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Comment-I mentioned on the talk page of Tiberius Aemilius Mamercinus, but are they the same guy? I can't quite tell, thank you. Wgolf ( talk) 22:11, 13 May 2019 (UTC) reply

Graf Zeppelin

Please take a look at German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin - the vessel was only 85% complete by the time work stopped on the ship in 1939 (and indeed, parts were removed thereafter for other uses). The ship was never completed, please stop incorrectly stating that it was in the infobox. Thanks. Parsecboy ( talk) 09:33, 10 June 2019 (UTC) reply

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Dates of office

Hi, when you create infoboxes for Roman Republican consuls, you can add a more accurate date in the infobox for their time of office (otherwise it looks like they are in power for two years): they started their term as consul on 15 March. But this is correct only for consuls before 154 BC (it was 1 January after that). See an example here. T8612 (talk) 22:46, 7 November 2019 (UTC) reply

Well, I have investigated the affair a bit more in depths, and it seems that the issue is debated. We are only certain that consuls entered office on 15 March for the years between 217 and 154 BC. Livy gives examples of earlier consuls entering offices at different dates; some scholars have argued that this is late reconstruction, but others think consular terms were not fixed. So it's better not to touch it for now, except for the years 217-154 of course. I will change the dates when I see them. T8612 (talk) 19:24, 10 November 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Ok, I have found a good source for the dates of the consulships:
  1. 509–479 BC: 1 September–29 August (August had only 29 days in Ancient Rome)
  2. 478–451 BC: 1 August–31 July
  3. 449–403 BC: 13 December–12 December
  4. 402–393 BC: 1 October–29 September (September had 29 days)
  5. 392–329 BC: 1 July–29 June (29 days)
  6. 222–154 BC: 15 March–14 March
  7. 153–46 BC: 1 January–29 December (29 days)

I think you should quote the source every time you add these dates in the infobox; it is: Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.

Ogilvie is an authoritative source; there are some historians who disagree, but it is a good starting point. Unfortunately Ogilvie doesn't give the dates for the years between 328 and 223, but I can find that elsewhere if you need them. Apologies for the confusion. T8612 (talk) 23:12, 10 November 2019 (UTC) reply

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Thank you for letting me know I was just creating a article based on martial present in The Incredible Dr. Pol BigRed606 ( talk) 22:26, 29 November 2019 (UTC) reply

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The source mentioned is factually incorrect and the exact area of the Maratha empire is 2,800,000 sq km (1,100,000 sq mi). So don't try to revert my edits. Ayxu 76 ( talk) 18:16, 9 March 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Ayxu 76, I think you might be confused with someone else. I have not made any edit or reverts about Maratha empire.BigRed606 19:58, 9 March 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hi there, Would you be willing to review the new additions added to the Dexcom Talk page since you have reviewed content there before? Chistina.mlynski ( talk) 21:39, 16 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Chistina.mlynski Sure what are they? BigRed606 ( talk) 22:19, 16 June 2020 (UTC) reply

/info/en/?search=Talk:Dexcom

I'm linking the talk page so you can see the updates I've made. Chistina.mlynski ( talk) 22:21, 16 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Did you make the edits on the actual Dexcom wiki page or the Talk page? Could you take a look at the Talk page that has all the edits I'd like to make and provide our suggestions and edits there as well? Chistina.mlynski ( talk) 22:42, 17 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Thank you for the advice, I'm still getting the Talk pages down. If you could look at the content on the Dexcom Talk page, which can be found here /info/en/?search=Talk:Dexcom and check out the content under the following headers: 'Partnerships' and 'Leaderships' that would be great. If you could provide your improvements and edits under those headers on the Talk page, I can then upload the revised copy to the actual Dexcom page once everything is neutralized. Please let me know if you need anything else and I appreciate your help. Chistina.mlynski ( talk) 14:47, 18 June 2020 (UTC) reply

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The reason why I deleted several infoboxes from this and similar articles was this: infoboxes were created to summarize the key points of articles that might otherwise be missed, or require a good deal of searching through articles to find. In some cases they also provide a convenient place for helpful graphics, such as a picture or map, but these things can be added to articles with or without an infobox. The text making up an infobox is its justification for being in an article. As the essay WP:DISINFOBOX explains, not all articles require infoboxes. This is especially true of short articles, in which all of the key details that would go in an infobox can be found in the lead, or other tables and graphics. Just as very short articles don't benefit from having a table of contents, an infobox is only justified if it provides useful information, and makes the article easier to navigate.

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Some of the other information contained in the infoboxes for these persons isn't particularly helpful. If we don't know when people were born, or when they died, and can only guess that it was probably at Rome—which would be the same for all Roman office holders whose place of birth or death isn't stated in any ancient sources, even though we know some of them weren't born at Rome, and probably a greater number than that didn't die there—then it's probably better not to mention it at all. Just as we don't usually mention the family members of historical figures whose family is unknown: it's absurd to read in a Wikipedia article that person A was the son of person B "and an unnamed wife". In articles about contemporary figures, it may be notable if a piece of information usually known about persons is unknown; in antiquity it's routine to lack such details about most people, and it's not necessary, or helpful, to list all of the details we don't know.

