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Gaius Marius ready for GA?
Hello! I just read Gaius Marius, which I see you've done a lot of work on and nominated for GA in 2019, and I really enjoyed it. It seems to be of GA quality to me, have you ever thought about renominating it? --Cerebellum (talk) 19:20, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I guess I have, but I'm unfamiliar with the process for making or pushing for GA status. Ifly6 (talk) 20:30, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hmm I think there's a way to nominate articles jointly, do you want me to nominate it with you as co-nominator? No worries if you're not interested. Cerebellum (talk) 20:49, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure, if you're interested in pushing it forward! Ifly6 (talk) 14:24, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Cool, nominated :) I'll do my best to respond to any reviewer comments and let you know if I need help. --Cerebellum (talk) 03:02, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * Nb fixed. Ifly6 (talk) 21:31, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Rewrite of Roman dictator
Hi. I avoided this before because I didn't want to get into a major dispute, but someone's complaining about the language and content of this article being biased. I don't necessarily agree, but the previous version of the article was mostly written by me, a major overhaul from the previous version, and I thought my prose was pretty good and provided a solid discussion of the topic. I wasn't thrilled to see it all being thrown out and replaced without discussion, but as I said I wasn't in the mood to spend days arguing over it. I'm sure your sources are more up-to-date, although I don't think they're going to have provided a new and novel view of the topic. From what the critical writer is complaining about, I'm guessing that your source views Sulla in a positive light and Caesar in a negative one, which is probably the opposite of the view that the scholarship I based the previous article on. But that can certainly be addressed without simply substituting one view for the other. Would you be interested in going back to the previous version, then merging your sources' newer/differing views in with it? Something less than a wholesale rewrite, but providing as much of the scholarship you based your rewrite on as seems tenable? I hate to ask it of you, but as I said, I did think my version was some of my best work on Wikipedia, and I hate to see it just obliterated. P Aculeius (talk) 12:48, 9 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Sure! I never intended to step on your toes in such a way, if that's how you saw it. If there are any portions you'd like me to focus on incorporating, please tell. Ifly6 (talk) 19:18, 9 March 2022 (UTC)




 * As to the question of Sulla. I don't have access to the same version of the OCD you used. I think this is best implied by the indexing: where mine puts Sulla under "Cornelius, Sulla..." yours seems to use "Sulla" alone. There is a similar thing with "Caesar"; my edition puts Caesar under "Iulius, Caesar, C". I'm using the 2012 4th edition. The corresponding article is by Ernst Badian, which notes explicitly that Sulla was not attempting to establish a permanent tyranny. He makes no direct connection between the dictatorship and weakening of the republic, focusing more on the impact that marching on Rome (twice!) had. (On this topic, I think I agree with this at an intuitive level; attributing importance to an archaic political institution is probably overstating its impact relative to Pompey's memorable – dubiously factual – quote of quoting laws to men with swords.)


