Talk:Gladiatrix

message: This article contains notes, but few references. It's sketchy and needs work. I'm doing a thorough ogcopyedit of gladiator and might as well do the same here. I was planning to import material from the gladiator article's Female Gladiators sub-topic and edit it into the existing text. Anyone interested please leave message here or at my talk page. Haploidavey (talk) 21:45, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refs 

message: As nobody has posted here or at talk page, I'll just go ahead. Have cut and pasted the material from gladiator here, and removed the most obvious duplications, along with some headings. The article is too short to need the headings that were there. Have also imported a couple of citations, and plan to remove almost all the material about the disputed London "girl gladiator" in lieu of some researched findings. I don't see the point of linking to news articles. Firstly, it's old news: secondly, news articles are not a reliable source. They're journalistic opinion.Haploidavey (talk) 05:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  copy-edit log 

message: the information from the hereford dig is mainly conjecture by journalists and i do not feel it should be included in the article. there was a statement released by the worcestershire archeaology service contradicting the articles.  http://heritage-key.com/blogs/bija/roman-mystery-woman-discovered-near-hereford-not-female-gladiator
edit: i have removed the hereford section of the article.
: I see a third editor has reinstated the Herefordshire subsection in the main article. I think that is fair, as the section simply quotes the BBC - that the corpse "might be a female gladiator". The web article you cite above does not actually refute the conjecture. It says, in its final summarising paragraph, that "At this stage, very little can be said with certainty". Therefore, I would argue there remains the possibility - however slim some may judge it - that the corpse might be a gladiatrix ... unless and until subsequently proved either way. --Trafford09 (talk) 01:49, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have, however, added the source you cite to the end of the article's section, so that readers can judge for themselves. --Trafford09 (talk) 01:54, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herefordshire 

message: Most of the current content was added in a single day (9 April, 2015) by a single editor . The first of their edits added over 14,000 bytes of uncited, essay-style speculation. A few citations were added by the same editor - some of these are OK because the sources deal with female gladiators; but most do not. 
The authorship of the added text seems to rest on the assumption that if no source specifically says that female gladiators didn't go through the same schooliing, training etc. as male gladiators, one can reasonably assume that they did (there being no evidence to the contrary), and one can therefore quite reasonably insert "gladiatrices" alongside "gladiators" in whatever case. But of course, one can't do that. I'm about to remove all such problematic, original and speculative content, as carefully as I can. Apologies in advance for any unintended damage; sources will be salvaged and examined, and content restored or adapted where appropriate. Haploidavey (talk) 21:43, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article swamped by essay-style synthesis and original research 

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