User talk:Kyriakos/Archive 3

Battle of the Kalka River
No problem at all! It's an interesting, well-organized article. I'm now preparing to take an extended wikibreak, so I couldn't give the article all of the attention it deserved. I think most of the punctuation issues have been resolved, but you may want to get another set of eyes on it. That never hurts. Again, nice work! -- twelsht (talk) 04:30, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Suggested revisions made to the Battle of Bonchurch article
Kyriakos, firstly I would like to thank you for assessing my article as part of the nomination process for it to become a GA-class article. Secondly, thank you for assessing it very quickly after I had suggested it for nomination.

I have made several edits to my article, in an effort to meet your suggestions. I hope I have successfully done this. Please could you re-assess my article? Thank you in advance. EasyPeasy21 (talk) 20:22, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Charles S. Farnsworth
Thank you for looking at this page and assessing the article. I went back and included in-text citations. Einbierbitte (talk) 17:14, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Portal:British Army
I was wondering if you could spare the time for a peer review of this portal? The editor has been slaving away pretty much by himself and really wants input from others. I know you're busy, which makes your input, if you can manage it, so much more appreciated. :) All the best, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 00:19, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

A big favour
User:Climie.ca has several Milhist awards (BCAD and Content review) in batches I've done on behalf of the coordinators. This has resulted in ALL his awards ostensibly coming from me, which knocks some of the glitter off them. Could you please edit the signature on one or two of them for a bit of awarding variety? You were a coordinator at all material times and both the BCAD awards and the Content review medal were pre-approved by the coordinators so it's really just cosmetic. I've asked Woody to do the same thing. Many thanks, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk


 * Thanks, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

News! Tag & Assess 2008 is coming ...
Milhist's new drive – Tag & Assess 2008 – goes live on April 25 and you are cordially invited to participate. This time, the task is housekeeping. As ever, there are awards galore, plus there's a bit of friendly competition built-in, with a race for bronze, silver and gold wikis! You can sign up, in advance, here. I look forward to seeing you on the drive page! All the best, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 12:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)




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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVI (April 2008)
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A-class review proposal
You may wish to shepherd this proposal through yourself. If so, I suggest you (1) add "normally" so it reads "Reviews will normally be closed by one of the project coordinators ..." and (2) decide how many days "n" should represent. It is also probably best in a new section (say "A-class review proposal"?) with a short explanation. If you need any help, just ask! Good luck, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 12:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Propose it initially in /coordinators, perhaps? A yes/no type proposal focuses the mind wonderfully :) And let's see how it goes from there, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 12:18, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * You may want to add y/n under points 1–3 too :) Proposing something doesn't stop you having an opinion :) -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 12:55, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Kalka River
Excuse me, but for the MILHIST contest you put this article as a Start-class, but it was indeed a GA. Please explain.  Ṝέđ ṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ  Drop me a line §  19:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, no problem. I truly have no idea, you may just want to ask Woody. Cheers,  Ṝέđ ṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ  Drop me a line §  22:06, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I have adjusted it back to start class now and have clarified that the beginning class is the start of the month. See the thread above yours on Redmark's talkpage. I think that way is fairer, hopefully meaning that editors will be rewarded for their work. It is a fairly loose system so that it can accomodate issues like this along the way. Say if an FAC passed on May 1/2 and I hadn't tallied April up yet, then I would include that in Aprils tally. Regards. Woody (talk) 22:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Request
Kyriakos, you may remember me from when you were reviewing the article entitled 'Battle of Bonchurch' when it was being considered for GA status. I would like to ask for your input again regarding some work I am doing. I hope I will not trouble you with my request.

