Talk:Homosexuality in ancient Greece/Archive 5

message: I think the best thing for now is to keep the page full protected. This will prevent edit warring. If he disagrees with the current content, he can contact me so that I can take appropriate action with the law-enforment authorities. As I have protected it, noone else can do something about it, so I am to blaim now, nobody else. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 20:02, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, that sounds good to me. —Khoikhoi 20:18, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full protected 

message: Time to go back to semi-protection? -- Kim van der Linde at venus 18:22, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds fine to me. --Akhilleus (talk) 18:25, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure.  I've done it. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 19:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Back to semi? 

message: I've just received a call from the police officer; it turns out that he wasn't able to verify the identity that I gave him, so the timing of Cretanpride's second email was a coincidence.  Given that email, it seems extremely probable that this was a hoax; while making a hoax death threat is still a serious matter, I think that we can all relax a bit now.  I'm going to continue to pursue the investigation, but the urgency has diminished. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 22:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is not too soon to pin a coda on this particular episode:
"Fair Greece! Sad relic of departed worth!
Immortal, though no more. Though fallen, great!
Who now shall lead thy scattered children forth,
And long accustomed bondage uncreate?
Not such thy sons who whileome did await,
The hopeless warriors of a willing doom,
In bleak Thermopylae's sepulchral strait—
Oh! Who that gallant spirit shall resume,
Leap from Eurotas' banks, and call thee from the tomb?" Haiduc 23:11, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hilariously apt.  Well said, Haiduc — and, indeed, well said Byron. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 23:48, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Well, to be fair, Cretanpride consistently identified himself as Greek, and claimed to be defending the honor of the Greeks: see this diff, and this one, for example. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 20:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So did Pete Sampras, but he's not from Greece. Miskin 01:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't believe I'm having this conversation, but I believe that the point Haiduc was making with his Byron quote was that Cretanpride was a poor representative of Greek civilization.  At least, that's how I interpreted it. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:06, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

text: But funny indeed, as Lord Byron was probably the first Westener ever to understand what Greece is really about. It's ironic when someone like you quotes him with the intention of humiliating what he gave his life for - showing clearly that you haven't understood anything about neither Byron nor Greece yourself. Miskin 11:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update on the threat 

message: I have blocked Takidis indefinitely as a sockpuppet of the banned user Cretanpride. Mackensen (talk) 01:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What if you're wrong? Miskin 01:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh. So I take it you're able to check IPs, very useful. Miskin 02:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A note