Talk:Battle of Pharsalus

message: "Titus Lavienus had been one of Caesar's underofficers in Gaul..."
Shouldn't it be Titus Labienus? And just what the heck is an "underofficer"? I've spent years in the U.S. Army working with foreign troops and the only time I've heard this term is with the Germans or I've read it in some late 19th century British history. There are better, clearer military terms in modern English such as just plain officer, lieutenant, legion commander or "legate".
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: "Caesar therefore marched overland to through southern France"
Where was he headed?  From context it seems like it was probably Italy. Molinari 00:42, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A couple of nitpicks

message: Although it's generally accepted Caesar lost about 1200 men, perhaps the article ought to mention he claimed to have lost only 30 centurions and 200 legionnaires? 200.172.12.182 22:51, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caesar's reported casualties 

message: While it's true that Caesar's legions were understrength, it's hardly likely that Pompey had as many troops as are indicated.  Delbruck's analysis suggests Caesar's account inflates Pompey's troop strength by perhaps twice the actual number.  This analysis was based on some slips in Caesar's own account; for example, Caesar credits Pompey with c. 7,000 cavalry, but then goes on to give the individual contingents, with numbers, and they total only about half that.
--Al-Nofi 20:46, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers of Combatants 

message: Why is the word "phalanx" used in this article as if it were interchangeable with "formation" or "ranks"? This is not correct and should be changed. Romans of this period did not deploy the bulk of their forces in a phalanx. 66.30.175.171 (talk) 19:29, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Phalanx"? 

message: The completely unsourced second and third paragraphs of the "Prelude" section appear identical to this web page, and may have been drawn in block from its same source:
*http://totalwarrior6004.blogspot.com/2012/11/history-channel-decisive-battles-e09.html
I have wondered if the source is not a transcript or article on the History Channel series, but I have not been able to locate such. It seems possible, given the date of this web content, that it was pasted, part and parcel, from an earlier version of the WP article.
For a comparison of these two paragraphs, from WP and the totalwarrior page (accomplished by a paste, diff, then reversion), see these diffs: 
*Second paragraph: . 
*Third paragraph: . 
In re: how these unreferenced paragraphs came into being: The edits were made by an IP editor, seemingly with an initial long paste, followed by a series of small revisions. E.g., the lengthy unsourced part, "...trench warfare of..." through end of paragraph, was added as a block on 27 May 2011, as shown here: . All of the edits pertaining to these final paragraphs were made without any addition of citations (e.g., no citations were later deleted). 
This may suggest some unknown source (quelle), and unreferenced initial text cribbing from it (quelle → wikipedia), and reverse "plagiarism" (wikipedia → totalwarrior). But given the earliest appearance date of the text at the totalwarrior site cannot be determined, the direction of the mass cribbing has to remain uncertain. It is possible it is not plagiarism (quelle → wikipedia or totalwarrior → wikipedia), but simply paraphrasing through a series of edits (though without citation, so still violating WP:VERIFY).
See the following for more on the way these two paragraphs came into wikipedia:  and .
This is all the further time I can give to this. Minimally, this is very poorly created content, leaving us clueless as to the source of factual material. Possibly, it is plagiarism, either from the unknown quelle or from the totalwarrior site.
Le Prof 71.239.87.100 (talk) 22:05, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible plagiarism? 

message: An article by Postgate (1905) makes it clear that "Pharsālia" (or Pharsālicum proelium and the like) was the name of the battle in ancient writers, not Pharsalus. Perhaps this should be noted. Kanjuzi (talk) 17:00, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the Battle