Talk:Theodosius of Bithynia

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Tripoli, Bithynia
Tripoli is in Lybia and not in Bithynia. The name Theodosios of Tripoli is a confusion coming from the article von Theodosios in the byzantinian Suda.--Meilenweit (talk) 13:55, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

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Disambiguation link to Tripolis
Theodosius in the past often claimed to be from "Tripolis", based on a mistake from the Suda Lexicon (as of recently, quoted in the article.) However, the Suda Lexicon does not explicitly say which Tripolis this was supposed to be (there were several cities/regions by that name at the time – it's Ancient Greek for "three cities"), and the intended one is not immediately clear from context. I didn't do any kind of exhaustive search, but I can't find any clear scholarship about it, and there is some ambiguity here. Nonetheless, it is very useful to readers to be able to click through a link to Tripolis which explains that Tripolis or Tripoli means "three cities" and was the name of several historical (and modern) places.

User:Onel5969, apparently one of Wikipedia's most pedantic petty bureaucrats, insists on repeatedly removing this disambiguation link, despite its obvious benefit to readers and benefit to the encyclopedia project, based on an exaggerated misquotation of Wikipedia's manual of style. He has already blown past the three revert rule (User:Onel5969: if you want a policy page about basic Wiki etiquette please carefully read WP:BRD, and note the crucial "discuss" step; it's not BRRRR, stop edit warring), and in addition to refusing to engage on the talk page, is now making arrogant threats. I am going to leave a discussion here for a day or two before restoring the link. –jacobolus (t) 22:46, 3 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Alright, I went to significant trouble to expand the claims about this. It's probably not really that useful/interesting to most readers compared to truthful biographical details. Now a footnote contains an explicit "See Tripolis (disambiguation)" so stray professional Wikipedians don't get too deeply confused when it leads to a disambiguation page. –jacobolus (t) 00:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
 * A link at some point to the disambiguation page is useful. I'm glad that you've found a useful solution. Furius (talk) 10:21, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Absolutely, so nice to see WP guidelines being followed. Onel 5969  TT me 17:19, 4 September 2023 (UTC)