Talk:Greek

message: I'm trying to disambiguate all the pages that point to here.
Generally, it's not to hard, as many entries are for Greek language (someone learnt it at school, or a word comes from it).
However, sometimes it is a bit difficult to decide between Greece, Ethnic Greek and History of Greece. For example, what about a Greek colony (outside Greece)? And, in some cases, a reference to 'Greek' is effectively a reference to Greek culture in general, which doesn't have a separate entry. tag'I can work on my own. 07:32, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: Wikipedia:Disambiguation#What_not_to_include states: "Lists of articles of which the disambiguated term forms only a part of the article title don't belong here. Disambiguation pages are not search indices. Do not add links that merely contain part of the page title (where there is no significant risk of confusion)." 
If people don't mind, I'll remove the long list of things related to the adjective "Greek". People who look for "Greek theatre" or "Greek fire" will type "Greek theatre" or "Greek fire" in the search box; they are unlikely to come here. Besides, many links were obsolete and/or doublets. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:46, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice work. I've been fixing links to this page recently, and you have trimmed it down to just what is necessary. Appreciated. —Nate Scheffey 11:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pruning down 

message: Hi there,
since I'm German/Greek, maybe I don't understand this part of contemporary American culture, but how does "The word Greek refer to" - "Student Fraternities and sororities in North America"? Because they use some Greek letters in their names? Can someone give me an example how someone says a phrase with the word "Greek" in it and really means the fraternities/sororities? This sounds pretty far-fetched! If there is no such strong connection, this relation should stay out of the Greek disambiguation page, because otherwise, in this fashion, we also had to include mathematics in general (for using Greek letters extensively) and scientific languages herein. The latter would make even more sense, since these termini technici really are a special, reduced form of the Greek language, in a way ...
I'm taking out the Fraternities - if someone comes up with a good explanation why they should be back in, he or she should give us a hint here. Regards, -- marilyn.hanson 11:55, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Google Greek at many college sites, or Google Greek life, and you'll realize that the word "Greek," in American English, refers a great deal of the time to student fraternities etc.  I am a teacher of ancient Greek language and culture; like you, I privilege the meaning referring to Hellenic civilization.  I'm constantly disoriented on my own campus seeing references to "Greek" this-and-that, and sometimes it takes a second to remind myself that a sudden explosion of interest in Pindar and Aeschylus has not taken place.  Still, there is no denying that this is what the word means to a great many speakers of English, and I'm quite mystified why the disambiguation entry would be deleted, when a simple Google search, or look-up in a good dictionary, would have sufficed to confirm the correctness of that entry.  Wareh 20:35, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then it is of course okay to put the fraternities back in; I wouldn't have profited from such general Google search in English on a single-worded English term so widely used as "Greek", since I didn't even know that "Greek" is often combined with the term "life". Even dictionary.com has the fraternity meaning as number nine out of ten. although I must say I'm quite confused as to why you had to do it by reverting; out of laziness, maybe? Although I assume good faith, others might have seen this as rude. As you can see in the version history, this was not the only change I made, and so I'm going to restore those other changes. Greetings, -- marilyn.hanson 12:26, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoops, I'm quite sorry about reverting the other changes, which inexplicably I did not notice when I called up the edit differences.  I guess my mistake came from taking the edit summary at face value.  My apologies for making you come back to redo some of your valuable work here.  Wareh 15:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No offence taken. Thanks for the reply from -- marilyn.hanson 17:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fraternities 

message: Where should I go to find information on the layout of keys on Greek typewriters of the late 19th century?   216.99.201.129 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 14:51, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greek typewriter 

message: I strongly object against the recent edits that have – again – made the dab list grow into something that approaches more a directory of related topics than a disambiguation list, with entries like:
** Modern Greece: War of Independence, Kingdom of Greece, Second Hellenic Republic, 4th of August Regime, Axis occupation, Civil War, Military Junta, Third Hellenic Republic
A disambiguation page is purely for what the term "disambiguation" is about: topics that share the same name.  Nobody who looks up the term "Greek" would expect to land on a page dedicated to the "4th of August Regime" or the "Greek War of Independence". Those things aren't called "Greek". "Greek" may be an attribute of them in some sense, but "Greek", all by itself, isn't their name. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I can see (and even approve) the theoretical and ideal reasoning behind this, but would suggest that the recent edit wars have shown this to be an insufficient and inadequate argument per se.  Secondly, a not insignificant proportion of people coming through here might expect the term "Greek" to equate to Ancient Greece > Classical Greece, so it seems useful to allow them to get to their target article without having to pass through intermediary pages. Scarabocchio (talk) 21:44, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  The edit wars are only caused by people forgetting what a disambiguation page is about and filling it up with unrelated stuff; once somebody starts doing so, somebody else will want their favourite unrelated stuff in too. The solution is not to saturate it with a maximum of unrelated stuff. The solution is to bring it back to what it ought to have been from the start. The fewer entries the better. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:03, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Future, I suggest you take the page and make whatever edits you want. If this means stripping the history section to the bare History of Greece article, then so be it. I merely got involved because it seemed to me that some people don't like seeing "Ottoman" next to "Greek"... Constantine   ✍  22:10, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

text: I've done a maximum pruning back, in several steps. If you disagree, you can revert me in parts – but please don't revert all the way back to the ridiculously overburdened page we had previously. Also, though I know it's been discussed before and there were objections, I'll renew my suggestion to reduce the "Greek language" sub-entries to just two: Ancient Greek and Modern Greek. The rationale is further up on this page, see #Pruning down again. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:29, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

text: I would like to point out that WP:DABSTYLE states that "Each bulleted entry should, in almost every case, have exactly one navigable (blue) link; including more than one link can confuse the reader."  For those who use the disambiguation popup tool, having extraneous wikilinks will make it more difficult to find the correct one.  A disambiguation page should not look like a navigation template.  We already have one of those at :Template:Greece topics  ... discospinster talk 19:33, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pruning down, for the 3rd time 

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thread_title:  Filipino