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This has gone on for too long and it would be fantastic if some editors could join me and improve this abandoned and ridiculous problem. There are plenty of obvious examples, but I will start with one:
Now who decided that this made sense? Why does it continue? Every single time an English man reads the name of a footballer or person of importance with this nonsense he completely mispronounces the name because of this 'ch' business. Other examples are Angelos Charisteas, Lampros Choutos etc. The Spanish for example leave their spelling intact and this forces the media and public to learn what the 'x' does in their respective language, like with Xavi - whose name is pronounced shabi. Is there anyone out there who agrees so we can mend all these names in respect to the actual people whose names are being badly represented? This nonsense has gone on too long and there needs to be some order. Reaper7 ( talk) 16:11, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
I came across this discussion by accident, having recently had a disagreement about whether the 'appropriate' rendition of a name was Spiros or Spyros (I think the former is more helpful and familiar to the reader, I was told the latter was more 'correct' … not by a Greek BTW). The trouble with the 'fixed' system is that it only makes sense if you already understand the Greek alphabet (in which case you hardly need the Latin). Wikipedia certainly isn't consistent, we have Chania, but just down the coast Hersonissos. Any fixed system also leads to monstrosities in latin script, I can't remember the whole name of an ex-student of mine, but it started with an English 'B' sound, so his Cambridge ESOL certificates and all his 'latin' documents ended up rendered (in Latin) as MP.....etc. I endorse a lot of what Constantine says, except perhaps some of his examples 'Christos' would of course be obvious to most non-Greeks, (English or otherwise), Mihail or Michail both seem valid, whereas the most 'English', Michael is OVER-anglicising, (unless the person has already become known by that name outside Greece). Also the original poster - I don't think - expects everything changed 'for the benefit of English speakers', it's more a question of thinking it perverse to adopt a system that informs NO ONE as to how the word should be pronounced, this seems especially true of the 'chi'.
I don't think there is a simple answer to this one but wholly sympathise with those who find the 'fixed' logic inflexible and unhelpful. The real problem is of course that Greek is (relatively) phonetic, whereas English definitely isn't, pronounciation altering according to where the letter combination is and what the root of the word is (and whether there is an 'R' in the month ?) Pincrete ( talk) 23:07, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
BTW, I think current policy:-If there is a common anglicization of a Greek proper name, it should be used in an English language context. If there is no commonly used version of a name, it is recommended to use the UN transliteration, since that is also used by the Greek government. … … is probably the worst of all possible worlds. The first part makes total sense and covers most common first names and many place names, but the 'commonly used' have usually adopted a 'phonetic' approach, Haralambos, Hara, Hania, Spiros etc., whereas the second part of the policy leads one into a different territory. At least if I come across 'Jorge' in Spanish I am likely to pronounce it no worse than other English speakers, if I come across a variant of the name or another spelt similarly, I stand a chance of saying the variant sufficiently correctly for someone to know who I am talking about. If rendition varies randomly according to whether someone thinks there is or is not an established form of the name, we end up with 'chi' being rendered as 'h' in the first name and 'ch' in the surname. There are historical reasons why the Gk Govt has adopted their transliteration scheme (though as others have pointed out, in tourist etc. contexts they often adopt a more 'phonetic' approach). I think where no 'standard' form of a name exists, editors should be free to give a rendition in latin script that approximates to English pronounciation, and that (in most cases) would mean 'chi'='h'. Pincrete ( talk) 00:53, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I am a native of Limni, Euboea, and would like to see the article expanded. There is a lot more information about the town that can be added, but I do not know how, nor do I have the time to learn. For example, the etymology of the town's name is fascinating; though the female-gendered word "λίμνη" does indeed mean "lake," as mentioned in the article, the name developed from when its inhabitants shortened the older version "Ελύμνιον" to the neutral-gender "το Λύμνι." The 19th-century scribes who put Limni on the newly formed country's maps, thought the natives to have misspelled the word "λίμνη" and permanently changed the spelling of the town, causing confusion to future visitors, who wonder where the lake the town gets its name from is located. There are also several other famous people associated with Limni, such as WWII Greek resistance fighter Lela Karagianni, Greek Independence hero Aggelis Gobios Αγγελής Γοβιός as well as author and Byzantine musician Ioannis Margaziotis. Is it possible for the author(s) to come in contact with me so that this can be further discussed? 70.125.13.192 ( talk) 02:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm not sure of proper procedure (and am not even part of the 'Greece' project), however I would appreciate some help on the Cretan resistance page. I first noticed multiple issues over a year ago, but felt I lacked the knowledge of the topic or confidence to edit on my own.
The issues largely relate to use of questionable sources, blatant synth, coatrack-ing and very PoV choice and use of sources. The main editor responsible for this material, is almost wholly relying on 'self-translation' and despite being left messages, doesn't respond to criticism of his material (having done his damage, he has largely disappeared from the page).
As I already said, I feel I lack the expertise (and knowledge of Greek) to sort the 'wheat from the chaff' and am reluctant to mass delete … though that might be the simplest option. I detail many of my specific criticisms on the articles talk page.
Help or a second opinion or telling me where I should go for help (even telling me I'm barking up the wrong tree), would be much appreciated. Pincrete ( talk) 17:23, 12 August 2014 (UTC) … … Update, I've actually now pruned the article fairly drastically, so anyone would need to see the history and talk to see the problem. Pincrete ( talk) 19:49, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Can anyone help with this article? It is currently being discussed at WP:Articles for deletion/Giannis Poulopoulos. Best wishes, Boleyn ( talk) 08:56, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks so much. Boleyn ( talk) 15:52, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Over the last few years many pages concerning the history of Macedonia have been de-hellenized and grey zones have been created a la Aegean dispute. By de-hellenized, I mean to say, any reference to their Greek nature has been deleted/removed, then reinstated by referenced material and then bizarrely removed again as a neutral outcome/compromise. The pages mostly affected are Macedonia (ancient kingdom) - used to read (Ancient Greek Kingdom), Alexander the Great and Philip II of Macedon. Also the Ancient Macedonian language, Ancient Macedonians has been in the wars over the last few years.
Now this phenomenon of de-hellenization has been spear headed by editors of mostly Australian citizenship carrying ancestry from the Republic of Macedonia, however there are others with more ambiguous or hidden ancestry. They are ambitious and a highly organized campaign has been spearheaded by users such as Taivo, Luxure and Fut perf and a few others. The model is usually the same. A member such as Luxure removes the word 'Greek' and claims for example Ancient Macedon was proto slavic, another member alters his edit and Taivo will come in seeking to remove the word Greek as a neutral compromise. He also states often the word Hellenic does not imply a Greek nature to much outrage from other users. These users are extremely assertive and academic references are often ignored in place of faux neutrality or original research. There can be 40 academic references denoting the Greek nature of Macedon, but yet the word 'Greek' will be removed if they can manage to find one source to the contrary or perhaps even if they can't simply in the model of 'neutrality.'
Over the last few weeks, since the excavations of the Kasta Tomb at Amphipolis there has been increased de-hellenization due to the political capital to be exploited from such a discovery. In the past I have mostly edited pages on footballers and politicians and have not given enough time to this situation. The few existing editors who try and protect the pages are very war weary. If you feel you can contribute to these pages, especially Macedonia (ancient kingdom), please feel free to drop by. Reaper7 ( talk) 13:25, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
An attempt to ban me from the topic displayed above has been made by Fut.Perf. for asking the WikiProject_Greece to help on the page as detailed above. My trial is here and this goes to highlight the dangers I expressed in my original post on this page. Considering this member's success in the past, please stay strong and do not be disheartened at any negative outcome. the aim to to create fair and neutral pages without sockpuppets and false accusation of insults and bad faith. thanks for your time. Reaper7 ( talk) 09:28, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
I'm hoping someone at this WIkiProject can take a look at Battle of Lyncestis. I originally tagged it as a suspected hoax, because a google search for the title yielded zero results and the refs are poorly formed. The author has pointed to some references, but none seem to identify the battle by name. Could someone please take a look at this article, make sure the content is valid, and figure out if there's a better title that's backed up by sources? Thanks so much! — Swpb talk 14:18, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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I'm in the middle of sourcing and cleaning up the romanization of Greek article. The current Wikitable defaults are producing a rather drab gray mess and I'm curious if there are accepted sky and pale blue colors to use for Greek-related tables. If not, how about coming up with a standard for us to apply? — LlywelynII 10:20, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
A merge proposal for the articles Geographical name changes in Greece and Former toponyms in Greece is going on. Please vote. Constantine ✍ 14:21, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
The map "File:Griechisch Isoglossen 1900.png" (Map 1), showing the Modern Greek dialectual isoglosses, seems completely inaccurate to me concerning the distribution of Arvanitika (white area in the middle). The reasons:
My point: There are some linguistic maps of Greece in Wikimedia Commons here that are more precise regarding the distribution of Arvanitika. This map doesn't correspond to other historical-linguistic maps. Since it shows the isoglosses, it shouldn't be used to show the geographical distribution of Arvanitika. I insist that there are much more accurate maps for this purpose (like Map 2), which could be used in the related articles. Map 2 is used in articles such as Greece, Demographics of Greece, Minorities in Greece, Languages of Greece, Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia, but for a weird reason it isn't used in the article " Arvanitika", where a map of isoglosses (Map 1) was uncannily preferred! In my opinion Map 1 shouldn't be used anymore. Any opinions? -- Ymaea ( talk) 23:20, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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There is a requested move discussion Talk:Greek Muslims#Requested move 24 February 2015 that needs additional input. The RM has just been relisted to allow for it. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 14:13, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
This article is being totally rewritten by one user. It desperately needs wikifying and checking for factual accuracy and needs to brought back to a manageable size. I do not have the expertise to respond to this myself - I was just reading the article today but could not do so as it now has a highly complex structure and layout and is full of unnecessary quotes and content that suggests OR. Can someone familiar with the life and times of Socrates please look at the article? Alternatively, can we go back to the version as at 24 February 2015? Thanks -- Chewings72 ( talk) 11:11, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
There is a long list of articles, mainly of Greek museums, at User:Boleyn/List of museum articles tagged for notability. These have been tagged for notability for 7 years. I'd be grateful if anyone could help look them over. Best wishes, Boleyn ( talk) 17:21, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hello! I notice that since February, a new editor, User:Whalestate has made numerous very significant deletions and additions to articles in this project. See this. His writing is very poor and reference format is bad. This is way beyond my expertise. Can anyone with expertise here please investigate? Ssilvers ( talk) 16:58, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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Wikipedia's articles on the history of the Jewish people tend to be particularly comprehensive. Uniquely, nearly every article on Jewish minorities is titled in a similar format. History of the Jews in Hungary is a good example.
Given the similar circumstances of Greek and Jewish minorities -- both existed for millenia before 20th-century upheavals, and now most of these communities are very small in comparison to their past selves -- should we not rename Greek articles as well? There are two main reasons why I believe we should: technicality and cohesiveness. Re-titling Greeks in Egypt to History of the Greeks in Egypt would be more technically accurate. The vast majority of Egyptian Greek history is not in the modern era, but Greeks in Egypt have had a massive influence on global history, philosophy, and science. Next, it would promote a cohesiveness across Wikipedia's articles. This suggests professionalism, as it ensures that article naming is less arbitrary.
Some other articles, such as that of Germans in Poland reflect this. Ideally, this change could be made to all articles of historic minorities in a similar circumstance. I thought it would make the most sense to begin with the Greek people, because the history of Greek minorities most closely resembles that of Jewish minorities. Other potential diaspora articles to re-title would be Armenians in Turkey or that of the Germans of Romania. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liam Allen-McGoran ( talk • contribs) 00:25, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
It's not a bad idea to create articles focused on the history of the Greek diaspora in various places, like the examples you mentioned: apart from the " German minority in Poland" there is also a (and not renamed to) " History_of_the_Germans_in_Poland", "Armenians in Turkey" have also similar articles. In general I agree with the creation of articles about the community's past, but the current ones can be modified and stay like in the case of German in Poland. Alexikoua ( talk) 06:57, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Wouldn't this be a good article to modify, though? The amount of Greeks in Egypt today is honestly trivial. Ethnic cleansing efforts largely ensured that Egyptian Greeks would be a historical minority and little else. I don't know if we need two articles, given the irrelevance of Greeks in Egypt. For a comparison, there is an article on the History of the Jews in Hungary, but no article on Hungarian Jews.-- Liam Allen-McGoran ( talk) 03:33, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
There are almost 10,000 settlements in Greece and only a mere proportion of them has an article on the English wikipedia. I have created several hundreds of them but it's not a task that one can carry out to the end by one editor. The latest article I've created is about Deleria, a village of the Tyrnavos municipality. The article could be used as a template for creating new articles on settlements that aren't present on Wikipedia. It could be copy-pasted and then just a few fields would need to have it's info changed. That would be:
It would be great if we reach the point when every Greek settlement has its article on Wikipedia and it would be even greater if that was the result of collaborative work initiated by members of Wikiproject Greece; that's the meaning of Wikipedia and its wikiprojects after all. Hansi667 (Neighbor Of The Beast) a penny for your thoughts? 10:17, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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Category:BLP articles lacking sources from July 2006 currently has only one article in it, Andreas Mikroutsikos. Andreas Mikroutsikos is apparently a Greek reality TV personality. I was attempting to source and/or clean up the article, but the problem was I cannot find any sources in English, and Google Translate sucks. Also, the article on him in the Greek Wikipedia is completely unsourced. A Google News search does, however, give a number of results in Greek.
I and everyone else at WikiProject Unreferenced articles would be very appreciative if someone who can read Greek would source that article. I'm especially concerned, since it's a BLP about a statement in the article concerning bestiality, and the sentence referring to him as "merchant of human dignity". ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 20:53, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
I started ongoing RFC discussions in subsections of Talk:Greek government-debt crisis#Removal of Content. -- George Ho ( talk) 16:07, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
I need someone to come in and help with the article Nicholas Alexios Alexis. The article could use some work since it desperately needs RS that directly mentions this person. The article alleges that he's received coverage in encyclopedias, which is why I declined the A7 nomination, but I'd like for someone to go through and verify this. I'm concerned since a lot of the sources in the articles that have links seem to be about his children rather than Alexis himself. I'd also like to have someone check for puffery since the article creators have posted some WP:SOAPBOX type content in the article's talk page. Offhand it looks OK for the most part, but I'm somewhat leery that maybe some of the claims might have been inflated. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 07:30, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to get this article up to GA standard and am in the process of writing the Greece section. I'm using a good English language RS, but I'd like to get some proper nouns (mostly newspaper titles) translated into Greek for inclusion. Unfortunately my Greek is pretty basic so I was wondering if someone here could help.
