Talk:Kafkania pebble

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:38, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kafkania pebble.jpg

message: I've recently edited this page, mostly the "forgery" section, for NPOV, as not everyone believes that the pebble is a hoax. However, I'm not the best Wikipedia editor, so if you feel you can improve my edits please do so; I just ask that no one revert my edits in their entirety as I feel that the article as I found it did not incorporate all views on the issue.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.48.56.129 (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Dear Anon, I have looked for scholarly sources which defend the authenticity of the Kafkania pebble, and not found any.  If you can find reliable sources which support the notion that it is authentic, please bring them to our attention.  Note that blogs like http://minoablog.blogspot.com/2010/06/kafkania-pebble-testament-to-strangest.html are not considered reliable sources by Wikipedia policy.  And arguments like "if the find is genuine, it may have been written by a person who was originally educated in Linear A, which is known to have been written boustrephedon" are considered original research (in the form of synthesis) unless they are drawn from reliable sources themselves.  Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia and in this article. --Macrakis (talk) 02:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent NPOV edits by myself 

message: It seems like a test has been done in order to verify the pebbles authenticity. http://www.demokritos.gr/library/downloads/Docs/documents/Apodeltiosi/22334495_EPENDYTHS_61_2012-04-28.pdf Apparently the results are positive (for the pebble being authentic). Does anyone know if further testing has been done during these 23 months? I think we should change the section saying that it is most probably a forgery. We can keep instead a question mark, until further research is done. Fkitselis (talk) 12:34, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a scan so I can't use a translator. Where was it published an who did the testing? Dougweller (talk) 13:29, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Used Abbyy Finereader which scanned it, then Bing. The lab seems to be the Laboratory of Archaeometry "Demokritos by one Giannis Maniatis: "The incised inscription is without question the premier Greek inscription of linear b writing that has been revealed to date in favor of the authenticity of find? "The way I egcharaxis not fiber enia ioc on both sides and rather have used different tools The superficial damage and soil depositions are in and out of the engravings at least on one side and nothing seems to have upset the natural-history of the Duce, "answered Mr. Maniatis. "On the other side, the effort of cleaning n engraves by conservationists after finding the object (to read the inscription) is evident, but the detailed examination and analysis in engravings after electron microscope led to the identification of old surfaces of engraves directly beneath the new cleaning All modern. indicative of the authenticity of the object ".Dougweller (talk) 13:44, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That link is dead. Has the article been published? --Macrakis (talk) 14:27, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Testing against forgery 

message: Kafkonia "is a small village in the municipality of Ancient Olympia, Elis, Greece. It is located between the villages Pelopio and Chelidoni, 5 km north of Olympia. It is about 200m above sea level."
Is it the "Kafkania" where this was found?
--Error (talk) 10:09, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Kafkonia