The point I wanted to make about the dates is similar to that about the place of birth and death. Yes, we probably know the dates that the annual magistrates usually entered and left office for most of the history of the Republic. But these dates depend, in most cases, on a chain of inferences that, while we can feel somewhat confident about them collectively, don't really tell us whether there was variation from year to year, or whether the magistrates for a particular year entered or left office on that date. Just as we can only guess as to where a particular Roman was born or where he died, we only have a probability as to when a magistrate took office, except in the rare instances where it's mentioned in one of the Roman historians or in epigraphy. It may be a very high probability—but there's still a significant chance that it's wrong some of the time. An infobox isn't a good place to deal with this kind of uncertainty—and you'll notice that, no matter how many consuls or other magistrates are mentioned in most historical writing, it's rare to see anyone mention the date that they probably assumed office. If it's mentioned, it's mentioned once as a general statement about the time period concerned, and not for every individual magistrate; usually their terms of office are described only by the year.

Llywrch mentioned something that might be useful in an infobox—although it could also appear in the lead, as it does in the Oxford Classical Dictionary. The PW number of an individual is useful as a reference number—at least if one has access to that encyclopedia. But it wouldn't provide justification for an infobox by itself: there would need to be more.

I hope that this explains my reasoning better than I did before, and I hope to continue working with you and other members of the project to improve our coverage of Greek and Roman topics. P Aculeius ( talk) 22:28, 14 September 2020 (UTC) reply

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I started a new move request on War in Iraq (2013–2017), hope you can participate in it Ridax2020 ( talk) 11:54, 13 May 2021 (UTC) reply

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The hiring is not official until the team announces it. Cuban can say whatever he wants until the hiring has been made official by the team on their website or social media. The sources that you provided clearly say "reportedly" or "per sources", which is not official. – Sabbatino ( talk) 06:23, 28 June 2021 (UTC) reply

Sorry I thought that a statement of confrontation from the teams owner would be enough, since he owns the team BigRed606 ( talk) 07:49, 28 June 2021 (UTC) reply

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Hi, when you create infoboxes for Roman Republican consuls, you can add a more accurate date in the infobox for their time of office (otherwise it looks like they are in power for two years): they started their term as consul on 15 March. But this is correct only for consuls before 154 BC (it was 1 January after that). See an example here. T8612 (talk) 22:46, 7 November 2019 (UTC) reply

Well, I have investigated the affair a bit more in depths, and it seems that the issue is debated. We are only certain that consuls entered office on 15 March for the years between 217 and 154 BC. Livy gives examples of earlier consuls entering offices at different dates; some scholars have argued that this is late reconstruction, but others think consular terms were not fixed. So it's better not to touch it for now, except for the years 217-154 of course. I will change the dates when I see them. T8612 (talk) 19:24, 10 November 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Ok, I have found a good source for the dates of the consulships:
  1. 509–479 BC: 1 September–29 August (August had only 29 days in Ancient Rome)
  2. 478–451 BC: 1 August–31 July
  3. 449–403 BC: 13 December–12 December
  4. 402–393 BC: 1 October–29 September (September had 29 days)
  5. 392–329 BC: 1 July–29 June (29 days)
  6. 222–154 BC: 15 March–14 March
  7. 153–46 BC: 1 January–29 December (29 days)

I think you should quote the source every time you add these dates in the infobox; it is: Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.

Ogilvie is an authoritative source; there are some historians who disagree, but it is a good starting point. Unfortunately Ogilvie doesn't give the dates for the years between 328 and 223, but I can find that elsewhere if you need them. Apologies for the confusion. T8612 (talk) 23:12, 10 November 2019 (UTC) reply

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Thank you for letting me know I was just creating a article based on martial present in The Incredible Dr. Pol BigRed606 ( talk) 22:26, 29 November 2019 (UTC) reply

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The source mentioned is factually incorrect and the exact area of the Maratha empire is 2,800,000 sq km (1,100,000 sq mi). So don't try to revert my edits. Ayxu 76 ( talk) 18:16, 9 March 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Ayxu 76, I think you might be confused with someone else. I have not made any edit or reverts about Maratha empire.BigRed606 19:58, 9 March 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hi there, Would you be willing to review the new additions added to the Dexcom Talk page since you have reviewed content there before? Chistina.mlynski ( talk) 21:39, 16 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Chistina.mlynski Sure what are they? BigRed606 ( talk) 22:19, 16 June 2020 (UTC) reply

