# Talk:Battle of Thermopylae

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are outlined below:

There is uncited text in the article, including the entire "Thespian monument" section
The lede, at five paragraphs, is longer than the recommended 3-4 paragraphs at WP:LEADLENGTH
Is anyone interested in fixing up this article, or should it go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 18:08, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Can anyone please lock this page? It has been vandalized so many times. Nguyen280405 (talk) 11:40, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Is it a phyric victory or not? NotSoTough (talk) 09:37, 26 November 2024 (UTC)


### Battle of Thermopylae
@Matarisvan: Are you still interested in working on this? Z1720 (talk) 02:57, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Z1720: Yes, I am. However, I will need at least 2 months to commence work on this rewrite, because I am working on Artemisium and Salamis first, which are relatively easier to rewrite and have fewer commentaries. Please allow me time until April 2025 to finish this rewrite, if I haven't, you must open a 2nd reassessment. Matarisvan (talk) 12:31, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:52, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

The 2006 Zach Snyder film 300 (film) is a well known modern popular cultural depiction of this battle. I can understand that historians may have qualms with it, and a previous "popular culture" section was removed wholesale, and that there is a comment saying "PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY "CULTURAL" INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE" - but surely there should be at least one reference to it even if only for reasons of disambiguation. As a reference point for why I'm putting this forward - I was pretty confused when opening the article as to whether it really was the same battle depicted in the film that I knew was so well known from the 2000s, and searching the text of the article gave no clarification as to whether it was the same thing or not. Nuclearpidgeon (talk) 03:46, 7 November 2025 (UTC)