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Talk:Leo IV the Khazar

message: Bury's book, almost 100 years old, gives no source for its figures whatsoever, nor does it even try to justify them, and I maintain that they're absolutely implausible; modern estimates, such as those by Warren Treadgold, put the size of the entire Byzantine Army in the 770's at 60,000, a figure barely over half the size of what's reported here for a single field force! It is also, it should be noted, the figure used in the main "Byzantine Military" article. Even the paper strength of the Byzantine Army in the early 9th century, as reported by Ibn Khordadbeh (who claims to have gotten his hands on a copy of the military rolls), was only 70,000, 30,000 less than what Bury casually mentions were involved in a single expedition. In any case, the estimate, as shown above, is massively contradicted by more informed examples both ancient and modern, so it really has no place in the article.
Additionally, that all of the Themes and Tagmata, even if they did approach 100,000 combined (very unlikely), would ever be gathered in one place is, quite frankly, a ridiculous idea. Bulgaria and Slavic tribes needed to be constantly guarded against in the north, Lombards and Tunisians needed to be constantly guarded against in the west, and Arab raiders needed to be constantly guarded against at sea. Ripping many or most of the guards from their farms and postings in these regions to go on a raid 1000 miles away would have lead to economic and military disaster, and that's not even considering the logistical impossibility of supplying an army that size.     
Jeandukeofalecon (talk) 04:35, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you provide a citation for the book/page number of the estimate? Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 16:00, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:   "Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081", page 67; the number is a bit higher than I remembered, giving an extremely optimistic 80,000 for total soldiers and marines, but it's still far, far too low for anything approaching 100,000 men to have gone on an adventure in Cilicia, even if there were no frontiers to be guarded in the west or south. Jeandukeofalecon (talk) 02:23, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Size of Leo's Army 

message: @Iazyges, I think this article would benefit immensely from including information on Leo IV's relationship with iconoclasm. From what I've read, it was one of the defining marks of his reign. Despite being a GA, this article sadly lacks coverage on this topic. Unlimitedlead (talk) 19:05, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, I'll see about expansion when possible. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 20:54, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iconoclasm
Talk:Adelchis of Benevento

message: Don't worry, the other wikis don't tell either, but still...???!!! - Teminallyuncool, having long since mislaid and/or forgotten his password for Wikipedia and diverse mail and phones he owned at the time...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.56.130.91 (talk) 17:02, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which emir???
Talk:Ado of Vienne

message: One of the sources prefixes his name with an S. — LlywelynII 00:45, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Saint?

message: At some point, this needs to go to his   name and  at Ado of Vienne. — LlywelynII 00:47, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Move
Talk:Áed Findliath

message: I have replaced the text from the previous stub with a translation of the article in Norwegian about Áed (my own contribution). The following sentences from the stub have not been incorporated: 
:Also known as Aodh Fionnliath, Aodh Finnliath, Aedh VI, Aidus Finliath, Aed Findliath mac Néill Caille O'Néill, Aedh Finn-liath, Aedh Findliath and Aedh Finnliath.
::Any mediaval persons name will be spellt differently in various sources. This list of names is not very relevant.
:Aed Finliath was determined to drive back the invaders. In 866 he cleared the coast of Norsemen raiders. In 868, he drove out the invading Danes and Norwegians after defeating them at the Battle of Killineery.
::This is speculation (determination), and for the latter to sentences simply not very likely to be true. I have found no annalistic accounts that in any way supports either that there was a Danish/Norwegian invasion in 868, or that the Norse presence in Ireland was ended after Aeds victory over the southern Uí Néill and their allies that year. Finnrind 05:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Agnello Participazio

message: The previous text had a whole string of inaccuracies, some of which were quite serious. They were:
*  1) There was not such a thing an island of Rialto. There was a group of islands called Rivoalto. Rialto is the name of the area where the market is. 
*  2) Civitas Vetianum was a term that started to be used in later times.
*  3) It is not clear at all that the Antenori doges called Pepin to support them. It has been argued that Pepin was in negotiations with the Byzantines, but these broke down and he decided to invade the duchy of Venice because the Antenori doges's ambiguous stance caused the talks to fail.
*  4) Campiello DEL Cason did not become the first doge's palace. This Campiello was by the church of SS. Apostoli, in Cannaregio. The doge's palace was built further south, where it still is, in what is now St. Mark's Square. Moreover, it is not certain that Agnello's house was actually in this campiello. It is only known that he had property in the area of SS. Apostoli. 
*  5) There is no record on Agnello establishing a mint.
*  6) The urban development of Venice was not centred on Rialto. The Olivolo island (today's S. Pietro in Castello), Castello, St. Mark's and SS. Apostoli were the early nuclei of urban expansion.
*  7) Agnello did not rebuild Torcello, Burano and Rialto. None of these places needed rebuilding. He only rebuilt Heraclea.
*  8) The Gran Canal was not "born" at this time. It had been there all along.
*  9) There is no record of Agnello building bridges over the River Brenta on the mainland coast of the lagoon.
* 10) Agnello did not oppose Giustiniano and certainly did not besiege him at San Severo. Giustiniano managed to change his father's mind.
* 11) Agnello appointed his third son Agnello as co-doge at the same time as Giustiniano's appointment to the same position.
Testatorsilens (talk) 19:53, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many inaccuracies in the previous text
Talk:Odo the Great

