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Talk:Ibycus

message: I'm redoing Ibycus because it is little more than a cobbling together of random facts. Feel free to help out or share with me any useful references.--Derusa (talk) 16:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I might do some work on this. Little by little. I seem to have all the lyric poets to myself, Sappho excepted. My sources for this article:
*David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric III, Loeb Classical Library (1991);
*David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry, Bristol Classical Press (1982);
*David A. Campbell , 'Monody', P.Easterling and B.Knox (ed.s), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Literature, Cambridge University Press (1985);
*Ewen Bowie, 'Lyric and Elegiac Poetry', J.Boardman, J.Griffin and O.Murray (ed.s), The Oxford History of the Classical World, Oxford University Press (1986);
It's all pretty old stuff but, consulting my 2002 OCD, I don't see there has been much change in the meagre state of knowledge lately. I'll see what else I can pick up online. The article is rarely visited, judging by the stats, which suits me fine since fewer visitors=fewer editors=fewer nincompoops=fewer traumas.
Anyhow...McZeus (talk) 06:56, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hmmm 

message: I deleted this statement and its supporting source:
Alexandrian scholars in the 3rd or 2nd century BC assembled his work into seven books or papyrus rolls, probably on the basis of meter.<...ref>Smyth, Herbert Weir, Greek Melic Poets Biblo and Tannen, 1963, p. 271.<ref.
According to Cambell, we don't know the selection criteria of the seven books and I suspect "probably on the basis of meter" is a marginal viewpoint. I've posted the source here so it can be reinstated when and if there is more support for it. McZeus (talk) 00:12, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  deleted source 

message: I've pretty well finished my edit now. I'll pop back now and then like a magpie with grubs for his young when and if I find some useful material. Ibycus might have been a moral reprobate, but so was Lord Byron, who wasn't half the poet that Ibycus was, even though in mere quantity of verses he was ten thousand thousand times bigger. Poetry is poetry, morality is morality, and adults are complex enough to keep them in separate drawers, same as they can enjoy watching murders on tv while remaining law abiding citizens. It must be a nerve-wracking experience watching murders on a prison tv, in the company of convicted murderers, and similarly it's not easy editing an article about a pederast poet when there are pederasts in the editorial ranks. However, WP seems to be getting control of that problem. McZeus (talk) 03:32, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finished
Talk:Menippus

message: We have following "sources":
*Stephanus Byz. - not defined (Who is he? What work?), not linked
*Diogenes Laërtius - the only one linked under "Bibliography"
*Cicero - not linked
*Chisholm, Hugh - the only one linked here
*Athenaeus - not defined (Who is he? What work?), not linked
Half of them practically useless. Copy-and-paste job. Arminden (talk) 11:44, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very poor sourcing
Talk:Mesomedes

message: Related (as is the Seikilos epitaph):
* Epigrammatum anthologia palatina. Volumen tertium. – Epigrammatum anthologia palatina cum planudeis et appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum, annotatione inedita Boissonadii, Chardonis de la Rochette, Bothii, partim inedita Jacobsii, metrica versione Hugonis Grotii, et apparatu critico instruxit Ed. Cougny. Graece et latine. (Paris, 1890) (google-US), p. 595 & 607
* Philologus. Zeitschrift für das classische Alterthum. Fünfzigster Band. (N. F. Vierter Band) (Göttingen, 1891), (google-US); p. 163–172: O. Crusius, Ein Liederfragment auf einer antiken Statuenbasis, p. 576: O. Crusius, Nachtrag zu S. 93 und 163.
** Philologus. Zeitschrift für das classische Alterthum. Zweiundfünfzigster Band. (N. F. Sechster Band) (Göttingen, 1893 [incorrectly printed: 1894]), (google-US); p. 160–200: O. Crusius, Zu neuentdeckten antiken Musikresten
-17:24, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Literature
Talk:Moschus

message: this is a bit misleading, I think, since Moschos actually does have an entry in Wikipedia which only shows up if you search for Joannes Moschus.  Moschos should also be redirected for this other Moschus.142.68.130.152 (talk) 22:33, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "redirected from Moschos"
Talk:Oppian

