User talk:Iazyges/Archives/2018/August

Your GA nomination of Christopher Lekapenos
The article Christopher Lekapenos you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Christopher Lekapenos for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KAVEBEAR -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:02, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in July! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Florianus
The article Florianus you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Florianus for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 21:21, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Konstantios Doukas
The article Konstantios Doukas you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Konstantios Doukas for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KAVEBEAR -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:21, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Andronikos Doukas (co-emperor)
The article Andronikos Doukas (co-emperor) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Andronikos Doukas (co-emperor) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KAVEBEAR -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:21, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Byzantine GANs
Hi Iazyges! When you want to nominate one of my short Byzantine biographical articles for GA, please check with me first specifically for each article. On the one hand, some of them, like Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I) are not complete yet; on the other, the reviewer may require changes where I as the main author and the one with access to the original sources need to be available to edit them. I know we discussed this some months ago and I gave you a go ahead, but this was not meant as a blank check. After all, an article I wrote back in 2010 is often not up to my standards of 2018 ;). I appreciate the enthusiasm, but currently my watchlist is full of GANs left and right of articles that are often half-baked, and trying to keep tabs with them is frustrating. Constantine   ✍  12:54, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I'll make sure to run them by you in future. -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  17:08, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hostilian
The article Hostilian you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hostilian for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 09:21, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nikephoros Diogenes
The article Nikephoros Diogenes you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nikephoros Diogenes for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KAVEBEAR -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 22:02, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

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Your GA nomination of Constantine Doukas (co-emperor)
The article Constantine Doukas (co-emperor) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Constantine Doukas (co-emperor) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KAVEBEAR -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 05:41, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Avidius Cassius
The article Avidius Cassius you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Avidius Cassius for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MX -- MX (talk) 03:02, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018
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NPR School
I am thinking of overhauling and resurrecting the NPR school sometime soon. I see you are listed as a trainer over there. Could you check your listing on the trainer list to make sure that it is accurate, or remove the listing if you no longer wish to be a trainer. Thanks. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  23:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Information is accurate. -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  07:00, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

August GOCE newsletter
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Speedy deletion nomination of Eudokia Komnene (daughter of Isaac Komnenos)


A tag has been placed on Eudokia Komnene (daughter of Isaac Komnenos) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

"Wrong use of a redirect: redirects are not to be used in lieu of articles for individuals (especially non-notable ones)"

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Constantine  ✍  17:54, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikisource
On 22 July 2018 you made a sequence of edits (usually referred to as an "edit") to the article Maurice (emperor). There are a number of specialised templates that make linking to an article on Wikisource easier. They usually do this by placing a wrapper around standard template like (I have a none definitive list of them in User:PBS/Notes). These templates only support a limited number of standard parameters and often have specialised ones. Any additional parameters are not usually passed through to the standard templates and additional parameters often place an article into a category bucket. In the case of into Category:Pages using EB1911 with unknown parameters which is how I noticed your edit to the article Maurice (emperor).

It would help if you could read the documentation for  as that will explain how these templates work. It will also familiarise you with what parameters are available. If you look at my recent sequence of edits to the article. You will see three other points. -- PBS (talk) 10:02, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) If there is a mixture of cs1 ( family of templates) and cs2 there is a difference in how the delimiters between parameters are displayed and some other alteration see Help:CS2. So either add   to the  templates or   to the  family of templates. If mode=cs2 is adopted there is no need for the   parameter as it is the default in CS2.
 * 2) You changed defence to defense. This was a violation of WP:ENGVAR. It also introduced inconsistencies as defence was also used in two other places in the article.
 * 3) You removed a parameter  If you had read the  you would have seen that   was serving a valid purpose (it removes some of the verbose details used in citations, but not needed in the other appendices and ought not to have been removed.
 * 4) I altered one template from (not sure why that was used instead of ) to . It is a good example of how the wrapper templates simplifies adding a citation to a Wikipedia source and simultaneously use the advise at Help talk:Interwiki linking.

Your GA nomination of Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I)
The article Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KAVEBEAR -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:02, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Theophylact (son of Michael I)
The article Theophylact (son of Michael I) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Theophylact (son of Michael I) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KAVEBEAR -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 03:02, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Type 1934 destroyers
G'day Iazyges, I just wanted to encourage you to nominate one of your Milhist A-Class articles for FAC. This one seems like a good one to have a crack at. Maybe you could co-nom it with if it would be your first one? Anyway, have a think about it? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 10:07, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll look into it; I currently have an FAC for Tetricus I running, but I'll see about running it next. -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  21:21, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Isaac I Komnenos
Hi Iazyges. GA review. On 10 August Constantine finally finished and cleared you to carry on the assessment. You have just put the assessment on hold. Without, so far as I can see, giving me any actions to do. Am I missing something? Gog the Mild (talk) 21:55, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I have it on my current review todo, but forgot to change the actual status on the talk page. I'll get around to it ASAP. -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  21:58, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem. I wasn't nagging, just puzzled. Take your time. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:03, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Iazyges, that was a prompt review. Many thanks. All of your suggestions addressed and all bar one implemented. Comments on the GAN talk page. Thanks again. Gog the Mild (talk) 09:40, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Kaʻiminaʻauao
Do you mind reviewing Kaʻiminaʻauao when ever you are ready? It has similar sources and prose as Talk:Leleiohoku II/GA1 which you have started. Do what you can. Thanks. KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:04, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 * If you don’t mind, can you also look at Kalākaua? Thanks.KAVEBEAR (talk) 14:26, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Let me know when you can finish that one soon. Thanks. I went ahead and reviewed Tetricus I. KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:24, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * should be able to do it once I get home. Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  20:53, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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Marcian
Hello Iazyges. I don't know what source you used to quote Aspar's words, but if you used Lee, it's "through" not "by". Cheers.--Renato de carvalho ferreira (talk) 04:22, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
 * And the article needs to mention the Armenian embassy that happened in the beginning of Marcian's rule.--Renato de carvalho ferreira (talk) 04:40, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Theodemir, Valamir and Videmir made part of the Battle of Nedao mentioned on the articles and they were the rulers of the Ostrogoths that Marcian settled in Pannonia. And in 456, Marcian made a campaign against Gubazes I of Lazica.--Renato de carvalho ferreira (talk) 04:47, 25 August 2018 (UTC)