I am completely re-writing an article entitled 'Battle of Coleto'. It was a very poor article, and one I intend to bring up to GA status. This is one of the sources of information I am using for the article:

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/qec1.html

I would like to know, before I use this source more, if it can be considered reliable by Wikipedia standards. I have looked through the relevant policies, but I want to make absolutely sure that I can use this source. Since you know your stuff, and you have looked at my work before, I would like to make absolutely sure courtesy of you. I hope my request is ok.EasyPeasy21 (talk) 22:23, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for checking the website, and thanks for offering assistance whilst I am editing the article.EasyPeasy21 (talk) 15:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008)
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Maniots GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Maniots and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are multiple issues that need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left this message on your talk page since you have significantly edited the article (based on using this article history tool). Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix with the assistance of multiple editors. I have also left messages on the talk pages for other editors and a related WikiProject to spread the workload around some. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:07, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I see that you've been working on your recent FAC, and just wanted to point out that there are only a few remaining issues left to fix at Maniots. I will leave the article on hold until 7/18 and will return to re-review the article. If you are unable to fix the issues I will unfortunately have to delist the article. However if you continue to address the issues, and need a further extension, please let me know and I'll be happy to do so. Let me know on my talk page if you have any questions. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 07:01, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Military History Wiki
Dear Kyriakos, you are a member of Wikiproject Military History, and I would like to notify you that a new Wiki has been made for Military History. If you are interested in participating in this project, please follow the following link.http://www.militaryhistorywiki.scribblewiki.com/Main_Page. Cheers,  Ṝέđ ṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ  Drop me a lineReview Me!

Milhist reviews March-May 2008
Regarding the article on the Battle of Kalka River, you mentioned on one of the talk pages that you were looking for Russian Sources. "The Russian Primary Chronicle" and the "Novgorodian First Chronicle" are both available in English. I have added the references to them at the bottom of the article. The "Novgorodian First Chronicle", or "Chronicle of Novgorod", is available online at http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/MF1914.pdf. Kalka River is discussed on pages 65 and 66. Hope this helps. --Mcpaul1998 (talk) 12:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree that historians can make some estimates, but as for your example of the Persian war, most modern historians have a real problem with the huge numbers from, for example, Herodotus and Ctesias, who gives figures of 800,000 crossing the Helespont under Darius, and (in 480-479) that Xerxes had an army of 5 million troops. More recent study of what the region could have supported (in terms of logistics and food foraging) claim this is not at all possible for an army that size in ancient times.

As for the Battle of Kalka River. Munro is not a good source - he is the writer Saki and offers no footnotes in his Rise of the Russian Empire, so there is no way of knowing where he got his figures. Gabriel is a retired army officer, but I believe he cites Michael Prawdin's book on the Mongol Empire, which was translated from the German in the 1930s or 40s and in the online preview of the 2006 edition does not have any citations either. There are others, Saunders and Mitchell, for example who are writing broad, popular books about the Mongols and are not focusing on the Battle of Kalka River. A recent book, I believe in Praeger Press, is specifically on Kalka River and it has lush pictures and detailed maps and clear, confident narrative, none of which is cited and none of which is supported by the primary sources. It seems to me that a lot of historians have repeated what earlier historians have said without being to critical of the sources. As I wrote elsewhere, John Fennell takes a lot of the details not only of Kalka River, but also the Battle on the Ice to task - he looks back at the available primary sources and says they do not support such details (like army size, placement on the battlefield, and so forth).

I am to understand de Hartog is a Mongol expert in the Netherlands, although I haven't read his book nor have I seen other articles or books by him. But it seem, if he knows his sources, that his figures may be more reliable.

I believe, the two Russian chronicles are the only sources from the time - there are no Mongol sources (they didn't write much that has survived and what has survived, like the Secret History, are sparse in numbers and other details.

I think some of my caveats in the article, pointing out that while figures are uncertain, certain historians give various figures is a worthwhile way to address this problem of the figures. I have not looked at the sections on the lead-up to the battle much. I think it's unnecessary here, but I have focused instead on the battle itself and particularly the uncertainty of the size of armies and the course of battle. I also believe the aftermath is unclear. From the Russian sources, the Mongols just went away to the East and it isn't clear how they got back to Genghis Khan. But again, I've focused more on the battle. Thanks for your coments.--Mcpaul1998 (talk) 10:27, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposal for standard infobox for History of [country] templates
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Late Roman army
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Can you urgently help Milhist please?
We've had a rather large bombshell dropped on us. The Wikipedia editorial team are aiming to release a version of Wikipedia on CD/DVD in time for the end of year holiday season. They've provided us with a list of 1333 Milhist articles they intend including.

The problem is that the quality of these articles varies considerably.