The newspaper titles I'm looking for in Greek are:
Thanks in advance! — Brigade Piron ( talk) 11:00, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Some editors are trying to make entries stating that Kostas Tsakonas has died. This article (via Google translate) seems to suggest that he has indeed passed away. As well as his article, someone has added his name to the list of deaths in 2015. I would appreciate it if a Greek-reading person can confirm. Thanks, AtHomeIn神戸 ( talk) 06:53, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Γεια σας,
A user (now blocked) recently created a category tree for Ethnic Greek people. I think it's not very useful, and also quite a bit dangerous, and explained my reasoning in this discussion.
You are invited to give your opinion. Place Clichy ( talk) 17:04, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Yannis Tseklenis. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 15:17, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I started a discussion here after being reverted several times when trying to restore a see also link in hatnote from Category:Ottoman Greeks to Category:Greeks in Turkey (the reverse link exists and has always had). Your thoughts are welcome there on this issue. Place Clichy ( talk) 15:01, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Please provide some input at Category talk:Ottoman Greeks. Debresser ( talk) 21:00, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
G'day all, there is a RfC about the scope of the Greco-Italian War article that you may wish to contribute to. Thanks, Peacemaker67 ( crack... thump) 22:40, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
The reference list at the bottom of the article has cite errors. Can someone either fix them or advise me how to fix them? Robert McClenon ( talk) 19:41, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
THIS ARTICLE IS IN NEED OF ATTENTION. The article Northern Epirus has multiple issues and have been outlined in extensive manner in the talkpage. The article purports to define a region with a geographical spread from Korce to Gjirokaster regions. As such, much of those regions are inhabited by a Muslim/Orthodox Albanian speaking population(i.e: Kallivretakis, Winnifrith etc) and in the article, it does not take into account the complicated issue of identity amongst Muslim and Orthodox Albanian speakers that was intertwined with the larger question of Northern Epirus secession and the issues around retention/or not of Albanian sovereignty. The article also fails to refer to peer review material regarding the decisions of the international community in relation to confirming sovereignty of the area to Albania. The article also for contemporary times does not in any way cite the complicated identity issues involved amongst Orthodox Albanians and Greek identity and migration, post 1992. This part needs to be addressed regarding the matter of how Greeks are counted and their numbers in Albania. There are also uncited and wp:POV claims in the article that refer to the burning of many Greek villages in World War Two without no wp:reliable sources given. wp:secondary are also lacking in certain parts of the article. Any editors interested, message me on my talk or at the talkpage of the article to discuss the matter using peer reviewed material. Best. Resnjari ( talk) 23:13, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
First Council of Nicaea, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Miyagawa ( talk) 10:21, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
This entry has been a sub-stub since 2008 and is now threatened with deletion. Does anyone know (or care...) if it's worth rescuing? And please.... Regards Charles01 ( talk) 15:09, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello, γεια σας,
After several back-and-forth moves, I initiated a discussion to decide if the article for this political party should be called Drassi or Drasi. Comments welcome. Place Clichy ( talk) 14:04, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm struggling with Athanasios Koutroumbas Insect Museum. I can't find anything in English on it, notability is not asserted in article and there's no Greek language WP article I can use for help. I'd really appreciate any help that can be offered. There are a few similar ones at User:Boleyn/List of museums tagged for notability. Thanks in advance for any help, Boleyn ( talk) 20:43, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
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The article Zeitenlik included the sentence
That's 2,700 square miles, or over 1,700,000 acres, and cannot possibly be right. See Talk:Zeitenlik#Area. Please {{Ping}} me to discuss.
Cross-posting to WikiProjects Military history and Serbia. -- Thnidu ( talk) 20:14, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Can someone have a look at Special:Contributions/Υστερογράφος? It was a short burst of multi-kilobyte contributions in 2014 that included an article I just prod'ed because the references appear to be either fake or grossly mistaken. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 14:32, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
I've brought material over from the Greek version but this needs help. Mangoe ( talk) 03:06, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
Greece is one of the few big countries missing this overview topic. See the template at National symbols of Japan, for example. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:50, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi everyone! I would be interested to expand the content and the number of articles referring to any films released in Greece, Greek films in particular, and the Greek box office. I would also be happy to help with any other aspect of WikiProject Greece. Just contact me to let me know if you need help with something. I have added a table with the top 15 Greek films in terms of admissions here. Open to comments/suggestions. Spinc5 ( talk) 19:59, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
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There is limited information about Akovos, that I've been working on today. So, I thought I'd take a peak at the Greek article. There's some great historical information there - and I used Google translate to start to decode it - and I was hoping someone that spoke Greek / knows the Greek language could take a peak if my assumptions are correct for part of it. And, help with the few parts that I cannot begin to decipher.
The discussion is here and if someone has a bit of time, it would be great to expand the history section. There's some quite interesting information - it seems.-- CaroleHenson (talk) 00:54, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
We have a new article Cannabis in Greece, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Greek sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Greek Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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I have pasted the 3 WIPO (6ter) protected Vergina Sun variants. These are protected national symbols of Greece (as of 1995).
Thanks for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HistoryIsMyWingman ( talk • contribs) 07:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
We should use the Hellas name for Wikipedia articles about our beloved country. The name Greece is not acceptable as it was used by conquerors and is not the name we the glorious Hellenes use. Please help to raise awareness about our preference to use the Hellas name internationally for our country and make Wikipedia use it. Sofia Koutsouveli ( talk) 21:25, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
I'm requesting Atana be moved to Atana (raga) because it's currently an article on music of India, when Atana as known in the West is an alternate spelling of Athena, or a ‘proto-Athena,’ and there are also two or more other languages with the word having different meanings. The main page should be a disambiguation. If any page had the main article, I'd have preferred it be Athena. I've opened a move request discussion you can join.-- dchmelik ( t| c) 05:31, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
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The world headquarters of Costamare has recently moved to Monaco. Please change this in the Wikipedia article on Costamare. The majority of stock ownership is still in Greece but not the world headquarters anymore so please change this. Please read their most recent annual report they submitted to the EDGAR website of the Security and Exchange Commission of the United States to verify this assertion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.158.15.238 ( talk) 01:23, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
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The 2017 Adendro train derailment article has been nominated for deletion. Mjroots ( talk) 05:44, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey! There were 13 different pages for each of the austerity packages, and I merged them all into Austerity Packages of Greece. You guys certainly know more than me about Greek Politics, so if there are any improvements you could make to the article, please do so! I will go through eventually but your help would be appreciated. Thanks again El cid, el campeador ( talk) 16:22, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hi All,
I was in the German wikipedia and it happend to visit the article Albaner in Griechenland. That article has been locked in an Albanian nationalistic POV claiming that 70% of Greeks originated from Albania. Anyone that can help restructuring it according to the English one? Thanks. Othon I ( talk) 12:43, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
@Resnjari: stop taunting other users about getting blocked on sq.wiki. You yourself were blocked not too long ago right here on en.wiki. Any further taunts will be redacted, and you had better not edit-war to re-instate them. I won't warn you again. Btw, if an article is a stub, the thing to do is expand it, not delete it on such a ridiculous excuse, and the block anyone for protesting. This is the worst thing an admin could do, and its exactly some other language wikis are a total joke and will continue to remain so while such practices take place.
Khirurg ( talk) 21:55, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
The fr. article offers limited information about Albanian speakers compared to the english article. I fail to see the "Orthodox and Muslim Albanian section" and the only part that's dedicated to the various groups is less than one paragraph: (Le reste de la communauté est bilingue. Sa langue vernaculaire est un dialecte albanais mais son alphabétisation s'est faite en grec, langue aussi utilisée dans les activités culturelles, commerciales et économiques2. De plus, une partie des orthodoxes albanophones exprime un très fort sentiment national grecN 2 et ce sont eux qui soutiennent les premiers le mouvement autonomiste épirote3.).. I won't object to trim the correspondent information in the en:wiki article accordingly. Alexikoua ( talk) 14:01, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
I made the awfully time-wasting mistake of looking through the archives of North Epirus (if anyone wants to make the same mistake – [
[19]], [
[20]], [
[21]], etc…), and I have to say that while I do agree with
Resnjari that there are some problems with the page, I don’t agree with some proposed fixes by him at least as they were presented on that talkpage, and I found myself frequently agreeing with Alexikoua and Khirurg. For example, examples of things that happened in insignificant villages like Mursi and Vuno, presented as if they applied to the whole region only creates new problems. The proposed section about post-1992 Orthodox Albanians veered dangerously close to anti-Orthodox conspiracy theories that are not things we want a page resembling. To Resnjari’s credit, he seems to have backed away from including these things upon later thought, but I thought they were still important to note in case they came up again. One must steer clear of both the Greek irredentist POV and the Albanian nationalist POV (and also the Muslim-Albanian-synthesis-nationalist POV, which many other Albanians dispute).
I do see bad problems, though they aren’t the exact same set Resnjari sees. For one, there’s the fact that either we’re talking about an irredentist concept that Albanians hate, in which case we can’t talk about stuff on the page that occurred long before said irredentist concept existed, or we’re talking about a geographical region in which case we must observe NPOV and talk about the local history of all groups present in the region. Lastly, there is an issue of misleading ways of presenting regional demographics as mostly Greek while sources widely dispute this, which is seen in three maps across the page, but the sourced info on the actual distribution of Greeks is found only in one small paragraph jammed in the middle of the page that a reader is likely to miss (this one Resnjari already touched on, but I have a lot to add). Sometimes reviewers who don’t know the topic matter well can miss major issues and give a page an award without realizing them. My analysis got long and I’m too busy to trim, so I’ve put it in a box, but please read if you are interested in the issues involved with fixing the page.
1) Anachronism – how are we defining “Northern Epirus” here? It’s clear that it is not a geographical definition, but a political one nested in irredentist ideology. Parts of
Korca county are historically part of a different region, Makedonia, but they’re included.
Vlora is in the north of geographical
Epirus, but it is not in the definition used by this page, because Greek irredentists did not want an area full of Albanian-speaking Muslims. Similarly,
Konitsa is also in the northern part of Epirus, but it’s not included; it’s already in Greece. So it’s clear the page is not like Crimea, an irredentist claim that actually has clear geographic boundaries, and more like
Aegean Macedonia, a region defined by an irredentist ideology. As thus, Northern Epirus did not exist before the modern era, so all the stuff about the Ancient times and the Middle Ages is outside of the scope of the article, and must be deleted. Ottoman stuff is relevant context though. Relevant articles to discuss these things include
Epirus (which is actually a geographic region),
History of Albania and
Greeks in Albania.
2) If the anachronism problem isn’t fixed, at the very least the history could be written in a way balanced between the different ethnicities of the region. Khirurg made a good point on the talk page that a reason for not discussing this is that Northern Epirus is a mostly Greek (irredentist) concept and indeed Albanians hate it, but one also can’t have it both ways. Either (a) we take Khirurg’s fair point and make the page about the irredentist concept (I greatly prefer this), or, if everyone opposes this, then we are writing about a geographic region not an irredentist concept, and we must follow NPOV and include the histories of other groups that have been in the region—Slavs settled there too, Butrint was part of the medieval Kingdom of Albania, etc…
3) This is a long one, so I’d forgive someone for skipping it, but it hits on issues I have with both the current page and proposed alternatives. The page is clearly written about Greeks, and it only mentions the fact that Greeks mostly live in a subregion (Vurg, Pogon, Himara, Dropull, urban Gjirokaster) once (in a paragraph that bears Resnjari’s writing style). A reader of the page naturally comes to the conclusion that Greeks were the vast majority of the region, especially given the map that puts the vast majority as having “historical Greek presence” (I assume this means late Ottoman based on the distribution). But this is misleading. Even Greek writers repeatedly show this. In a large part of the region, the Korca and Permet areas in particular, there are few if any Greeks and many historical studies didn’t note any. I’ve looked hard. There are in fact a few notable Greek villages in Southern Carcove, and a few in Leskovik commune. I did find one note on Mborje as Greek by Aravandinos, and there were Greeks in Moscopole and a few in other urban centers like Korca, and to a lesser extent Bilisht. But it really ends there, and isn’t anything like the map portrays.
And then, of course I can see that saying this will trigger the argument that the non-Greek speaking Orthodox all identified as Greek (it has before, as I can see from the talk page histories). That badly stretches verifiability. The source burden is much more here than might be argued – not only does the view of Orthodox=Greek need to prove that they didn’t identify as Albanians, it also has to show that Greek was their personal ethnic identity without significant exception. There are no opinion polls from the 1910s, so I’m sorry, but that is unverifiable (to say the least). There’s also overwhelming evidence of that exceptions to the rule abounded. For the Vlachs, yes, plenty, but other alternatives did exist. For the Slavs, there was support for the Exarchate in places like Boboshtica. And for the Albanian Orthodox, while there were indeed many Greek-identifying Albanian Christians in some (but not all) areas of Laberia, this was not the case for a whole lot of them in Korcha.
Even supporting the Greek side was not a reliable predictor of Greek identity— one recurrent theme that shows up in accounts of the period is that many Orthodox supported Greek claims not because they identified as Greeks, but because the Greek nationalists promised land reform, and solve the land poverty issue that had arisen from the millet system and was a central part of Orthodox life (it was the reason so many emigrated). Ploumidis talks about this—many Orthodox sided with the Greeks as a “lesser evil”, he says. But others, including Muslim politicians like Avni Rustemi, also passionately took up the cause of land reform in favor of the poor Orthodox peasants. As Psomas notes, even in his Greek-er “Northwest Epirus” where there were more pro-Greeks and indeed many more actual ethnic Greeks too, as the 20th century continued, sentiment among the young swung increasingly in favor of Albania.
