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Daedalion Review
Hi Llywrch! I see you recently reviewed Daedalion for WikiProject Mythology. I haven't looked at Daedalion in a while but once upon a time I did a bit of work on it. Having just reviewed the page I wondered if you had any suggestions on how to bump up its rating a bit to maybe a C or B class article? All the best, Nyctimene (talk) 00:22, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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GA review of Cadbury Camp
Thanks for agreeing to take on the review of Cadbury Camp a few days ago. I feel I should let you know I will be away and have no internet access from the 22 to 29 June (at Glastonbury Festival) so will not be able to respond in a timely manner to any comments you may make during that time.&mdash; Rod talk 18:47, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your extensive comments. I have attempted to address some of the issues identified and responded on the review page.&mdash; Rod talk 07:26, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I've just got back from Glastonbury Festival and wanted to thank you for taking on the GA review of River Avon (Bristol), but I wondered if you had yet decided whether my responses on Talk:Cadbury Camp/GA1 met your concerns or are there issues still outstanding?&mdash; Rod talk 19:58, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Talk:River Avon (Bristol)/GA1
Hi, Thanks for your comments at Talk:River Avon (Bristol)/GA1. I was wondering whether you had any time to look at my responses to your comments - particularly the additions re flooding etc which you suggested?&mdash; Rod talk 07:13, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Senatus consultum ultimum/GA1
Llywrch, I wasn't sure whether you'd seen Zwerg Nase's comment on the review, saying you should feel free to fail it now, since the nominator has no time to make further adjustments to the article at present.

At over two and a half months, this is currently the second oldest GA review, and it should probably be closed now. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:05, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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I see you had added useful information on Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi page couple years ago which kept being deleted by a troublesome editor who is now banned. Zekenyan (talk) 22:49, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

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Settipani
Hello Llywrch, some times ago I noticed that you removed several genealogic claims by Christian Settipani and his Nos ancêtres de l'Antiquité. I'm not opposing that at all, since I believe his claims are very speculative, but in many biographical articles regarding ancient Egypt (my field of interest on Wikipedia) Settipani's book is used as a source - often the only one - for family relationships. So I'm looking for a somewhat definitive answer about its effective reliability for such cases or not. Khruner (talk) 12:08, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok I got it. I was prone to remove any relationships confirmed only by S. (even if provided with page numbers) but now I agree that the best way is probably to left such claims in their place, while specifying that these are S.' opinions. Khruner (talk) 17:28, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hey Llywrch, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Smallbones article quality by category report. As you may be able to tell, I'm new to Wikipedia and hearing from more experienced editors is really helpful for my research. I'm interested in how articles change in quality over time, and my working hypothesis is that biological evolution may provide a useful model for understanding gradual and incremental improvements in article quality.

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I hope these guidelines won't dampen your interest in the topic; I simply want to explain some of the policies in question in order to avoid conflicts with these articles. P Aculeius (talk) 18:06, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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consuls Nero


look here. Seneca was 55 consul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikythos (talk • contribs) 06:20, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't read Italian. Care to summarize? -- llywrch (talk) 16:22, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The Consul list can be read even without knowledge of Italian. :) --Μίκυθος (talk) 06:06, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * There's a big problem with working from a list in a language you don't know, & favoring it because it is the latest work: you are working entirely on trust. You are trusting that this professor is making a reasoned argument without knowing what the argument is. And I wish I could trust his reasons for his revised list, because his paper looks very useful. But I'm not comfortable with choosing sources to compile this list simply based on the criterion that it is the latest published work. But thanks for bringing it to my attention. -- llywrch (talk) 06:20, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

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List of Roman Consuls: Orthography
I've made some edits to the list of Roman consuls: partly linking various articles on the Julii, a bit of trimming on the praenomina section, but also standardizing the orthography; i.e. Iulius – Julius, Iunius – Junius, Iuventius – Juventius. I was nearly done when I realized how much work you'd already put into the article, and how you might react if you didn't like the changes. I realize that the article was like that long before you started revising it, but all the same you didn't change it, so maybe you liked it that way.

If you agree with my changes, fine; I doubt anybody else will complain. But if you would rather go back to the former orthography, please don't simply revert all of the changes (sorry about doing them all in one edit; I tend to be a "kitchen sink" editor; if I see something I can take care of in passing, I try to do it immediately so that I don't forget to do it later). I'm perfectly happy to discuss reverting to the original orthography, but would rather not lose the other edits. I think that there are several good reasons for using standard English orthography, but I'm not inflexible and I'm willing to be convinced.