 * I also re-read the original portions on the late republican dictatorship. There seems to be an equivalency drawn between Caesar and Sulla's dictatorships; there is, I feel, a meaningful difference between Caesar's permanent dictatorship and Sulla's law-giver dictatorship. Scholars believe that the latter was done to re-establish the republic. Cf Flower and my rewrite for Sulla's constitutional reforms. Caesar's, however, was unrepublican in terms that it practically replaced "the republic". I think focusing on that distinction is didactic in contextualising Sulla's republican ambitions to Caesar's military and administrative ones. (Whether Caesar would have turned out to be a good republican who restored ordinary government is speculative at best; Flower just writes "at no point did Caesar even try to restore republican politics, although he apparently paid lip service to it in... the early 40s" and that "he apparently questioned the whole meaning of res publica". Flower, Roman Republics (2010) p 163. The entry for the big Caesar in the 2012 OCD also says "he had no plans for basic social and constitutional reform".) Ifly6 (talk) 21:26, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * Fixed. Ifly6 (talk) 06:29, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Nobiles
In your rewrite of nobiles, you've added a couple of citations to Flower 2010, but there's no full citation to go with it – is this Harriet Flower's Roman Republics? Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 22:26, 14 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Oof, that's a serious omission on my part! It is Flower's Roman republics; I've added it to the source list already. Thanks for informing me. Ifly6 (talk) 02:06, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 07:04, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * Fixed. Ifly6 (talk) 06:23, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Sure. Emended. Ifly6 (talk) 14:06, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I think merging is rarely justified unless the article has existed in its current version for a long time and has good sources. If you're going to write a separate article from scratch then you won't be 'merging' anything, and if the sourcing is poor as you admit and I agree, then this is a further reason for deleting. A 'merge' simply means that the attribution to the original editor gets preserved, but this is unnecessary here since Aculeius, who added the content a mere two days ago, can just copy and paste his own content elsewhere. The article was effectively unsourced before that, so if you want to strictly 'merge', ie. recycle other users' content, you would make your article worse. Avilich (talk) 00:28, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Fixed. Ifly6 (talk) 13:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Fixed. (Note for self.) Something ought to be done with those pages (the disambiguation, the "First" page, and the "Second" page). Many scholars believe the "First" Catilinarian conspiracy was a fiction and did not happen. That page should be updated to reflect those doubts rather than just regurgitating the primary sources uncritically. Ifly6 (talk) 13:38, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I think the two articles should be merged. T8612  (talk) 15:37, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Why? About half of the versions of the "First" Catilinarian conspiracy don't include mention of Catiline. Ifly6 (talk) 22:11, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Because it didn't happen... it's likely confusion/exaggeration from ancient sources and could/should be dealt with in only one article. T8612  (talk) 22:47, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree that it didn't happen. Why then would we put it next to the "Second" Cat conspiracy, which did? Ifly6 (talk) 00:22, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * The solution is to move second Catilinarian conspiracy to Catilinarian conspiracy as the WP:Primary topic for the term. Avilich (talk) 18:30, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I would agree with that. Ifly6 (talk) 20:15, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

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Battle of the Allia
Hi, if by any chance you have time on your hands and feel brave enough, there is a need to rewrite this article: Battle of the Allia. Right now, it's just a paraphrase of Livy. It should also be renamed Sack of Rome (387 BC), or split (Battle/Sack). Nothing urgent though. T8612 (talk) 12:37, 26 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the pointer. I've been a bit more busy with work etc as of late. I also would like to complete the Catiline rewrites before starting on something like that; do you have any feedback on those three articles? (I know they've gotten longer and longer as the project keeps expanding to cover more things Catilinarian. Mission creep at its finest.) Ifly6 (talk) 23:23, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * What are the "three" articles? T8612  (talk) 23:32, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Rewrites for Catiline the laddo, the "First" conspiracy, and now "the" Catiliarian conspiracy. (All linked on my User page.) Ifly6 (talk) 00:17, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, I've moved them to the main namespace now. I'm not very familiar with the early republic – I've avoided it mostly because it's so sparse – do you have any recommendations on sources for the Allia? Ifly6 (talk) 19:19, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Since almost everything on the subject comes from Livy, the Commentary on Livy by RM Ogilvie, and especially Stephen Oakley. It's frustrating that Ogilvie's commentary is so short, but Oakley's books are monument of scholarship.
 * For the history of the events, Tim Cornell's Beginnings of Rome and also good stuff in Fragments of the Roman Historians. Gary Forsythe's Critical History of Early Rome. Big books though, but stimulating reads. T8612  (talk) 08:41, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Fixed. Ifly6 (talk) 13:46, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Template:Sulla
Hi, I created a draft for a template on Sulla here. Do you see something else to add? I'm creating the red-link articles on his proscription and memoirs. T8612 (talk) 19:36, 8 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I can't think of much to add. What is already there covers most what I would have thought of to put in and more. I would reorder the proscriptions to be before the lex Valeria though. Reading the OCD entry again, it mentions Sulla's campaign in Cilicia but I don't think it is at all well documented so omission is of rather little importance.
 * As to "Sulla's march on Rome" (the capitalisation I would take; though I am not sure about the title), we used to have an article at Sulla's first civil war (of minimal value now) but would provide a meaningful page history. That page should be moved to "Sulla's march on Rome" and un-redirected to remake an article.
 * If you include Plutarch's Vit, perhaps include App BCiv? Though I guess that might be a bit outside of scope for Sulla qua Sulla. Just an alternative to think about. Ifly6 (talk) 23:54, 8 August 2022 (UTC)


