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DYK for Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah
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Your GA nomination of Daoud ibn al-Adid
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Category:Türgesh rulers has been nominated for renaming
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Category:Rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom has been nominated for renaming
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Your GA nomination of Battle of Nicopolis (1798)
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DYK for Capture of Lemnos
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The Bugle: Issue 203, March 2023
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the karramanli dynasty involvement in the war
I have this source https://www.goodreads.com/ar/book/show/16173234 please check it Samira819 (talk) 15:04, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * yes, the Barbary states routinely participated in the Ottoman-Venetian conflicts, as they were Ottoman vassals. That is not the problem. The problem is the very poor English, not WP:CITING any WP:RS, and not bothering to properly insert the info into the article, rather just dumping it anywhere. Constantine  ✍  15:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * sorry for misunderstanding you but how do I improve my writings Samira819 (talk) 16:37, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Daoud ibn al-Adid
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Constantinople/Istanbul
I noticed you've changed links from Constantinople to Constantinople in many lists of ship launches. If the List is 1922 or earlier, this in incorrect, as Istanbul did not exist then. Please revert your edits. Mjroots (talk) 06:34, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi . The article on Constantinople covers the Byzantine period of the city. We do not, for various reasons, have an Ottoman Constantinople article, it redirects to Istanbul. Thus when linking the city in an Ottoman context, it is a common practice to use Constantinople . Cheers, Constantine  ✍  07:24, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The Constantinople article states "This article is about the historical city from 330 to 1922". As such, linking to it is correct, is it not? Mjroots (talk) 07:27, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It doesn't cover the entire period though; it merely has a brief section on the almost five centuries of the Ottoman period at the very end, due to the name being the same. The current consensus, such as it is, can be found at Talk:Constantinople. Constantine  ✍  07:33, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

al-Hafiz scheduled for TFA
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I suggest that you watchlist Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:14, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2020): "Al-Hafiz was the eleventh Fatimid caliph, and the last to actually exercise any power. His accession was disputed, and his reign was tumultuous to say the least, with even his sons turning on him and one another in pursuit of power. This is my first Fatimid caliphal biography FAC, and hopefully not the last. I think it is as comprehensive as it can get, and have tried to present the complex circumstances of rise to the throne as well as I could, given that the modern sources are often themselves contradictory in their assertions." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Al-Adid
BorgQueen (talk) 00:02, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Nicopolis (1798)
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GA reviews
I've always appreciated your work, especially since we overlap on some areas of interest. But I think that it might be helpful to give back a little by reviewing some GANs. Your high-quality work has been recognized by the time and effort of other editors at the GA level and I think that it might be time to start evening that balance out. This is not any sort of attempt at soliciting reviews of my own nominations and I'd specifically ask that you not review any of them. There are plenty of other noms that I suspect that you could do an excellent job on, even if you're not a subject-matter expert on any of them. I've done plenty of reviews where the bulk of my attention has been on images and prose because I don't know much about the subject. That's OK because the bar for GA quality isn't all that high. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:57, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 55
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Andreas Tzimas' mother
Hello Cplakidas. Reading the article you wrote, Andreas Tzimas, I saw his mother was from Moscopole, so I wanted to add Tzimas at Moscopole for having roots from there. However this information is not referenced in the article and I couldn't find any sources regarding this. I could also not find Ourania Alvanou in any academic sources, searching her name both in the Latin and Greek alphabets. Where did you find this info? Could you add a source to the article? Thank you. Super  Ψ   Dro  21:12, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry for bothering you, in the end I was able to find a source for this. Though I still removed the name Ourania Alvanou. Super   Ψ   Dro  21:38, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, no worries. I don't remember where I found that, quite likely it was an offline source. Goes to show that one ought to cite things properly right away... Constantine  ✍  07:47, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah
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The Bugle: Issue 204, April 2023
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DYK for Abbas ibn Abi al-Futuh
Aoidh (talk) 00:03, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah
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al-Futuh
I was wondering why you deleted the Arabic version of his name? It's standard practice to include these things. I had changed the initial name because that was the version in the wikilink and that is his name proper according to modern naming conventions. Ogress 17:52, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * ﺍﻟﻌﺒﺎﺱ ﺑﻦ ﺍﺑﻲ ﺍﻟﻔﺘﻮﺡ is 'al-Abbas ibn Abi al-Futuh'. It includes the definite article, but does not include the kunya nor the nisba. As such it does not correspond to the strictly transliterated form provided, namely ʿAbbās ibn Abī al-Futūḥ "al-Ṣinhājī". I intended to re-add a corrected/full form of the Arabic name yesterday, but did not have the time. It is done now. Apologies for the confusion. Constantine  ✍  10:51, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * no worries, it wasn't urgent, i was just trying to clarify your objections to the page edits Ogress 11:50, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Angelo Emo
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Urwa GAN
Hi Constantine, hope you doing well. Would you be interested in reviewing Urwa ibn al-Zubayr GAN? If you are busy or just not interested in the topic, that's no problem, just ignore. Thanks. AhmadLX-(Wikiposta) 21:24, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, I am well, thanks, hopefully you too. I'll gladly take this on, even though I am a bit overwhelmed with reviews atm. Will likely be a few days, though, before I get around to it. Constantine  ✍  21:36, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm good too, thanks. Yes no hurry, take your time. I will do some tweaks in the meantime. AhmadLX-(Wikiposta) 19:46, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Battle of Nicopolis (1798)
-- RoySmith (talk) 12:03, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Fatimid dynasty
Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Fatimid dynasty, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows: Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:Qwerfjkl/Botpreload&editintro=User:Qwerfjkl/boteditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:Qwerfjkl&preloadtitle=Qwerfjkl%20(bot)%20–%20Qwerfjkl_(bot)&section=new report it to my operator]. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 15:18, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
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Albertino Morosini
Thank you for creating and expanding this important article. Do you intend to write the Hungarian part of his life in the future? If not, I will gladly expand the article, because he was one of the central figures in Hungarian domestic politics in the last decade of the 13th century. Norden1990 (talk) 15:21, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks a lot. Yes, will at least include what the DBI article has to say today or tomorrow. You are more than welcome to flesh it out with more sources once this is done, as this is not my area of expertise. Constantine  ✍  15:44, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023
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The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023
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FAC: Kyriakos Pittakis
I see from elsewhere that you're rather busy in real life, so please don't take this as anything more than a heads up: I just thought this article, which I've nominated at FAC, might be up your street. Greek archaeology meets the War of Independence meets dynamite-induced near-death experiences... UndercoverClassicist (talk) 11:05, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah
Aoidh (talk) 00:03, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

For your contribution to Ali al-Hadi

 * Thank you, much appreciated. It is a joy to review such well-written articles, and work with such earnest and dedicated editors! Constantine  ✍  16:29, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

