me perhaps the source. Viele Grüße aus Deutschland DALIBRI.
Greetings. I'm trying to get the main Middle Ages page reworked and you seem to be the guy to help out with the disorders of the 9th and 10th centuries. Any interest in helping? brandon cohen 22:28, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
that was fast, thanks brandon cohen 06:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hey can you edit Henry Ford summary please thanks
Ciao! Happy that you surfed on that article. I check often your contributions, to see if I can give a help. I wikified Arechi II of Benevento recently. Do the same with me new creations, if you've time, as my English, as you noticed, is not the best. Bye and good work as usual!!! -- Attilios 22:29, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
There's an edit war ongoing with a frantic, Wiki-illiterate editor who doesn't accept my Wikifying of his (her?) article. Help is needed to reach a consensus about a decent version will kept here. Can you help? Thank you. -- Attilios 11:29, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
As a common practice, I award barnstars on user talk pages. This is to respect any particular formatting a user may have. If you had checked there talk page, I regularly engage in discourse with this editor. Thanks for the concern though. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 17:27, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
In the ages of the County of Empúries Spain didn't exist and nobody spoke spanish there. In Empúries were spoken previous languages and catalan (about 10th century). So what is not correct is to include "Ampurias" that is the spanish translation (that is only used by the spanish history, imposed basically during the Franco's dictatorship when catalan language was banned).
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Because there is simply no way that "χÏιτής", "οιχειαχών", "χατεπάνω" or "χαι" ever came up in Byzantine Greek. The correct words, since classical times and up to today, are written with a "κ", and given the similarity between "χ" and "κ", especially when written in hand, it is far more likely that someone made a mistake in transcription. If it were attributable to a phonetic change in the language, it would have been noted elsewhere, and possibly even retained until today. Nowhere have I seen even the suggestion of a similar process though, not even in a dialect... The term "οικειακών" comes from "οίκος", "household", from which the terms economics etc are derived. The word "και" is simply "and", "κατεπάνω" is rendered "Katepano" even in English, and "κÏιτής" is a term used unaltered since Classical antiquity for "judge". Even if the original medieval text should indeed erroneously use a "χ", it is by no means correct Greek, whether Classical, medieval or modern (the changes in orthography and phonetics between the late Koine and modern Greek, i.e. the past 2000 years, are very small). So either way, the titles would be written with "κ". Regards, Cplakidas 16:38, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Ciao! Have you anything from your sources you'd add to my recent Scaliger members additions? I think you can find them starting from Cangrande II della Scala... Ciao dn good work. -- Attilios 22:58, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
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I'm sure you are right about this, but since it was challenged, it will help convince people --and build the encyclopedia--if you could add a fuller list of relatives to some of the linked pages here, with a good source. Normally, one would want a list of Theudebald's children, showing that he is not among them--but I recognize that the sources of the period did not necessarily mention all the children. You yourself reverted to the present version of the article on St. Itta, with the text " Her father was Grimoald d'Aquitane and mother Itta de Gascogne." (That information was apparently added by Cadamsesq also as part of this group of pages), but I'm very reluctant to make a deletion on the basis that you had never come across it , without some more positive source. What library do you use? I could check at Princeton in a week or two, but I'm not sure where exactly I should look--the period which I know best is Norman England. As for St. Itta, considering the similarity of name, should the article be perhaps moved to Saint Itta which is I think distinctive? DGG 22:02, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey Srnec, in my quest to find nonsensical about the crusades, I came across Nuccio, which is...really bizarre. I don't know what to make of it at all. Do you have any idea what we could possibl7y do with it? Adam Bishop 18:47, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
There's a Catholic POV crusader who continues to revert my addition of a lurid (and famous) activity by John Bosco in the latter's article. I've even scanned the source for him, and he continues to deleted it accusing me of POV!!!! Can you help? Ciao and good work. -- Attilios 18:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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Are you aware of this Talk:Catalan counties? AdeMiami
Srnec says: "but of all the facts about the Franks, why is their language, which we barely known about, so important?"