 * And just to add. I think it's sufficiently developed that you can move it into the main space without trouble. Ifly6 (talk) 23:55, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think the old article about Sulla's 1st civil war was really not good (not a single ref to modern sources). It's better to make a clean start.
 * I'm not an extremist regarding capitalisation (I'm not for Consul, Tribune of the Plebs, etc. as I've seen in some places), but I would still capitalise unique events like this. T8612  (talk) 07:34, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
 * As to replacement, I agree; I would just rather preserve the page history of the relevant topic rather than start tabula rasa. On capitalisation, I think everything should be in lower case unless it really has to be in upper case (perhaps a standard beyond that in WP:CAPS; it also leads to my agreeing with the Economist style guide on first world war). The quibbles aside, I'm going to take a look out for Keaveney's Sulla some time this week. Ifly6 (talk) 12:30, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Catilines GA?
I'm thinking of perhaps submitting of my work on Catiline (Catiline, First Catilinarian conspiracy, Catilinarian conspiracy, etc) for GA review. What do you think? Ifly6 (talk) 17:47, 12 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Not sure inline citations such as "Waters 1970 argues" would pass. You need to change them to something like "In 1970 Waters argued[1]". T8612  (talk) 09:20, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Altered for the Catilinarian conspiracy. Will take a look for the others. Ifly6 (talk) 18:26, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Just about any substantial article which predominantly cites secondary sources and doesn't have any noticeable mistakes or omissions has a good chance at GA. I spotted nothing obvious, and I would just be bold and try GA out. Minor issues like the above can be pointed out and fixed on the GA discussion itself. Avilich (talk) 21:56, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the encouragement. I nominated Catilinarian conspiracy for GA; will take a look at the others more slowly. Ifly6 (talk) 20:33, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

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Coming back to Gracchi brothers to tweak the phrasing of a date, I found that the good edit which I'd noticed a few days ago, and was going to build on, had been reverted by yours, presumably inadvertently. Your edit summary was "incorporate rewrites from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gracchi_brothers&oldid=1072288182", which sounds complicated and I'd rather not even think about assessing, but I thought I should flag this up just in case anything didn't actually go as planned. I've done the date tweak anyway. NebY (talk) 19:47, 4 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Go for it. I want to note however that I am in the process of rewriting the article, so I'll just incorporate that into my current draft. Ifly6 (talk) 20:54, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah good, I'd made my little edit, I was just worried in case anything else intervening had been inadvertently lost. Will await with interest! NebY (talk) 21:38, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