message: I suggest the article be split.
The French, Italian and Spanish Wikipedias already have different articles for the two different writers; the Portuguese Wikipedia has two different articles (one of them not yet written), but the writers are confused with one another.
The task of maintaining inter-language links is not easy in such cases; one can dream of a coordinated international action to solve this case and similar ones. JmCor (talk) 05:58, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's all well and good but Oppian is the   name of Oppian of Corycus, who is by far the  even if some lesser works by another guy got mixed up with his reputation. The page should not be split: Oppy₂ should be split off and linked via  dab. — LlywelynII 00:00, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. — LlywelynII 00:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please split 

message: This is old but still a good treatment. — LlywelynII 00:00, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for article expansion
Talk:Fazle Hasan Abed

message: *VancouverSun.
Sir Abed Sir,
Can we do the lifestyle change for youth who are the future....
Very dangerous lifestyle is killing the youth mainly making them addicts which intern spoiling society DR SWAMI VISWASANANDA (talk) 20:58, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Useful Source

message: Please note that people are considered to be knighted as soon as the honour is gazetted. It is a common misconception that they have to wait to actually be physically knighted by the Queen. In actual fact, they can call themselves "Sir" and use the postnominals immediately. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:25, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Knighthood

message: * Sylhet Division:  was made on 1 August 1995. There was no such division in Bengal Presidency. 
* British national: Since when abed become British national and resident of UK!? He was made an Honorary/ Stranger Knights Commander. It doesn't make him a british national ! Watch his video on you tube , he is proud Bangladeshi AND WORKING HARD FOR HIS COUNTRY.
* Sir Sir Sir : All British honours and their accompanying styles were officially made obsolete in India when the Dominion of India became a modern Commonwealth republic in 1950, followed by Dominion of Pakistan (Bangladesh was part of it) in 1956. Today, in the UK and in certain Commonwealth realms , a number of men are entitled to the prefix of 'Sir', including knights bachelor, knights of the orders of chivalry and baronets; although foreign nationals can be awarded these honours, they are explicitly excluded using the prefix, instead using the associated post-nominal letters.
so folks include some strong evidence of dual nationality  , till then i ' m gonna remove those over edits!!!———89.0.120.29 (talk) 09:52, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the explanation. - Mar11 (talk) 14:11, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  sense or nonsense edits!
Talk:Praxilla

message: Haven't yet found secondary sources so leaving here for the moment. Notable poets responding to Praxilla include:
* Ruth Berman, "Praxilla's Folly"
* Rachel Blau DuPlessis, "Praxilla's Silliness"
* Jane Hirshfield, "This Love"
* Gregory Orr (poet), "Praxilla, almost-forgotten" from How Beautiful the Beloved
She also appears as a character in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 23:19, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Reception
Talk:Sotades

message: The Sotadean meter is not necessarily reversible or palindromic; in fact, of the many Classical verses in the meter, I don't know of any can be read backwards.  Certainly none of Sotades' 12 generally accepted fragements is a letter for letter palindrome as we know it.
I will correct this in a week or two if no one objects. Msalt (talk) 19:24, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate details re: palindromes 
Talk:Tyrtaeus

message: I've started a new edit of this article, trying to incorporate existing sources as best I can. Don't quite know what to do about this statement and its source: Arthur Woollgar Verrall placed the lifetime of Tyrtaeus in the middle of the 5th century BC.<reference Classical Review, July 1896, May 1897.. I suspect it refers either to an Athenian Tyrtaeus (poet) or maybe a Spartan-born general, but I don't know. Either way, the source is very old. I'd dump it except it links to a scholar notable enough to deserve an article of his own. I'll leave it here for rescue when and if the need is felt. McZeus (talk) 13:01, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: new edit

message: "Holding secure in his grasp haft of his sword or his spear!"
Should this be shaft?
IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 21:27, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick dictionary check will answer your question. - Eponymous-Archon (talk) 18:04, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

text: No, a haft and a shaft are completely different things. A sword doesn't have a shaft. Kanjuzi (talk) 19:05, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  typo? 

message: — Assignment last updated by Johnstoncl (talk) 20:44, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: History of Ancient Greece
Talk:ISKA (sports governing body)

message: Wasn't Andrew Tate a champion at the ISKA? Shouldn't his name be mentioned? 24.225.138.50 (talk) 13:56, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrew Tate
Talk:Alciphron

message: "The characters are thus somewhat raised above their common standard, without any great violation of the truth of reality."... really?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Furius (talk • contribs) 14:14, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pecorino

message: There is also a white grape variety from Sardinia that shares the same name.
Daniel
86.130.23.33 09:39, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. I’ve created a micro-article at Pecorino (grape). Do improve that article! —Ian Spackman 12:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  White grape variety 