The disproportionate contribution of Orthodox from parts of Northern Epirus to Albanian nationalism has been written about -- the earliest writers (“stage 1” of Albanian nationalism in Rrapaj’s analysis) like Naum Veqilharxhi and Thimi Mitko (who disputed Aravandinos’ work, by the way) came from here as did a disproportionate number of Albanian nationalist writers, Albanian literature and the alphabet and schooling, and so on. Even Islamo-Albanian synthesists like Nexhmedin Spahiu give credit to the Orthodox of the Korcha region for their massive contribution to Albanian nationalism. I know the significance of the contributions of the Orthodox to Albanian nationalism has been disputed by Resnjari in the past— to him, I would present text from Rrapaj, Spahiu, Psilos, Zhelyazkova, Pahumi and others.
This leads into how the “Orthodox=Greek” POV for the region is not only Greek nationalist (against not only Albanian views but also Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian) but also plays into the more narrow Muslim Albanian POV (inserted intentionally or not) with regard to the view of Christians as a fifth column and the minimization of their contributions, intentionally or not. Indeed, contrary to the way things are portrayed currently on pages like Albanian nationalism, plenty of sources adequately show that there were similar divisions among Sunni Albanians, and that among many Sunni Albanians (unlike Bektashis) a faction that viewed itself as primarily Muslim and Ottoman and opposed Albanian independence resisted Albanian nationalism and continued to assert itself even after independence, as noted in various ways by various authors including Psilos, Rrapaj, Bozbora, Babuna, Duijzings, Psomas, Krasniqi, Skendi and so on. Indeed, discussing the “Hellenism” of certain Orthodox Albanians without discussing what Skendi calls the “Turcoman” party among the Sunnis can come off as unbalanced.
Of course it isn’t true that the Orthodox all identified as Albanians either (sources refute this too), but the problem is that in a complicated situation, the page doesn’t mention the limits of Greek settlement except in one paragraph, has a map showing Greeks all over the region despite extensive sourcing to the contrary that I’m sure Resnjari has already gone into plenty of detail about, and only shows one side of the Greek irredentist claim that “Orthodox=Greek” without any reference to those (plenty) who disagreed and disagree, or the complicated nature of the situation. One very easy way to solve most of this problem is to remove or at least qualify three maps on the page that make it look, to someone who missed (probably) Resnjari’s small paragraph, like all the Orthodox and even many Muslims are “Greeks”.
Thanks all for who took the time to read, and hopefully these issues can be resolved in ways that include minimal edit warring along national lines as some of these issues are not actually strictly “Greek vs. Albanian” issues (or at least I don’t view them so). Also feel free, anyone, to move this back to the North Epirus page. This entire conversation has gotten really far off topic from the German wiki article. -- Yalens ( talk) 23:58, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Recent concerns by Resnjari | What's in the current articles |
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"Nothing about the official Greek view of 1919.. ethnicities, speech etc" | let me remind you on some parts: ...official Greek government policy from c. 1850 to c. 1950, adopted the view that speech was not a decisive factor for the establishment of a Greek national identity and According to the Ottoman "Millet" system, religion was a major marker of ethnicity, and thus all Orthodox Christians (Greeks, Aromanians, Orthodox Albanians, Slavs etc.) were classified as "Greeks", while all Muslims (including Muslim Albanians, Greeks, Slavs etc.) were considered "Turks and yet again traditionally Orthodox Albanian speaking regions of internally polarized national identity and During this time, some Greeks and Orthodox Albanians with a Greek national consciousness managed to flee Albania and resettle in Greece and loyalty in Northern Epirus especially amongst the Orthodox to potential Albanian rule headed by (Albanian) Muslim leaders was not guaranteed ... to name only some parts. Off course this isn't the place to analyze each statistics (the Greek of 1919 for example, though the result are briefly mentioned). |
On Preveza prefecture and Fanari, are you referring to old statistics or modern? | Both (there is "absolute" nothing about, contrary to N.E.) |
On older statistics, Albanian and other numbers don't highlight micro-regions like Fanari. | Cassavetes' table offers estimates from the Preveza & Louros cazas which according to Elsie are part Chameria (the current table doesn't include this regions, thus it implies that there is no Chameria south of the Acheron). |
Alexikoua ( talk) 17:29, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
contains all necessary information about the various ethnic groups in various time periods that co-extist(ed) with the Greek communities; I strongly disagree as most discussion of hte history of Slavs, Vlachs, Albanians and Roma in the area is woefully missing. Some of these groups aren't mentioned even once on the page. Now if we were talking about a region defined by modern irredentism, as various editors and authors too have pointed out N Epirus to be, then this would be fine, but the article portrays the region as some sort of organic historical region that transcends time and history. If it is a geographic region, then you have to respect WP:BALANCE and include info on all ethnic groups that have been historically present, and not portray the region as mostly Greek (which pretty much all serious demographic analyses, including those done by Greek authors Kokolakis, Kallivretakis, Giakoumis, and even Psomas' studies dispute). On the other hand, if it's an irredentist region obviously it's anachronistic to have stuff about medieval times and ancient history-- imagine if Illyrian history showed up on Greater Albania; obviously that's ridiculous and would come off as very sketchy to say the least. You can't have you're cake and eat it, and you also can't keep ignoring the issue here. - Yalens ( talk) 19:41, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
This seems like as good a place to ask as any. Currently we're down to the last several thousand Neelix redirects, and a small chunk of those are Greek language. If someone would care to take a look through them, they're here; if you're not familiar with redirects and/or the ongoing Neelix cleanup efforts, read over the instructions at RfD and WP:X1. It'd be hugely appreciated. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 17:21, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
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I've stumbled upon this stub which doesn't even seem to have a Greek Wikipedia counterpart. Is this something that is unique and notable, or could we just redirect it to tavern or such? As written, the article doesn't make a good claim for notability, and my quick scan of sources didn't turn out anything great, neither. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:43, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
It may be notable for non-greeks. There is no article in Gree WP because everybody knows what it is and how it functions. It is central in Greek pop culture, and mentioned in songs, films etc. If it is not any harm, just leave it.-- Skylax30 ( talk) 08:37, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
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The article “ Education in Greece” needs a lot of additional citations for verification. There are only ~5; far too few for an article of its length.-- Solomonfromfinland ( talk) 03:05, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi. If you have time, please take a look on meta at this page m:Wiki4MediaFreedom contest. It's an event organized by Rossella Vignola (OBC), there is a list of articles to improve also on English wikipedia.-- Alexmar983 ( talk) 20:34, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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Γεια σας!
Article Stavros Niarchos starts: Stavros Spyros Niarchos ( Greek: Σταύρος Σπύρος Νιάρχος, pronounced [ˈstavros ˈspiros 'ɲarxos]; 3 July 1909 – 16 April 1996) was a multi-billionaire Greek shipping tycoon.
As Spyros Niarchos was the name of his father and according to Greek naming customs it seems logic that "Spyros" should be a patronymic and not a given or middle name, and therefore should be in the genitive form Spyrou. Article should therefore state instead: Stavros Spyrou Niarchos ( Greek: Σταύρος Σπύρου Νιάρχος, pronounced [ˈstavros ˈspiru 'ɲarxos])....
Looking up quickly I did not find many uses of either Σταύρος Σπύρος Νιάρχος or Σταύρος Σπύρου Νιάρχος outside of Wikipedia mirrors, except maybe this page which uses Σταύρος Σπύρου Νιάρχος. It seems to me that Greeks would most often just use Σταύρος Νιάρχος ("Stavros Niarchos"), which probably means that "Spyros" is indeed a patronymic and not part of the given name.
What does the project think? Place Clichy ( talk) 14:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
Is this the
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Hello! I'm not especially familiar with how changing Wikipedia pages works, but I tried to look into making a change and I wasn't sure exactly how to do it. The two pages in question, Stagira and Siderokausia, seem to be referring to the same town in Greece, and I thought it might make sense to merge the two pages. Though I use Wikipedia often, I don't feel accustomed to editing enough to attempt merging these pages.
If anyone could help in merging these two articles with me or if anyone thinks the articles ought to stay separate, feel free to chime in.
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tigershark313 ( talk • contribs) 05:13, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, The sourcing at Ancient Greek is in a sorry state. I'm willing to help, but I'm not the best placed to do so; the article would probably benefit from members of this project. Your assistance is welcome: please see Talk:Ancient Greek#Sourcing. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 03:22, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
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Dear fellow members of this wikiproject, As i am a Greek, i joined your wikiproject! I want generally help with creating new articles. As i am a new user, i will do in the start easy things, until i gain experience. I am also a member of wikiproject automobiles and classical music. Best regards, Enivak ( talk) 12:17, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
This is the first time I have contacted Wikipedia community on anything. I don't know the editing process or the rules so I am reaching out here. I apologize if this is the wrong venue. If so, feel free to delete.
My mother and father were both born and raised in Agios Vasileios, Achaea, Greece. The Agios Vasileios page in English has very limited information. It's good information and current, but it's missing much of the history of that village.
See link below:
/info/en/?search=Agios_Vasileios,_Achaea
However, if you view the Greek version of the Agios Vasileios page, it is rich with history. Most important is the history of how the village was founded and how Greeks from Gounariankia settled that region. It also includes history of how the local village church, Agia Kyriaki was founded from the original icon of Agia Kyriaki from Gounarianika.
What is the process of transferring the information from the Greek site, translating it, and publishing it on the English site? Greek site is below:
This is the translation using Google. It's a pretty accurate translation:
Saint Basil of Achaia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agios Vasilios is a village on the north coast of the Peloponnese and is a settlement and municipality of the former municipality of Rio. In fact, it is the second largest municipality in the municipality in question. According to the 2011 census it had 2,662 inhabitants [1]. It is a seaside tourist resort and a place of holiday and permanent residence for many Patrons. There is also a kindergarten in the village, and the football team of "Saint Basil's Thunder" is active sports [2].
Historical data
The beach of Agios Vasilios
In antiquity on its eastern side (Hadjika-Green Harbor area) was built the city of Panormos as reported by Pausanias in "Achaic". In addition, ancient Panormos, according to Pausanias, is geographically situated between Cape Rio and Cape Drepano, approximately 10 steps apart (ancient measuring unit corresponding to approximately 192 meters) [3].
Ancient Panormos appears on maps of colonies of ancient Greece in southern Italy (Magna Greccia - Paestum). Today's Palermo in Sicily translates as Panormos. Panormos is subsequently mapped on the Map of Riga Feraion. Also in the battle of Nafpaktos on October 17, 1571 with the Ottomans, on the occasion of the control of the Rio - Antirio straits, Panormos is mentioned as the defenseless port where the Allied forces repaired their ships from the damage they had suffered.
The first known naval battle in the Gulf of Patras (Caledonian Gulf) was recorded by Thucydides and reportedly took place in the third year of the Peloponnesian War, namely in 429 BC. In this battle, which took place between Panormos and Nafpaktos, the Peloponnesian fleet, which was concentrated in the natural harbor of Panormos, the present-day "Tekes" area consisting of ships from Sparta and the Corinthian colonies, was attacked. ships of the Athenian Alliance with the victory of the Athenian Alliance fleet.
Its first inhabitants came from the Gounarianika (one of the settlements in the area of Noonakrida). The inhabitants descended and settled in the greater Rio area in the second half of the 19th century. They transferred from Iconoclasm the image of St. Sunday and built the church of St. Basil from which the name of the village was originally called Gounarianika. The founder of the village is named after Dr. Phaedonas Diamantopoulos, whose name is named after the main square where the present office is located. From the narratives of the old inhabitants, the aforementioned had a kinship (groom) with Alexis Soliotis, captain of the 1821 revolution operating in the area of Clukines, as the wider area of Noonakrid was then called [4].
Toponyms
Today's "Green Harbor", also called "Dekkes", is named after an old Ottoman retreat (monastery) in the area. Other names of the area are: "Golemia", "Saliani", "Tragani", "Paliolaka", "Voros", "Kefala", "Alexis", "Peristera", "Sertoula" , "Perivolakia" and "Muskoura". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfilias ( talk • contribs) 20:53, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Two WP:CUTPASTE moves have made a mess of the articles Orithyia, Orithyia (mythology) (two roughly identical set indices), and Orithyia of Athens. Someone knowledgeable about the subject(s) might be best suited to resolve any attribution issues, determine which of the duplicates should redirect to the other, etc. I can't work out what needs to be done. – Arms & Hearts ( talk) 17:10, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Proposal to delete all portals. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore ( talk) 09:08, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
A Good Article Reassessment proposal has been started at Otto of Greece, an article within this project's scope. All interested editors are invited to participate. Constantine ✍ 17:20, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma ( talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia. Career diplomat. Question of sources and citations. WP:BEFORE. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 14:12, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
What does the prefix pap mean as it relates to Papantoniou?- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:05, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
I have posted a question in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics regarding the etymology of the botanical epithet chorisepala. I would like to have some input from members familiar with ancient Greek. Thanks in advance. Wimpus ( talk) 09:50, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Byzantine–Ottoman wars, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 03:27, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject Greece since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with {{ ping|Trialpears}} and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as {{ infobox journal}} for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as {{ starbox begin}} should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!
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I've started a discussion about Wikipedia guidelines for quantitative scansion at Wikipedia talk:CGR#Scansion. Join in if you like. Cheers. Phil wink ( talk) 15:54, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Could somebody please rewrite Argon Pedion so that it conforms to Wikipedia's quality standards? ωικιωαrrιor ᑫᑫ1ᑫ 14:04, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Pkannetwork Pkannetwork ( talk) 23:03, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
Your feedback would be appreciated at this discussion at Talk:Greek language concerning the region in which Greek is spoken. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 20:47, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Is there an online archive for Ethnos (or does anyone have another way of accessing it)? On 2/12/1960 they published the full results of the Cypriot election that year (which is visble here). If anyone is able to access it in higher quality, that would be really helpful. Cheers, Number 5 7 18:58, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
There is an ongoing deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Macedonian_Thrace_Brewery. It appears there is a corresponding page on the Greek language wikipedia. I would appreciate it if a Greek speaker could confirm that there are no Greek language sources that give the subject notability (i.e. significant coverage in a reliable, published, secondary source that is independent of the subject). And if so, someone on the Greek language wikipedia might want to nominate the page for deletion: [29]. Ikjbagl ( talk) 00:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Elena Paparizou (to Helena Paparizou) which may need your attention. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. Place Clichy ( talk) 22:43, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Would someone familiar with Greece/Greek please visit Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Single-source_stubs-Wrong_title and provide an opinion. Thanks in advance! Usedtobecool ☎️ 11:41, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Category:Demographics of the Western Balkans has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy ( talk) 14:47, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Dear users of this WikiProject:
At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Former_countries#Make_WikiProject_Ottoman_Empire_a_task_force_of_Wikipedia:WikiProject_Former_countries? I have left a proposal to convert Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire into a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries. I asked this project (as all or portions of this country was/were a part of the empire) and several other projects to get further feedback. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or objections.
