User talk:Greekfan21

Drosopigiotes in Rochester, NY
Some time back I removed an excerpt from the Drosopigi, Florina article, and replaced it with the following in a new article.


 * Drosopigiotes (Greek: Δροσοπηγιώτες) represent a population of Greek immigrants who were past inhabitants of the village Drosopigi, Florina in Greece. At present, the city of Rochester has the largest concentration of immigrants and families that trace their roots to the historically significant village Drosopigi. This likely includes the following families: Dedes, Manou, Stathopoulos, Hantes, Marou, Harissis and Strembenis.

With this, I created the new article named Drosopigiotes in Rochester, NY, which was later merged with the article Rochester, New York. A user questioned the validity of this claim, and it was thus removed.

On 28 December 2007, Kingturtle(talk) asked if this claim could be verified in some documented form. Since it wasn't my claim originally, I wasn't the correct person to defend the comment, so I left things as they stood.

It just occurred to me that the original claim may have come from you. I wanted you to have the opportunity to comment, if you were interested. drosopigi (talk) 20:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Please use the discussion page when you make edits
When you make edits in wikipedia, you're supposed to check the discussion page to see if there's an ongoing conversation about the area you're changing, or simply to explain why you're making the change. Thx.

Credit for authorship
Perhaps you've misunderstood my intentions in removing the "credits" that the bottom of the Drosopigi, Florina article. It's impossible to know for sure, since you didn't respond to my comments in the discussion section about why I removed it in the first place.

My goal is to make the Drosopigi, Florina article compliant and credible, by adding references to factual sources for much of what is written in the article and making it more encyclopedic. I want to make Drosopigi, Florina the best wikipedia article it can be, and in doing so, I believe it is the best thing for the heritage of the village. I believe strongly that we share this goal. There are numerous wikipedia policies that would suggest that the article is not quite ready, and I can assure you that have an authorship credit at the bottom of the article would be frowned upon. The risk of allowing the Drosopigi, Florina article to remain non-compliant, and what's worse, to lead a dispute over the non-compliance, is that you will lose credibility as an author. This could eventually lead to others, who are interested in distorting the truth, to gain authorship authority over the article.

In addition to the missing references the Drosopigi article still suffers from, it is also has many sections written in essay form (non-encyclopedic), which I enjoy, but do not belong in the article. In the wikipedia policy page about things to avoid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#PUBLISHER) it discusses such formats, and that they should be avoided. Perhaps the sections of the article that are more of the essay form (which I quite enjoy to read) deserve written credit (yours?), but they do not belong in the article and will need to be replaced with more encyclopedic language. I hope you'll take the time to consider what's best for the article.

You can respond here on your talk page, or add comments on my talk page to continue this discussion. Thanks. drosopigi (talk) 19:07, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Ping. drosopigi (talk) 00:59, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Correct images?
I noticed you added some images to the Drosopigi article, which is nice, thanks. I didn't recognize, however, the church shown in Image:276.JPG and Image:1275.JPG as belonging to Drosopigi. I'll update the discussion page as well, raising this question, which you can hopefully follow up on yourself to indicate whether the images were added on error or not. drosopigi (talk) 19:00, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I updated the discussion page (for the Drosopigi, Florina article) a few days back to indicate that the 2 mystery images were from Elatia. See the discussion page to see what has become of them. 148.87.1.167 (talk) 17:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

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