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replies: text: I agree and have removed it Ian Spackman (talk) 11:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Speedy deletion of [[:Image:Pecorino-romano.jpg]]

message: Does a specific type of Rennet have to be used in the making of this cheese. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 16:42, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Rennet
Talk:Tushar Kanti Ghosh

message: I plan to do some expansion of this article in the next couple of weeks. Just dropping some sources to use below. Ganesha811 (talk) 20:50, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ^This source needs documentation before it can be used, but I'm having difficulty finding out what work it's from.Ganesha811 (talk) 16:03, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some sources
Talk:Critical mass (sociodynamics)

message: Memory is the way one reconstructs his initial sensory sensation. One is not the same person he or she was when the event occurred. Conscious awareness is far reaching. An analysis of self reaches out. We are not confined to what goes on in our brains. Call it God-consciousness or universal consciousness, our conscious awareness is boundless.. 
Newton discovered the infallible laws of motion. What comes around goes around in the physical universe but consciousness exists in a state. It is qualitative. Physics is the study of mass, energy, motion and force, but more lately some quantum physicists have admitted consciousness in the study. 
Nanotechnology  has opened new thought about reality creation, thought that connects with astrology. What comes around goes around quantitatively, no question about it, but qualitatively as well, leading us to the conclusion that there must be a supreme consciousness.Inlink 09:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What the hell does the first paragraph have to do with critical mass? (Sadartha 22:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ?? 

message: Isn't "Critical Mass" a term used to define the number of specimens of a species that would cause successful repopulation of that species? Don't know if it goes here or in the Disambiguation for "Critical Mass" or somewhere else. 99.237.87.79 (talk) 21:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repopulation 
Talk:Muhammed Abul Manzur

message: The article is titled "Abul Monjur", but it spells his name "Manzur" throughout. I have no idea which is right, but consistency would be good. Maproom (talk) 14:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have to ageee. i think this person is also the same "Manzur" who deleted the Bangladeshi map from the original flag of BD? i can't be sure of it Saajan99 (talk) 12:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Monjur or Manzur?

message: The truth has bot been portrayed here and as such I have made the necessary corrections along with cited materials. Manzoor was the one who assasinated President Zia, now if he shot the President is unknown but the BBC along with other media and Diplomats have stated him as the main conspirator. There is no hard evidence that conspiracy was carried out by Ershad. The BNP led Government that came to poer twice after Ershad' downfall never saw to it that he is convicted of the alleged crime. there are further documentation of the division in the army and the revolt by General Manzoor.
He was a war hero none-the-less, but he will always be remembered for the wrong reasons. The man who conspired to kill President Zia. As such I have made the correction.  --Incognito1980 20:01, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction of role in the assasinaton 

message: Looks like parts of this article are written to demean or glorify the person.
:The intro says, "Major General Muhammad Abul Manzur (1940 - 1981) was a disgruntled Bangladeshi army officer who conspired and was the main man responsible for the assassination of Ziaur Rahman..."
::It is not a job of wikipedia to point out whether he was the main man in the conspiracy and that too without citation.
:At one point it is written that Manzur used to run his division 'as his own private game preserve' and that he was a 'menacing general'!
On the other hand, that he was a war hero is repeated many times. The most striking is the concluding line. 
:A war hero and a sector commander of the Liberation War freedom fighter only to be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Please take care of these. --Sabih 15:34, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: Odd article; added content on the assassination and attempted coup to the Lead. needs more sourcing on assassination - very confused account here.Parkwells (talk) 19:02, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs more content and sources
Talk:George Kedrenos