Thanks! WhisperToMe ( talk) 01:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
If somebody could take a few minutes to assess whether Greek-language sources for this article currently at AfD amount to WP:SIGCOV or whether they are just routine gossip coverage, that would be appreciated. Thanks, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 23:40, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
I translated the article about Vitalis Pasha from the French Wikipedia, as it was in "open tasks". It however has no inline sources. Does anybody, maybe the person who added it, know how this can be fixed? Because I don't have access to the sources listed and can't find much more information about him online. -- Antondimak ( talk) 15:47, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, everybody. There's an ongoing RfC at Talk:Molossians#RfC about inclusion in the lead of mention about the historical origins of this group in which members of this wikiproject could contribute and provide new perspectives. Khirurg ( talk) 03:17, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
There is a stamp of yours stamped onto Cyclops (play) avowing your midlevel interest. Therefore somebody might be interested to know that I have given the article a kickstart, and now relinquish it with the keys. Untitled50reg ( talk) 23:53, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated Istanbul for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 04:09, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Please see this request for comment on whether Ottoman capital city should be referred to as "Constantinople" or "Istanbul": Talk:History_of_Istanbul#Should_the_name_"Istanbul"_be_used_for_the_Ottoman_city_instead_of_"Constantinople"? This is relevant to the project due to the historic Greek population in the empire. WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:07, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is currently taking place on WCommons at Category talk:Flags of the Palaiologos dynasty to try to find what was the flag of the Byzantine empire in the 14th-15th century. Feel free to join to help! Veverve ( talk) 05:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
There has recently been an incident. Within a lot of noise (references of an old fight I had with a bot to fix some bugged categories, misunderstanding of Greek geography, etc.), there is basically a discussion to delete most biographical categories for people from Greece by location, and only keep those on the level of the periphereia (meaning just 13 categories, and category tree of height 1). As far as I'm aware, nothing similar has been done in Wikipedia for any other country. There is one valid underlying argument about the lowest-level categories being too small, but they are constantly growing as new articles are created, thereby not falling under WP:SMALLCAT, and going up just one level, to that of the Kallikratikoi demoi, removes this issue. Anyway, there is a lot of confusion, with the nominator just having said that "Greek co-authors and collaborators" (meaning outside of Wikipedia, as I understand) told him to merge up to the periphereies, and an inability to communicate, and I think Wikipedians here, who are more familiar with the country, could help, if they have time, so the rest don't have to rely on a single Greek person and outside commenters. -- Antondimak ( talk) 17:31, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Thrasybulus for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Bacon 03:13, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
So recently there was a dispute between me and another IP over whether the military junta was Fascist or not:
/info/en/?search=Talk:Greek_junta#Ideology_of_the_regime
I would like to see WikiProject Greece get involved in this dispute, since I believe it is in a much better position to solve it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.122.83.241 ( talk) 17:57, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
If so, then check /info/en/?search=Talk:Mystra_(Forgotten_Realms)#Requested_move_February_26_2021 In ictu oculi ( talk) 13:27, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Greek mythology for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:50, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Slavery in ancient Greece for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 18:16, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated War against Nabis for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 00:36, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Rhodes blood libel for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 12:09, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
I have requested at Talk:Tmolus#Requested move 28 March 2021 that several pages be moved and renamed. Comments and suggestions are very welcome at that discussion. Cnilep ( talk) 03:09, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
After successfully completing our Asia and Africa contests over the past six months, we now welcome contributions to our Women in Europe contest which runs for three separate months from April to June 2021. To qualify for the contest, articles have to contain at least 160 words or 1,000 characters of running text and participants need to be members of Women in Red. We look forward to lots of new biographies of women from Greece.-- Ipigott ( talk) 06:40, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Sviatoslav I for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 23:42, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Please comment there. Johnbod ( talk) 01:13, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Theramenes for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 01:46, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
If you know the answer, make sure to add it to relevant wiki pages, especially to List of highest railways by country. Thanks! Zach (Talk) 21:19, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Is there a website similar to newspapers.com where one can lookup old news articles from Greece? Alvaldi ( talk) 11:19, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Ryanair Flight 4978 is in the news. As the flight originated in Athens, it is probably getting a lot of coverage in the Greek press. Editors able to read Greek may be able to improve the article from those sources. Mjroots ( talk) 06:28, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
This article on a President of Greece had no references until I just added an obit. It could use some help. 4meter4 ( talk) 01:42, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
This biography is unsourced. An editor who can read Greek is needed to source the article. Best. 4meter4 ( talk) 01:50, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to get some opinions regarding the three maps below. Tjellis1940 uploaded some seemingly bogus images of Kardaritsi (see Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2021 July 25# and C:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Tjellis1940 for reference). However, I am not familiar with Greece's geography to determine if these maps are legitimate. The right side of these images seems right as they are based on File:Peloponnesos Map.png, but I have no clue on the left side.
I would greatly appreciate any knowledge that can be bestowed upon this clueless contributor. ✗ plicit 10:49, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone help with the identity of a Russian corvette lost at Piraeus in 1876. Replies at MILHIST please. Mjroots ( talk) 06:40, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Roman–Persian Wars for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 11:38, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Alcibiades for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm ( talk) 19:31, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Execution by elephant for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 05:11, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm ( talk) 17:02, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
In Africa–India relations, the note for the image says.
Coins of king Endybis, 227–235 AD. +. The left one reads in Greek "AΧWMITW BACIΛEYC", "King of Axum". The right one reads in Greek: ΕΝΔΥΒΙC ΒΑCΙΛΕΥC, "King Endybis".
I'd like to put the greek words into greek. I know that the "C" should actually be a Lunate Sigma. But what should the W be. I presume it is an alternate form of Omega, but I can't find that anywhere to copy it in. Naraht ( talk) 22:33, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
There is an RfC there that concerns this topic. Every opinion or other input is welcome. Ktrimi991 ( talk) 21:53, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Corinthian War for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 05:16, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#RfC: Reliability of protothema
Participants in this project are the most likely to be able to evalauate that source, and sources about that source, due to the language barrier. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 01:19, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
@ Κοματσουλάκης, Ktsquare, Grk1011, and Gug01: hello! As I noted at c:Category_talk:Flags_of_the_Palaiologos_dynasty#About_the_Bs :
Does anyone know what the name of this flag is or have an image where this flag is fully visible? The only thing close to it I could find is c:File:Konstantinos XI Palaiologos.svg which is likely going to be deleted as it is not a historical or used flag. Veverve ( talk) 08:15, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Demosthenes for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 04:23, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hormizd VI#Requested move 4 December 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 16:19, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
New User:Trapezanidis 1453 has been creating a number of these, probably translating from Greek Wikipedia. It might be useful for someone from this project to assist him with infoboxes, cats, notability for broadcasters and English. I have left a note on his talk page suggesting the same. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:35, 22 February 2015 (UTC).— Preceding undated comment added 17:35, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Peisistratos#Requested move 24 December 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Favonian ( talk) 20:28, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
User:Hog Farm has nominated Epaminondas for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:07, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
I've created Koutoukian, which looks to me like very much a notable topic, but it's difficult to find sources as we have a transliteration issue. Can anyone help? valereee ( talk) 19:22, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Greetings,
Hi, I am User:Bookku, my expectations to get expanded Black sea related articles failed miserably. I am expecting and requesting at least some help in expanding the article Draft:List of erstwhile slave trading townships with regions surrounding Black sea and Ottoman time slave trading townships. In next steps I wish to have a proper map showing erstwhile slave trading townships across .
Thanks and warm regards
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 10:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
The article KAT Hospital has been proposed for deletion: see the deletion discussion here. Can anyone here help with finding reliable sources for this article? -- The Anome ( talk) 08:21, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
I have nominated Hippocrates for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Caeciliusinhorto ( talk) 19:28, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
I have nominated Pericles for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 04:43, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
The current page shows up as an info-panel on Google Maps for the Kainourgio that lies some 180 km north of Athens! A disambiguation page is required! 90.131.44.10 ( talk) 11:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi. Please help resolve a dispute at Talk:Odessa#Use the spelling Kyiv because this is not a historical article. — Michael Z. 00:17, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
I have nominated Cleomenean War for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 ( talk) 13:13, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
I have nominated Cretan War (205–200 BC) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 03:39, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{ cite web}}, {{ cite journal}} and {{ doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
I have nominated Maximus the Confessor for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 06:28, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
The article on the Battle of Lalakaon has been nominated for featured article. All interested Wikipedians are invited to participate. Constantine ✍ 21:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I've been thinking for a while of an idea for a new and certainly needed WikiProject. The Aromanians/Vlachs, Megleno-Romanians/Meglenites and Istro-Romanians/Ćiribirci are poorly known peoples in the Balkans, the only ones that are Romance-speaking apart of the Romanians. Tagging pages related to these with WikiProject templates can turn problematic, see this talk page for example [30], saturated with 7 different templates. I was thus thinking that giving them their own WikiProject could increase organization on Wikipedia about info on these peoples and increase their representation in the project, perhaps even attracting members of these groups into working at Wikipedia. The project could be split into three task forces for each of the three.
If you're interested, please ping me here or message me on my talk page. Expressing your interest in the existence of such a project is enough, you will not be compromised or pressured into working in a topic area you might lose interest to soon. After (if) I recruit enough support, I will start a formal proposal and ping you there. Regards, Super Ψ Dro 20:52, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
I've recently created Category:Easter traditions in Greece but it's being considered for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_24#Category:Easter_traditions_by_country. I think it has scope for expansion. Comments appreciated (at the CfD thread, they won't be noticed here). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:32, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Greetings,
Hi, I am User:Bookku, I find information and knowledge gaps create Drafts, try to recruit draft expanding editors and promote drafts articles for further expansion.
Requesting your visit to following drafts and help expand the same if any of these interests you.
Thanks and warm regards
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 11:19, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
Battle of Lechaeum has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 18:26, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
this page /info/en/?search=Ancient_Greek_education_among_Illyrians that was previously called Illyrian Education after my change presents just ancient greek scholarship and nothing Illyrian as their language is not even codified, article full of original research articles and the utter use of a single albanian source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Admn19190123 ( talk • contribs) 02:26, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
First Macedonian War has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 15:11, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Interconnector Turkey–Greece–Italy#Requested move 2 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:42, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Moscopole#Requested_move_9_October_2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Alexikoua ( talk) 00:29, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I have listed the 1995 Aigio earthquake for Peer Review at Wikipedia:Peer_review/1995_Aigio_earthquake/archive1 as prep for FAC, and I would greatly appreciate it if everyone could leave some comments on what can be improved in the article. Thank you, SamBroGaming ( talk) 01:32, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
Public transport in Athens and Athens Mass Transit System are very similar to each other. I think the former should be about the transport system at a glance, while the latter should be reframed to describe the Transport for Athens (trading name of the Athens Urban Transport Organization) transport tariff authority. [1] See also the proposal to create of Attiko Metro and Urban Rail Transport S.A. (STASY) at WikiProject Greece/Open tasks. Best, -- Minoa ( talk) 18:51, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
An RfC on whether the Aromanians of Greece should be included in Template:Greeks is open here [31]. Khirurg ( talk) 18:18, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Anagnostopoulos&diff=1017600448&oldid=911623110 There are several pages to be similarly corrected. Xx236 ( talk) 07:51, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
(See this Help Desk thread for context.)
Consider the following articles, about family members of the deposed king Constantine II:
I wonder if all of them are really notable (obviously tabloids etc. extensively cover royal families, so there’s some sourcing, the question is its quality) but let’s assume they are.
The titles of the articles include honorifics which we generally avoid ( MOS:HON), unless that is the way the person is known among reliable sources. The problem is, most sources in those articles are either from the tabloid/celebrity press or royalist-leaning sources, both of which use the honorifics for obvious reasons. (Possibly some of those are not notable because there are no quality sources but I don’t really want to touch on that; at any rate, I doubt #1 would be deleted at AfD.)
What would be alternative titles? One option is to drop the titles: Pavlos of Greece (born 1967), Alexia of Greece and Denmark, etc.
Another option at least for Pavlos: there is one source in the article that refers to him as "Παύλος Γλύξμπουργκ". We could theoretically move the article to Pavlos Glücksburg but I have no idea whether To Vima is roughly representative of the mainstream press or a raging anti-monarchist outlet.
Ideas? Tigraan Click here for my talk page ("private" contact) 15:41, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello there, I am trying to improve the page at Chronographos but am struggling to find much about it. Can someone help me? Currently the page has had no references for many years. Thanks JMWt ( talk) 19:54, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
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This has gone on for too long and it would be fantastic if some editors could join me and improve this abandoned and ridiculous problem. There are plenty of obvious examples, but I will start with one:
Now who decided that this made sense? Why does it continue? Every single time an English man reads the name of a footballer or person of importance with this nonsense he completely mispronounces the name because of this 'ch' business. Other examples are Angelos Charisteas, Lampros Choutos etc. The Spanish for example leave their spelling intact and this forces the media and public to learn what the 'x' does in their respective language, like with Xavi - whose name is pronounced shabi. Is there anyone out there who agrees so we can mend all these names in respect to the actual people whose names are being badly represented? This nonsense has gone on too long and there needs to be some order. Reaper7 ( talk) 16:11, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
I came across this discussion by accident, having recently had a disagreement about whether the 'appropriate' rendition of a name was Spiros or Spyros (I think the former is more helpful and familiar to the reader, I was told the latter was more 'correct' … not by a Greek BTW). The trouble with the 'fixed' system is that it only makes sense if you already understand the Greek alphabet (in which case you hardly need the Latin). Wikipedia certainly isn't consistent, we have Chania, but just down the coast Hersonissos. Any fixed system also leads to monstrosities in latin script, I can't remember the whole name of an ex-student of mine, but it started with an English 'B' sound, so his Cambridge ESOL certificates and all his 'latin' documents ended up rendered (in Latin) as MP.....etc. I endorse a lot of what Constantine says, except perhaps some of his examples 'Christos' would of course be obvious to most non-Greeks, (English or otherwise), Mihail or Michail both seem valid, whereas the most 'English', Michael is OVER-anglicising, (unless the person has already become known by that name outside Greece). Also the original poster - I don't think - expects everything changed 'for the benefit of English speakers', it's more a question of thinking it perverse to adopt a system that informs NO ONE as to how the word should be pronounced, this seems especially true of the 'chi'.