"Deputy" to the Greek President
Hi, some time ago I made an edit to the Greek President's Wikipedia page, specifically where I have labeled the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament as the Greek President's "deputy", but you seem to disagree stating that it is "Not vandalism; the Speaker is not the President's deputy". Let me explain the following: the dictionary definition of a "deputy" is "someone appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf" and the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament fits that description as the constitutional substitute for the Greek President as per Article 34 of the Greek Constitution which states that the Parliament Speaker becomes Acting President during both temporary and absolute absences of the President of Greece. Let me explain the following: The role of a deputy of a country's President varies by jurisdiction, Wikipedians at the very least define three basic categories of deputies to a country's President: first is the category of "Vice President" which is a standalone office existing for deputizing or replacing a President, second is the category of "Designated Acting President" which is a person that deputizes or replaces a President by holding another separate office, and third is the category of "Presidential Commission" (like the one in Ireland) which is essentially a collective version of a Designated Acting President (Note: this of course excludes countries whose Presidents have no deputies or assigned substitutes and instead a new President or Acting President has to be elected or appointed immediately, such as in the case of the President of Ethiopia). In a number of jurisdictions where there is a Vice President (such as the U.S. and Brazilian Vice Presidents), the Vice President usually becomes "Acting President" (where they are just temporarily assuming the duties and powers of the presidency of their countries when the official President is not available and do not assume the full Office of President in their own right) during temporary absences and become the "Official" President during absolute absences (meaning they are now officially occupying the Office of President for the remainder of the "original" President's term). However, some Vice Presidents (such as the Vice President of India) and most Designated Acting Presidents are usually only assigned by the local constitutions to serve as "Acting President" until a new "Official" President can be elected as soon as possible in case of absolute absence, but are also assigned to become "Acting President" during temporary absences (such as travel, illness, etc.) and even during certain occasions they might not assume all powers and duties of the country's President, but instead "deputise" for the President by performing on the President's behalf merely tasks that require the President's physical presence, such as the signing of documents. So the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament is the constitutional deputy of the Greek President in that sense of the word. Belson 303 (talk) 14:41, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi . You are right that the Speaker is constitutionally envisaged as his substitute, as 'acting president', as you state, in very exceptional cases. But this has been invoked only once in the history of the office, and is meant to avoid a constitutional deadlock until a new president is chosen. If anyone not aware of the details sees this in the infobox, the immediate, naive reading is likely that the Speaker is a sort of vice-president or permanent deputy. You yourself had to write a wall of text explaining the various cases and the fine differences between them; as a rule, when you have to do that, then whatever it is about does not belong to the very simplistic format of an infobox. Constantine  ✍  14:51, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, you are right, the latest Speaker to serve as Acting President of Greece was Ioannis Alevras, who briefly served for 20 days during March 1985 due to the resignation of Constantine Karamanlis. The controversy was mostly over the matter whether his duties as Speaker should be suspended during his tenure as Acting President (10–30 March 1985) and if he was eligible to vote in the election of the new President. But I also want to tell you the purpose of any President's "deputy" is to address the issue of "if the President leaves office (death, resignation, impeachment, etc.) before the intended expiry of the presidential term, who should become the President (or at the very least exercise the President's role, duties, and powers)?" Belson 303 (talk) 17:33, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * This should definitely be in the article, but not necessarily in the infobox, if it can lead to false conclusions through a superficial reading. And it most likely will. This is common practice for inclusion in infoboxes: keep it simple, and if it is ambiguous, rely on the relevant section in the article. Constantine  ✍  18:19, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, I just added a "Succession" section on the the Greek President's Wikipedia page. Belson 303 (talk) 19:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Angelo Emo
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Thanks
I enjoy catching up on the gossip of, like, 1300s Venice through your biography contributions that appear in New articles. Keep up the good work. jengod (talk) 04:43, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind words ! If anything is unclear in these articles, feel free to contact me. Constantine  ✍  19:48, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

London Protocol (1830)
Hello - following a 'copyedit' request, I recently completed an overhaul of the London Protocol (1830) page that you first created many years ago. This was a very useful history lesson for me, but I hope I haven't introduced any errors. If you do have a moment and want to scan this, I'd be very grateful. Thank you Chaiten1 (talk) 13:54, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot, will have a look as soon as I am able to. Constantine  ✍  19:49, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 56
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Draft for deletion
Hello ; hope you are doing well. I see that you tagged Draft:Albanian-Greek Border Clashes 1949 with (diff). I would like to inform you that there have been discussions about this in the past (here and here). I thought to request a speedy deletion, with either G4 or A10, but regarding the former, even though there was a deletion discussion, the decision was a merge; regarding the latter, it cannot be used according to criterion 16 of WP:NOTCSD. I believe the only other alternative is an MfD. Unfortunately, i am not familiar with this process, and i don't have time to go over the instructions right now. I would appreciate it if you could initiate it instead. Demetrios1993 (talk) 01:15, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, I am well, thanks, hopefully you too :). The topic in itself is IMO notable and can stand alone, as one aspect of the Pyrsos Operation and the relations between Greece and Albania (and the propaganda usage Albania made of it). Speedy deletion is probably not going to fly, even the previous AfD discussion was quite divided. As long as no WP:RS are provided, and it remains in draft space, I am content leaving it be.
 * OTOH, an article on the Albanian–Greek Border War was created covering the same topic, as well as ancillary articles like Gramos Incident. The problem from my perspective is that these articles rely primarily on communist-era works, which are not noted for their impartiality; especially in a regime that outdid Stalin and Mao in paranoia and xenophobia. If you want to delete them, then you need to prove that they are propaganda and nothing more, or that they fail WP:VERIFY and/or WP:N: I suspect that these clashes are, though not invented, much exaggerated. I will have a look at the Greek sources to see if they mention anything... Constantine  ✍  05:19, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Angelo Emo
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1059 in Asia


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Category:Recipients of the Order of Skanderbeg (1990–) has been nominated for deletion
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The Bugle: Issue 206, June 2023
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Saints George and Constantine has been nominated for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Ikhshidids


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DYK for Simone Vignoso
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DYK for Ali al-Hadi
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Hellenistic-era warships
Would you be interested in having a look at galley in comparison with Hellenistic-era warships? I think it would be good to get the two articles reasonably synced. You know, to avoid excessive duplication and make sure they don't contradict each other.

Also, do you think it would be relevant to do something similar with oared vessel tactics in relation to HEW? I changed the title from galley tactics recently to allow the article to be broader in scope and match sailing vessel tactics better.