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Re: Marcus Atilius Regulus (consul 227 BC)
In response to your comment on my Talk page, I had a look at this article, & there is one sentence that puzzles me. The last sentence reads: "In notes, Broughton further explains that the textual tradition is unclear: this Atilius may in fact be an Aemilius and others have suggested Serranus as cognomen rather than Rutilius." Was "Rutilius" a typo for Regulus, or is there one or more authorities who believe his cognomen might be Rutilius? -- llywrch (talk) 19:38, 10 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Let me check. Ifly6 (talk) 19:48, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It's a typo for Regulus. I confirmed at MRR 1.263 that Broughton says M. Atilius (Regulus)3 and that he notes alternative cognomen Serranus as suggested by Willems for note 3 on page 267. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Ifly6 (talk) 19:51, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I found the issue. Around the time I was writing that, I was also writing a world-building portion for a D&D campaign my friend is DM'ing where one of the NPCs is one Publius Rutilius who is so honest that he's getting framed for corruption. Ifly6 (talk) 20:05, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Varronian chronology
Hello there. I remembered looking through some of my notes today that you all had been in a discussion sometime previously about creating an article on the Varronian chronology. Did that ever end up going anywhere? Ifly6 (talk) 10:09, 11 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Not that I know, although this article is still needed. T8612  (talk) 15:01, 12 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I took a look through the WP:CGR talk archives and saw that you had a draft of such an article in your sandbox. Are you still working on it? Ifly6 (talk) 11:55, 14 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry, Ifly6, I meant to respond to your original query over the weekend, but time got away from me. Which turns out to have been a fortunate mistake, because I had forgotten I had written that draft & would have otherwise just pointed you to some general sources based on my memory. (Not surprising, since I wrote this roughly 7 years ago.) But to answer your question directly: no, I am not still working on this draft. I'm actually surprised I got as far as I had, because I as I remember I stopped working on the article because I could not find enough sources to write something I felt was satisfactory. Probably because Roman chronology of this time is a complex subject & the required further research discouraged me from continuing. You're welcome to take what I wrote & use it to create this article. One clarification I'd make to this draft is that the "Forsythe" book I refer to is Gary Forsthe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War (Berkeley: University of California, 2006). Feel free to ping me to clarify other citations. -- llywrch (talk) 15:44, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * Sure, seems like a good idea. Ifly6 (talk) 14:30, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Battle of New Carthage
Hi Ifly6, thanks for the rigorous review of this one, which is now in much better shape than it was before. I will watchlist this page for a week or so, in case you would like to pick up on any of the other issues we chatted about. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:44, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Sure. I intend to make the following changes:
 * Change wording about Gades to "surrender". ✅
 * Change wording about the sack to make it clear that massacres preceded plundering. ✅
 * Add parallel citations for Livy and Polybius' narratives about the lake. ✅
 * Add reference to and citation of Richardson's general dismissal of the lake stories. ✅
 * Citing Coarelli Eutopia (2002) pp 47–75 for attribution
 * De-centring captions. ✅
 * Add parallel citation to Livy (again) for Goldsworthy's claim about Scipio's army size. ✅
 * Probably also convert citations for Hoyos into harvc format. ✅
 * Ifly6 (talk) 14:13, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

CCI notations
Thank you so much for pitching in at the DC CCI. Your edit summary seemed to be a little uncertain of the notations so I figured I'd pop in and give a quick overview of how we usually use the templates, so you don't have to second-guess yourself :)

&spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 06:03, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * is for confirmed CV, as in you actually went and compared it against the source
 * is for confirmed no CV, again as in you actually checked against the sources
 * is for situations where it's now a moot point - either you or someone else has removed the content from the article, making checking individual diffs redundant. (Your question mark for De Viris Illustribus (Jerome) is the correct usage)
 * "Pdel" means "presumptive deletion". We say this in cases where the individual has such a bad history of issues (and whose edits are so prolific) that we consider it acceptable to presume the content will be problematic and remove it on sight. Some people use to mark where they've done pdels; I use ? and write that I've done a pdel. Doug Coldwell, obviously, is a case where no one will question a pdel.