Otherwise, I'm glad to see such a dedicated editor working hard on project pages. Good work! P Aculeius (talk) 06:59, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

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 * Why don't you simply add the references to the article as I suggested? You obviously know the material. And I would sincerely appreciate the help. -- llywrch (talk)
 * You cannot add a footnote because of every fart. I will retreat. I'll be amused about the changes. Sorry, my English is not so good. --Μίκυθος (talk) 15:42, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:St. Joseph's Cathedral, Asmara
As per the discussion at the above linked to page, I was wondering whether you might have any idea how "Nda Mariam," the name of the Coptic Cathedral in Asmara, translates into English. John Carter (talk) 14:00, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Regarding the ban of User:Til Eulenspiegel, who I think was among those you were discussing in terms of knowledge about Ethiopia. I wouldn't mind seeing him unbanned myself, although obviously the socking issue might be problematic there. Also, if it is of any use, over at WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy/Prospectus I have put together a list of the various articles of any real length in that work, although I acknowledge that there do exist some problems in at least some cases with the clarity of the language used in that work. The author apparently knows Ge'ez, Amharic, and French well, but English not so well. The Coptic Encyclopedia, which I haven't checked for inclusion in the prospectus yet, might be useful for some issues regarding the historical forms of Ethiopian Christianity as well. John Carter (talk) 14:57, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Additional consul
Hi, Llywrch! I've been doing a bit of maintenance on Roman gentes, and ran across an important member of the rather unimportant gens Appia: Lucius Appius Maximus Norbanus, a general under Domitian and Trajan. His entry in DGRBM says that he was consul in AD 103, attributing the date to the Fasti, but then citing to Dionysius. His entry in PIR suggests that he was consul twice in uncertain years. I was on the verge of trying to add him under 103 myself, but couldn't figure out how to do it without messing up your system, and I didn't want to risk it if it were possible you already knew about him, and left him out deliberately for some reason (such as the uncertainty in PIR). So I thought I'd let you know, so you could decide what to do with him! P Aculeius (talk) 23:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Lordship of Argos and Nauplia/GA1
Llywrch, I wasn't sure whether you'd seen that you'd had a response to your review, wondering whether the subsequent changes had addressed the issues you raised. I hope you'll be able to stop by soon. Thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

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Quintus Nonius Sosius Priscus
Regarding your note about the abovementioned consul, the entry is so given in PIR, but looking closely at the entry here I suspect it may be indicating some uncertainty as to the authenticity of Nonius (although there's no indication that it should be Pompeius, and it's hard to imagine how one could be turned into the other). My Latin is not good enough to interpret many of the notes in PIR; if I can't figure out what it says, and Google Translate doesn't help (it works more like a dictionary with Latin), I just have to ignore it and hope someone else can correct the mistake later. I wish I were better at interpreting PIR entries. But at least I can understand some of the Latin, which is more than I would if they were written in German, Italian, or Finnish. Anyway, as far as I can make out, the nomen may always have been suspect. But it could still have been part of the consul's name, even if Pompeius was also part of it. Not sure this is very helpful, but that's all I can glean from it! P Aculeius (talk) 22:06, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Publius Ostorius Scapula
Hi, Llywrch. Was working on the Ostorii today and found some discrepancies with the list of Roman consuls. The DGRBM says that the year of Scapula's consulship is not certain, but that some Fasti assign it to AD 46. It also says that he became governor of Britain in 50, which is contradicted by his article and PIR, which say 47. However, PIR also suggests that he was consul shortly before taking up the government of Britain, which would make sense if he had been consul in 46. The List of Roman consuls dates him to 41, based on Gallivan's reconstruction of the Fasti during the reign of Claudius.

But I just found an inscription, AE 1980 907, which gives the date by the consulship of Gaius Selius Rufus and Quintus Ostorius Scapula. This seems to correspond with the Publius Suillius Rufus I assume Gallivan lists in 41, which if correct does give us the date. But there was a Quintus Ostorius Scapula, who was one of the first praetorian prefects, and likely Publius' father. He might have been the consul of 41, or perhaps the consul was an older brother of Publius (typically the eldest son would be named after his father), in which case Publius is probably one of the suffecti for 46, as the other sources seem to indicate. I may know more once I've gone through the rest of the inscriptions, but right now I'm thinking that the consul of 41 might not have been Publius. P Aculeius (talk) 03:55, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

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Using named refs at Germania Superior
Hi Llywrch. Thanks for your contributions to Germania Superior, especially for your work in adding references and   documenting the list of Governors. When using the same source repeatedly in a list like that, a good way to do that is through the use of named refs.