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I'm linking the talk page so you can see the updates I've made. Chistina.mlynski ( talk) 22:21, 16 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Did you make the edits on the actual Dexcom wiki page or the Talk page? Could you take a look at the Talk page that has all the edits I'd like to make and provide our suggestions and edits there as well? Chistina.mlynski ( talk) 22:42, 17 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Thank you for the advice, I'm still getting the Talk pages down. If you could look at the content on the Dexcom Talk page, which can be found here /info/en/?search=Talk:Dexcom and check out the content under the following headers: 'Partnerships' and 'Leaderships' that would be great. If you could provide your improvements and edits under those headers on the Talk page, I can then upload the revised copy to the actual Dexcom page once everything is neutralized. Please let me know if you need anything else and I appreciate your help. Chistina.mlynski ( talk) 14:47, 18 June 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hello, BigRed606. Llywrch's weighing in on the infobox discussion on my talk page reminded me that there's a great need for civility in the world today, and that I could have done better in responding to your message both there and on the talk page of Titus Cloelius Siculus. I realize that you put a lot of work into adding infoboxes to various topics, and I should have considered that and spoken to you before I began deleting them.

The reason why I deleted several infoboxes from this and similar articles was this: infoboxes were created to summarize the key points of articles that might otherwise be missed, or require a good deal of searching through articles to find. In some cases they also provide a convenient place for helpful graphics, such as a picture or map, but these things can be added to articles with or without an infobox. The text making up an infobox is its justification for being in an article. As the essay WP:DISINFOBOX explains, not all articles require infoboxes. This is especially true of short articles, in which all of the key details that would go in an infobox can be found in the lead, or other tables and graphics. Just as very short articles don't benefit from having a table of contents, an infobox is only justified if it provides useful information, and makes the article easier to navigate.

Many Roman consuls (and other important office holders) have short articles—short enough to fit on a single screen, or just slightly longer. Usually they also have succession boxes at the bottom of the article: graphics that list the person's colleagues, predecessors, and successors. These boxes are already designed to perform the main task of the infoboxes you've added to a number of articles, which means that the infoboxes tend to duplicate most or all of the succession box, in another location and a slightly different format. Personally, I don't think that succession boxes are all that helpful, and they're certainly no more attractive than infoboxes, and they're less-conveniently placed. But that's how WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome has placed this information in articles about Roman magistrates since the beginning, and changing them over to infoboxes is something that would require discussion at the project's talk page—and would probably require volunteers willing to go through hundreds of articles and convert the contents into infoboxes.

Some of the other information contained in the infoboxes for these persons isn't particularly helpful. If we don't know when people were born, or when they died, and can only guess that it was probably at Rome—which would be the same for all Roman office holders whose place of birth or death isn't stated in any ancient sources, even though we know some of them weren't born at Rome, and probably a greater number than that didn't die there—then it's probably better not to mention it at all. Just as we don't usually mention the family members of historical figures whose family is unknown: it's absurd to read in a Wikipedia article that person A was the son of person B "and an unnamed wife". In articles about contemporary figures, it may be notable if a piece of information usually known about persons is unknown; in antiquity it's routine to lack such details about most people, and it's not necessary, or helpful, to list all of the details we don't know.

The point I wanted to make about the dates is similar to that about the place of birth and death. Yes, we probably know the dates that the annual magistrates usually entered and left office for most of the history of the Republic. But these dates depend, in most cases, on a chain of inferences that, while we can feel somewhat confident about them collectively, don't really tell us whether there was variation from year to year, or whether the magistrates for a particular year entered or left office on that date. Just as we can only guess as to where a particular Roman was born or where he died, we only have a probability as to when a magistrate took office, except in the rare instances where it's mentioned in one of the Roman historians or in epigraphy. It may be a very high probability—but there's still a significant chance that it's wrong some of the time. An infobox isn't a good place to deal with this kind of uncertainty—and you'll notice that, no matter how many consuls or other magistrates are mentioned in most historical writing, it's rare to see anyone mention the date that they probably assumed office. If it's mentioned, it's mentioned once as a general statement about the time period concerned, and not for every individual magistrate; usually their terms of office are described only by the year.

Llywrch mentioned something that might be useful in an infobox—although it could also appear in the lead, as it does in the Oxford Classical Dictionary. The PW number of an individual is useful as a reference number—at least if one has access to that encyclopedia. But it wouldn't provide justification for an infobox by itself: there would need to be more.

I hope that this explains my reasoning better than I did before, and I hope to continue working with you and other members of the project to improve our coverage of Greek and Roman topics. P Aculeius ( talk) 22:28, 14 September 2020 (UTC) reply

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Move request

I started a new move request on War in Iraq (2013–2017), hope you can participate in it Ridax2020 ( talk) 11:54, 13 May 2021 (UTC) reply

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Sorry I thought that a statement of confrontation from the teams owner would be enough, since he owns the team BigRed606 ( talk) 07:49, 28 June 2021 (UTC) reply

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I response to UTRS appeal #86970 I have made what I hope is the correct block anon-only, so you should be able to edit from your account. JBW ( talk) 16:20, 3 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Thank you so much I appreciate your help. BigRed606 ( talk) 16:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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