message: How Yon de Gascogne is a probable corruption of Odo is way beyond me.
ICE77 (talk) 23:56, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Odo is a modern English representation of the medieval name Eudon, from which Yon is not as much a stretch. Anyhow, it's sourced. Agricolae (talk) 00:09, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probable corruption 

message: Can somebody check whether the claim the the Battle of Tours-Poitiers occurred in 733 is true? All I have seen so far seems to point to 732, including the same entry for the battle.
ICE77 (talk) 01:42, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The date of 732 is from the Frankish sources, while 733 is from the Mozarabic Chronicle. Roger Collins, Arab Conquest, p. 91, argues for the latter, while Paul Fouracre, Age of Charles Martel, p. 87, is noncommittal. He points out that either dates works with other known data, the only contradiction is between the sources. I think this information was in the battle article once upon a time. Srnec (talk) 04:22, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Battle of Tours-Poitiers
Talk:Al-Mahani

message: I have removed two paragraphs from this article because they were plagiarized from  the MacTutor web site. Here is the offending material.
Wiki: The book Al-fihrist ("Index") by the bookseller Ibn al-Nadim in 988 mentions Mahani, not for his work in astronomy, but rather for his work in geometry and arithmetic. However the work which Mahani did in mathematics may well have been motivated by various problems of an astronomical nature.
MacTutor:
The Fihrist (Index) was a work compiled by the bookseller Ibn an-Nadim in 988. It gives a full account of the Arabic literature which was available in the 10th century and in particular mentions al-Mahani, not for his work in astronomy, but rather for his work in geometry and arithmetic. However the work which al-Mahani did in mathematics may well have been motivated by various problems of an astronomical nature.
Wiki: Omar Khayyam is quite correct to rate Mahani's work highly, despite his failure in the mentioned problem. The fact that Mahani conceived the idea of reducing problems such as duplicating the cube to problems in algebra was an important step forward by itself.
MacTutor:
Omar Khayyam is quite correct to rate this work highly. It would be too easy to say that since al-Mahani has proposed a method of solution which he could not carry through then his work was of little value. However, this, as Omar Khayyam is well aware, is not so at all and the fact that al-Mahani conceived the idea of reducing problems such as duplicating the cube to problems in algebra was an important step forward.
DavidCBryant 13:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright Violation
Talk:St. Mary's School by the Riverwalk

message: In 2002 and 2003 my Youth Group, from St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Oklahoma City, visited St Marys and helped paint, clean, remove old equipment, and more. We loved that place! We discovered an unused chapel(being used for storage) in what had been the convent, and restored it and used it! We spent evenings on the rooftop playground, looking at the stars, listening to the sounds of the city, talking, praying, sharing. This place meant the world to the teens and adults that went, and we were heartbroken to hear that it had closed. Becky Hardin  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.117.32 (talk) 17:24, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Al-Mubarrad

message: Large portions of this page (possibly all of it), including the footnotes, are taken verbatim from the Bayard Dodge translation of the Fihrist of Al-Nadim, published in 1970. Is this a copyright concern? Should it at least be acknowledged?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.89.176.105 (talk) 21:51, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Marsh Valley High School

message: I have changed the importance rating from High to Low, as the Marsh Valley article better meets the Low criteria of "Not at all essential, or can be covered adequately by other articles", than the High criteria "Very much needed, even vital". --Lissoy 20:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance assessment

message: Are there any photos available for the the "MV" hillside letters for this school? See also List of Hillside Letters in Idaho for more details. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 20:41, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: "MV" hillside letters
Talk:Germanus I of Constantinople

message: In Chronological list of saints in the 8th century these are given as born 634; died 732. A list in the French Wikipedia has a death date of 733. The 1959 edition of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church has ca. 634 to ca. 733. Maybe this could be made less inconsistent.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 20:39, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates of birth and death 

message: I am trying to find Germanus's famous hymn, "Μέγα καί παράδοξον Θαΰμα", and thus far coming up empty. If you have it please email it to me at mailto:rosharuo@gmail.com or put it on my Talk Page here. Thanks! --Haruo (talk) 15:10, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text of his hymn?
Talk:Jerome High School (Jerome, Idaho)

message: welcome Victuallers 22:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Philippicus