I don't think there is a simple answer to this one but wholly sympathise with those who find the 'fixed' logic inflexible and unhelpful. The real problem is of course that Greek is (relatively) phonetic, whereas English definitely isn't, pronounciation altering according to where the letter combination is and what the root of the word is (and whether there is an 'R' in the month ?) Pincrete ( talk) 23:07, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
BTW, I think current policy:-If there is a common anglicization of a Greek proper name, it should be used in an English language context. If there is no commonly used version of a name, it is recommended to use the UN transliteration, since that is also used by the Greek government. … … is probably the worst of all possible worlds. The first part makes total sense and covers most common first names and many place names, but the 'commonly used' have usually adopted a 'phonetic' approach, Haralambos, Hara, Hania, Spiros etc., whereas the second part of the policy leads one into a different territory. At least if I come across 'Jorge' in Spanish I am likely to pronounce it no worse than other English speakers, if I come across a variant of the name or another spelt similarly, I stand a chance of saying the variant sufficiently correctly for someone to know who I am talking about. If rendition varies randomly according to whether someone thinks there is or is not an established form of the name, we end up with 'chi' being rendered as 'h' in the first name and 'ch' in the surname. There are historical reasons why the Gk Govt has adopted their transliteration scheme (though as others have pointed out, in tourist etc. contexts they often adopt a more 'phonetic' approach). I think where no 'standard' form of a name exists, editors should be free to give a rendition in latin script that approximates to English pronounciation, and that (in most cases) would mean 'chi'='h'. Pincrete ( talk) 00:53, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I am a native of Limni, Euboea, and would like to see the article expanded. There is a lot more information about the town that can be added, but I do not know how, nor do I have the time to learn. For example, the etymology of the town's name is fascinating; though the female-gendered word "λίμνη" does indeed mean "lake," as mentioned in the article, the name developed from when its inhabitants shortened the older version "Ελύμνιον" to the neutral-gender "το Λύμνι." The 19th-century scribes who put Limni on the newly formed country's maps, thought the natives to have misspelled the word "λίμνη" and permanently changed the spelling of the town, causing confusion to future visitors, who wonder where the lake the town gets its name from is located. There are also several other famous people associated with Limni, such as WWII Greek resistance fighter Lela Karagianni, Greek Independence hero Aggelis Gobios Αγγελής Γοβιός as well as author and Byzantine musician Ioannis Margaziotis. Is it possible for the author(s) to come in contact with me so that this can be further discussed? 70.125.13.192 ( talk) 02:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm not sure of proper procedure (and am not even part of the 'Greece' project), however I would appreciate some help on the Cretan resistance page. I first noticed multiple issues over a year ago, but felt I lacked the knowledge of the topic or confidence to edit on my own.
The issues largely relate to use of questionable sources, blatant synth, coatrack-ing and very PoV choice and use of sources. The main editor responsible for this material, is almost wholly relying on 'self-translation' and despite being left messages, doesn't respond to criticism of his material (having done his damage, he has largely disappeared from the page).
As I already said, I feel I lack the expertise (and knowledge of Greek) to sort the 'wheat from the chaff' and am reluctant to mass delete … though that might be the simplest option. I detail many of my specific criticisms on the articles talk page.
Help or a second opinion or telling me where I should go for help (even telling me I'm barking up the wrong tree), would be much appreciated. Pincrete ( talk) 17:23, 12 August 2014 (UTC) … … Update, I've actually now pruned the article fairly drastically, so anyone would need to see the history and talk to see the problem. Pincrete ( talk) 19:49, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Can anyone help with this article? It is currently being discussed at WP:Articles for deletion/Giannis Poulopoulos. Best wishes, Boleyn ( talk) 08:56, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks so much. Boleyn ( talk) 15:52, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Over the last few years many pages concerning the history of Macedonia have been de-hellenized and grey zones have been created a la Aegean dispute. By de-hellenized, I mean to say, any reference to their Greek nature has been deleted/removed, then reinstated by referenced material and then bizarrely removed again as a neutral outcome/compromise. The pages mostly affected are Macedonia (ancient kingdom) - used to read (Ancient Greek Kingdom), Alexander the Great and Philip II of Macedon. Also the Ancient Macedonian language, Ancient Macedonians has been in the wars over the last few years.
Now this phenomenon of de-hellenization has been spear headed by editors of mostly Australian citizenship carrying ancestry from the Republic of Macedonia, however there are others with more ambiguous or hidden ancestry. They are ambitious and a highly organized campaign has been spearheaded by users such as Taivo, Luxure and Fut perf and a few others. The model is usually the same. A member such as Luxure removes the word 'Greek' and claims for example Ancient Macedon was proto slavic, another member alters his edit and Taivo will come in seeking to remove the word Greek as a neutral compromise. He also states often the word Hellenic does not imply a Greek nature to much outrage from other users. These users are extremely assertive and academic references are often ignored in place of faux neutrality or original research. There can be 40 academic references denoting the Greek nature of Macedon, but yet the word 'Greek' will be removed if they can manage to find one source to the contrary or perhaps even if they can't simply in the model of 'neutrality.'
Over the last few weeks, since the excavations of the Kasta Tomb at Amphipolis there has been increased de-hellenization due to the political capital to be exploited from such a discovery. In the past I have mostly edited pages on footballers and politicians and have not given enough time to this situation. The few existing editors who try and protect the pages are very war weary. If you feel you can contribute to these pages, especially Macedonia (ancient kingdom), please feel free to drop by. Reaper7 ( talk) 13:25, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
An attempt to ban me from the topic displayed above has been made by Fut.Perf. for asking the WikiProject_Greece to help on the page as detailed above. My trial is here and this goes to highlight the dangers I expressed in my original post on this page. Considering this member's success in the past, please stay strong and do not be disheartened at any negative outcome. the aim to to create fair and neutral pages without sockpuppets and false accusation of insults and bad faith. thanks for your time. Reaper7 ( talk) 09:28, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
I'm hoping someone at this WIkiProject can take a look at Battle of Lyncestis. I originally tagged it as a suspected hoax, because a google search for the title yielded zero results and the refs are poorly formed. The author has pointed to some references, but none seem to identify the battle by name. Could someone please take a look at this article, make sure the content is valid, and figure out if there's a better title that's backed up by sources? Thanks so much! — Swpb talk 14:18, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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I'm in the middle of sourcing and cleaning up the romanization of Greek article. The current Wikitable defaults are producing a rather drab gray mess and I'm curious if there are accepted sky and pale blue colors to use for Greek-related tables. If not, how about coming up with a standard for us to apply? — LlywelynII 10:20, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
A merge proposal for the articles Geographical name changes in Greece and Former toponyms in Greece is going on. Please vote. Constantine ✍ 14:21, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
The map "File:Griechisch Isoglossen 1900.png" (Map 1), showing the Modern Greek dialectual isoglosses, seems completely inaccurate to me concerning the distribution of Arvanitika (white area in the middle). The reasons:
My point: There are some linguistic maps of Greece in Wikimedia Commons here that are more precise regarding the distribution of Arvanitika. This map doesn't correspond to other historical-linguistic maps. Since it shows the isoglosses, it shouldn't be used to show the geographical distribution of Arvanitika. I insist that there are much more accurate maps for this purpose (like Map 2), which could be used in the related articles. Map 2 is used in articles such as Greece, Demographics of Greece, Minorities in Greece, Languages of Greece, Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia, but for a weird reason it isn't used in the article " Arvanitika", where a map of isoglosses (Map 1) was uncannily preferred! In my opinion Map 1 shouldn't be used anymore. Any opinions? -- Ymaea ( talk) 23:20, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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There is a requested move discussion Talk:Greek Muslims#Requested move 24 February 2015 that needs additional input. The RM has just been relisted to allow for it. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 14:13, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
This article is being totally rewritten by one user. It desperately needs wikifying and checking for factual accuracy and needs to brought back to a manageable size. I do not have the expertise to respond to this myself - I was just reading the article today but could not do so as it now has a highly complex structure and layout and is full of unnecessary quotes and content that suggests OR. Can someone familiar with the life and times of Socrates please look at the article? Alternatively, can we go back to the version as at 24 February 2015? Thanks -- Chewings72 ( talk) 11:11, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
There is a long list of articles, mainly of Greek museums, at User:Boleyn/List of museum articles tagged for notability. These have been tagged for notability for 7 years. I'd be grateful if anyone could help look them over. Best wishes, Boleyn ( talk) 17:21, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
To whom it may concern: Recently I have added a calendar to the Wikipedia project that displays the ancient Greek Olympiads, with the number of the Olympiad, the specific year and the name of the winner of the Stadion race. The calendar can be seen on pages such as 776 BC, 696 BC, 652 BC, 636 BC, 556 BC, 480 BC, 448 BC, 280 BC, 264 BC, 164 BC, 4 BC, 1BC, and all the intermediate. Thanks for watching.-- Hyphantes ( talk) 16:55, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I notice that since February, a new editor, User:Whalestate has made numerous very significant deletions and additions to articles in this project. See this. His writing is very poor and reference format is bad. This is way beyond my expertise. Can anyone with expertise here please investigate? Ssilvers ( talk) 16:58, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
The redirect Former Turkish Province Of Yunanistan, which currently points to the Greece article, has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. Your comments in the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 April 26#Former Turkish Province Of Yunanistan would be welcome. Comments left here will almost certainly not be seen by the closing administrator. Thryduulf ( talk) 15:49, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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Wikipedia's articles on the history of the Jewish people tend to be particularly comprehensive. Uniquely, nearly every article on Jewish minorities is titled in a similar format. History of the Jews in Hungary is a good example.
Given the similar circumstances of Greek and Jewish minorities -- both existed for millenia before 20th-century upheavals, and now most of these communities are very small in comparison to their past selves -- should we not rename Greek articles as well? There are two main reasons why I believe we should: technicality and cohesiveness. Re-titling Greeks in Egypt to History of the Greeks in Egypt would be more technically accurate. The vast majority of Egyptian Greek history is not in the modern era, but Greeks in Egypt have had a massive influence on global history, philosophy, and science. Next, it would promote a cohesiveness across Wikipedia's articles. This suggests professionalism, as it ensures that article naming is less arbitrary.
Some other articles, such as that of Germans in Poland reflect this. Ideally, this change could be made to all articles of historic minorities in a similar circumstance. I thought it would make the most sense to begin with the Greek people, because the history of Greek minorities most closely resembles that of Jewish minorities. Other potential diaspora articles to re-title would be Armenians in Turkey or that of the Germans of Romania. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liam Allen-McGoran ( talk • contribs) 00:25, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
It's not a bad idea to create articles focused on the history of the Greek diaspora in various places, like the examples you mentioned: apart from the " German minority in Poland" there is also a (and not renamed to) " History_of_the_Germans_in_Poland", "Armenians in Turkey" have also similar articles. In general I agree with the creation of articles about the community's past, but the current ones can be modified and stay like in the case of German in Poland. Alexikoua ( talk) 06:57, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Wouldn't this be a good article to modify, though? The amount of Greeks in Egypt today is honestly trivial. Ethnic cleansing efforts largely ensured that Egyptian Greeks would be a historical minority and little else. I don't know if we need two articles, given the irrelevance of Greeks in Egypt. For a comparison, there is an article on the History of the Jews in Hungary, but no article on Hungarian Jews.-- Liam Allen-McGoran ( talk) 03:33, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
There are almost 10,000 settlements in Greece and only a mere proportion of them has an article on the English wikipedia. I have created several hundreds of them but it's not a task that one can carry out to the end by one editor. The latest article I've created is about Deleria, a village of the Tyrnavos municipality. The article could be used as a template for creating new articles on settlements that aren't present on Wikipedia. It could be copy-pasted and then just a few fields would need to have it's info changed. That would be:
It would be great if we reach the point when every Greek settlement has its article on Wikipedia and it would be even greater if that was the result of collaborative work initiated by members of Wikiproject Greece; that's the meaning of Wikipedia and its wikiprojects after all. Hansi667 (Neighbor Of The Beast) a penny for your thoughts? 10:17, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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Category:BLP articles lacking sources from July 2006 currently has only one article in it, Andreas Mikroutsikos. Andreas Mikroutsikos is apparently a Greek reality TV personality. I was attempting to source and/or clean up the article, but the problem was I cannot find any sources in English, and Google Translate sucks. Also, the article on him in the Greek Wikipedia is completely unsourced. A Google News search does, however, give a number of results in Greek.
I and everyone else at WikiProject Unreferenced articles would be very appreciative if someone who can read Greek would source that article. I'm especially concerned, since it's a BLP about a statement in the article concerning bestiality, and the sentence referring to him as "merchant of human dignity". ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 20:53, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
I started ongoing RFC discussions in subsections of Talk:Greek government-debt crisis#Removal of Content. -- George Ho ( talk) 16:07, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
I need someone to come in and help with the article Nicholas Alexios Alexis. The article could use some work since it desperately needs RS that directly mentions this person. The article alleges that he's received coverage in encyclopedias, which is why I declined the A7 nomination, but I'd like for someone to go through and verify this. I'm concerned since a lot of the sources in the articles that have links seem to be about his children rather than Alexis himself. I'd also like to have someone check for puffery since the article creators have posted some WP:SOAPBOX type content in the article's talk page. Offhand it looks OK for the most part, but I'm somewhat leery that maybe some of the claims might have been inflated. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 07:30, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to get this article up to GA standard and am in the process of writing the Greece section. I'm using a good English language RS, but I'd like to get some proper nouns (mostly newspaper titles) translated into Greek for inclusion. Unfortunately my Greek is pretty basic so I was wondering if someone here could help.
The newspaper titles I'm looking for in Greek are:
Thanks in advance! — Brigade Piron ( talk) 11:00, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Some editors are trying to make entries stating that Kostas Tsakonas has died. This article (via Google translate) seems to suggest that he has indeed passed away. As well as his article, someone has added his name to the list of deaths in 2015. I would appreciate it if a Greek-reading person can confirm. Thanks, AtHomeIn神戸 ( talk) 06:53, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Γεια σας,
A user (now blocked) recently created a category tree for Ethnic Greek people. I think it's not very useful, and also quite a bit dangerous, and explained my reasoning in this discussion.