Peter Isotalo 13:08, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Sack of Mecca (930)
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DYK for Shirvanshah
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Fatimid conquest of Egypt scheduled for TFA
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Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2020): "This article is about the conquest of Egypt by the Fatimids, who would make the country their seat and rule it for almost exactly two centuries. The conquest itself is an excellent example of successful political subversion, as the Egyptian elites were gradually induced to not oppose the invasion itself. As a direct result of the conquest, Cairo was founded, Egypt became once again the seat of a Mediterranean imperial power, and the Fatimids were brought one big step closer to their (ultimately unfulfilled) goal of taking Baghdad and overthrowing the Abbasid Caliphate."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:41, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Juansher/GA1
Cplakidas, it's been over a month since the nominator last responded to your review. Please stop by as soon as you can to get things moving again. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:15, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

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al-Adid
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Always precious
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your kindness, :) Constantine   ✍  10:49, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you today for Al-Adid, "about the last Fatimid caliph, who came to the throne as a child and died at the age of twenty, in 1171. He was mostly a puppet ruler, while military strongmen vied for the vizierate, and Egypt was threatened by both the Crusaders and the Zengids of Syria. His last vizier was none other than Saladin, who over time dismantled the Fatimid caliphate and its Isma'ili institutions and after al-Adid's death established the Sunni Ayyubid dynasty, under himself. I have written the article from almost scratch over the last few years as part of an effort to eventually bring all Fatimid caliphs to FA, and it passed GA in February. It is a fairly comprehensive account of al-Adid's reign, though not as much of al-Adid himself, as he only appears intermittently on the scene during this time."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you today for Al-Adid, "about the last Fatimid caliph, who came to the throne as a child and died at the age of twenty, in 1171. He was mostly a puppet ruler, while military strongmen vied for the vizierate, and Egypt was threatened by both the Crusaders and the Zengids of Syria. His last vizier was none other than Saladin, who over time dismantled the Fatimid caliphate and its Isma'ili institutions and after al-Adid's death established the Sunni Ayyubid dynasty, under himself. I have written the article from almost scratch over the last few years as part of an effort to eventually bring all Fatimid caliphs to FA, and it passed GA in February. It is a fairly comprehensive account of al-Adid's reign, though not as much of al-Adid himself, as he only appears intermittently on the scene during this time."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Musa al-Kazim
Hi there! With the summer coming to an end, I hope things have been going well for you. At long last, Musa al-Kazim was handled by WP:GOCE and is finally ready for GA nomination. As with the previous articles, and I were hoping to benefit from your feedback. Would you be available to review this article too? Many thanks. Albertatiran (talk) 18:05, 20 August 2023 (UTC) Hi ! I have been busy in real life, but things have been going well indeed. I hope you too are doing well! I gladly will take this on, but likely not before early September. Constantine  ✍  10:17, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Constantine. Much appreciated. Then I'll submit this for review around mid-September. (I've been doing alight too, thanks!) Albertatiran (talk) 11:17, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I thank you both for taking time. I think we put a note here before the nomination to make sure Cplakidas is ready.Ghazaalch (talk) 06:09, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Constantine, would this be a good time to nominate Musa al-Kazim for GA? Let me know! :) Albertatiran (talk) 15:25, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi and, I am ready to review :) Constantine   ✍  15:39, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It's all yours now! Albertatiran (talk) 15:47, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Battle of Settepozzi
Hi Constantine, no rush, but I'd like to put this article up at WP:TFA sometime ... late in October would work for me, or I could postpone it if you like. Does that work? - Dank (push to talk) 02:01, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, sure, late October would be fine for me as well! Thanks, Constantine  ✍  10:27, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Category:Rulers of Thessaly has been nominated for merging
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Ottoman conquest of Morea
Hello, I wanted to make a few comments about the "conquest of Morea" that you just added. The current untranslated version of the page is available on the Turkish wiki. (https://tr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_Seferi_(1460)#:~:text=1460'ta%20ger%C3%A7ekle%C5%9Fen%20Mora%20Seferi,d%C3%BCzenledi%C4 %9Fi%20two%20soldier%C3%AE%20movement%C3%A2t%C4%B1n%20the second.&text=Sure%2) I wanted to inform you about this, so was there a need for a new page?

And can we add a war information box to the article you open? Thank you for your effort and article. Keremmaarda (talk) 18:32, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello ! Thanks for pointing out the Turkish article, although I do not intend to base this one off it (unless if to check whether I missed something) since it seems to cover only the 1460 campaign, which is rather pointless to view in isolation: the 1460 campaign was part of a process that began in 1458, had its roots in the raids of Turahan, and was not properly completed until the fall of the last Venetian strongholds. The article will cover mostly the 1458-1460 events, but will also cover background and aftermath accordingly. I will work on it step by step over the following days, and once it is large enough will definitely also add a conflict infobox to it. Constantine  ✍  06:30, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

al-adid
hello, Constantine! i had two quick questions regarding this article and the associated blurb. dying (talk) 20:57, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
 * when the blurb and article lead introduce nur al-din, they both link to the "Bilad al-Sham" article. is that an appropriate article to target?  although it does mention how the term is used to refer to the greater syria region, the targeted article appears to primarily focus on the province as it existed in the rashidun, umayyad, abbasid, and fatimid caliphates.  also, the targeted article's lead does not really discuss much beyond the year 1099.  on the other hand, nur al-din was a ruler of the zengid dynasty, and the province, at that point, was a part of the seljuk empire.  i also noticed that the lead of the article on nur al-din links to "Syria (region)" rather than "Bilad al-Sham".
 * although the blurb and article consistently refer to "Nur al-Din", the title of the article on him uses the name "Nur ad-Din" instead, and uses that version of the name fairly consistently when not using a fuller version of his name. was the decision to use "Nur al-Din" in the featured article deliberate?  i think using either would be fine, but thought i might raise the point because i was surprised by the discrepancy.
 * Hi ! On Syria, that is a good point. 'Bilad al-Sham' could be our article on early Islamic Syria, but so far it does not cover it beyond its existence as a caliphal province, whereas 'Syria (region)' is a tad generic. I've replaced it with Syria (region) for now, as it appears more in scope. On the article for Nur al-Din, yes, it is deliberate, as I follow the same transliteration rule throughout the article, ignoring the phonetic assimilation of sun letters as it is still written 'al-' in Arabic. FWIW, Nur al-Din's article ought to be written like that as well IMO, since WP:MOSAR also recommends transcriptions that ignore the assimilation. Constantine  ✍  21:44, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
 * yeah, i had been thinking the same thing: the bilad al-sham article could cover more on the subject, but it doesn't seem to at present. also, thanks for explaining the transliteration issue and providing the relevant links.  i unfortunately do not know much about arabic, but had figured that the issue was probably based on differing transliteration standards.  if your decision was deliberate and based on the mos, then i don't see a problem.  thanks for addressing these issues!  dying (talk) 00:36, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

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Interesting new title
Brand new title, thought you might be interested, likewise. - LouisAragon (talk) 01:04, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

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FAC pointers
Much obliged for your comments at the galley FAC. I've noted your work on ancient history and was hoping you'd stop by. <3

Besides appreciation, I just wanted to say that I'm going to adjust the lede last. In case I wind up adjusting other sections in a way that might merit their own fixes to the lede.