 * Thanks for the clarification, that makes things much clearer for me. Inasmuch, however, as the edit diffs are still there, ought some examination still be done for infringements in the diffs? Eg, pretend someone took the entire script to the Bee Movie placed it in a page and then reverted it; wouldn't the diff itself would still be a copyright violation? Ifly6 (talk) 03:21, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The primary concern, especially as we simply don't have enough editors working in this space, is to get the problematic content out of live versions of articles. @Moneytrees can probably speak to this better than I can (and I hope will correct me if I'm speaking incorrectly), but generally revision deletion of older diffs is a secondary concern, especially if the content is unlikely to be reverted to. We also need to weigh damage to the page history against the protective value of a revdel. The newer and bigger the violation is, the more important it is to get it RD'd, to reduce the chances of anyone reverting to it, and also because RDing would do less damage to the history. Older revisions, especially ones with a significant amount of history that would have to be wiped out, are more of a judgement call.
 * A diff or two where Bee Movie was inserted and quickly removed would probably be revision deleted, but a paragraph of CV from 2012 that remained live for the next 1000 edits is probably not going to result in a revdel. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 04:43, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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Why did you revert all my edits? And in 1931 the Harvard University Press did not publish yet the Loeb Classical Library (about Sallust, see here). --Frognall (talk) 13:05, 13 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Because you're looking at the wrong book. That's a separate publication. The one which is cited here is the Loeb (volume 116) version of that book, which was published – as a revised reprint – in 1931:
 * https://books.google.com/books/about/Sallust.html?id=0XUYxy-Kl7AC
 * https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL116/2013/pb_LCL116.ix.xml (discussing the old LCL 1931)
 * https://books.google.com/books?output=html_text&id=6DENAQAAMAAJ
 * https://www.worldcat.org/title/813292653
 * https://www.worldcat.org/title/40186151
 * The existence of this book is indisputable. It is also the version which is specifically cited by LacusCurtius: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Sallust/home.html. Ifly6 (talk) 13:10, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Why did you undo all 5 of my edits? I repeat. --Frognall (talk) 13:21, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Because they introduced incorrect bibliographic information. Ifly6 (talk) 13:37, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * You only link to snippets. The title page of the 1931 edition is this and it is part of the Loeb Classical Library. --Frognall (talk) 13:48, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I see. Restore your version. Ifly6 (talk) 13:59, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Well. Thanks for understanding. --Frognall (talk) 14:25, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Marian reforms
I noticed your notes on the talk page for that and also was directed here by two public history answers ; would you be willing to make changes to the article to reflect that? I myself do not have access to academic sources anymore; however, I'm willing to help out in the actual writing. Iseult  Δx parlez moi 16:16, 11 June 2023 (UTC)


 * How would you think the article could be written? I can't imagine much of an article other than "they didn't exist". Ifly6 (talk) 16:43, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I think that the fact that popular perception, with much coverage, is that they did is enough for the existence of an article. We can treat it by stating in the lede that they did not exist according to modern scholarship, making the majority of the article about why modern scholarship is at this conclusion, address how this misconception came to be, and also maybe lay out the purported reforms themselves as currently incorrectly perceived. Iseult   Δx parlez moi 21:04, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Do you have any initial comments on my draft at User:Ifly6/Marian reforms? Ifly6 (talk) 15:49, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * That seems like a fantastic draft, and if you're inclined to replace the extant article with the current contents once specific red-text numbers have been filled in, I'm not opposed. I do see a path forward for improvement wherein we might incorporate sources and text (in impact and the generally attributed section, i.e. the standing army) from the current article in a semi-merge, though that's something not particularly urgent and I'm more than willing to handle that. Iseult   Δx parlez moi 20:47, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * When I work on a drop-in rewrite, I usually try to work on the drafts until they could plausibly meet the GA criteria before pushing to the main namespace. If there's anything valuable in the existing article that you'd like to move over, feel free to edit the draft I have to that effect. Ifly6 (talk) 21:28, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * As someone that enjoys unlearning (and happily remembers our entire class cheating when tested on the Marian reforms), I like that draft! Would Scullard's old textbook do as a source for the red number in "Marius has also been credited with the introduction of the cohort (a unit of thousand men)"? He had "Marius now made the cohort the standard tactical unit (the battalion) of the legion, which henceforth consisted of ten cohorts of 600 men". NebY (talk) 21:06, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Sure. Feel free to edit. There's also a few dangling areas where I want to expand: land for veterans, training regimens, Marius being the man introducing eagles, and most of the historiographic section. I intend to go to the Library of Congress to read Cadiou's L'armée imaginaire (and test my rusty French) some time so it may be a bit of a wait. Ifly6 (talk) 21:26, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Added some references to Scullard, including for the cohort man counts. I have on disc the 2011 Routledge Classics edition; it feels as if I am largely using him as a target though. Ifly6 (talk) 01:35, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Battle of New Carthage
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Question about Brutus in Dante
I tweaked some of your language in Brutus—overall the edits were a great improvement, although I thought some of the wording was awkward or needed more punctuation. The only thing I'm not satisfied with—and which you're better equipped to deal with than I am—is the interpretation of Dante's treatment of Brutus which suggests that Brutus was being punished for resisting God's plan for monarchy. This is the first time I've heard of this interpretation—unless my memory fails me, which is possible—but while Dante certainly idolized Caesar, I'm not sure whether his treatment of Brutus can be directly related to his feelings about medieval monarchy. It's not impossible, but this sounds like it's the interpretation of your source, Tempest, rather than a universially-accepted one. Or perhaps it merely stretches the point beyond Caesar as an ideal monarch, to a general principle of monarchy. Either way, I think it should be described as one interpretation, rather than the symbolism, which seems debatable. I'll leave you to review the sources—and perhaps other notes on Dante (I'm mainly familiar with Ciardi's)—and figure out how to handle this interpretation. P Aculeius (talk) 20:08, 12 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will first determine whether or not Tempest in fact said what I said she did. If she did, I'll go consult some other sources on Brutus' reception. Ifly6 (talk) 21:01, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