You are invited to give your opinion. Place Clichy ( talk) 17:04, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Yannis Tseklenis. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 15:17, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I started a discussion here after being reverted several times when trying to restore a see also link in hatnote from Category:Ottoman Greeks to Category:Greeks in Turkey (the reverse link exists and has always had). Your thoughts are welcome there on this issue. Place Clichy ( talk) 15:01, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Please provide some input at Category talk:Ottoman Greeks. Debresser ( talk) 21:00, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
G'day all, there is a RfC about the scope of the Greco-Italian War article that you may wish to contribute to. Thanks, Peacemaker67 ( crack... thump) 22:40, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
The reference list at the bottom of the article has cite errors. Can someone either fix them or advise me how to fix them? Robert McClenon ( talk) 19:41, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
THIS ARTICLE IS IN NEED OF ATTENTION. The article Northern Epirus has multiple issues and have been outlined in extensive manner in the talkpage. The article purports to define a region with a geographical spread from Korce to Gjirokaster regions. As such, much of those regions are inhabited by a Muslim/Orthodox Albanian speaking population(i.e: Kallivretakis, Winnifrith etc) and in the article, it does not take into account the complicated issue of identity amongst Muslim and Orthodox Albanian speakers that was intertwined with the larger question of Northern Epirus secession and the issues around retention/or not of Albanian sovereignty. The article also fails to refer to peer review material regarding the decisions of the international community in relation to confirming sovereignty of the area to Albania. The article also for contemporary times does not in any way cite the complicated identity issues involved amongst Orthodox Albanians and Greek identity and migration, post 1992. This part needs to be addressed regarding the matter of how Greeks are counted and their numbers in Albania. There are also uncited and wp:POV claims in the article that refer to the burning of many Greek villages in World War Two without no wp:reliable sources given. wp:secondary are also lacking in certain parts of the article. Any editors interested, message me on my talk or at the talkpage of the article to discuss the matter using peer reviewed material. Best. Resnjari ( talk) 23:13, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
First Council of Nicaea, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Miyagawa ( talk) 10:21, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
This entry has been a sub-stub since 2008 and is now threatened with deletion. Does anyone know (or care...) if it's worth rescuing? And please.... Regards Charles01 ( talk) 15:09, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello, γεια σας,
After several back-and-forth moves, I initiated a discussion to decide if the article for this political party should be called Drassi or Drasi. Comments welcome. Place Clichy ( talk) 14:04, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm struggling with Athanasios Koutroumbas Insect Museum. I can't find anything in English on it, notability is not asserted in article and there's no Greek language WP article I can use for help. I'd really appreciate any help that can be offered. There are a few similar ones at User:Boleyn/List of museums tagged for notability. Thanks in advance for any help, Boleyn ( talk) 20:43, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Theodore Komnenos Doukas; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert ( talk) 11:12, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
The article Zeitenlik included the sentence
That's 2,700 square miles, or over 1,700,000 acres, and cannot possibly be right. See Talk:Zeitenlik#Area. Please {{Ping}} me to discuss.
Cross-posting to WikiProjects Military history and Serbia. -- Thnidu ( talk) 20:14, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Can someone have a look at Special:Contributions/Υστερογράφος? It was a short burst of multi-kilobyte contributions in 2014 that included an article I just prod'ed because the references appear to be either fake or grossly mistaken. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 14:32, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
I've brought material over from the Greek version but this needs help. Mangoe ( talk) 03:06, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
Greece is one of the few big countries missing this overview topic. See the template at National symbols of Japan, for example. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:50, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi everyone! I would be interested to expand the content and the number of articles referring to any films released in Greece, Greek films in particular, and the Greek box office. I would also be happy to help with any other aspect of WikiProject Greece. Just contact me to let me know if you need help with something. I have added a table with the top 15 Greek films in terms of admissions here. Open to comments/suggestions. Spinc5 ( talk) 19:59, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
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There is limited information about Akovos, that I've been working on today. So, I thought I'd take a peak at the Greek article. There's some great historical information there - and I used Google translate to start to decode it - and I was hoping someone that spoke Greek / knows the Greek language could take a peak if my assumptions are correct for part of it. And, help with the few parts that I cannot begin to decipher.
The discussion is here and if someone has a bit of time, it would be great to expand the history section. There's some quite interesting information - it seems.-- CaroleHenson (talk) 00:54, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
We have a new article Cannabis in Greece, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Greek sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Greek Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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I have pasted the 3 WIPO (6ter) protected Vergina Sun variants. These are protected national symbols of Greece (as of 1995).
Thanks for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HistoryIsMyWingman ( talk • contribs) 07:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
We should use the Hellas name for Wikipedia articles about our beloved country. The name Greece is not acceptable as it was used by conquerors and is not the name we the glorious Hellenes use. Please help to raise awareness about our preference to use the Hellas name internationally for our country and make Wikipedia use it. Sofia Koutsouveli ( talk) 21:25, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
I'm requesting Atana be moved to Atana (raga) because it's currently an article on music of India, when Atana as known in the West is an alternate spelling of Athena, or a ‘proto-Athena,’ and there are also two or more other languages with the word having different meanings. The main page should be a disambiguation. If any page had the main article, I'd have preferred it be Athena. I've opened a move request discussion you can join.-- dchmelik ( t| c) 05:31, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
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The world headquarters of Costamare has recently moved to Monaco. Please change this in the Wikipedia article on Costamare. The majority of stock ownership is still in Greece but not the world headquarters anymore so please change this. Please read their most recent annual report they submitted to the EDGAR website of the Security and Exchange Commission of the United States to verify this assertion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.158.15.238 ( talk) 01:23, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
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The 2017 Adendro train derailment article has been nominated for deletion. Mjroots ( talk) 05:44, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey! There were 13 different pages for each of the austerity packages, and I merged them all into Austerity Packages of Greece. You guys certainly know more than me about Greek Politics, so if there are any improvements you could make to the article, please do so! I will go through eventually but your help would be appreciated. Thanks again El cid, el campeador ( talk) 16:22, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hi All,
I was in the German wikipedia and it happend to visit the article Albaner in Griechenland. That article has been locked in an Albanian nationalistic POV claiming that 70% of Greeks originated from Albania. Anyone that can help restructuring it according to the English one? Thanks. Othon I ( talk) 12:43, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
@Resnjari: stop taunting other users about getting blocked on sq.wiki. You yourself were blocked not too long ago right here on en.wiki. Any further taunts will be redacted, and you had better not edit-war to re-instate them. I won't warn you again. Btw, if an article is a stub, the thing to do is expand it, not delete it on such a ridiculous excuse, and the block anyone for protesting. This is the worst thing an admin could do, and its exactly some other language wikis are a total joke and will continue to remain so while such practices take place.
Khirurg ( talk) 21:55, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
The fr. article offers limited information about Albanian speakers compared to the english article. I fail to see the "Orthodox and Muslim Albanian section" and the only part that's dedicated to the various groups is less than one paragraph: (Le reste de la communauté est bilingue. Sa langue vernaculaire est un dialecte albanais mais son alphabétisation s'est faite en grec, langue aussi utilisée dans les activités culturelles, commerciales et économiques2. De plus, une partie des orthodoxes albanophones exprime un très fort sentiment national grecN 2 et ce sont eux qui soutiennent les premiers le mouvement autonomiste épirote3.).. I won't object to trim the correspondent information in the en:wiki article accordingly. Alexikoua ( talk) 14:01, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
I made the awfully time-wasting mistake of looking through the archives of North Epirus (if anyone wants to make the same mistake – [
[19]], [
[20]], [
[21]], etc…), and I have to say that while I do agree with
Resnjari that there are some problems with the page, I don’t agree with some proposed fixes by him at least as they were presented on that talkpage, and I found myself frequently agreeing with Alexikoua and Khirurg. For example, examples of things that happened in insignificant villages like Mursi and Vuno, presented as if they applied to the whole region only creates new problems. The proposed section about post-1992 Orthodox Albanians veered dangerously close to anti-Orthodox conspiracy theories that are not things we want a page resembling. To Resnjari’s credit, he seems to have backed away from including these things upon later thought, but I thought they were still important to note in case they came up again. One must steer clear of both the Greek irredentist POV and the Albanian nationalist POV (and also the Muslim-Albanian-synthesis-nationalist POV, which many other Albanians dispute).
I do see bad problems, though they aren’t the exact same set Resnjari sees. For one, there’s the fact that either we’re talking about an irredentist concept that Albanians hate, in which case we can’t talk about stuff on the page that occurred long before said irredentist concept existed, or we’re talking about a geographical region in which case we must observe NPOV and talk about the local history of all groups present in the region. Lastly, there is an issue of misleading ways of presenting regional demographics as mostly Greek while sources widely dispute this, which is seen in three maps across the page, but the sourced info on the actual distribution of Greeks is found only in one small paragraph jammed in the middle of the page that a reader is likely to miss (this one Resnjari already touched on, but I have a lot to add). Sometimes reviewers who don’t know the topic matter well can miss major issues and give a page an award without realizing them. My analysis got long and I’m too busy to trim, so I’ve put it in a box, but please read if you are interested in the issues involved with fixing the page.
1) Anachronism – how are we defining “Northern Epirus” here? It’s clear that it is not a geographical definition, but a political one nested in irredentist ideology. Parts of
Korca county are historically part of a different region, Makedonia, but they’re included.
Vlora is in the north of geographical
Epirus, but it is not in the definition used by this page, because Greek irredentists did not want an area full of Albanian-speaking Muslims. Similarly,
Konitsa is also in the northern part of Epirus, but it’s not included; it’s already in Greece. So it’s clear the page is not like Crimea, an irredentist claim that actually has clear geographic boundaries, and more like
Aegean Macedonia, a region defined by an irredentist ideology. As thus, Northern Epirus did not exist before the modern era, so all the stuff about the Ancient times and the Middle Ages is outside of the scope of the article, and must be deleted. Ottoman stuff is relevant context though. Relevant articles to discuss these things include
Epirus (which is actually a geographic region),
History of Albania and
Greeks in Albania.
2) If the anachronism problem isn’t fixed, at the very least the history could be written in a way balanced between the different ethnicities of the region. Khirurg made a good point on the talk page that a reason for not discussing this is that Northern Epirus is a mostly Greek (irredentist) concept and indeed Albanians hate it, but one also can’t have it both ways. Either (a) we take Khirurg’s fair point and make the page about the irredentist concept (I greatly prefer this), or, if everyone opposes this, then we are writing about a geographic region not an irredentist concept, and we must follow NPOV and include the histories of other groups that have been in the region—Slavs settled there too, Butrint was part of the medieval Kingdom of Albania, etc…
3) This is a long one, so I’d forgive someone for skipping it, but it hits on issues I have with both the current page and proposed alternatives. The page is clearly written about Greeks, and it only mentions the fact that Greeks mostly live in a subregion (Vurg, Pogon, Himara, Dropull, urban Gjirokaster) once (in a paragraph that bears Resnjari’s writing style). A reader of the page naturally comes to the conclusion that Greeks were the vast majority of the region, especially given the map that puts the vast majority as having “historical Greek presence” (I assume this means late Ottoman based on the distribution). But this is misleading. Even Greek writers repeatedly show this. In a large part of the region, the Korca and Permet areas in particular, there are few if any Greeks and many historical studies didn’t note any. I’ve looked hard. There are in fact a few notable Greek villages in Southern Carcove, and a few in Leskovik commune. I did find one note on Mborje as Greek by Aravandinos, and there were Greeks in Moscopole and a few in other urban centers like Korca, and to a lesser extent Bilisht. But it really ends there, and isn’t anything like the map portrays.
And then, of course I can see that saying this will trigger the argument that the non-Greek speaking Orthodox all identified as Greek (it has before, as I can see from the talk page histories). That badly stretches verifiability. The source burden is much more here than might be argued – not only does the view of Orthodox=Greek need to prove that they didn’t identify as Albanians, it also has to show that Greek was their personal ethnic identity without significant exception. There are no opinion polls from the 1910s, so I’m sorry, but that is unverifiable (to say the least). There’s also overwhelming evidence of that exceptions to the rule abounded. For the Vlachs, yes, plenty, but other alternatives did exist. For the Slavs, there was support for the Exarchate in places like Boboshtica. And for the Albanian Orthodox, while there were indeed many Greek-identifying Albanian Christians in some (but not all) areas of Laberia, this was not the case for a whole lot of them in Korcha.
Even supporting the Greek side was not a reliable predictor of Greek identity— one recurrent theme that shows up in accounts of the period is that many Orthodox supported Greek claims not because they identified as Greeks, but because the Greek nationalists promised land reform, and solve the land poverty issue that had arisen from the millet system and was a central part of Orthodox life (it was the reason so many emigrated). Ploumidis talks about this—many Orthodox sided with the Greeks as a “lesser evil”, he says. But others, including Muslim politicians like Avni Rustemi, also passionately took up the cause of land reform in favor of the poor Orthodox peasants. As Psomas notes, even in his Greek-er “Northwest Epirus” where there were more pro-Greeks and indeed many more actual ethnic Greeks too, as the 20th century continued, sentiment among the young swung increasingly in favor of Albania.
The disproportionate contribution of Orthodox from parts of Northern Epirus to Albanian nationalism has been written about -- the earliest writers (“stage 1” of Albanian nationalism in Rrapaj’s analysis) like Naum Veqilharxhi and Thimi Mitko (who disputed Aravandinos’ work, by the way) came from here as did a disproportionate number of Albanian nationalist writers, Albanian literature and the alphabet and schooling, and so on. Even Islamo-Albanian synthesists like Nexhmedin Spahiu give credit to the Orthodox of the Korcha region for their massive contribution to Albanian nationalism. I know the significance of the contributions of the Orthodox to Albanian nationalism has been disputed by Resnjari in the past— to him, I would present text from Rrapaj, Spahiu, Psilos, Zhelyazkova, Pahumi and others.