message: Dear all, we have no exact information concerning Philippikos' origin. Some scholars suggest that "probably armenian origin", for example A.Kaldellis(Byzantine emperior is his profile)- "probably percian origin". --Aydin mirza (talk) 14:26, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. This was a follow on discussion to the one immediately prior, where it was suggested to change the RM from a single page to a multiple. The nominator did a fine job summarizing the previous discussion's points. There was no opposition, and this move is consistent with other articles. All of the destinations are currently redirects to the sources, so no addiitonal work is required.  UtherSRG (talk) 11:06, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 17 October 2022
Talk:Plectrude

message: Hello! I am a university student with a project on Wikipedia. I have been assigned this page in my history class and will be making updates to improve the page on Plectrude. If you have any issues with my changes, do let me know on my talk page. :) BabyYoda00 (talk) 18:40, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello BabyYoda00, I too was assigned to work on a page on Wikipedia and chose this page, I am looking forward to building upon the (great) work you already did :) BabyMonkOsferth (talk) 17:20, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Great edits! I think the historiography section is valuable. One small suggestion; mention her first in the Death section as it is a little bit confusing that it opens with a sentence about Charles Martel … Tmarac (talk) 21:13, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello! (I sure hope I used the right html to respond) thank you for the feedback. I didn't do the Death section(I only added the 'Historiography section' but that's a good tip that I can work on, thank you :) BabyMonkOsferth (talk) 21:22, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the page
Talk:Preston High School (Idaho)

message: tell us more. welcome Victuallers 22:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Amram ben Sheshna

message: This page mentions, '"kedushah" (Sanctification) for private prayer' as an example of 'evidently later additions in the manuscripts.' Is there any source for this? Specifically, I am curious if this might be getting confused with the "kaddish for an individual" (whose origin I am trying to track down) mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaddish#Minyan_requirement and linking to this page as a source.
It looks like the mention of Kedusha on this page was one of a number of additions by user User:Sirmylesnagopaleentheda.
Marcstober (talk) 16:38, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kedushah or kaddish?
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/List of notable science fiction films

message: I wanted to register my opinion that this article certainly did not deserve to be deleted, and that ignorance of the awards by the voters should not be a basis for calling them non-notable. This page was intended to list the members of the longer list of science fiction films that have distinguished themselves in a notable manner, whether for good or ill. Now that information is lost. This action seems utterly cynical and I quite object. Certainly I would have voted to keep if I had know this page was nominated. — RJH (talk) 19:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment on Afd and close
Talk:Tikanga Māori

message: Whoops, i made that last edit not realizing that new Firefox on my new RHEL5 system wasn't logged in. That was me. ,:}  David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 22:40, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambig template added

message: Of interest and might be added to the page:
The New Zealand Court of Appeal has accepted the following definition of tikanga in Takamore v Clarke [2012] 1 NZLR 573 paragraph 59, footnote 9:
"As defined by Mr Kruger, tikanga is the customary practices, attitude and regulation of behaviour of people.  Tikanga is applicable and is accountable in terms of its general practice of the particular marae and the particular hapū.  It is the connection between the cultural identity and the language of the people and their cultural practices.  Tikanga, as the New Zealand Law Commission notes, is the closest Māori equivalent to concepts of law and custom, although the terms “Māori custom law” and “tikanga Māori” are not entirely interchangeable. Refer Law Commission Māori Custom and Values in New Zealand Law (NZLC SP9, 2001) at 1–2 [“Māori Custom and Values”]."
The case concerned Tuhoe tikanga relating to burials.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.97.17 (talk) 10:29, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Court of Appeal discussion of tikanga 

message: I have just done an update of the article and removed the 'citations needed' flag. Further expansion can still support the information, especially from Māori authors, and from across varied applications and fields. Happy to discuss on here if anyone wants to Pakoire (talk) 23:46, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update of article
Talk:Ardo Smaragdus

message: Two Smaragdi
This article should probably distinguish between Ardo Smaragdus and Smaragdus of St. Mihiel as they were both kicking around in the early ninth century.  I just removed a faulty external link to Smaragdus of St. Mihiel's texts in the Patrologia Latina.  As far as I'm aware, the Life of Benedict of Aniane is Ardo's only composition. Corinnap (talk) 22:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Tikanga

message: Whoops, I made that change not realizing that my new RHEL5 workstation wasn't logged in here. I did that, my edit.
The word is originally a Maori word, and that's the primary definition. RHEL borrows words from other languages, but doesnt appropriate them. Note that tikanga doesn't really appear on Red Hat Enterprise Linux until way down in Version History. Ahem — someone looking for a definition is not going to real that far waiting for an explanation. 
A disambig template is on Tikanga Māori to refer to the RHEL release. 
David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 22:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Changed redirect target
Talk:Minico High School

message: tell us more. welcome Victuallers 22:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hi there. If you wish to add sporting stats, please note that Wikipedia is not a database of statistics. However, if some stats are notable, they need to be sourced properly (see WP:CITE). Thanks. --Bfigura (talk) 19:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Didn't see any verification, so removed that per WP:BLP. --Bfigura (talk) 04:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports team stats
Talk:Morris Heights, Bronx

message: I've always thought that Morris Heights might be a subsection of University Heights. Any thoughts on this? -EJ220 22:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For the most part people consider it a separate neighborhood. Wikiwiki718 (talk) 02:33, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Subsection of University Heights?