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The website hellenicaworld.com appears to be a scraper site that steals material from Wikipedia. I'm the one who made the edits about Rhomos back in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Founding_of_Rome&oldid=804261052 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Founding_of_Rome&oldid=804265627 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Founding_of_Rome&oldid=804266468 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Founding_of_Rome&oldid=804268304 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Founding_of_Rome&oldid=804269205

I also created the article about Rhomos in 2020. The hellenicaworld.com article is word for word copied from that article. I can even see that it was copied between 12 August 2022‎ and 16 November 2022‎. This is the specific version that hellenicaworld.com copied: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhomos&oldid=1104131293

This is very disturbing. I just wanted to re-add the material that you removed from the Founding of Rome article, added by me in 2017. FrinkMan (talk) 19:14, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

The scraper site copied eveything except the Notes-section. The note numbers lead nowhere. https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Mythology/en/Rhomos.html https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhomos&oldid=1104131293

This site might be a big problem for Wikipedia. I searched hellenicaworld.com on wikipedia and got this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=hellenicaworld.com&title=Special:Search&ns0=1

As an example, look at Paseas and then the hellenicaworld-article: https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Person/en/Paseas.html At the bottom of the page, it's even stated clearly: ''Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org" All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License FrinkMan (talk) 19:59, 4 August 2023 (UTC)


 * My apologies for the accusation. I was wrong. Do go ahead and replace your edits. Ifly6 (talk) 20:47, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I have reverted my reversion on the article and my warning post on your user talk page. Note that there is also separate sourcing question at Talk:Founding of Rome. Thanks. Ifly6 (talk) 21:07, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * Ok, thanks for the explanations, they were things I didn't know. --LukeWiller (talk) 08:20, 17 August 2023 (UTC).

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Thanks for letting me know about those past discussions! Particularly those at Wikipedia talk:Link rot and Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 18. I'm glad others have also noticed, even if this is a continuing problem. Are there are any ongoing discussions about the wider problem? Or did everyone lose interest and move on after those discussions in June/July? – Scyrme (talk) 17:33, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * My reading was that everyone agreed that these additions were wasteful, bothersome, and pointless (viz archives work without regard to IA Bot). And that doing anything about it might be overcome by ignoramuses who under strong misconceptions think these additions are actual contributions. The status quo therefore won out. Ifly6 (talk) 17:55, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Seems a bit odd to surrender pre-emptively when multiple editors are in agreement and can be backed up with empirical demonstrations of archives that don't actually archive anything; "the links might break/rot in the future" doesn't hold up against the archives effectively already being broken/rotten and not preserving anything relevant.
 * I don't have much prior experience arguing with people about this "archive rot" problem, so I wouldn't know if it's especially controversial. Are the prospects of getting anywhere really that bleak? – Scyrme (talk) 19:06, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I also think preemptive surrender is foolish but I deferred and didn't push the matter. Ifly6 (talk) 19:55, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * If you want to revive it, perhaps make a new discussion to insert language to Wikipedia talk:Link rot (eg Archive URLs should not be added for live websites.) and ping everyone involved in the last discussion (along with the relevant cruft perpetrators). I would separate out the addition here from the other options that I noted in a previous discussion. Ifly6 (talk) 20:21, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I also found this relevant discussion. Ifly6 (talk) 20:27, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

You did a really nice job explaining the position of the no-archive-all-ists. That's the best summary I have seen of why it's so irritating and easily misused. It might be an RfC at Village Pump. I don't think changing the wording on the Link rot page will have much result because most people don't read it, follow it, and it is not a guideline or policy -- but it is a start. I work with Cyberpower at InternetArchive so am familiar with the technology of the bot. There is currently no mechanism to disable this feature on a per-Wiki basis, so if Enwiki decided they didn't want it, it would require new coding in the bot. Also Cyberpower and InternetArchive want this feature so they won't do it without the consensus of an RfC.