This leads into how the “Orthodox=Greek” POV for the region is not only Greek nationalist (against not only Albanian views but also Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian) but also plays into the more narrow Muslim Albanian POV (inserted intentionally or not) with regard to the view of Christians as a fifth column and the minimization of their contributions, intentionally or not. Indeed, contrary to the way things are portrayed currently on pages like Albanian nationalism, plenty of sources adequately show that there were similar divisions among Sunni Albanians, and that among many Sunni Albanians (unlike Bektashis) a faction that viewed itself as primarily Muslim and Ottoman and opposed Albanian independence resisted Albanian nationalism and continued to assert itself even after independence, as noted in various ways by various authors including Psilos, Rrapaj, Bozbora, Babuna, Duijzings, Psomas, Krasniqi, Skendi and so on. Indeed, discussing the “Hellenism” of certain Orthodox Albanians without discussing what Skendi calls the “Turcoman” party among the Sunnis can come off as unbalanced.
Of course it isn’t true that the Orthodox all identified as Albanians either (sources refute this too), but the problem is that in a complicated situation, the page doesn’t mention the limits of Greek settlement except in one paragraph, has a map showing Greeks all over the region despite extensive sourcing to the contrary that I’m sure Resnjari has already gone into plenty of detail about, and only shows one side of the Greek irredentist claim that “Orthodox=Greek” without any reference to those (plenty) who disagreed and disagree, or the complicated nature of the situation. One very easy way to solve most of this problem is to remove or at least qualify three maps on the page that make it look, to someone who missed (probably) Resnjari’s small paragraph, like all the Orthodox and even many Muslims are “Greeks”.
Thanks all for who took the time to read, and hopefully these issues can be resolved in ways that include minimal edit warring along national lines as some of these issues are not actually strictly “Greek vs. Albanian” issues (or at least I don’t view them so). Also feel free, anyone, to move this back to the North Epirus page. This entire conversation has gotten really far off topic from the German wiki article. -- Yalens ( talk) 23:58, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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"Nothing about the official Greek view of 1919.. ethnicities, speech etc" | let me remind you on some parts: ...official Greek government policy from c. 1850 to c. 1950, adopted the view that speech was not a decisive factor for the establishment of a Greek national identity and According to the Ottoman "Millet" system, religion was a major marker of ethnicity, and thus all Orthodox Christians (Greeks, Aromanians, Orthodox Albanians, Slavs etc.) were classified as "Greeks", while all Muslims (including Muslim Albanians, Greeks, Slavs etc.) were considered "Turks and yet again traditionally Orthodox Albanian speaking regions of internally polarized national identity and During this time, some Greeks and Orthodox Albanians with a Greek national consciousness managed to flee Albania and resettle in Greece and loyalty in Northern Epirus especially amongst the Orthodox to potential Albanian rule headed by (Albanian) Muslim leaders was not guaranteed ... to name only some parts. Off course this isn't the place to analyze each statistics (the Greek of 1919 for example, though the result are briefly mentioned). |
On Preveza prefecture and Fanari, are you referring to old statistics or modern? | Both (there is "absolute" nothing about, contrary to N.E.) |
On older statistics, Albanian and other numbers don't highlight micro-regions like Fanari. | Cassavetes' table offers estimates from the Preveza & Louros cazas which according to Elsie are part Chameria (the current table doesn't include this regions, thus it implies that there is no Chameria south of the Acheron). |
Alexikoua ( talk) 17:29, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
contains all necessary information about the various ethnic groups in various time periods that co-extist(ed) with the Greek communities; I strongly disagree as most discussion of hte history of Slavs, Vlachs, Albanians and Roma in the area is woefully missing. Some of these groups aren't mentioned even once on the page. Now if we were talking about a region defined by modern irredentism, as various editors and authors too have pointed out N Epirus to be, then this would be fine, but the article portrays the region as some sort of organic historical region that transcends time and history. If it is a geographic region, then you have to respect WP:BALANCE and include info on all ethnic groups that have been historically present, and not portray the region as mostly Greek (which pretty much all serious demographic analyses, including those done by Greek authors Kokolakis, Kallivretakis, Giakoumis, and even Psomas' studies dispute). On the other hand, if it's an irredentist region obviously it's anachronistic to have stuff about medieval times and ancient history-- imagine if Illyrian history showed up on Greater Albania; obviously that's ridiculous and would come off as very sketchy to say the least. You can't have you're cake and eat it, and you also can't keep ignoring the issue here. - Yalens ( talk) 19:41, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
This seems like as good a place to ask as any. Currently we're down to the last several thousand Neelix redirects, and a small chunk of those are Greek language. If someone would care to take a look through them, they're here; if you're not familiar with redirects and/or the ongoing Neelix cleanup efforts, read over the instructions at RfD and WP:X1. It'd be hugely appreciated. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 17:21, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
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I've stumbled upon this stub which doesn't even seem to have a Greek Wikipedia counterpart. Is this something that is unique and notable, or could we just redirect it to tavern or such? As written, the article doesn't make a good claim for notability, and my quick scan of sources didn't turn out anything great, neither. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:43, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
It may be notable for non-greeks. There is no article in Gree WP because everybody knows what it is and how it functions. It is central in Greek pop culture, and mentioned in songs, films etc. If it is not any harm, just leave it.-- Skylax30 ( talk) 08:37, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
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The article “ Education in Greece” needs a lot of additional citations for verification. There are only ~5; far too few for an article of its length.-- Solomonfromfinland ( talk) 03:05, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi. If you have time, please take a look on meta at this page m:Wiki4MediaFreedom contest. It's an event organized by Rossella Vignola (OBC), there is a list of articles to improve also on English wikipedia.-- Alexmar983 ( talk) 20:34, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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{{ Infobox Greek prefecture}} is broken — the area_rank parameter displays wikicode instead of the links it’s supposed to. I don’t know enough about templates to fix it myself, and I don’t know whether keeping that parameter is important or not. I hope someone here can clean it up. Thanks! NotARabbit ( talk) 17:05, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
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Γεια σας!
Article Stavros Niarchos starts: Stavros Spyros Niarchos ( Greek: Σταύρος Σπύρος Νιάρχος, pronounced [ˈstavros ˈspiros 'ɲarxos]; 3 July 1909 – 16 April 1996) was a multi-billionaire Greek shipping tycoon.
As Spyros Niarchos was the name of his father and according to Greek naming customs it seems logic that "Spyros" should be a patronymic and not a given or middle name, and therefore should be in the genitive form Spyrou. Article should therefore state instead: Stavros Spyrou Niarchos ( Greek: Σταύρος Σπύρου Νιάρχος, pronounced [ˈstavros ˈspiru 'ɲarxos])....
Looking up quickly I did not find many uses of either Σταύρος Σπύρος Νιάρχος or Σταύρος Σπύρου Νιάρχος outside of Wikipedia mirrors, except maybe this page which uses Σταύρος Σπύρου Νιάρχος. It seems to me that Greeks would most often just use Σταύρος Νιάρχος ("Stavros Niarchos"), which probably means that "Spyros" is indeed a patronymic and not part of the given name.
What does the project think? Place Clichy ( talk) 14:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
Is this the
Wikipedia:Greek Wikipedians' notice board? We're having some discussion about Greek sources at
Talk:Konstantinos Speras, partially impeded by my ability to judge source reliability in the Greek language, if anyone wants to supplement my deficit. (not
watching, please {{
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czar 16:36, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I'm not especially familiar with how changing Wikipedia pages works, but I tried to look into making a change and I wasn't sure exactly how to do it. The two pages in question, Stagira and Siderokausia, seem to be referring to the same town in Greece, and I thought it might make sense to merge the two pages. Though I use Wikipedia often, I don't feel accustomed to editing enough to attempt merging these pages.
If anyone could help in merging these two articles with me or if anyone thinks the articles ought to stay separate, feel free to chime in.
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tigershark313 ( talk • contribs) 05:13, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, The sourcing at Ancient Greek is in a sorry state. I'm willing to help, but I'm not the best placed to do so; the article would probably benefit from members of this project. Your assistance is welcome: please see Talk:Ancient Greek#Sourcing. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 03:22, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi people. The Category:Ancient Greece stubs seems to be overcrowded, and also the related Category:Greece geography stubs. I propose first the creation of a stub template {{ AncientGreece-geo-stub}} and afterwards, when there are at least 60 stubs, create a new Category:Ancient Greece former populated places stubs. Regards, -- Fadesga ( talk) 20:01, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
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The discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 May 4#Eyphrosine Kastamonitissa would benefit from input from those familiar with transliteration of Greek. Thryduulf ( talk) 15:57, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Can someone please create a page on the 2019 Greek local elections? They occurred yesterday. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:84:4600:77b2:79b0:3e57:15a:8f33 ( talk) 19:41, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
Category:Public universities in Greece, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy ( talk) 13:16, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Members of this project are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 May 23#Category:French rule in the Ionian Islands. – Fayenatic London 18:47, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Dear fellow members of this wikiproject, As i am a Greek, i joined your wikiproject! I want generally help with creating new articles. As i am a new user, i will do in the start easy things, until i gain experience. I am also a member of wikiproject automobiles and classical music. Best regards, Enivak ( talk) 12:17, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
This is the first time I have contacted Wikipedia community on anything. I don't know the editing process or the rules so I am reaching out here. I apologize if this is the wrong venue. If so, feel free to delete.
My mother and father were both born and raised in Agios Vasileios, Achaea, Greece. The Agios Vasileios page in English has very limited information. It's good information and current, but it's missing much of the history of that village.
See link below:
/info/en/?search=Agios_Vasileios,_Achaea
However, if you view the Greek version of the Agios Vasileios page, it is rich with history. Most important is the history of how the village was founded and how Greeks from Gounariankia settled that region. It also includes history of how the local village church, Agia Kyriaki was founded from the original icon of Agia Kyriaki from Gounarianika.
What is the process of transferring the information from the Greek site, translating it, and publishing it on the English site? Greek site is below:
This is the translation using Google. It's a pretty accurate translation:
Saint Basil of Achaia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agios Vasilios is a village on the north coast of the Peloponnese and is a settlement and municipality of the former municipality of Rio. In fact, it is the second largest municipality in the municipality in question. According to the 2011 census it had 2,662 inhabitants [1]. It is a seaside tourist resort and a place of holiday and permanent residence for many Patrons. There is also a kindergarten in the village, and the football team of "Saint Basil's Thunder" is active sports [2].
Historical data
The beach of Agios Vasilios
In antiquity on its eastern side (Hadjika-Green Harbor area) was built the city of Panormos as reported by Pausanias in "Achaic". In addition, ancient Panormos, according to Pausanias, is geographically situated between Cape Rio and Cape Drepano, approximately 10 steps apart (ancient measuring unit corresponding to approximately 192 meters) [3].
Ancient Panormos appears on maps of colonies of ancient Greece in southern Italy (Magna Greccia - Paestum). Today's Palermo in Sicily translates as Panormos. Panormos is subsequently mapped on the Map of Riga Feraion. Also in the battle of Nafpaktos on October 17, 1571 with the Ottomans, on the occasion of the control of the Rio - Antirio straits, Panormos is mentioned as the defenseless port where the Allied forces repaired their ships from the damage they had suffered.
The first known naval battle in the Gulf of Patras (Caledonian Gulf) was recorded by Thucydides and reportedly took place in the third year of the Peloponnesian War, namely in 429 BC. In this battle, which took place between Panormos and Nafpaktos, the Peloponnesian fleet, which was concentrated in the natural harbor of Panormos, the present-day "Tekes" area consisting of ships from Sparta and the Corinthian colonies, was attacked. ships of the Athenian Alliance with the victory of the Athenian Alliance fleet.
Its first inhabitants came from the Gounarianika (one of the settlements in the area of Noonakrida). The inhabitants descended and settled in the greater Rio area in the second half of the 19th century. They transferred from Iconoclasm the image of St. Sunday and built the church of St. Basil from which the name of the village was originally called Gounarianika. The founder of the village is named after Dr. Phaedonas Diamantopoulos, whose name is named after the main square where the present office is located. From the narratives of the old inhabitants, the aforementioned had a kinship (groom) with Alexis Soliotis, captain of the 1821 revolution operating in the area of Clukines, as the wider area of Noonakrid was then called [4].
Toponyms
Today's "Green Harbor", also called "Dekkes", is named after an old Ottoman retreat (monastery) in the area. Other names of the area are: "Golemia", "Saliani", "Tragani", "Paliolaka", "Voros", "Kefala", "Alexis", "Peristera", "Sertoula" , "Perivolakia" and "Muskoura". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfilias ( talk • contribs) 20:53, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Two WP:CUTPASTE moves have made a mess of the articles Orithyia, Orithyia (mythology) (two roughly identical set indices), and Orithyia of Athens. Someone knowledgeable about the subject(s) might be best suited to resolve any attribution issues, determine which of the duplicates should redirect to the other, etc. I can't work out what needs to be done. – Arms & Hearts ( talk) 17:10, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Proposal to delete all portals. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore ( talk) 09:08, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
A Good Article Reassessment proposal has been started at Otto of Greece, an article within this project's scope. All interested editors are invited to participate. Constantine ✍ 17:20, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma ( talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia. Career diplomat. Question of sources and citations. WP:BEFORE. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 14:12, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
What does the prefix pap mean as it relates to Papantoniou?- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:05, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
I have posted a question in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics regarding the etymology of the botanical epithet chorisepala. I would like to have some input from members familiar with ancient Greek. Thanks in advance. Wimpus ( talk) 09:50, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Byzantine–Ottoman wars, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 03:27, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject Greece since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with {{ ping|Trialpears}} and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as {{ infobox journal}} for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as {{ starbox begin}} should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!