Looking forward to your follow-up. Peter Isotalo 12:57, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks, regarding the lede that is certainly sensible. Given the article size and the width of its scope, I will definitely do at least another read-through once the initial set of comments is done. Constantine  ✍  14:05, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

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Cutting sources?
I noticed you cutting content from the sources sections at Battle of the Aegates and at Ships of ancient Rome, over 1kb at the latter. There was no Talk discussion initiated, and no edit summary, in either case. Since there are two of them (perhaps more?) and you're a long-term serious contributor, you must have some good reason for it, although for the life of me I can't see what it might be. Can you enlighten, in these two cases, and then going forward, can you please always add an edit summary with your edits, so your fellow editors aren't in the dark, and can go contribute elsewhere, instead of having to come here and ask about it? A couple of dummy edits to supply the missing edit summaries ex post facto at those articles, would be a nice touch. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 08:19, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * if you look more closely at my edit, you will see that I did not 'cut content', but simply used templates to fill in repeated information about a single source from which several chapters by different authors were used. The readers still see the same information, but the template ensures that a) the information is consistent, b) that it is correct, and c) that if it needs to be corrected or updated, it can be done in one place and not in every page the source is cited. Constantine  ✍  19:27, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Constantine, Aha! thanks for your explanation. And you're right: I was going too fast, and mostly relied on the large byte-size drop, along with a cursory (and obviously not careful enough) glance at the diff itself. I see what you did, now, and I apologize for the notice on your Talk page, having not seen clearly what you were doing.  So, you can ignore the message above.
 * That said, actually I'm very glad to have run into you, because it's clear we have been thinking about some of the same issues, notably 1) citation of multiple chapters of a single book, and 2) how best to reuse a citation to the same book or other resource across different articles. I've been working on these two issues quietly on my own, but I've slowly been trying to find someone to collaborate with on this, and given your concerns, you might be the perfect choice. If you're willing, please allow me to share what I've been doing in these two areas. This is long, and I apologize in advance; tl;dr: Citing multiple chapters, and dealing with refs shared across articles, is something I've been thinking about for a while, and I'd like to share some ideas with you, and maybe see how we could work together.
 * With respect to citations to multiple chapters of a book, you are perhaps already familiar with template citec (a redirect, but I prefer this name because it reminds me of "cite chapter"). It may do exactly what you want wrt to citing multiple chapters of a book; at least, in articles that use short footnotes. A big downside of citec is that one additional level of indirection is involved—that is, there are three links in the chain (sfn ⟶ citec ⟶ cite_book) instead of just two, as with normal short footnotes (sfn  ⟶ cite_book). I think that could be dealt with if there were some really good documentation for it, but there isn't; it's very poorly explained, imho. Oe of my projects is to completely redo the doc for citec, and then secondly, create a template that will actually create the code for you. (Because this arose when I was trying to explain citec to a user, much of my draft doc is in the form of a user talk page conversation, but ultimately I aim to create a version intended for the citation doc page, or perhaps a supplementary info page linked from it.) For the time being, I've got a few approaches in various stages of completion:
 * sample code in the form of a static demo aimed at a user talk page, at User talk:Mathglot/User talk snippets
 * a "test bed" example at User:Mathglot/sandbox/citec; I use this for trying out different things (in this one, the chapters are all by the same author, but they needn't be)
 * live example at List of French historians; see Daileader et al in.
 * a user template, intended for a user talk page to inform a user trying to use multiple-chapter referencing, and explaining citec using their actual book. This is the code-generating template and it is incomplete, but you can see it in progress here.
 * In the end, I suspect that citec will scare off most users with its inherent complexity, but I think there's a solid core of users who are comfortable with short footnotes, and would gladly use citec, if only it were properly explained. That's my target audience for this mini-project.
 * Secondly, with respect to reuse of the same citation in multiple articles, reuse can be done in many ways, all of which rely ultimately on transclusion in some form, whether via templates, WP:SELTRANS, Module:Excerpt, or other methods. Your idea of a single reference-template is probably the obvious initial choice, and it's also what I first thought of when I started. But it has a lot of issues, not least of which, is being aware that it exists, and how to find it. Secondly, it has a scaling problem, as it might work for you, or a small group perhaps, I was looking for something that if it caught on, would scale to the size of the encylopedia.
 * I ultimately hit upon an approach, which I call a "reference library", containing lots of reusable references. This is live and working in a tiny corner of the encyclopedia, and to my knowledge, I'm the only one using it so far, partly because I have not publicized it yet, but I hope to change that. I would really like to have a collaborator to bounce ideas off of, to help develop it further, and to begin to expand its use out of its tiny corner to other areas, to see if it really will scale the way I think it will, and to discover what issues are out there that I might not have thought of yet. Rather than explain Reflib here, I think the current doc is adequate to give you a good idea of how it works; please see Template:Reflib. At present, there are 13 articles that use it. I'd love to see additional use of Reflib in areas which I'm not familiar with, to see how it does. The templates you have created for shared use, could be subsumed in a new reflib article domain, and expanded into a whole new mini-library of shared, reusable references that would suit your interests.
 * Even if you're not interested in collaborating on further development, I'd love to create a new Reflib article domain of your choice in a topic area you plan to expand. Reflib probably works best in a topic area that is expected to see rapid or broad expansion. See for example, nav template French criminal law (note all the red links; over a year or so, I plan to turn them all blue, and they will share many references). I don't know that Reflib would help as much in a very mature topic area like, say, "Ancient Rome", where in theory, you could use it to retrofit existing articles that use the same references across multiple articles, but if the articles are already mature and the sourcing is adequate, it's probably not worth it. Thanks for reading this far, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Mathglot (talk) 02:00, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, again. I went ahead and converted the four sources in Ships of ancient Rome that are chapters of Morrison & Gardiner to use citec; so now we have another real-world example, and one in a setting you're familiar with. It's a little tricky constructing it the first time, but then just like with cite book or anything else, once you've done it a couple of times, it becomes part of your toolkit. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 05:56, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Wish I'd found you just a few days earlier; could've saved us both some effort. Anyway, I've created a new Reflib article domain for Template:Reflib/Ancient seafaring as proof of concept. It's only about 1/3 to 1/2 done, but there's enough there to be useful. (Feel free to rename it if you like; just lmk if you do). I applied it to Ships of ancient Rome, and other than a white-space issue in the References, it seems to be working fine; lmk if you find any problems with it. Will expand the lib tomorrow. Mathglot (talk) 10:03, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Very interesting initiatives. I wasn't aware of citec, so a big thanks there, I will likely start using it now :). On the Reflib, it is a very neat idea, in my view mostly because it can be a bibliographic reference page and having a nice collection at hand when starting on an article. However I am not sure how this is meant to work if you want to include works outside this collection, especially since there is the expectation of an alphabetic order in the sources section. I suspect most users will stick to individual citations for this reason. I can't promise much in terms of collaboration as I barely find time for my existing commitments and interests, but I can certainly contribute a few reference libraries on the topics close to my heart :). Constantine  ✍  15:34, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I've expanded Reflib/Ancient seafaring so it's over 50% done, now, although I may get pulled onto other things, so not sure if I'll "finish" it (in quotes, because nothing at a wiki is really ever finished, is it?). Even if not used via the template, it's a handy local library, as you say, when starting an article. As far as interleaving it with other works and keeping everything in alpha order, that's already being done at Ships of ancient Rome. You'll notice a white-space issue that causes extra paragraph breaks; I do plan to work on that at some point, but it's low priority for me right now, because it's purely a cosmetic issue (which irks me, and I will get to it eventually), and expanding use of the template or just making ref libraries available is more important to me right now than running down that bug.
 * The expanded seafaring reflib now has three references with individually citable chapters implemented via citec; you can see them in sections, , and . This may be another advantage of having the Reflib; namely, for refs with citable chapters—users can either grab them via the template and import directly into their References, or they can copy-paste the ref, with all the tricky "citec" stuff already done for them.
 * You mentioned "contribut[ing] a few reference libraries"—I would absolutely love it if you did! I built in some documentation that you probably haven't seen yet, in an attempt to make that process as easy as possible. My goal was, that someone using it for the first time would be walked through the steps, and be able to create their own, new article domain on a new topic, with no help other than what's in the documentation. And I really need feedback, on whether this "hand-hold" documentation aimed specifically at creating a new domain is sufficient, or needs work. So, I'm eager to hear your feedback about it. When you're ready to create one, go to the Template:Reflib page, and under the table in section there's a sentence with two links: the first invites you to create a domain on the spot, and the other takes you to the detailed instruction page. I'm hoping that you can just try clicking the first link and it should walk you through the process. Please let me know where the pain points are, or if there's anything that's unclear. There's no minimum number of links for a new article domain page, so feel free to create one anytime on topics of interest to you. It's low-risk, you can't break anything, and if it all goes sideways, we can just delete the page and start again, so give it a try! Mathglot (talk) 08:46, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Are you satisfied with the way Template:Reflib/Ancient seafaring has turned out so far? Comments, complaints, or suggestions are very welcome. Looking forward, I'm eager to expand the Reflib concept to additional article domains, so if you don't have time right now to contribute new libraries, maybe I can lend a hand. If you can point me to a topic area of interest to you that might benefit from creation of a Relib collection, I'd be happy to make a start on it. An ideal topic area would be a general topic that spans a number of article topics (existing or not) that might share sources, and is an area in need of expansion. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:33, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