 * what sources do you have for the armenian embassy, the theodemir, valamir, videmir part, and the Lazica campaign? I'm more than willing for the info to be added to the article (I do not have access to whichever source you are pulling from), but I need the sourcing information for it to do so. Also I need the page number, year, and ISBN of the Phosphography you are citing (presumably one of the five "big" Phosphographies.) for this edit. Thanks! Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  15:39, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello! Well, the officers I put on the article are mentioned in the second volume of the Prosopography, on the entry about the emperor Marcian (pp. 714-715). About the other points:

I think it's all. Cheers!--Renato de carvalho ferreira (talk) 23:17, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
 * On the Portuguese version of the article I put all necessary information about the Armenian embassy in the first paragraph of the subsection "Conflito com os hunos" (Em 450, o naxarar Bardanes II Mamicônio [...]). I don't know if you understand Portuguese. If not, you can try to understand what it is in the French version of the same topic on fr:Hmayeak Mamikonian. It's one of the Armenians who went to Constantinople asking support for the Armenian revolt Vardan II Mamikonian was preparing against the Sasanian Empire. The idea was ask for Theodosius' support, but he died in the middle of the embassy and Marcian decided not involve himself on a war against the Persians. On the second volume of the Prosography (pp. 85-46), it's mentioned on the Anatolius entry that he and Florentius convinced Marcian not to make war against Persia.
 * About the Ostrogoths' brothers. Our Portuguese version mention the same thing. It's on the same section of the previous information, but in the end ([...] os ostrogodos liderados pelos irmãos). Wolfram (1990, p. 258 and 261) and the Prosopography (1980, p. 138) mention it.
 * About the Lazica's campaign, you can verify the Portuguese text on the subsection "Outros conflitos" ([...] Cerca de 456, Gubazes I (ca. 456–468) [...]) or verify the English version of Gubazes' article that I linked here.
 * About the Lazica's campaign, you can verify the Portuguese text on the subsection "Outros conflitos" ([...] Cerca de 456, Gubazes I (ca. 456–468) [...]) or verify the English version of Gubazes' article that I linked here.
 * About the Lazica's campaign, you can verify the Portuguese text on the subsection "Outros conflitos" ([...] Cerca de 456, Gubazes I (ca. 456–468) [...]) or verify the English version of Gubazes' article that I linked here.


 * I have added the information. Many thanks! Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  01:06, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I forgot to mention. You can also add some buildings about him ou named after him. There was an statue of his in the Forum of Arcadius and there still stands the Column of Marcian in Istanbul; this column was made for Tatianus, the same officer that helped him in Lycia years before. The Patria of Constantinople mentions him as a possible sponsor of the Chrysotriklinos of the Great Palace of Constantinopla; Souda mentions Justin I. There is a little paragraph about it in the Portuguese version: "No Fórum de Arcádio, em Constantinopla, [...]" You can try to translate and I correct the spelling if necessary. Cheers!--Renato de carvalho ferreira (talk) 02:29, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * About Tetricus I, you need to mention his consulships. He was consul three times in 271, 272 e 273 and we do not know his colleagues. On the Prosopography (I, p. 1041) there are the Fasti Consulari.--Renato de carvalho ferreira (talk) 03:53, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * About Tetricus I, you need to mention his consulships. He was consul three times in 271, 272 e 273 and we do not know his colleagues. On the Prosopography (I, p. 1041) there are the Fasti Consulari.--Renato de carvalho ferreira (talk) 03:53, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Done. -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  15:41, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

New
Hello once again. I reviewed the Portuguese version of Tiberius (son of Constans II) and Heraclius (son of Constans II) using your last editions on the articles. Both are really fine, but both of them use Canduci in a substancial part of the last paragraph ("Throughout all this, Tiberius was kept under [...]") and it's not a reliable source. I searched that information on other sources, and I found nothing. I removed that part and added relevant information based on their PMBZ's profiles. Maybe you should read that. I also changed Norwich, another source not so good, for Stratos. Maybe you should see that too.--Renato de carvalho ferreira (talk) 07:31, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  23:16, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Eucherius (son of Stilicho)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Eucherius (son of Stilicho) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 23:21, 30 August 2018 (UTC)