Johanthon says: the answer is really simple. It says something about the ethnicity of the original cliënt-people and the area where they lived. Contrary to what most people think the "Franks" never immigrated that much into "France". Only the "Patrons" and their "Regia Stirpa" moved to gouvernemental centres. You - as self declared Carolingian Specialist" - should really know that when Neustrian government in the Paris-basin ("Francia") was attacked from the North by Austrasians, they called those Franks "Franci superiores" and "Franci seniores", just because THOSE Franks where still the REAL Franks.
Furthermore: "which we barely known about" makes only sense for the Merovingians. From the late Carolingian period we have several texts, that are studied real well. Even most German/Deutsche scholars now agree that this is simply Old Dutch. Low Franconian and Old Dutch are not distincted any more, even on backward wikipedia people have proposed to merge those pages. The acadamic fight between Germans and Dutch about this is simply over since the Utrechtse Doopbelofte is recovered in full. So the problem is that YOU barely know. Now it is OK with me that you don't understand Dutch, but why are you so determined about something you don't understand? johanthon 10:57, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Oh, By the way - before I forget this - Did you know that there are now scholars, both in the Netherlands and Germany that distinct Old Dutch/Franconian from West Germanic languages? They are still a minority, but it severly undermines your "german" point of view. johanthon 11:17, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
I just ran searches on about a dozen variations of German architecture and had difficulty finding it. When you do, its a page directing you to other pages. On the way, I found the German culture page which, to my annoynce, someone, I didn't bother to find out who, had stupidly added two merge proposals at the top without bothering to do a preview and had thereby stuffed up the entire layout of the article. There's plenty to be done.-- Amandajm 05:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how this looks to you, but I'm getting german architecture highlighted in red, indicating there is no page. In fact there is. accessed through Architecture in Germany. I'm sure you could do something to fix it. \
Well that doesn't work either so it must be Architecture of Germany -- Amandajm 05:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
i was under the impression that you were from Germany. Are you in Europe? It must be wee small hours of the morning over there.-- Amandajm 05:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hello Srnec, I just wanted to congratulate you for your work in Spania, even if I still desagree with you about the use of the word Spain for anything else but the modern country of Spain... Still, great job! Don't you think, though, that the intro line should state where the province was located in a sinthetic manner (the south of Spain)? The Ogre 12:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hello Srnec. Regarding your comment, yes, I do know the sources say Spain. I believe that in this they are structuraly wrong and reproduce a profound historical error. This is a big discussion. No, let's not dive into and edit war. But I do believe that this issue does require a long and calm debate (involving others, not just the two of us), in order to achieve some sort of consensus and define stable guideline. There is no hurry, but wouldn't you agree with me? The Ogre 18:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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And another one! Congratulations! -- Espresso Addict 12:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
First of all, it is a great article. I ´m traslating it into spanish and I found something I couldn ´t understand. The article says:
The murder of Repostel is dated by all the chronicles to the reign of Robert I and thus after 1027,
However, the article Robert I of Normandy talks about Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy, who died in 932. I think you wanted to talk about Robert II, who was duke from 1028 to 1035. Am I wrong?-- FAR 13:49, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello, This changes from article to article, in the case of the Battle of Normandy article I've at least assumed (it's been this way for about a year now iirc) that inclusion is based on the presence of at least a division in the battle. The main issue is size of the infobox, it should not become too large, otherwise one could list all countries involved. Currently I think the infobox in question is not too big, so no need to delete material as long as each country is treated fairly... While your idea to base this on the initial phase seems acceptable at first it would mean just deleting the Poles (two French SAS and one Commando unit participated in operations from June 5 onwards), it would also be a problem because the article covers much more then just the assault phase. I hope this helps.-- Caranorn 19:48, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
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Likewise please for Adalrich, Duke of Alsace, Hector of Provence and any others which may have this problem. Dontdoit