I would recommend having there only sources that are directly under the scope of the title, e.g. Goldsworthy or Haldon are not specific to the topic, but more general histories. Otherwise the collection will become too large to be useful (potentially you could include every history work about the ancient period there because you just want a citation for a specific detail). Constantine  ✍  18:20, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Curious remark of Spyridon Marinatos
Came across this while researching for the article - thought you might have some insight:

"On 13 March 1940 Metaxas attended a public lecture by Marinatos. The latter, in return, paid tribute to the 'Deceased' (the dictator) and the 'Absent' (King Georgios II), in his ceremonial speech at Athens University on the first national celebration of 28 October 1940."

Any idea what Marinatos might have meant by "the Deceased" or "the Absent"? In 1940, as far as I know, Metaxas wasn't dead and Georgios was no longer in exile... <b style="color:#7F007F">UndercoverClassicist</b> T·C 09:41, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * this unfortunate and confusing phrasing, I had to read it myself twice to get its meaning. What is meant is 'the first national celebration of the anniversary of 28 October 1940', i.e. Ochi Day, which took place in 1941. By which time both adjectives applied ;). Constantine  ✍  15:38, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah! Fantastic: thank you. I did wonder whether the writers had the date wrong: turns out I wasn't too far off. <b style="color:#7F007F">UndercoverClassicist</b> T·C 15:51, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Another problem, I'm afraid, on the same topic:
 * "Τὸ 1916 λοιπόν, ... γράφτηκε στὴ Φιλοσοφικὴ Σχολὴ καὶ τὸ 1921 πῆρε τὸ πτυχίο."
 * In this context, I can only see that the Φιλοσοφικὴ Σχολὴ is the Philosophical School of the University of Athens (which is definitely where he got his doctorate in 1921) - but that would make him 15 when he started there. Is there another meaning of Φιλοσοφικὴ Σχολὴ that I'm missing, or is it possible that he did indeed attend university at such a young age? That would admittedly help with the somewhat compressed chronology of his early life... <b style="color:#7F007F">UndercoverClassicist</b> T·C 18:28, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * no, you're right, there was only one Philosophical School, and even today, when you say Φιλοσοφική Σχολή you mean Athens University. As for the early age, I don't have an explanation, but IIRC there were only 11 classes in the school system at the time, which might explain part of it. Constantine  ✍  17:20, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, looking at the sources, I'm pretty confident that the date is correct: nobody seems to comment on it as being particularly early, and indeed he seems to wait until more or less the "normal" time to do his postdoctoral studies abroad (at about 26). <b style="color:#7F007F">UndercoverClassicist</b> T·C 18:23, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

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Translation proposal
Dear Cplakidas, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing this message prompted by the article on the battle of Meligalas that you translated from Greek to English. Having in mind this excellent translation of yours, I was wondering whether I could ask you if you would be interested in employing your skills in the translation of another article of the Greek version of the encyclopedia concerning modern Greek history, that has also been given featured status in elwiki, that about Pavlos Melas, with which I have also greatly concerned myself in the past. Regardless of whether this would be included in your future activities, in which case I am sure of a similarly excellent result, please accept my best wishes, Ashmedai 119 (talk) 12:29, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi ! Thanks for your kind words, and of course I would be honored to translate it. I cannot promise that it will be done quickly as I find myself with little time lately, but I am putting it near the top of my todo list ;). And thanks for your efforts in writing quality articles at elwiki. Constantine  ✍  07:57, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
 * May I thank you on return for your extremely swift and extremely kind response and for taking me up on my offer? I look forward to it, though I understand that so prolific an editor as you has of course a lot of other time-consuming encyclopedic interests on his plate. Best, Ashmedai 119 (talk) 05:02, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Dear Cplakidas, I hope this finds you well. I am sorry for bothering you with this remembrance, but I am wondering whether you are still planning to squeeze that translation of the article on Melas into the programme of your editing activities, whenever you find it suitable. I do not mean to impose myself, it's just that I had been hoping for it to have been translated in time for a featured article candidacy before the 120th anniversary of Melas's death this coming October. Regards, Ashmedai 119 (talk) 11:34, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder,, I had completely forgotten about that. As the article already exists, and this is a major undertaking, I will start a draft translation in my sandbox. Since it will involve some editorial decisions to translate and adapt it for a non-Greek readership, could I count on you to give some advice? Constantine  ✍  11:56, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Absolutely, I will be happy to be of help. Ashmedai 119 (talk) 12:03, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much for this notification. I am not sure if I should be replying here, so please let me know if you would prefer me to write not in this talk page. In any case, there is not really a contradiction, as this statement is temporally specific; it refers to the period after the defeat in the war of 1897 and the dissolution of the "National Society". I am quoting from page 101 of Gounaris's chapter:
 * "[after the turn of the century] it was different. The humiliating defeat of 1897 which Greece had suffered at the hands of the Turks had reduced the bellicose spirits to a minimum. Moreover, the dissolution of the once powerful Ethniki Etaireia (National Society) in 1900 had marked the official death of irredentism. For the time being indifference for the unredeemed prevailed; 'in Greece everybody was asleep', remembered a junior army officer at the time in his memoirs. He believed that this national lethargy was the result of ignorance: "[People] thought that the land of Alexander the Great was not in any danger. Since it was his homeland, it was impossible that one day our [rights] could be disputed. The fact that Bulgarian was spoken in the northern parts [of the region] was ignored. [fn. 5: Mazarakis-Ainian 1984, 176] Others explained the prevailing apathy in terms of fear. Some thought that Macedonia and Thrace were destined to become Bulgarian.[fn. 6: Souliotis-Nikolaidis 1984, 283] Any news from Macedonia was bad news; it seemed obvious that yet another war with an unpredictable outcome was inevitable. This is why people 'were armed with a sort of indifference. [...]'[fn. 7: Mela 1991, 171]".

