Talk:Nereids

message: the opis link is broken, it leads to the babylonian city  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.86.129.130 (talk) 15:14, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: First of all, I don't think understanding the Nereids is of "high" importance to understanding Greece as a whole. Second, as a member of the Classical Greece & Rome project, I don't think the article, whatever its importance in the religion of archaic Greece, merits a priority rating of "high" in terms of the project's attention. Third, "mythology" is not just that of Greece, and even in relation to other topics of Greek mythology is of modest importance to WP readers: Nereid was viewed about 8,772 times in the month of February, compared, say, to Greek mythology with 196,937 hits, and Zeus with 240,824. Cynwolfe (talk) 14:06, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

text: Furtive vandalism added 15:35, 8 July 2005 by User:148.122.128.112 and not caught till now!--Wetman 11:24, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Cassiopeia is not a Nereid, but is associated with them in a famous legend.  She boasted that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than any Nereid.  This was "hubris", and Poseidon avenged the insult by ordering her to sacrifice Andromeda (who, herself, had done nothing wrong; she was considered her parents' property) to a sea monster.  She was rescued by the hero Perseus, who killed the sea monster, and apparently the other gods forbade Poseidon or the Nereids to take any further revenge. The   Andromeda article on Wikipedia has a painting of the angry Nereids  tormenting Andromeda.  50.180.19.238 (talk) 02:02, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The top of this page was cluttered with hatnotes; it made more sense to have disambiguation pages for the various names there. So that's what I did. I trust that's OK with everyone. Moonraker12 (talk) 12:58, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That was awesome, thanks for doing it! (By the way, shouldn't the species names have a period after the first letter?) --Waldir talk 13:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! It's been niggling me for ages! And you're right about the species names; I've re-done them where necessary. Moonraker12 (talk) 14:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hatnotes 

message: This page is tagged now for excessive dablinks. I've fixed some of them ( the one's I know) which leaves a redlink to an "N (Nereid)" page, but I don't know if that's the best solution. Some of the links are to "N (Mythology)", and one of them ("Opis") doesn't link anywhere, leaving the name in plain text. 
Any thoughts on what would be the best thing to do? Moonraker12 (talk) 13:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dablinks 

message: I don't think it's a good idea to list a collection of Nereids from different sources. According to this article, Asia/Clymene is a daughter of Nereus and Doris but she is generally known to be a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
ICE77 (talk) 05:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  List and parentage 

message: In the lede, nereids are glossed to mermaids - but the current article on mermaids equates them with sirens, which have their own provenance. This just has to be a mistake, so I have pulled the word 'mermaid'. (20040302 (talk) 11:06, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflation of nereid with mermaid - necessary?