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There were issues, one one hand with you confusing "id." (name/title only) and "ibid." (name and location), and not taking advantage of the possibility of reusing a note, and on the other hand, with the fact that the use of "reference abbreviations" (for lack of a better term) is discouraged because it is mildly jargonic and because shuffling the text around (Much more likely in Wikipedia than academic texts) can easily disrupt them. This is explained at
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I changed them to most accurate Armenian version of the names according to contemporary documents and coins. See bedoukian, these spellings are used. As for numbering system, after elevation from barony to kingdom it was reset, and that is how modern scholars interpret it. Hetoum I 00:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, there were too many questions to follow - Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia translates it to Costandin in Eastern Armrmenia, but then again, he is not Armenian is he? Hetoum I 04:28, 28 August 2007 (UTC) Yep, but the name got Armenianized, and this spelling is standart. No one is gonna translate Constantine the Great to Gosdantin Mets or Gosdantin Great. Hetoum I 04:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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Since most of the articles about the history of Armenia use the English versions of dynasty names (ex: Orontid dynasty instead of Yervantouni), king names (ex: Tigranes instead of Tigran or Dikran), may it be so for the ones concerning the history of Armenian Cilicia. Those are what most Anglophone scholars use anyway... It's the same reason why in Wikipedia, Saladin is called Saladin, and not Salah ul-Din. -- Davo88 11:39, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, please have a look to that article. Greetings de:Benutzer:SML -- 86.33.241.218 13:52, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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Learn something new every day, didn't know about NOTOC! Thanks again! Ealdgyth | Talk 21:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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A very nice capsule article. Nicely summarized; I enjoyed the read -- Samir 01:03, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
"Over-concentration on primary sources leads to original research and the problems that are ongoing related to Franco-Mongol alliance."
Funny! This article has the longest list of Secondary sources I've seen thus far on Wikipedia. Please remember, you haven't seen me going over the top like that. I'm the one who is usually keeping it simple and I'm the one who is usually preaching common sense. Please also remember I've pointed you before to a historypage where I deleted my own contribution for being original research. johanthon 19:38, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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Having discussed the withdrawal of GA with LuciferMorgan, I give notice that I am sitting down with the three classic original source texts (Puylaurens, Vaux-de-Cernay and de Tudèle - the last in the Livre de Poche edition as the Martin-Chabot is long out of print) to add the missing inline citations to this page. I do not intend at this point to make any textual alterations, but if comments are made which are NOT justified, be prepared to state your sources now. Jel 17:00, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello Smec I notice that you reverted the spelling of Suebi and Suevi from a long e to a short e and I was wondering what your reasoning is there. I changed it from short to long because it is attested as a Latin word and the Latin has the long e. Also, we get the name from the Romans and not from the Swabians themselves. The proto-Germanic root you know has the long e as the article makes clear. However, the Indo-european root has the short e. I do not believe the Germanic name in its Germanic form is attested from the time the Romans were using Suebi. It wouldn't have ended in an i anyway. Also, don't you like "Roman ethnic?" Its the Romans using the name, not the Germanics. Perhaps you could fill me in on your reasoning. Cosmetic? What? PS I notice you left the long e in the caption. Thanks. Also thanks for not obliterating this valuable information. I think I will go on a bit detailing some of the sources. I think it's a good article. Dave 22:29, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
-- Gunslinger1812 05:28, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
My text block on the Crusaders article is sourced, the number in the source list is [9], Nomads and Crusaders by Archibald Lewis. The only part of the text Nomads and Crusaders doesn't cover is the Byzantine-Muslim War of 1030-1035, from Dictionary of Wars, which I haven't gotten to yet. Nomads and Crusaders is probably one of the most insightful books ever written on the Crusades, and that text block sums up the book's thesis to a large extent. There's very little information on the page that even trys to look at the economic/social/naval/military/ machrohistorical picture of the Crusades.
