User talk:TheArchon

Welcome!

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HELP US MAKING THE PROJECT OF ANCIENT GREEK WIKIPEDIA[edit]

We are the promoters of the Wikipedia in Ancient Greek. we need your help, specially for write NEW ARTICLES and the TRANSLATION OF THE MEDIAWIKI INTERFACE FOR ANCIENT GREEK, for demonstrating, to the language subcommittee, the value of our project.

Thanks a lot for your help. Ἡ Οὐικιπαιδεία needs you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.40.197.5 (talk) 20:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FYROM[edit]

Γεια, αν σε ενδιαφέρουν τα Μακεδονίτικα, τώρα γίνεται μια ψήφος για το αν το όνομα ΠΓΔΜ πρέπει να αναφερθεί στην πρώτη παράγραφο του άρθρου, δες εδώ. Μπορείς να ψηφίσεις περισσότερες από μια επιλογές. Telex 09:34, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Δεν ξέρω αν το ξέρεις, αλλά μπορείς να υπογράφεις το όνομα σου και την ώρα (όπως κάνω εγώ τώρα) με τέσσερα συνεχόμενα ~ (~~~~). Telex 09:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ευχαριστώ :-) Δεν ξέρω γιατί, αλλά όταν βάζω τέσσερα ~ δεν μου βγάζει το link. Γράφει δηλαδή μόνο το όνομα και την ώρα. π.χ. TheArchon 09:57, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Δεν ξέρω τι να σου πω - ρώτα στο Wikipedia:Help desk. Telex 10:01, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Μπα, δε θα σκάσω κιόλας... TheArchon 10:02, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nomizo oti tha itan kali idea na psifisis ke tin defteri epiloyi. Se afti tin psifo efarmozete to dieree ke kiverna: oli i Skopiani psifizun tin proti epiloyi ke oli i ipolipi skorpizonde stis ipolipes. Oso ya to alvaniko onoma, min anisihis, tha to ftyaxume meta. Simasia ehi na boresume na valume to FYROM stin proti paragrafo, yati i Skopiani de thelun. Telex 10:00, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Αντιληπτόν. Ενεργήσω! TheArchon 10:02, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Άρχοντα γεια κι'απο μένα! Τσέκαρε:

Talk:Republic of Macedonia/FYROM name support position (σκέτο) και
Talk:Republic of Macedonia/Comments to FYROM name support position (με σχόλια και απαντήσεις)

μήπως έχεις να προσθέσεις κάτι?

Ίσως η υπογραφή σου δεν βγαίνει γιατί έχεις συμπληρώσει σκέτο "TheArchon" στο "Nickname" στα preferences? Αν ναί, απλά σβήστο. Θα έπρεπε να είχες γράψει [[User:TheArchon|TheArchon]], αλλά είναι περιττό γιατί είναι το default. NikoSilver ^{(T) @ (C)} 12:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ευχαριστώ, Νίκο. Νομίζω πως το έλυσα κι αυτό το θέμα. TheArchon 18:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greek and Cypriot media coverage[edit]

Hello TheArchon,

I am writing a thesis on Croatia's candidacy to join the EU as seen by the various European media. As I see that you are a native Greek speaker interested in history I was wondering if you would consider helping me. Needless to say, I don't speak Greek. However, I think it would be a shame if my thesis were to reflect only the views and topics covered in the countries such as Austria, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands etc (in short, the countries whose languages I understand). Therefore, I would like to include a section on Greek and Cypriot media in my thesis. I am not only interested in Croatia's candidacy, but also in the wider subjects people associate with the EU. I left a more detailed list on my discussion page.

I will be more than grateful if you could leave me just a link to a Greek or Cypriot newspaper article that deals with any of the above subjects with a short summary such as for example: "XY is opposed to Turkey's membership because of the unresolved Cyprus issue" or "the membership of Croatia is bad because the constitutional treaty has been rejected in France and the Netherlands" or "party X is critical to Greece's membership in the eurozone because of..." Also any other information is appreciated.