We've put together review page listing all the articles, in twenty-five article worklists. I'm hoping that 15-20 trusted editors can work through the list, weedying out problem articles and identifying suitable versions for release. The work is as far away from a tagging and assessing drive as you can imagine though, for convenience and ease of use, we've closely followed the traditional Milhist drive format.

This is, at the moment, an invitation-only review. The reason is that time is short and we can't afford too many mistakes. I'm only contacting experienced editors who performed very well indeed in the last two Milhist drives. I guess that working through a worklist of twenty-five articles will take between one and three hours to do. We're aiming to get the preliminary work done by next Sunday, so it's urgent too.

I do hope you can help but – if it's not too much trouble – if you are unable to participate at the moment, would you please let me know on my talk page? otherwise, please sign up here. Thank you for your time, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 17:21, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry to trouble you but would it be possible for you to wrap up your worklist today please? If you find yourself unable to do so, it's no problem but I'd appreciate it if you let me know you won't be able to complete on my talk page. Many thanks! -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Milhist W0.7: update
Thank you very much for your help in our review of the W0.7-nominated articles, which has proved to be a very worthwhile exercise. As the number of sub-standard articles found was much higher than anticipated, the coordinators are currently considering how best to follow this up, given the project's limited resources and the short time span – under three weeks - for making improvements.

The review has been a very worthwhile exercise and will lead to a major quality improvement initiative in the very near future. In the meantime, if you found any articles that you feel you could easily fix, I'd be very grateful if you invested a little time doing so. Please also feel free to nominate any articles for inclusion which you feel were overlooked. The procedure for this is here and the nominations should be made here. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:46, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your service

 * Thanks for your kind message. It was very much appreciated :) -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 09:16, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves


By the order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of your long and distingushed service as a Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject from February 2007 to September 2008. For the coordinators, TomStar81 (Talk) 01:13, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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Workshop checklists
Are you free and able to take one on? They're here if you can. (Well, you did volunteer to help out :) Very many thanks in advance, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 05:34, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Bad news
Greetings,Kyriakos. I am afraid I have very bad news concerning WP:GREECE and our mission, of which you are coordinantor... Check out these:, User talk:Yannismarou. Regards,Michael X the White (talk) 15:14, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey! I've just re-read Greek War of Independence. What do you say we nominate it for GA anyway now??--Michael X the White (talk) 16:19, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Exodus of Ethnic Macedonians from Greece
Take a look at this mess - Articles for deletion/Exodus of Ethnic Macedonians from Greece. Deucalionite (talk) 13:45, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

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Cretan War Peer review
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History of Sparta‎
Hi, thanks for re-rating History of Sparta‎. However, can you give some pointers as to where the extra work is needed to bring it up to B-Class status. ThanksDejvid (talk) 13:29, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the advice and renewed encouragement. I shall set to work.Dejvid (talk) 12:01, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

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Military history Coordinator Elections
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History_of_Sparta
Hi, there are a couple of paras without refs in the acticle but they are for the initial semi legendary bit and for the bit at the end where Sparta has ceased to be independent. The re-working and addition of refs is sufficiently large that I feel it's worth asking you to have a glance at the page to see if it isn't worth a B.  Anyway, tell me what you think. Dejvid (talk) 18:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

The WikiProject Greece April 2009 newsletter
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Ancient Macedonian Language
Please take a look at this. The article has been degenerating ever since Future Perfect of Sunrise deleted the infobox, and consequently the ISO-codes due to his POV pushing.

Cheers--Gkeorgke (talk) 02:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

History_of_Sparta
Thanks for taking a look. I was going to say that I consider a lot of intros overlong but then I read the HofS intro and realized that even by my standards it was somewhat ahem... laconic. I'd be glad of help with the first and last section as they are the ones I have most trouble getting my head round. Not all b rated articles have all paras reffed but I guess there are some b articles that don't deserve their status. Anyway, thanks again, sorry I'v taken time to get back to you but other things have made it harder to give wikipedia serious time recently.Dejvid (talk) 11:33, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVIII (April 2009)
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GA Sweeps invitation
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We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 07:27, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Alexander the Great
Can you please check the phrase "making it break a flee" you have used in your edit of this article Andvd (talk) 08:42, 20 May 2009 (UTC)Andvd

