Republics Need your help and or advice The British Wikipedian Republican Party sought fit to delete Wikinfo Classical definition of republic from Wikipedia There is a terrible brouhaha at Talk Republic They won t even allow an external link SimonP really doesn t know what he is doing They deleted the Classical definition of republic and created mixed government and politeia instead The official title of mixed government is a Republic and the Romans translated politiea as Republic And then to top it off the new article Classical republicanism doesn t refer to the Classical republics of Crete Sparta Solonic Athens or Rome but to Machiavelli s ideology How can that be when Venice in the 13th century instituted a mixed government and called herself a Republic With Jwrosenwieg and Kim Bruning there was a tacit agreement a year ago to have republic be the modern meaning and a Classical definition of republic to describe the ancient republics of Hellas and Rome and their influence To say the least the Republic section is all messed up We need some clarification I have new information but User Snowspinner won t let me bring this back up for undelete I do grant that a little bit of the Classical definition is original but the rest is not I will not let Sparta be called anything but a republic I will not let the British wikipedian modern republicans strip Sparta my heritage and roots of her rightful name She is a Classical republic and needs to be called such At the least where is the damage in having an external link I saw your many edits on Athens I am sorry to report that she was a Republic under Solon Solon was an admirer of the Doric Greeks I think you need to rethink your knowledge base and I point you to User talk WHEELER Confusion over the term republic and ask you to take a good look at the references to the classical definition at Wikinfo 15 26 17 Mar 2005 UTC