I will be sending this message to several other native Greek speakers. Also if you know a Wikipedian who could help me, please let me know. Of course, if you're not interested, please accept my apologies and feel free to erase the message. Thank you for your time. PGradStudent 11:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello TheArchon. Thank you so much for the links to the Greek newspapers. I have more than sufficient information to compile the Greece (and also Cyprus) section of the thesis. I am grateful for your time and effort. PGradStudent 16:13, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category Deletion[edit]

Please visit [1] and weigh in! NikoSilver ^{(T) @ (C)} 17:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Νίκο, ευχαριστώ που με ειδοποίησες γι' αυτό. Δυστυχώς δεν πρόλαβα την ψηφοφορία, αλλά σε παρακαλώ να συνεχίσεις να μου στέλνεις υπενθυμίσεις όπου νομίζεις οτι μπορεί να βοηθήσω σε κάτι. Παρεμπιπτόντως, η ιδέα για το άρθρο ήταν εξαιρετική. TheArchon 06:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the thanks[edit]

Archon, thanks for the thanks on the Second language article. I appreciate that. There is much still to do, but it's a start. Can I ask a favor? I'm working on the History of the Acadians and only yesterday I found on the Greek language site of the Acadians a GIF map of Acadia in 1757. I haven't seen that map before. Unfortunately, I'm using a very O L D computer at home and I can't navigate my way through the the Greek page very well. Would you be able to upload that to the wikicommons on Acadia or put it up on the History of the Acadians page? Much appreciated if you can. Here is the GIF map on the Greek site, but I think my computer is going to mess up the language. Εικ?να:Acadie 1757.gif DDD DDD 10:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! That was fast. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.DDD DDD 12:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient Greek Wikisource[edit]

I understand from your userboxes you're interested in Ancient Greek. I've submitted a proposal to add an Ancient Greek Wikisource on Meta, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me by either voting in Support of the proposal, or even adding your name as one of the contributors in the template. (NB: I'm posting this to a lot of people, so please reply to my talkpage or to Meta) --Nema Fakei 20:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

POLL[edit]

No, no, no, not what you think! This time is for something that all of us need:

Improvement of the <ref> function.

Please weigh in at Wikipedia talk:Footnotes#Poll! NikoSilver ^{(T) @ (C)} 18:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

and another Poll...[edit]

Hi. There's a debate about how much "X-ian" one must be in order to be considered "X-American" (or X-Yian for that matter) and be categorized as such. The poll is here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Rules for lists of X-Americans. Kindly weigh in! :NikoSilver: 22:09, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Macedonia (terminology)[edit]

Well, that'll be the first article we're not bitching too much about! :-) :NikoSilver: 22:18, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, about the fire of Smyrna article[edit]

I am writting to you in particular not for specific reason other than landing by accident on a Greeko-Turkish conflict related article talk page by checking Kertenkelebek contribution log and having seen you answering him. I am quite mad at Greek contributors right now, because I have myself my share of to do lists than to have to clean articles which should already be on Greek contributors to do list. The Fire of Smyrna article is full of original research, interpretation, and now deleting of informations which I added myself, after checking, it was Kertenkelebek who deleted them(the reason why I checked his contribution log and found you).

The Smyrna article in the past was effectivally supressed by a redirect and its content deletion, had I not pointed to that, it would have probably remained deleted. Cretanforever while I disagree with his contributions there, still is workable with as he doesn't delete informations and is open to reasoning, so perhaps he could be the Turk with who you guys have to discuss with, I don>,t know how you will deal with the article or who you will find, I will not take part in another heated conflict, I will gladly help by providing references. Now, the restructuration Kertenkelebek did has to be dealt with as well as reintroducing the deletions he performed. Regards Fad (ix) 22:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was unclear, I did not accuse you of having done something wrong, but rather Greek contributors to not have done anything to protect the intergrity of the article. Clearly most peer reviewed publications place the blame on the nationalist forces (Kemalists), but wait a little more and you'll see the article currently on Wikipedia to say the complete opposit. Fad (ix) 15:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Greco Turkish War[edit]

Hi, thanks for the encouraging words, I hope we can have a good article on these issues without too much nationalistic debates. That part of our history is very important to us. That may be a reason for some of our friends' heated arguments. Cheers --Gokhan 08:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2 Polls that may be of interest...[edit]

Hey, kindly check:

Thanks. :NikoSilver: 01:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dance capitalization[edit]

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Image copyright problem with Image:Kalfelis.jpg[edit]

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Just fishin...[edit]

...Like the bait? -> Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Greece#Members •NikoSilver• 22:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

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Help at the Ancient Greek Wikipedia[edit]

Hi! How are you? I have noticed that you say in your user page that you speak Ancient Greek and I was wondering whether you could possibly help us revive the Ancient Greek Wikipedia at the Incubator. It would be great if you could lend us a helping hand. Jon Gua (talk) 14:24, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I am sorry to bother you again but I was wondering whether you could possibly sign this (https://shorturl.at/hNQVY) petition in order to get the Wikipedia in Ancient Greek approved. Thank you so much for your help. Jon Gua (talk) 07:17, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]