I propose adding an explanatory phrase to the end of the sentence (e.g. something along the lines of "against the mood of apathy and despair that had prevailed after the war of 1897") and including page 101 to the range of pages to which the reader is referred in the footnote following after this sentence. Ashmedai 119 (talk) 07:29, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the swift reply! That does indeed cover the concern nicely. For further issues that may I arise and need to be discussed, I would suggest dealing with them in the sandbox. You are of course welcome to do corrections or emendations yourself if you see fit. Cheers, Constantine  ✍  18:20, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Constantine, μέμνεο τοῦ μακεδονομάχου! With best Easter wishes, Ashmedai 119 (talk) 05:52, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

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Bulgarian army strengths
I just bought a dozen volumes of the Journal of Military History at a used bookstore and stumbled across one that you might find of interest. Stoyanov, Aleksandr. The Size of Bulgaria's Medieval Field Armies: A Case Study of Military Mobilization Capacity in the Middle Ages. JMH, July 2019 83(3), pp. 719–746. It's got a few relevant bits relating the 2nd Arab Siege of Constantinople that should be useful for that article. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:05, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi that is very interesting, thanks! Can you send this over? I'd include it asap in the article then. Cheers, Constantine   ✍  18:07, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * You should be able to access through the WikiLibrary: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=31h&AN=137192875&site=eds-live&scope=site.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:26, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

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Nebtuwi
Hi, Constantine! Long time no see. I hope everything is doing well. I was checking some Ancient Egyptian content and, despite I know is not exactly your primary area of interest, I think I found an hoax. Probably a fake goddess. "Nebtuwi" was supposedly Khnum's wife, but I cannot find reliable sources to that on the internet (in press or online). The articles mentions a Russian source (unverified) and a broken site (but considering the name, it's difficult to assume that is reliable). The creator is banned now, and I guess that was a fake thing left behind. Supposing it's correct my idea, would you mind sending that to deletion? I'm not acquainted about the procedures to propose myself. Renato de Carvalho Ferreira (talk) 15:43, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Renato, indeed long time no see! I am well, but extremely busy off WP. I hope you are doing well too. On the question, I had a look in some specialist resources for Nebtu, Khnum, and Latopolis:
 * The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses(2nd Edition), entry on Khnum, pp. 85-86: "In his supervision over the cataract region he is assisted by the goddesses SATIS and ANUKIS... His consort at Esna (Neith having a totally independent role in this temple) is a minor lioness-goddess called Menhyt."
 * Egyptian Mythology A to Z (3rd Edition), entry on Khnum, p. 104: "Khnum’s cult center was on Elephantine Island in Aswan, where he ruled with his wife, Anukis, and his daughter Satis"
 * The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, entry on Esna, makes no reference to this goddess.
 * Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, entry on Khnum, p. 194: "Esna Khnum was associated not only with the lion goddess Menhyt, but also with the goddess Neith....At Elephantine he was the head of a triad including the goddesses Satis and Anukis who were also associated with the same geographic area."
 * So this does appear to be a hoax or at the very least a misunderstanding; the Russian source does not inspire confidence either. This is a clear deletion candidate. Constantine  ✍  18:35, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I searched a little bit more and I found something that can clarify the point. Some sources (no more than two really old books) mention Nebt-uu and say that the goddess was worshiped at Esna. According to this one, it's just a local name of Hathor. And according to this one, another name of Isis. So far, nothing more indicates it's a separate goddess. The name is incorrect anyway.--Renato de Carvalho Ferreira (talk) 19:52, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I think it's solved: here.--Renato de Carvalho Ferreira (talk) 20:01, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the find. At any rate this goddess was not associated with Khnum. Constantine  ✍  21:34, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

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Battle of Kapetron
Would you be able to read this source that was added for the result of the battle?



--Kansas Bear (talk) 00:36, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Kansas Bear, I have access to the work, and iirc was the one who added it to the article. What exactly do you want me to check up on? Constantine  ✍  17:20, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm curious as to who won the battle, if anyone.


 * Georgian-Byzantine victory
 * Mixed results, many of the medieval sources consider it a Byzantine defeat. citing Leveniotis
 * Seljuk victory, current version.


 * Was hoping the Leveniotis source would be of some help.--Kansas Bear (talk) 20:22, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Lepeniotis says that "the final result of the fierce battle that ensued was ultimately rather ambiguous. [...] Aristakēs, on the other hand, attributes the "defeat" and capture of Liparit to intra-Byzantine disputes, which resulted in the retreat of the Bulgarian-born Aaron and his men during the battle. The narrative though of Ioannes Skylitzes for the battle, which is more extensive and clearly more reliable, describes things completely differently. [Describes the Byzantine victory on the flanks, and the defeat of the Georgians in the centre] The description of Skylitzes seems plausible, if one takes into account that in a frontal clash in close order, the Byzantine cavalry and infantry had a tactical advantage over the Seljuk horse archers due to their clearly heavier armament and greater experience. [...] The next morning the Imperial commanders were awake and dejected, despite having effectively prevailed in the previous day's conflict, and decided to retire to their quarters for the winter." In essence, a Byzantine battlefield success was turned into a strategic defeat through the defeat and capture of Liparit, and their failure to bring the Turks to task for their destructive raids. In addition, at least one source, Matthew of Edessa, had a clearly anti-Byzantine agenda and portrayed the battle deliberately as a Byzantine betrayal of Liparit and defeat, which influenced later perceptions. Constantine  ✍  12:49, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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Cabinets or Goverments
Hello! I would like to know which is the proper title for greek governments articles? For example, Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis is only for the members of the cabinet or i can add context about goverment work like greek article? perhaps we must change title Second Government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis or something like that? I am going to expand List of cabinets of Greece and i want to know the proper title. Thank you! D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:40, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * May I pop in here? I'm interested in the question of terminology choice of cabinets or governments also, but more generally, i.e. as it applies to other countries, and in particular, whether it is more tied to the country being described, or, looking through the other end of the telescope, is it more tied to the country the editor or reader is from? The reason I say this, is that I've noticed an AE vs BE (American or British English) usage issue related to this question, even when talking about a third country topic unrelated to either one. AE has a broader sense of the term government than BE does; in AE, it includes the judiciary and legislative branches at the federal level, and not only the executive branch as in BE, and the AE term also comprises levels below federal, such as state and local government, whereas in BE it's just the executive branch tied to the P.M. of a particular election cycle result. The term cabinet is similar in both AE and BE and refers to a smallish group of senior advisers who give counsel to the president or P.M. Tbh, I'm not sure how any of this pertains directly to the OP question regarding Greek government articles, butthere may be an indirect effect you hadn't considered, so I just wanted to add this additional wrinkle about how readers from the US and UK may understand your article differently, depending on which term you use. Mathglot (talk) 23:09, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * In greek wikipedia we dont use the term cabinet. We use the term Goverment of... And we have one article for goverment work and ministries. That's why i confused here. What is your opinion? Two articles (ministries / goverment work) or one (ministries and goverment work)? D.S. Lioness (talk) 00:29, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * In Greek, there is no distinction between 'cabinet' and 'government'. The same word, κυβέρνηση, is used, which properly means 'government'. The term υπουργείο, ministry, was used in the 19th century, but has fallen out of use. In the WP context, IMO it makes sense to separate a 'cabinet', as in a particular incarnation of the ministerial council, from the generic government of a country. This is precisely the sense in which it is used for Greece as well: Government of Greece is (notwithstanding its present lack of content) the article on the central government of the country, while Cabinet of X Y is the government led by X Y. Constantine  ✍  17:18, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * So, we must have two articles. See my problem here List of cabinets of Greece D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:22, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Βασικά, θέλω να μεταφράσω τα ελληνικά αντίστοιχα- και δεν ξέρω τι τίτλο να βάλω D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:23, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * we already have the translations of the terms, and the ordering by polity, in the template: Template:Cabinets of Greece. Constantine  ✍  17:29, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * So i transfer this titles although i think it is more appropriate the term Govermnet like greek titles D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:33, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be best. Καθότι δεν υπάρχει ένα προς ένα αντιστοιχία στα Ελληνικά, είναι προτιμότερο να ακολοθυείται η καθιερωμένη αγγλική διάκριση. Constantine  ✍  17:36, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * o.k! D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:38, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you
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 * Thanks for your kind words, ! Of course I am looking forward to yours and 's next article! Happy new year and lots of health and happiness to both of you! Constantine  ✍  10:23, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