message: Why is it going to be called "The Next boro park"? Isnt Borough Park, Brooklyn filled with Jewish people?
:It's not. Wikiwiki718 (talk) 02:33, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Next Borough Park???

message: — Assignment last updated by Lizzyem (talk) 00:39, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: University Writing 1020 Communicating Feminism TR 10 am
Talk:St. Michael's High School

message: tell us a bit more if it was built in 1859. history. alumni. refs Victuallers 22:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, yeah. This article has a WP:STUB tag on it for a reason... :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]   ‹(-¿-)› 09:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I go to SM and i recently updated the page. Ciao ThyKingdomDie (talk) 18:33, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion
Talk:Santa Fe Preparatory School

message: well done ...tell us a bit more ... alumni.... refs and pics welcome Victuallers 22:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

message: The "Controversy" section is libelous and lacks any third-party verification. Moreover, the legal references to the US Constitution are completely legally inaccurate (the 5th Amendment does not apply to private actors, only state actors - please see any Constitutioanl Law textbook or reference for verification of this fact). I believe this was added maliciously by someone with a grudge against the school (likely a disgruntled former student or employee). PLEASE DELETE THIS SECTION.
Kgfisher (talk) 02:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy Section 

message: The controversy section keeps being removed and re-added. I'm going to go remove it again, and would strongly suggest that it stay that way, for the following reasons:
* The Constitution doesn't apply. As User:KGFisher says, it doesn't apply to "private actors," just acts of government. Mr. Leonard could give someone a detention every single day for something they did once, and it's not unconstitutional, just unfair.
* It's not notable. This is an encyclopedia. That some people are unhappy with the headmaster isn't something that goes in an encyclopedia.
* It's chock full of  weasel words, which don't belong here.
* Wikipedia's  Biographies of Living Persons guidelines on criticism state that "The views of critics should be represented if they are relevant to the subject's notability and can be sourced to reliable secondary sources, and so long as the material is written in a manner that does not... appear to side with the critics; rather, it needs to be presented... in a neutral, encyclopedic tone." (Emphasis is mine, stressing the points that don't appear, to me, to fit.)
Fogster (talk) 03:16, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Followup 

message: I removed a lot of peacock terms from this article. It used the phrase "nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains" not once, but twice. Sheesh! This is not a real estate listing, and mentioning how historic Santa Fe is, or how historic the neighborhood is, isn't helpful. Junk like this is not appropriate for Wikipedia. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been copied from promotional sources.Grayfell (talk) 03:19, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotional language.
Talk:Larry Wright (street drummer)

message: He's at least as notable as the Naked Cowboy, another Times Square busker  dm 22:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Albuquerque High School

message: well done 1891! ...tell us a bit more ... alumni.... refs and pics welcome Victuallers 22:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  well done 

message: I'm looking for a moderator to protect this page from unregistered visitors - this page has been vandalized before and it seems to be the subject of much vandalism.  Please keep this an educational site, and not a place for making jokes. Thanks. Bulldoggie101 (talk) 04:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protect this page! 

message: If the only thing the poetry club has done is participated (and won) a poetry contest that isn't notable enough to get its own entry, I don't think it's really relevant to keep it in the article, but I figured I'd post here before removing that information-- any opinions? IMFromKathlene (talk) 09:25, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability of Poetry Club
Talk:Branchville, Connecticut

message: In May 2014, I attempted to add citations; many of the facts and language in the original writeup duplicated accounts that appear on the websites of town chronologies authored by Jack Sanders, without links to corresponding texts that are accepted as authoritative texts under Wikipedia guidelines.Casoulman (talk) 17:28, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Greens Farms, Connecticut

message: The large typewriter eraser along Beachside Avenue is also in the National Gallery of Art sculpture exhibit in Washington D.C. and was made by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.  It is entitled Typewriter Eraser, Scale X.  Copies have also been displayed in Seattle Washington.  See also :Image:Typewriter Eraser, Scale X.jpg (which is not displayed here on this talk page for copyright reasons, since a discussion page display may not constitute adequate Fair Use). 67.86.73.252 (talk) 16:34, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the sculpture 

message: Is the population available? If so, it should be added. NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 14:18, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population