Talk:Siege of Citium

Preliminary Phase
Having built the article, I now need to expand the paragraph content. Are there any external online sources for this article? Can anyone help me place this battle in the Greco-Persian Camapain box. It was a pretty significant engagement.--Arsenous Commodore 20:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I've added some strength figures [for both the Greeks and Persians] given in the sourced paragraph content of the main Greco-Persian War article.--Arsenous Commodore 18:38, 29 April 2007 (UTC)


 * This article needs to be added to the Greco Persian war campaign box ASAP. That's where it should be classified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.226.164.94 (talk) 03:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Redirect proposal
I'm trying to improve the depth of coverage for the Greco-Persian wars across all articles, and get all of them up to at least Good Article status. However, this article (as with others) is problematic, for one main reason: the ancient sources don't have much to say about it (as evidenced by the stub nature of this article). The article can never be satisfactorily expanded, because there's nothing else to say, and no other details in the ancient sources.

Thus, I don't think it really needs a separate article.

I think that the events at Citium in 450 BC can be adequately covered at Wars of the Delian League, without needing a separate article. I suggest leaving this page as a redirect to the above article, and moving any content which is not already covered there, to Wars of the Delian League. The Greco-Persian Wars navigation box would still have "Citium" in it, but now directing to the appropriate subsection of the Wars of the Delian League article. This is the approach I have used for some other battles which are clearly not going to have a full article written about them.

Ultimately, if the consensus is that this deserves its own article, then I will not contest that. Having checked briefly, it appears that are probably not many editors with a vested interest in this article. No-one has made a significant contribution to this article since Mar 2008, and they are now banned. So, I will wait one week for any opinions, and then act as described above. MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 21:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * MinisterForBadTimes, although I agree with what you say on the states of the ultimately ancient sources and the fact that not much has been said about this siege, I think a separate article is a good thing. My reasons are: 1. small separate article have a better chance of having a good number of external links which in good-lengthy articles would not be nice and helpful. 2. Who knows, as new publications come out, it might be possible to add more to these small articles. 3. What about adding a "for more information see Wars of the Delian League" to the top of the article?--Xashaiar (talk) 21:54, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clearly no consensus, and no improvement (or edits) to the article in 6 months, so I have been WP:BOLD and done the redirect. If more information emerges on this battle, then we can easily re-instate it as an independent article. But for the time being, I think this is the best course of action. MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 21:32, 29 November 2009 (UTC)