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Question about diacritics
Hey! First of all, thank you for reviewing Eretna and Eretnid dynasty. I have a question about the different spellings of the names of historical figures that would be relevant to these articles as well. Many sources I have come across use diacritics (specifically macrons), and I have initially paid close attention to using them, perhaps because they looked really fancy :). But there is always some variation and no apparent pattern within Wikipedia when they are used (apart from the obvious case of transliterations). They also slow down the writing process, so I'm unsure if this is the right way to do it. I know that often times, diacritics are discouraged when it comes to article titles, and WP:DIACRITICS is a bit general and leaves it to the frequency of different spellings among RS. I see that you have worked on many GAs and FAs that use diacritics in some places. Do you follow any specific rules or any guidelines I might have missed? I am thinking of removing most macrons on the aforementioned pages and several other. Thank you, Aintabli (talk) 03:43, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Rampant forging of Byzantine-adjacent articles?
I'm wondering if you could take a look at the articles edited by Eugene de Moree since you're knowledgeable on the topic. To me, they use what appears to be highly suspicious sources at odds with the academic ones I'm aware of to push genealogical narratives related to the medieval Morea/Achaea principality. A single-purpose account which is harming WP coverage on the Zaccarias? Rheskouporis (talk) 12:54, 27 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I agree completely with the user @Rheskouporis. A third opinion is necessary, so please @Cplakidas evaluate the sources as I also deem your profile highly knowledgeable on the period and I've been following your edits on Byzantium articles for long. All the sources I listed are academic and written by historians knowledgeable on the topic, such as the more contemporary Maria Dourou-Iliopoulou (an expert on the era of Frankokratia) or old authorities such as Stephanos Thomopoulos and of course first sources like Chalkokondyles or Sphrantzes. I also disregarded old academic sources such as Carl Hopf as I find his conclusions confusing. The only edit I regretted was my trust to a genealogical research posted on the house Damalas page that I added to some of the articles edit and then deleted it as I didn't found the results scholarly.
 * I need clarifications about what @Rheskouporis implies as "highly suspicious" sources, I don't see how a contemporary chronographer of the 15th century could be suspicious. I am on WP for 5 years editing articles on Byzantine Empire and the Principality of Achaea-Morea, actually the first article I created was about Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa so I don't really understand the offending"a single purpose account" accusation of the user. This part of his text is hard to understand.
 * Thanks for your time. Eugene de Moree (talk) 15:57, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * My two cents: I don't really see much use of questionable sources. This is definitely not a WP:RS, but the other sources are legitimate. I have a mistrust towards purely genealogical works like Sturdza since they tend in my experience to be biased in favour of 'proving' family continuity rather than factual accuracy, but a priori they cannot be dismissed out of hand. Likewise, I wouldn't use Thomopoulos, since he wrote in the 19th century and much of scholarship has changed since, but it remains a bona fides scholarly work that can still be valuable, if properly used; without looking at the specific references I cannot state whether it is appropriate to cite it for a given fact or not. Constantine  ✍  19:32, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I completely agree about this not being a scholarly work thus I intend to remove the contributions I made on Zaccaria-related articles with this genealogical tree since @M.Soulli.Genealogy doesn't provide sources verifying this table. About Thomopoulos definitely it is never preferable to cite a 19th-century scholar, I follow the same reason with Hopf, that said, the history he authored about the city of Patras is indeed comprehensive and offers many insights about parts of the history of Frankokratia, such as the Latin archbishopric of Patras and its clerics (Antelm of Cluny etc), that is hard to find in its original sources. I am sure you are aware of how big the problem of finding contemporary sources is with Frankokratia. Fortunately, the History of the City of Patras was published again in 1999 with new commentary and additions by the editor Lazaris Vasilis. I assure you I use Thomopoulos with caution.
 * Thanks Constantine for your insights on the sources. Eugene de Moree (talk) 20:03, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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I am going to create the page for Provisional Administration D.S. Lioness (talk) 19:38, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

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Κατ΄αρχήν ήθελα να σε ρωτήσω, τι είναι δόκιμο σε αυτή τη βπ: βάζουμε παλιά και νέα ημερομηνία ή μόνο τη νέα; Δημιουργείται μεγάλο μπέρδεμα με αυτή την διαφορά στο ημερολόγιο. Επίσης, μη κάνεις ανακατεύθυνση στη Α΄ ελληνική δημοκρατία. Οι όροι Προσωρινή Δίοικησις και Ελληνική Πολιτεία ήταν επίσημες ονομασίες του ελληνικού κράτους εκείνα την περίοδο - η α ελληνική δημοκρατία δεν είναι επίσημος όρος- φαντάζομαι το ξέρεις. D.S. Lioness (talk) 19:00, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Δόκιμα είναι αμφότερα, το παλαιό ημερολόγιο όμως μόνο εφόσον είναι σχετικό με το αντικείμενο (στην ελληνική περίπτωση επειδή είναι οι ημερομηνίες που αναφέρονται στην καθαυτό σχετική βιβλιογραφία, την ελληνική), και γίνεται σαφής στον αναγνώστη η χρήση του. Σχετικά με την ανακατεύθυνση, ο όρος Α΄ ελληνική δημοκρατία είναι καθιερωμένος ιστοριογραφικός όρος. Εν απουσία επιμέρους άρθρων για τα δυο πολιτεύματα, είναι απόλυτα θεμιτή η ανακατεύθυνση σε ένα άρθρο όπου αναφέρονται λεπτομέρειες. Γενικά η επίσημη ονομασία μετράει μόνο όπου δεν υπάρχει ευρύτερα γνωστός/χρησιμοποιούμενος ιστοριογραφικός όρος, πρβλ. Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία (Ρωμανία, βασιλεία Ρωμαίων) ή την χούντα (Βασίλειο της Ελλάδος/Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), αντίστοιχα παραδείγματα υπάρχουν πολλά. Constantine  ✍  20:30, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ευχαριστώ για τις διευκρινήσεις. D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:10, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello
Saw your review in a good article nominee, is it possible if you could review Haile Selassie article via starting a review? The article has a traffic of 3,000+ on a normal day, yet its concerning their hasn't been a single review to discuss, could you be the starter? CtasACT (talk) 05:51, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue 216, April 2024
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DYK for Imamate in Zaydi doctrine
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DYK for Ibrahim al-Imam
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For your hard work

