# Talk:Greco-Persian Wars

"Greco-Persian Wars" as the title of this page is blatantly eurocentric and incorrectly implies that these were the first or most significant wars fought between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greeks. The page should be renamed "Greek Reconquest of Macedon, Thrace and Ionia."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.249.25.143 (talk) 19:20, 17 July 2013 (UTC) 
This is further strengthened by the statement that appears at the beginning of the article (and Google search results which include this page): "Greeks are awesome." Someone has included a template or some such that includes this text automatically since it is not part of the editable text of this article.
Pfrowe (talk) 17:46, 14 April 2014 (UTC) what a nice history

The Greco-Persian wars have continued at the time of the Alexander the Great. Since it was Macedon and the rest of the Greek states vs the Persians again and at the same era, it is appropriate to expand the current article to that and inappropriate not to do so, since that was a major part of it and its conclusion.  If others agree as well, you can state it here, in order to start adding that in the article as well Jazz1972 (talk) 14:48, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

@Jazz1972: The Greco-Persian Wars are generally considered to have ended in around 450 BC. The wars of Alexander the Great are considered a separate topic. We base our articles on reliable sources and the reliable sources in this case do not consider the later wars of Alexander the Great as part of the Greco-Persian Wars. --Katolophyromai (talk) 15:19, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi, 
I would like to update the bibliographic source by Encyclopedia Britannica (it has no author) so that it now can have the name of the editor (Michael Ray, as stated in the website), archive URL, and authors ("The editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica" as recommended in Encyclopedia Britannica itself): 
|author=The editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica |date=8 May 2020 |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Greco-Persian-Wars |access-date=19 July 2021 
|editor1-first=Michael |editor1-last=Ray |title=Greco-Persian Wars |work=Encyclopedia Britannica |archive-date=15 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615022450/https://www.britannica.com/event/Greco-Persian-Wars 

--177.227.43.209 (talk) 22:08, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

As written, this current version seems to promote the work of a popularizing writer for no particular reason other than to promote that author's work.  He has not published with a scholarly press.  He offers nothing new.  His name and content can be left in the bibliography, but the content promoting his views, including a redundant footnote, #5, should otherwise be removed. My concern is Wikipedia becoming a place where writers use these pages to promote their own work when they are not leading authorities, but have, in fact, rather used leading authorities whose work becomes subsumed under their own for no good reason. 96.246.22.244 (talk) 03:58, 27 January 2024 (UTC)