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Jesus myth hypothesis

Hi. I've replied on my talk, but I'm afraid you're on the border of being engaged in edit warring on that article, which is a Bad Thing and all that.  Sandstein  20:43, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Yanartas

I last saw this article about a year ago; it was then called Chimaera (geography), and was almost entirely about the ancient place of that name in Lycia, which was identified in the nineteenth century with Yanartas, now spelt with a diacritic. DreamGuy, fighting some sort of POV (I'm not sure what he imagines; his edits on the talk page don't explain), moved it to its present title, put on a new header, and made nonsense of some of the middle (most of the prose is unchanged, but it isn't really about the modern spot).

Please come by and give an opinion of whether it should be moved or split, and if so where to. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Will do. I've been looking for sources on this, and they're not terribly easy to find. --Akhilleus (talk) 02:15, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Modern sources are hard. It gets half a sentence, without the modern name, in the newest Pauly, but the ancient sources are in the article; I'm not sure how I found them. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:20, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

West's commentary on the Theogony says nothing about Chimaera/Yanartas, which I find slightly surprising. --Akhilleus (talk) 02:31, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

From what I've been able to discern from his edit summaries and talk page posts, DreamGuy objects to the theory that the mythological creature was inspired by the geological feature at Chimaera/Yanartas, calling it a minority/fringe POV, and further believes that some of the editing is by locals who want to promote their town. --Akhilleus (talk) 02:20, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

It may well be local patriotism. As for fringe: the ancients believed it; I would not phrase more strongly than may have inspired myself. But the place was called Chimaera whatever the direction of causation. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Iole on DYK

You said

Hi Casliber, I have a question about the promotion of this article, which I believe you are responsible for. I objected to this being a DYK on the template talk page, because the quality of the article is extremely low. Is this kind of objection taken into account for DYK? --Akhilleus (talk) 02:27, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, I saw there was an issue and left it hoping it would be sorted out so I didn't select it previously. While I was asleep it was placed in the next update (so I presumed some decision must have been made), which I then uploaded. I've been pretty busy and participating in the selecting and uploading of DYK was not high on my priorities but sone of the regulars seem to have been busy so I stepped in for a bit. Now having read it I see the problems. Sorry about that. Well, worth fixing up the article I suppose...I guess my take on it wouldn't be a redirect but splitting the material according to sources. I recall Graves doing this OK in Greek Myths Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:35, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Jesus myth

I have some questions waiting for you at my talk page about the situation. Vassyana (talk) 19:24, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Ancient Greek

Could you provide a third opinion at Talk:Ancient Greek#The map is incorrect; a newbie is objecting strongly to Image:AncientGreekDialects.png, on the grounds, of course, that it is unfair to Macedonia. May Athena bless him and keep him...but you know the rest of that one. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 01:43, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

The whole story is that

• there is no timeperiod given (first it read 400 BC (days ago), then 600 BC, now 700BC...)
• obvious Greek speaking lands are missing (Chalkidike, Samothrace, Macedonia (to some doubtful, but the rest is not), Epidamnus and the rest of the Greek ciies in Illyria etc). The time period is crucial in this.
• the caption of "Macedonia" north of Chalkidike clearly suggests that the map is about 4th century BC Greece, since before that, the lands depicte as Macedonian were Thracian.

People... if we stop looking inot anything that has to do with Macedonia because of this political debate, we will achieve nothing. What I asked for, is a correct map. We can contact the guy who made it and just ask him to take off the name of Macedonia and then we can claim that the map depicts the distribution of the ancient Greek dialects in the 9th century BC. Then it would be acceptable.

GK1973 (talk) 11:53, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: "WIKI Editors discussed in external forum" threat

Hi Akhilleus - I notice you too appear to have been subjected to the same threat. Is there anything we should do about this or just leave it? New experience to me, any advice appreciated. Mercury543210 (talk) 21:17, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Iole

I've set up a plan as a todo list; are you still interested? Do you concur? I'm not sure I'll get to this before Sunday. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:22, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry

Regarding this, I have to set the record straight. Special:Contributions/ΚεκρωΨ isn't an impostor, nor a sockpuppet of mine. Could I get some admin help in dealing with User:De728631 and it's accusations?  ·ΚΕΚΡΩΨ· 04:09, 12 September 2008 (UTC)