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XL (June 2009)
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIV (October 2009)
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Map of Macedonia and Achaean League??
Kyriakos, do you know of any maps of Macedonia and, in particular, the Achaean League at the time of the Cleomenean war?? I haven't been able to find any yet and was thinking you might know of one. I am reluctant to use the one in the article, since it is not referenced. P.S. I haven't been to the local library yet. MapMaster (talk) 02:05, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi MapMaster. After googling it I have found a few map but I found this one for the Achaean League, Elis and Sparta: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Grecia_188.jpg. This one seems to be pretty good for the Aetolian League. http://www.emersonkent.com/images/aetolian_achaean_league.jpg Though Elis wasn't in the League and neither were Locris, Phocis or Beoetia at least at that time. This seems to be a fairly good map of Macedon at the time: http://www.heritage-history.com/maps/shepherd/shep019b.jpg. I hope that htese help. Kyriakos (talk) 10:48, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

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WP:CHERUB
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVII (January 2010)
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVIII (February 2010)
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The Milhist election has started!
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The Cleomenean War was fought by Sparta and its ally, Elis, against the Achaean League and Macedon. The war ended in a Macedonian and Achaean victory. In 235 BC, Cleomenes III ascended the throne of Sparta and began a program of reform aimed at restoring traditional Spartan discipline while weakening the influence of the ephors. When, in 229 BC, the ephors sent Cleomenes to seize a town on the border with Megalopolis, the Achaeans declared war. Cleomenes responded by ravaging Achaea. At Mount Lycaeum he defeated an army under Aratus of Sicyon, and then routed a second army near Megalopolis. Meanwhile, in domestic politics, he ordered the assassination of the ephors. In quick succession, Cleomenes cleared the cities of Arcadia of their Achaean garrisons, before crushing another Achaean force at Dyme. Facing Spartan domination of the League, Aratus was forced to turn to Antigonus III Doson of Macedon and request that he assist the Achaeans' efforts to defeat the Spartans. Cleomenes eventually invaded Achaea, seizing control of both Corinth and Argos. When Antigonus arrived in the Peloponnese, however, Cleomenes was forced to retreat to Laconia. He fought the Achaeans and the Macedonians at Sellasia, but the Spartans were routed. Cleomenes then fled to the court of his ally, Ptolemy III of Egypt, where he ultimately committed suicide. (more...) UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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The War against Nabis, or the Laconian War, of 195 BC was fought between the Greek city-state of Sparta under their ruler Nabis (depicted) and a coalition composed of Rome, the Achean League, Pergamum, Rhodes, and Macedon. During the Second Macedonian War (200–196 BC), Macedon had given Sparta control over Argos, an important city on the Aegean coast. Sparta's continued occupation of Argos thereafter was used as a pretext for Rome and its allies to declare war. The anti-Spartan coalition laid siege to Argos, captured the Spartan naval base at Gythium, and invested and besieged Sparta itself. Negotiations led to peace on Rome's terms, under which Argos and the coastal towns of Laconia were separated from Sparta and the Spartans were compelled to pay a war indemnity to Rome for eight years. Argos joined the Achaean League, and the Laconian towns were placed under Achaean protection. As a result of the war, Sparta lost its position as a major power in Greece. All consequent Spartan attempts to recover the losses failed and Nabis, the last sovereign ruler, was eventually murdered. Soon after, Sparta was forcibly made a member of the Achaean League, ending several centuries of fierce political independence. (Full article...) UcuchaBot (talk) 23:02, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hello. Πρόσεξα ότι γνωρίζεις πολύ καλά ελληνικά. Θα ήθελα τη βοήθεια σου. Έχω μεταφράσει δύο λήμματα από την ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια στην αγγλική. Δυστυχώς, υπάρχουν κάποια λάθη, κυρίως συνταχτικά. Δεν έχω μεγάλη ευφράδεια στην αγγλική. Θα ήθελα να τα διαβάσεις και να κάνεις τις απαραίτητες διορθώσεις, αν μπορείς. Αν δεν ενδιαφέρεσαι, απολογούμαι για την ενόχληση. Xaris333 (talk) 13:14, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

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