Please comment here. Thanks Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 17:12, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the information on the ref., though I seem to have created another problem. Every time I use the ref. it creates a new number. I guess I'll just have to fumble through the mechanics of wikipedia. As far as limiting the text to just one historian, certainly Archibald Lewis's work is the leader in this area, but the page does have other information, not by me, that is along the same lines. If you're reading Nomads and Crusaders I hope you enjoy it, and I'm confident you'll be swayed by his viewpoint. It's an incredible well-researched and in-depth book.-- Gunslinger1812 20:36, 18 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunslinger1812 ( talk • contribs) 20:21, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your assistance at Talk:Franco-Mongol alliance over the last couple months. We are still having a bit of a stalemate at the article though, so if you have time, I was wondering if you could offer another opinion? I have created a subpage in my userspace where I have rewritten the article from top to bottom, shrinking it down from 167K to a little less than 70K, removing some of the unreliable sources and less relevant information, splitting other sections out to more appropriate articles, and most importantly, trying to smooth out the writing so as not to give undue weight to certain POVs. My rewritten version of the article is currently at User:Elonka/Franco-Mongol alliance. I've announced it at Talk:Franco-Mongol alliance#Article rewrite, but because this is such an obscure subject, it's really been very difficult to prove that there is consensus for the new version. If you have a few minutes, could you please look over the rewrite, and offer an opinion on it? I am very open to making changes, but I'm in a situation where I basically have one editor (PHG) who keeps saying "no," and no one else seems to want to comment and help break the stalemate. We've been trying mediation for the last month, but without success, and even our mediator appears to have gone AWOL, with no posts for over a week now. I would very much like to find a way to move forward through this dispute without having to further escalate it towards ArbCom, and it's my genuine hope that if we could just get some more editors actually commenting there to prove a consensus, it could help a great deal. Any assistance appreciated, El on ka 17:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey Srnec, you do a lot of work on the Kingdom of Sicily and related territories, so I was wondering if you had any insight on the situation of the church in that area. Out of boredom and insanity, I have been working on the List of religious leaders in 1220, and it is especially difficult to find out who was a suffragan of whom, or if that hierarchy even existed in southern Italy at the time (it apparently did not in the north). I'm also having difficulty figuring out whether some dioceses (like Gaeta) were in the Kingdom, or in the Papal States. Do you know of any sources that might help here? Thanks! Adam Bishop 03:52, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
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Srnec,
I did a somewhat large edit on the Reconquista. The part I shifted to "Historical Context" was originally part of the beginning of the article and I too did not feel it was inappropriate. However, I created a military conflict infobox. The Hundred Years War between England and France was intermittent conflict, but it is appropriate that it has such an infobox. The Reconquista has a definite beginning and cause and a definite end and resolution. There are more or less two defined sides (Christian Iberians vs. Muslim Moors). Even if this didn't always hold true, even the Hundred Years War had various factions within France allying with the English, switching sides, etc. I think it would be appropriate if it retained a military conflict infobox. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ironman419 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
"Authority and land were meted out in the form of benefices. Hence the term "beneficiary dukes", subsequently adopted by historians to indicate the first dukes - namely those who, although in theory servants of the king, in fact received their high office from a waning of central authority." (Calmette, "The Golden Age of Burgundy") If we look up Benefice, we read, "Originally a benefice was a gift of land (precaria) for life as a reward for services rendered. The word comes from the Latin noun beneficium meaning "benefit"." Michael Sanders 19:26, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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There's nothing wrong with the pictures. Removing infoboxes because you don't agree with them is also tantamount to vandalism. I thought you'd learnt your lesson there. Michael Sanders 11:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
"The body of each article, preferably in its first paragraph, should list all common names by which its subject is known." And at WP:Naming Conventions, "Convention: Name your pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly recognized by readers than the English form." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelsanders ( talk • contribs) 04:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Keep up the great work! -- Royalbroil 16:06, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your excellent work on Samo. Tankred ( talk) 04:26, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
In the rewrite with which you pulled together the article Theudimer some months ago you listed a wholly unfamiliar-- to me-- Visigothic city of Eyya. Google isn't helping me. I think it needs a disambiguating footnote (modern site?), though perhaps not a redlink--no article being forthcoming-- but instead to be made a redirect from Eyya. -- Wetman 22:10, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
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Why do you say that Henry III stopped being King of Germany just because he had his son crowned co-king? This doesn't necessarily mean that he himself stopped being king. It may be true that his son was the de facto king as several monarchs would appoint regents to rule in their place. For example, Charles V often appointed his brother, Ferdinand, to oversee Germany, but Charles was still the reigning king. Henry III at any time could have relieved his son of governing authority and re-assumed control. Emperor001 21:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
In the discussion page on Wacho you requested if anybody new what bavarian Waldrada married.I have added the information to the article.Do you know where it is refernced that Audoin killed Walthari to acquire the Lombard throne?.I can't find it in the original sources. Timelinefrog ( talk) 05:31, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
I have undone your change to the Francia article. The society of the region does not belong in the Franks article, because the Frankish kingdom included non-Franks, such as Gauls, Lombards, and Saxons. It is true that the content may be too simplistic, but you should perhaps expand that section, or creat a separate article.