Some other things to consider: the bot is imperfect at determining dead links. Many sites contain soft-404s, subscription access, etc.. so the bot ignores those links and doesn't try to add archives, during normal operation. However it would add archive URLs with the archive-all option because it doesn't care if it's dead or alive.

The links added should be at least spot-checked by the user of the bot, the bot is not perfect and the user is responsible for problems. My bot WP:WAYBACKMEDIC is designed to do deep checks of archive URLs on Wikipedia pages and fix any problems in encounters, but it is very time and resource intensive so I don't run it on a regular basis - if you want me to check some of he pages you listed from Billjones94 contribs to demonstrate where problems are created (if any), I am happy to do so. I think this is ultimately going to be your best way to get Billjones94 to slow down, showing their errors. They can blame the bot, but, the edit was made by them and they are responsible for it at the end of the day. I think people will be more accepting of bot errors when a link is dead, it's an emergency situation and we are doing the best we can. But if the link is live and it's creating errors, there will be less tolerance because it's an unnecessary mistake. -- Green  C  16:44, 21 September 2023 (UTC)


 * If there are errors in operation I think they ought to be noted as well to produce a full record, certainly. Ifly6 (talk) 17:04, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, WaybackMedic checked the 22 articles you listed which in total contain 2,320 Wayback Machine links (!) It only found three problems: Special:Diff/1173467455/1176440447, Special:Diff/1175970623/1176440460, Special:Diff/1176097633/1176440484. I don't know if these were added by Billjones94 or pre-existed. -- Green  C  19:01, 21 September 2023 (UTC)


 * As a secondary note, do you think it would be possible to change IA Bot's functionality to not include archive URLs for Jstor or Worldcat? I can't imagine anyone would defend this blank page as a true "archive" of the original. Ifly6 (talk) 15:48, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
 * It's already the case the bot ignores them. It's set to "subscription" at iabot.org (look up "www.jstor.org"). That means the bot won't archive links to that site. But maybe it did in the past. Users have control over how the bot behaves. -- Green  C  16:38, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Typos?
I don't know if I'm looking at typos or my ignorance here. Back in 2022, you wrote in Roman Republic, with clear recent sources, "Modern sources have proposed multiple causes of elite cohesion, including wealth inequality and a growing unwillingness by aristocrats to transgress political norms, especially in the aftermath of the Social War." That's been changed to "causes of elite decohesion", which looks plausible, but is "unwillingness" another typo or am I simply failing to keep up? NebY (talk) 12:48, 1 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Those two do look like typos. I've made an edit I think to fix both. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Ifly6 (talk) 19:38, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
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In this edit you... did something that produced, in section Cicero:
 * "... proved for Cicero an important place where he could clients in the provinces."

Um, what? Shenme (talk) 01:04, 7 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The verb acquire, gain, win, or most likely, make is missing. Ifly6 (talk) 01:18, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * . Ifly6 (talk) 15:10, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Reverts around 27 February 2024
I reverted a substantial number of page edits, most of which added unnecessary infoboxes (an infobox is not necessary to summarise an article that is itself two sentences long); unsourced and fictitious dates of birth, death, or army service; and other errors from user Edgenut. This affected, I estimate, around 360 different pages. These mostly related to obscure Roman, Greek, and Chinese historical figures with some overlap onto historical artefacts.