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Monica Yunus

message: Somebody Please Change using her name as "yunus" which is actually a surname and confusing, use "Monica" instead.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.149.18.5 (talk) 13:49, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Esterina Tartman

message: According to Haaretz  on 1/3/07
The comments come after revelations that Tartman, the Tourism-Minister designate, does not hold a bachelor's degree from Bar-Ilan University or a master's degree from a Jerusalem institute, despite claims on her curriculum vitae.
on http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/831423.html Yossi Verter wrote: Yesterday, when it became clear that she also lacks a bachelor's degree, there were those who suggested she bring up that traffic accident again and argue that the blow she suffered, affecting "her ability to concentrate and remember," explains her confusion and lack of orientation on her academic degrees. 
The evidence of her having a degree is from the Jerusalem post article which says To set the record straight, Tartman said her first degree was from a continuing education school run by Touro College, and connected to Bar-Ilan University. She said she had almost completed a second degree at Touro, but never did because of the accident. There is a photo of her holding up a certificate.
According to the Gurdian 
But Wednesday, the two Israeli universities where she said she studied - Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University - said she was never enrolled. Her bachelor's degree apparently came from the Israeli branch of New York-based Touro College, an institution of lesser standing, at a time when such foreign branches were not under government supervision, Army Radio reported. 
Can someone with knowledge of Israeli accademia help clear up the confusion here? ابو علي 09:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The photo in this article (you need to click on the top one to get the full picture) is a close up of the degree, which clearly states she has a Bachelor of Science from the Touro College International School of Management in Business Management and marketing. Number 57 10:43, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: fair enough. Thanks for the info. ابو علي (Abu Ali) 00:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does she have a BA? 

message: :The photo in this article (you need to click on the top one to get the full picture) is a close up of the degree, which clearly states she has a Bachelor of Science from the Touro College International School of Management in Business Management and marketing. Number 57 10:43, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: fair enough. Thanks for the info. ابو علي (Abu Ali) 00:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The answer
Talk:Fred Marriott

message: *Created stub of an article requested on Wikipedia for more than a year.  Smee 09:58, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Created stub 

message: Four years after the Wright brothers flew an airplane, Fred Marriott flew an automobile. Snezzy (talk) 10:04, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impromptu automotive aviation
Talk:John Malalas

message: Is there any English translation of his complete historical work? Will be grateful for your feedback thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.35.231.40 (talk) 11:12, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  One question 
Talk:John of Ephesus

message: This article needs to be fixed badly.  The Orientals are not (and have never been) Monophysites.  This accusation has been historically debunked again and again, and it is sad that we still have articles where this error is not corrected.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.97.68.76 (talk) 12:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: — Assignment last updated by Dwlehm1 (talk) 00:31, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: The Middle Ages
Talk:Logain Ablar

message: the veiwing is dream about stepping over rand's corpse as said "logain, laughing, stepped across something on the ground and mounted a black stone; when she looked down, she THOUGHT it was Rand's body he had steped over, laid out on a funeral bier with his hands crossed at his brest, but when she touched his face, it broke apart like a paper puppet" 
so its not leaves that it breaks into by any event also it causes doubt as to if it is rand or a puppet of some sort. 
also the blue and gold for glory,k he will lead the black tower and the symbol of being such (the M'hale) will be blue and gold dragons as "taim" has adopted. more to come Shinigami Josh 10:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Skylitzes

message: We are reorganising the Illuminated MS, and are weeding out those articles on texts rather than specific MS.  This one could be "saved" for the category by the split, which I was keen to do - obviously it was not necessary on general grounds.  Johnbod 16:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a number of articles about authors or texts, which also cover specific MS. The illuminated MS category should only have articles (in general) about the latter, otherwise things become chaotic.  You are the one who has been cutting the overlaps - at the present stub stage I don't see a little duplication as a problem.  Johnbod 17:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

message: Is there a relationship to Stephanos Skylitzes,  Trebizond, Constantinople , who left Constantinople  about 1140,with his mentee, Theodoros Prodromos? GioCM (talk) 20:59, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query 
Talk:George Sphrantzes

message: This article, unreferenced, says Constantinople. "Monemvasia during the Frankish period 1204-1540. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 1907 pp.229- http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofhelleni27sociuoft#page/229/mode/1up" says Monemvasia. Which is right? Richard Keatinge (talk) 18:02, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthplace

message: also (wrongly!) known as "Francis"! Böri (talk) 13:05, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Francis
Talk:Symeon the Metaphrast

message: Perhaps it would have been both wise and kind to tell the reader, what on earth is meant by metaphrast. Elsewhere on the net I learned that it means a person who transscribes received texts e.g. by translating them or changing their literary form e.g. from prose to lyrics... Terminallyuncool and Terminallyuncool2, hampered again by loss of passwords...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8070:249B:4F00:804F:5388:82E4:5DEB (talk) 08:26, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metaphrast 