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I've started a discussion about Wikipedia guidelines for quantitative scansion at Wikipedia talk:CGR#Scansion. Join in if you like. Cheers. Phil wink ( talk) 15:54, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Could somebody please rewrite Argon Pedion so that it conforms to Wikipedia's quality standards? ωικιωαrrιor ᑫᑫ1ᑫ 14:04, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Pkannetwork Pkannetwork ( talk) 23:03, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
Your feedback would be appreciated at this discussion at Talk:Greek language concerning the region in which Greek is spoken. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 20:47, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Is there an online archive for Ethnos (or does anyone have another way of accessing it)? On 2/12/1960 they published the full results of the Cypriot election that year (which is visble here). If anyone is able to access it in higher quality, that would be really helpful. Cheers, Number 5 7 18:58, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
There is an ongoing deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Macedonian_Thrace_Brewery. It appears there is a corresponding page on the Greek language wikipedia. I would appreciate it if a Greek speaker could confirm that there are no Greek language sources that give the subject notability (i.e. significant coverage in a reliable, published, secondary source that is independent of the subject). And if so, someone on the Greek language wikipedia might want to nominate the page for deletion: [29]. Ikjbagl ( talk) 00:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Elena Paparizou (to Helena Paparizou) which may need your attention. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. Place Clichy ( talk) 22:43, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Would someone familiar with Greece/Greek please visit Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Single-source_stubs-Wrong_title and provide an opinion. Thanks in advance! Usedtobecool ☎️ 11:41, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Category:Demographics of the Western Balkans has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy ( talk) 14:47, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Dear users of this WikiProject:
At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Former_countries#Make_WikiProject_Ottoman_Empire_a_task_force_of_Wikipedia:WikiProject_Former_countries? I have left a proposal to convert Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire into a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries. I asked this project (as all or portions of this country was/were a part of the empire) and several other projects to get further feedback. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or objections.
Thanks! WhisperToMe ( talk) 01:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
If somebody could take a few minutes to assess whether Greek-language sources for this article currently at AfD amount to WP:SIGCOV or whether they are just routine gossip coverage, that would be appreciated. Thanks, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 23:40, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
I translated the article about Vitalis Pasha from the French Wikipedia, as it was in "open tasks". It however has no inline sources. Does anybody, maybe the person who added it, know how this can be fixed? Because I don't have access to the sources listed and can't find much more information about him online. -- Antondimak ( talk) 15:47, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, everybody. There's an ongoing RfC at Talk:Molossians#RfC about inclusion in the lead of mention about the historical origins of this group in which members of this wikiproject could contribute and provide new perspectives. Khirurg ( talk) 03:17, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
There is a stamp of yours stamped onto Cyclops (play) avowing your midlevel interest. Therefore somebody might be interested to know that I have given the article a kickstart, and now relinquish it with the keys. Untitled50reg ( talk) 23:53, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated Istanbul for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 04:09, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Please see this request for comment on whether Ottoman capital city should be referred to as "Constantinople" or "Istanbul": Talk:History_of_Istanbul#Should_the_name_"Istanbul"_be_used_for_the_Ottoman_city_instead_of_"Constantinople"? This is relevant to the project due to the historic Greek population in the empire. WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:07, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is currently taking place on WCommons at Category talk:Flags of the Palaiologos dynasty to try to find what was the flag of the Byzantine empire in the 14th-15th century. Feel free to join to help! Veverve ( talk) 05:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
There has recently been an incident. Within a lot of noise (references of an old fight I had with a bot to fix some bugged categories, misunderstanding of Greek geography, etc.), there is basically a discussion to delete most biographical categories for people from Greece by location, and only keep those on the level of the periphereia (meaning just 13 categories, and category tree of height 1). As far as I'm aware, nothing similar has been done in Wikipedia for any other country. There is one valid underlying argument about the lowest-level categories being too small, but they are constantly growing as new articles are created, thereby not falling under WP:SMALLCAT, and going up just one level, to that of the Kallikratikoi demoi, removes this issue. Anyway, there is a lot of confusion, with the nominator just having said that "Greek co-authors and collaborators" (meaning outside of Wikipedia, as I understand) told him to merge up to the periphereies, and an inability to communicate, and I think Wikipedians here, who are more familiar with the country, could help, if they have time, so the rest don't have to rely on a single Greek person and outside commenters. -- Antondimak ( talk) 17:31, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Thrasybulus for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Bacon 03:13, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
So recently there was a dispute between me and another IP over whether the military junta was Fascist or not:
/info/en/?search=Talk:Greek_junta#Ideology_of_the_regime
I would like to see WikiProject Greece get involved in this dispute, since I believe it is in a much better position to solve it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.122.83.241 ( talk) 17:57, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
If so, then check /info/en/?search=Talk:Mystra_(Forgotten_Realms)#Requested_move_February_26_2021 In ictu oculi ( talk) 13:27, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Greek mythology for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:50, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Slavery in ancient Greece for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 18:16, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated War against Nabis for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 00:36, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Rhodes blood libel for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 12:09, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
I have requested at Talk:Tmolus#Requested move 28 March 2021 that several pages be moved and renamed. Comments and suggestions are very welcome at that discussion. Cnilep ( talk) 03:09, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
After successfully completing our Asia and Africa contests over the past six months, we now welcome contributions to our Women in Europe contest which runs for three separate months from April to June 2021. To qualify for the contest, articles have to contain at least 160 words or 1,000 characters of running text and participants need to be members of Women in Red. We look forward to lots of new biographies of women from Greece.-- Ipigott ( talk) 06:40, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Sviatoslav I for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 23:42, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Please comment there. Johnbod ( talk) 01:13, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
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If you know the answer, make sure to add it to relevant wiki pages, especially to List of highest railways by country. Thanks! Zach (Talk) 21:19, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Is there a website similar to newspapers.com where one can lookup old news articles from Greece? Alvaldi ( talk) 11:19, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Ryanair Flight 4978 is in the news. As the flight originated in Athens, it is probably getting a lot of coverage in the Greek press. Editors able to read Greek may be able to improve the article from those sources. Mjroots ( talk) 06:28, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
This article on a President of Greece had no references until I just added an obit. It could use some help. 4meter4 ( talk) 01:42, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
This biography is unsourced. An editor who can read Greek is needed to source the article. Best. 4meter4 ( talk) 01:50, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to get some opinions regarding the three maps below. Tjellis1940 uploaded some seemingly bogus images of Kardaritsi (see Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2021 July 25# and C:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Tjellis1940 for reference). However, I am not familiar with Greece's geography to determine if these maps are legitimate. The right side of these images seems right as they are based on File:Peloponnesos Map.png, but I have no clue on the left side.
I would greatly appreciate any knowledge that can be bestowed upon this clueless contributor. ✗ plicit 10:49, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone help with the identity of a Russian corvette lost at Piraeus in 1876. Replies at MILHIST please. Mjroots ( talk) 06:40, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Roman–Persian Wars for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 11:38, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Alcibiades for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm ( talk) 19:31, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Execution by elephant for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 05:11, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm ( talk) 17:02, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
In Africa–India relations, the note for the image says.
Coins of king Endybis, 227–235 AD. +. The left one reads in Greek "AΧWMITW BACIΛEYC", "King of Axum". The right one reads in Greek: ΕΝΔΥΒΙC ΒΑCΙΛΕΥC, "King Endybis".
I'd like to put the greek words into greek. I know that the "C" should actually be a Lunate Sigma. But what should the W be. I presume it is an alternate form of Omega, but I can't find that anywhere to copy it in. Naraht ( talk) 22:33, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
There is an RfC there that concerns this topic. Every opinion or other input is welcome. Ktrimi991 ( talk) 21:53, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Corinthian War for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 05:16, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#RfC: Reliability of protothema
Participants in this project are the most likely to be able to evalauate that source, and sources about that source, due to the language barrier. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 01:19, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
@ Κοματσουλάκης, Ktsquare, Grk1011, and Gug01: hello! As I noted at c:Category_talk:Flags_of_the_Palaiologos_dynasty#About_the_Bs :
Does anyone know what the name of this flag is or have an image where this flag is fully visible? The only thing close to it I could find is c:File:Konstantinos XI Palaiologos.svg which is likely going to be deleted as it is not a historical or used flag. Veverve ( talk) 08:15, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hormizd VI#Requested move 4 December 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 16:19, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
New User:Trapezanidis 1453 has been creating a number of these, probably translating from Greek Wikipedia. It might be useful for someone from this project to assist him with infoboxes, cats, notability for broadcasters and English. I have left a note on his talk page suggesting the same. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:35, 22 February 2015 (UTC).— Preceding undated comment added 17:35, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Peisistratos#Requested move 24 December 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Favonian ( talk) 20:28, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
User:Hog Farm has nominated Epaminondas for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:07, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
I've created Koutoukian, which looks to me like very much a notable topic, but it's difficult to find sources as we have a transliteration issue. Can anyone help? valereee ( talk) 19:22, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Greetings,
Hi, I am User:Bookku, my expectations to get expanded Black sea related articles failed miserably. I am expecting and requesting at least some help in expanding the article Draft:List of erstwhile slave trading townships with regions surrounding Black sea and Ottoman time slave trading townships. In next steps I wish to have a proper map showing erstwhile slave trading townships across .
Thanks and warm regards
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 10:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
The article KAT Hospital has been proposed for deletion: see the deletion discussion here. Can anyone here help with finding reliable sources for this article? -- The Anome ( talk) 08:21, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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I have nominated Pericles for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 04:43, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
The current page shows up as an info-panel on Google Maps for the Kainourgio that lies some 180 km north of Athens! A disambiguation page is required! 90.131.44.10 ( talk) 11:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi. Please help resolve a dispute at Talk:Odessa#Use the spelling Kyiv because this is not a historical article. — Michael Z. 00:17, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{ cite web}}, {{ cite journal}} and {{ doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
I have nominated Maximus the Confessor for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 06:28, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
The article on the Battle of Lalakaon has been nominated for featured article. All interested Wikipedians are invited to participate. Constantine ✍ 21:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I've been thinking for a while of an idea for a new and certainly needed WikiProject. The Aromanians/Vlachs, Megleno-Romanians/Meglenites and Istro-Romanians/Ćiribirci are poorly known peoples in the Balkans, the only ones that are Romance-speaking apart of the Romanians. Tagging pages related to these with WikiProject templates can turn problematic, see this talk page for example [30], saturated with 7 different templates. I was thus thinking that giving them their own WikiProject could increase organization on Wikipedia about info on these peoples and increase their representation in the project, perhaps even attracting members of these groups into working at Wikipedia. The project could be split into three task forces for each of the three.
If you're interested, please ping me here or message me on my talk page. Expressing your interest in the existence of such a project is enough, you will not be compromised or pressured into working in a topic area you might lose interest to soon. After (if) I recruit enough support, I will start a formal proposal and ping you there. Regards, Super Ψ Dro 20:52, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
I've recently created Category:Easter traditions in Greece but it's being considered for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_24#Category:Easter_traditions_by_country. I think it has scope for expansion. Comments appreciated (at the CfD thread, they won't be noticed here). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:32, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I am User:Bookku, I find information and knowledge gaps create Drafts, try to recruit draft expanding editors and promote drafts articles for further expansion.
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Battle of Lechaeum has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 18:26, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
this page /info/en/?search=Ancient_Greek_education_among_Illyrians that was previously called Illyrian Education after my change presents just ancient greek scholarship and nothing Illyrian as their language is not even codified, article full of original research articles and the utter use of a single albanian source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Admn19190123 ( talk • contribs) 02:26, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
First Macedonian War has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 15:11, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Interconnector Turkey–Greece–Italy#Requested move 2 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:42, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Moscopole#Requested_move_9_October_2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Alexikoua ( talk) 00:29, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I have listed the 1995 Aigio earthquake for Peer Review at Wikipedia:Peer_review/1995_Aigio_earthquake/archive1 as prep for FAC, and I would greatly appreciate it if everyone could leave some comments on what can be improved in the article. Thank you, SamBroGaming ( talk) 01:32, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
Public transport in Athens and Athens Mass Transit System are very similar to each other. I think the former should be about the transport system at a glance, while the latter should be reframed to describe the Transport for Athens (trading name of the Athens Urban Transport Organization) transport tariff authority. [1] See also the proposal to create of Attiko Metro and Urban Rail Transport S.A. (STASY) at WikiProject Greece/Open tasks. Best, -- Minoa ( talk) 18:51, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
An RfC on whether the Aromanians of Greece should be included in Template:Greeks is open here [31]. Khirurg ( talk) 18:18, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Anagnostopoulos&diff=1017600448&oldid=911623110 There are several pages to be similarly corrected. Xx236 ( talk) 07:51, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
(See this Help Desk thread for context.)
Consider the following articles, about family members of the deposed king Constantine II:
I wonder if all of them are really notable (obviously tabloids etc. extensively cover royal families, so there’s some sourcing, the question is its quality) but let’s assume they are.
The titles of the articles include honorifics which we generally avoid ( MOS:HON), unless that is the way the person is known among reliable sources. The problem is, most sources in those articles are either from the tabloid/celebrity press or royalist-leaning sources, both of which use the honorifics for obvious reasons. (Possibly some of those are not notable because there are no quality sources but I don’t really want to touch on that; at any rate, I doubt #1 would be deleted at AfD.)
What would be alternative titles? One option is to drop the titles: Pavlos of Greece (born 1967), Alexia of Greece and Denmark, etc.
Another option at least for Pavlos: there is one source in the article that refers to him as "Παύλος Γλύξμπουργκ". We could theoretically move the article to Pavlos Glücksburg but I have no idea whether To Vima is roughly representative of the mainstream press or a raging anti-monarchist outlet.
Ideas? Tigraan Click here for my talk page ("private" contact) 15:41, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello there, I am trying to improve the page at Chronographos but am struggling to find much about it. Can someone help me? Currently the page has had no references for many years. Thanks JMWt ( talk) 19:54, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
I have nominated Diocletian for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:45, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Diocletian/archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:48, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Zograf Monastery#Requested move 16 March 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:29, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
User:Buidhe has nominated Macedonia (terminology) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 03:18, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
User:Buidhe has nominated Macedonia (terminology) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:37, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
User:Buidhe has nominated Macedonia (terminology) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:08, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Fox Life (Greek TV channel)#Requested move 23 March 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:37, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at
Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent
Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
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WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{
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parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present.
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Battle of Lade has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 22:29, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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Discussion ongoing (well, trapped in an endless circle) about whether the article on Kos should include the Turkish name of the island in the lead on account of the continued existence of a Turkish minority there, or whether this is undue. Input from the members of this WP would be helpful. Furius ( talk) 16:30, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
I have nominated Attalus I for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 ( talk) 13:16, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
If anyone has any opinions on this Talk:Labours of Hercules#Requested move 10 July 2023, please join the discussion. Paul August ☎ 00:20, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pushbacks in Greece#Requested move 5 July 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 18:53, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Arab–Byzantine wars has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke ( talk) 16:21, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Wikipedia:Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej ( talk) 17:46, 5 August 2023 (UTC)