I have undone your removal of the Frankish Empire#Life in Francia section; however, I have got rid of the section on Frankish law and told readers to see the Franks article. I added a note to the section on Frankish society urging readers to expand it. It is better to have a basic and simplified account of society in Francia than to ignore it altogether.
...in this. Angus McLellan (Talk) 17:41, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
...and in this. PHG ( talk) 06:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, it's just that we tend to sling around accusations at each other like that, so I wanted to point out that it wasn't me for once. Michael Sanders 18:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Srnec, I'm going to remind you to Be Civil. Claiming that I have a "slavish adherence to the manual of style [that] can be ruinous sometimes" is not helpful. Furthermore, it is baffling: following the rules is not ruinous, it ensures the stability of the system we exist in. It is one thing to criticise a person for disobeying the rules, another to lambaste them for following them.
To the matter: "Marquess" is the English form of the title. "Marquis" is French, "Margrave" an Anglicisation of the German "Markgraf". Consequently, neither term is appropriate in English wikipedia, or indeed as applied to an Italian Marquessate. Marchese could conceivably be used, but would be odd, particularly since most titles on wikipedia are rendered in English. You yourself favour consistency, no?
Furthermore, there is no argument in this case for an aberrant naming system contrary to the Manual and to common practice in wikipedia. The rulers of Montferrat are neither so well-known nor so complex as to require special measures in naming their articles. In this case, the obvious solution is to name them according to the common standards.
Now, I admit that wasn't done before. I also point out that many of the articles on the rulers of Montferrat had in the past seen relatively little editing, indicating a similar lack of user-traffic. In other words, there may have been little effort to make the titles conform to the MoS in the past, but that would appear to be based as much upon nobody having seen the articles as upon general satisfaction with them.
I also thank you for drawing to my attention the mentioned Marquesses. I will examine the issue immediately. For yourself, I hope that you will abide by the MoS. Michael Sanders 01:14, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for all your work. Unfortunately, I do not speak German, so de.wikipedia is out of my reach. But I will look for some English sources. I am just kind of swamped these days. Thanks again for expanding that article. Tankred ( talk) 04:21, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
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Would you please go over this?: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RR#User:24.255.11.149_reported_by_User:Strothra_.28Result:_.29 Thank you. 24.255.11.149 ( talk) 19:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
I see you've expressed some opinions on the Scots monarchs before, so would you be interested in joining the discussion at Talk:Constantine II of Scotland. Michael Sanders 15:30, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Ciao! I've just expanded Matthias Corvinus to a decent status, using material from the 1911 Britannica. Maybe, if you've time, you may give it a glance to see if it's all OK. Ciao and thanks. -- Attilios ( talk) 19:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hallo Srnec, it's been a while but there is a new conflict with Michael Sanders. Could you please have a look into it. It is about the Burgundian Circle and extends over many articles. My latest posting you can find on User talk:Michaelsanders. Cheers, Str1977 (talk) 18:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)