I attempted to do these reversions accurately while also preserving edits that were legitimate contributions. If doing so introduced errors, I apologise. Reversions were done in good faith though rather more rapidly than I would perhaps have wanted on further reflection. If you feel as though I should fix them myself please draw my attention to them. Otherwise, I encourage you to do so yourself. Ifly6 (talk) 15:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Edgenut questioned the deletion of the image he used for an infobox on Quintus Tullius Cicero. I checked, and he's right about it not being (more) anachronistic than the one that remains; but just as importantly, the image was there before he placed it in an infobox.  So I've replaced it where it originally was in the article, and replied to Edgenut's comment.  There could, of course, be other instances like this where an image that was already in an article got placed in an infobox by Edgenut, and then got deleted entirely when you removed the infobox.  But I understand why it might not be practical to check all of his contributions to find them!  P Aculeius (talk) 05:14, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for correcting that error! Ifly6 (talk) 05:54, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Gothic War (535–554)
This article is a mish-mash of Eastern Roman and Byzantine terms. Any idea which were used when this article was reviewed as GA? --Kansas Bear (talk) 21:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)


 * No idea. I only edited it because a now-blocked editor had attempted to improve it. This is, regardless, the version that was reviewed for WP:GA: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gothic_War_(535%E2%80%93554)&oldid=846897018. Taking a look at the GA version, I wouldn't have passed it myself simply because the main source used, Bury's History of the Later Roman Empire is simply too old. One of the GA citations is to Gibbon! Ifly6 (talk) 23:39, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * Fixed. Ifly6 (talk) 13:52, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

AFD
Hello, Ifly6,

Regarding your AFD, the articles you listed were not formatted correctly for a bundled nomination. Instead you just listed them on the page. Could you please review the instructions at WP:AFD for bundled nomination and add the correct tags to the nomination? This will make it much easier for a closer who won't have to handle each page manually. It's really not complicated, you just add a code to each article title. Thanks for your help. Liz Read! Talk! 20:29, 21 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Sure, added the la template to each list entry. Ifly6 (talk) 21:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for PHerc. Paris. 4
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Map of Republican Rome
Hi, do you know if there is a good map of Republican Rome (the city) somewhere on Commons by any chance? T8612 (talk) 23:27, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Publius Clodius Pulcher's proper name
Are you sure the source cited demonstrates (not merely claims) that Clodius wasn't called "Claudius" until some point in his political career? I've always understood that he affected the spelling because he thought it looked plebeian (perhaps having first been adopted by descendants of freedmen). And I'm pretty sure I've read that in standard reference sources, though I'm not sure which—probably DGRBM or OCD2. Also, pretty sure all of his other relatives used "Claudius" and "Claudia", or at least they did most of the time. Like I said, I haven't checked, but I'll be surprised if there's any proof that he wasn't originally "Claudius"; if other references agree with the above, then maybe the source cited is just one scholar's opinion—or one of two competing theories. P Aculeius (talk) 01:28, 28 March 2024 (UTC)


 * The first time Clodius appears in the reliable sources for this sort of thing, he's called Clodius in letters from Cicero. Tatum 1999, now generally accepted to be the standard biography in English, and Riggsby 2002 both note that there's no ancient evidence for the claim that he took the o-form to be more appealing to plebs. I recall reading that the o-form emerged from Oscan-tinged Latin. There's no reason also to suppose he adopted it. An uncle of his is attested by inscription with an o-form name in the 90s; two of his sisters are called only Clodia.
 * In my rewrite – User:Ifly6/Publius Clodius Pulcher – I've followed them. As to previous reference material, a lot of them say that Clodius adopted the o-form at his adoption. Both Tatum 1999 and Riggsby 2002 convincingly note the impossibility of this when Cicero is calling him Clodius at the start of the Bona Dea affair. Riggsby 2002 also notes that the sources don't assign au- and o- forms to patrician or plebeian. And both put Clodius' plebeian turn to after the Bona Dea affair – before this he was chilling with Murena, and possibly Cicero, – which means the timeline doesn't work for adoption to appeal to the plebs. I can't find anything more recent than Riggsby that at all touch on the topic. Ifly6 (talk) 03:30, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
 * OCD 2 1  makes no comment on his name, though it notes that Appius Claudius Pulcher was his brother and in her entry, Clodia his sister. (I don't remember anyone accusing her of changing her name in accord with her incestuous brother's political finagling and can't think why Cicero would leave that out. But I'm no expert let alone RS.) NebY (talk) 09:49, 28 March 2024 (UTC)