Talk:Pous

message: Discuss first change later
I would like people to compare the version reverted by Drini with the version he replaced and note how much malicious damage his vandalism did. He removed the comparative units which was the purpose for creating the page. He removed the references and he removed the wikified introductionRktect 02:34, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
:This article is about the pous.  Start from that simple premise.  Stick to it.  Gene Nygaard 02:56, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's also not a chicken, and sticking to units of measure, not a barrel of oil equivalent either.  So what?  Don't forget that this article does not stand alone.  It is part of an encyclopedia which contains many other entries as well.  Gene Nygaard 10:57, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I sincerely cannot see the point of this article (and others in the same "series") as standalone articles. This one really should be a redirect to Ancient Greek weights and measures (which in its turn needs a severe cleanup). -- Egil 11:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect

message: Sorry, this seems to be pure Stecchini stuff. By very intricate series of arguments, Stecchini tried to show that the various ancient systems of measurement were related to each other by defintion, and tables like these are typical examples. Stecchini basically seems to claim that all known systems measure by definition relate to each other by a precision of at least 5 digits. He certainly touches the idea of the degree as a common basis for units of length (see also User:Egil/Sandbox/rktect#Selected_claims), but additionally he constructs intricate arguments about for instance how he believes early standards of length were initially derived from perfect cubes of a standard weight, and that the different feet of different cultures can be *explained by different mediums used to fill these cubes, like water, wheat and barley. Why we have found no historic evidence of these 'magic' cubes, and how one could expect to reach 5 significant digit using a standard based on the density of barley is not explained! (For more Stecchini, see http://www.metrum.org/ ) 
* I get a kick out of Egil. Everything is always "seems to be" , "seems to claim", speculation and opinion with a definite POV and agenda. If he doesn't know about something it becomes "magic". None of his opinions is ever properly documented, referenced or cited and he repeats the same old tired misinterpretations of fact over and over again.
*Stecchini has a site dedicated to his memory (metrum) which explains his work much better than can be done in a few lines here. Essentially he collected  discussions and studies of measures of length, area, volume and value in the ancient world and did a fairly good job of showing how they were all part and parcel of the same system.
Stecchini is the professor whose ideas basically fuelled much of the modern pyramidiot movement. 
*No, that would be Piazzi Smythe, the royal astronomer of Scotland whose thinking was probably much closer to Ole Roemers than Stechinnis.
He was also a strong supporter of Immanuel Velikovsky, the guy who claimed that obscure planet movements were the cause of various catastrophies reported through historic time, for instance the planet Venus being ejected from Jupiter around 1500 BC, and the Earth coming into close contacts with Mars in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, etc! -- Egil 12:10, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: About the "comparative analysis"

message: Once again Egil has tagged a page with no discussionRktect 22:22, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
:Good point. I've removed the tag, as it's not appropriate without a stated reason. Ken talk|contribs 22:28, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
::The dispute is for instance with regards to Stecchninis theory of the daktylos division of various Greek feet. I thought this talk page made it clear. -- Egil 05:44, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|disputed}} 

message: Anyone mind this article being made into a redirect to Ancient Greek weights and measures? -- Egil 17:18, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect 

message: Ummm... Athens was in Attika/Attica, so WHY is there an "Attic pous" and an "Athenian pous"?
You are fraking with a persons educational experience because of your PMS problems over some pedantic Stecchinia@$%$$%%-philic bastard who for *gods only know why* was allowed equal access to Wikipeia's "Edit" key with the same autocratic power as an educated Dr. of Arts, Classicist. Ergo, geo-cities is as likely a "valid" resource as "Wikipedia", negating the sole purpose for HAVING a free encyclopedea.
Because I have pissed away part of my finite life-span looking up WTF is the length of FRAKING POUS; thanks to those on this forum, im pissed off and closer to dead, and still uneducated.
108.38.36.17 (talk) 01:48, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two POUS definitions