 * Thank you, and thank you again for your hard work into expanding Wikipedia's coverage of pre-Ottoman Anatolia! Constantine  ✍  07:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Medieval Preveza
Hello Constantine,

I try to follow the changes you make to the article Preveza, and I would like to ask some questions.

What makes you believe that the Ottoman conquest of the region of Preveza occured in c. 1486/87? There has been more recent research since these views were formed. i.e. this article, in English of this, in Greek. Furthermore, the views of late Petros Phourikes, published almost 100 years back in the EEBS (annuaire de l’ association d’ études byzantines), have already been reevaluated by this article published in the same scientific annuaire. Namely, the dating of Preveza concluded by Phourikes, and based on the mention of the place (Prevesa) in some of the copies of the Chronicle of Morea, has been disputed.

Many thanks for the time you take to make wikipedia a safer reading.

Actia Nicopolis (talk) 18:41, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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al-Muti'
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 24 June 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Today's featured article/June 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 12:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * We've had a late request at WT:TFA and we're going to postpone the appearance to August 5. Thank you for understanding.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:39, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, no problem. Cheers, Constantine  ✍  11:06, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Mutahharten/GA1
Hey, I trust you're doing well. Do you plan to give this article another pass, or is there anything I forgot to address in your latest comments? Several days have passed since my replies to your final points, so I wonder if I've missed anything here. Cheers, Aintabli (talk) 18:45, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

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Ali al-Sajjad
Hi Constantine! How are you? It's been a while and I hope all is well with you. I wonder if you'd have the time to review Ali al-Sajjad. It's recently underdone a major revision and copy-edited by Dhtwiki from WP:GOCE. Looking forward to your answer. Albertatiran (talk) 14:00, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks, I am well, and I hope the same goes for you all. I'd be delighted to review it, but it may take some time as real life seems to be very demanding lately. Constantine  ✍  18:49, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi! No worries. In that case, I'll check back with you in about a month or two. Have a nice weekend. Albertatiran (talk) 10:10, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi
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Gallic Empire source query
Hey Cplakidas,

I hope that you're doing well. As I've become active once more, I've been interested in focusing some work on the Gallic Empire's institutions; I was just wondering if you would happen to know some good sources on the matter? Most of what I've been able to find thus far are scattered sentences from tangentially related books. No problem if you do not happen to know such a thing off-hand, just thought you were the most likely to. Thanks! Iazyges  Consermonor   Opus meum  18:03, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, very glad to see you around again! I am well, though very busy IRL and less active on WP than I'd like. I hope you are also doing well. On your question, I confess I also don't know a lot of specific works that target the topic. AFAIK there has been one dedicated study, The Gallic Empire: Separatism and Continuity in the North-western Provinces of the Roman Empire, but this is hard to find outside university libraries. Otherwise the best I can offer is works that deal with the 3rd-century crisis more generally, such as Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284 (C. Ando, 2012) or Aurelian and the Third Century (A. Watson, 1999). Otherwise, as you say, even more generic works that target broader periods and topics, like the Cambridge Ancient History, that offer fragmentary information. Constantine  ✍  18:15, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! I am glad you are doing well; I'm doing fairly well, although also quite busy IRL. I will see which of these I can obtain. Thank you! Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  18:24, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

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You may be interested...
Hope this finds you well: I had a go recently at translating Campbell pogrom from elWiki. There were a couple of parts where elWiki and its main source seemed to get a bit confused as to the narrative -- I've done my best to untangle, mostly using Anglophone sources that they didn't make use of, but thought you might be interested or have some thoughts. <b style="color:#7F007F">UndercoverClassicist</b> T·C 09:02, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 218, June 2024
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Category:Ambassadors of the Republic of Venice to the Kingdom of Sardinia has been nominated for merging
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Praetorium or Praetoria
Hello Konstantinos, how are you? I haven't spoken to you in so long. After many years I decided to bluify the last red links in the Constantinople's building template, and I saw that you copyedited and integrated the article about the Praetorium of Constantinople, thank you very much! I have a question for you: the DYK reviewer says that actually the name of the article should be plural, since there were at least two buildings. Janin, who as usual ;-) has been my main source, uses the singular, even though he writes of two praetoria. what do you think? Singular or Plural? Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 15:23, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, I was very glad to see you write articles about the City again! I am fine, still in Vienna but much busier in real life, so I am no longer as active here. I hope you are well too :). On the question, I tend to prefer the plural, because the two buildings coexisted for a long time, so there were indeed two praetoria in the city. I hope that helps! Constantine  ✍  15:32, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I changed the article's name according to your suggestion. Two other things: I wrote an article about the so called Cistern of Pulcheria, and I noticed that it is not present on your map of Constantinople. Maybe you could add it on the map...The second point is my nomination of the Praetoria of Constantinople article for DYK. Apparently none of the two sources for DYK has been accepted. Do you know any other source (maybe Greek) that fulfills the criteria for DYK? Many Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 19:28, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I have answered in the DYK nom on Janin. His second edition might be good to look at, as it contains some updates; otherwise there are Guilland's Études de topographie de Constantinople byzantine, and Dagron's Naissane d'une capitale. I am not aware (or don't remember, more accurately) any more recent comprehensive study. Constantine  ✍  18:25, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi
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Congratulations
Dear Cplakidas, I was recently notifed that the article that you translated on the battle of Meligalas passed a GA review; the reviewer, a member of WP:GOCE, made particular reference to its "fine" prose and I thought I should send my congratulations. The reviewer also wrote an encouraging message regarding an FA nomination, which I was already considering, having hoped to do this on time for the battle's [and massacre's] eightieth anniversary on September 15th. I am wondering if you would be interested in a joint FA nomination of the article, since you are largely responsible for the article's rendering in English. Regardless, I hope you are doing well. Best, Ashmedai 119 (talk) 18:37, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, it would be a pleasure and honour to do a joint FA nomination with you! Constantine  ✍  17:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 219, July 2024
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