The problem with a formulation like, followed by a list of several other governors in that time span that all rely on the same source but that have no citations, is that as soon as you've moved on to other things and a few other editors have jumped in, no one really knows anymore which ones are covered by that source and which ones aren't, as the information may have been changed. To maintain verifiability, I made a change to the section you edited to use named refs instead, for all the items that I think you meant to cover. So now, it looks like this, but if you could please to make sure this change accurately reflects what you meant, I'd appreciate it. [Please reply here, if you choose to reply.] Mathglot (talk) 02:21, 28 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, but I don't see how your style is better. What I see here is simply a difference in tastes. The point is that if someone makes an edit or correction but fails to provide a source, by policy it's already liable to reversion. And despite your use of named sources, someone can still move things around, or change names, etc., & still make a hash of the list or article. No matter what one does, it is almost impossible to prevent bad edits, whether made in good faith or out of malice. However, my style is simple. I find having identical footnotes to a long series of entries annoying. By explaining the range of entries that are based on a source in the footnotes, it future-proofs the by allowing another editor to add a name or change a name within that range while requiring a reference for only one entry. I feel the point of the sourcing obvious. Lastly, if too many edits result in more exceptions than cases for the range of entries to which the footnote apply, another editor should adjust the edit accordingly. As a result, I'd greatly appreciate it if you didn't change the way I source these lists. -- llywrch (talk) 04:29, 28 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I don't believe it's a difference in taste, but a difference in verifiability as I tried to explain, perhaps not very well. As to "another editor should adjust the edit accordingly" I simply don't believe that will happen. Already quite soon after your edit, I already wasn't 100% certain I was interpreting your sourcing correctly, which is why I came here to inquire about it to make sure the named refs I introduced were not incorrectly placed, per your intentions.  If one waits a few weeks or months or years, it will simply be less and less certain which entries were meant, "way back when".  Everything is available in the History, of course, but what future editor will wish to go on a research expedition just to try to to sort all that out?  I just don't think it will happen.  That's why I wanted to nip it in the bud, so to speak, while we were still close in time to the event. Hope that explains better what I was trying to do. However, I understand your PoV and I will respect your wishes and not change the way you source these lists in the future.  Happy editing.  Mathglot (talk) 04:50, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

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List of Undated Roman Consuls – 1 addition, 1 error
Hi, Llywrch! Ran across two undated consuls while working on revisions to gens Arruntia, and found a source that provided an approximate date, but I wasn't sure how you'd approach adding them to the table, so I thought I'd post here. Also, while I was looking for where to add them, I ran across an entry that may need to be moved, but then again it could just be a typo, and since I don't have the original source to refer to, I thought it best to mention it to you.

The mistake is listed around AD 150, where you have a consul Quintus Antonius Cassius Cassianus listed as "mid-1st century". Was just about to move him there, when I noticed the source citation seems very close to the following entries, which are mid-2nd century, so I concluded it was more likely to be a typo.

The new pair of consuls are Lucius Arruntius and Titus Flavius Bassus, from CIL X, 6785, where they are ''suffecti x. kal. Dec.'', i.e. November 22. Henri Schuermans, at page 86, citing Emil Hübner with relation to the shapes of the letters in the inscription, places them at the end of the second century. I wasn't sure how you would want to cite this, or whether you'd cite it at all. P Aculeius (talk) 13:38, 24 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Henri Schuermans, "Age de la Colonne Itinéraire de Tongres", in ''Bulletin de la Société Scientifique et Littéraire du Limbourg, vol. XIX, pp. 65–94 (1901).


 * , About Q. Antoninus Cassius Cassianus, I think you're right. But I'd like to doublecheck Alföldy first before making the change; I may have put him in the wrong century. As for L. Arruntius & T. Flavius Bassus... you have handed me quite the puzzle. What I hope will become the general rule once I've finished at least the first pass through this list is that if someone wants to make a change & has a reliable source published more recently, they can revise the entry with no hesitation. But what you've handed me is an older reliable source. I'm reluctant to add them as "second half of 2nd century". First, neither Arruntius or Flavius are eponymous consuls, thus they are suffects. Then there's the issue that outside of Italy proper no inscription has been found with a date after AD 153 that references suffect consuls, & none in Italy outside of Rome after 175. (The chancery is known to have dated military diplomas in reference to suffect consuls until 206.) Finally, the letter-forms in this inscription seem unusual for the period -- especially the "M"s & "A"s, although this might just be an idiosyncrasy of the engraver or the person who wrote the inscription. Therefore, while it's likely they are a 2nd-century pair, I'd say from the first half of the century. It also doesn't help that when I looked up in the Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby EDCS website, there is no evidence anyone has studied this inscription; none of its links offer a date for the inscription -- which one or more often do. Schuermans appears to have been the last person to offer a comment on this inscription! I'll need to research this pair further. -- llywrch (talk) 21:22, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

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Publius Silius
Obviously, this can refer to Publius Silius Nerva and often does, as in the inscription cited at Camunni, which prompted me to make the redirect. Srnec (talk) 03:31, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, it could. I'll concede that. But it also could not refer to his father, & by making it into a redirect any possibility of discussing P. Silius goes away. So they should be different articles -- although the ambiguity should be noted. -- llywrch (talk) 05:03, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You should revert your deletion, since the article was not PROD'd and it did not meet a criterion for speedy deletion. Then you can PROD it or turn it into a dab page, or create an article on the younger P. Silius. Srnec (talk) 13:59, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Obviously by deleting this redirect -- which are cheap -- offended you. I apologize for that. It was never my intention. But frankly, creating a redirect between P. Silius & his father was a mistake. It misleads the reader to confuse the two people -- who are clearly different people. Which is why I created Publius Silius. I don't know how much time you spent on your arguments to restore this redirect, but it took me 20 minutes to hammer out that article, which includes a headnote directing people to his father. Which is what should have happened in the first place. -- llywrch (talk) 06:38, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * So just restore the deleted edit. Apologies are what's cheap.
 * As to the correctness of my edit, you say "creating a redirect between P. Silius & his father was a mistake". But you cannot distinguish between P. Silius and his father so easily, since his father was also P. Silius. That's the point. Nobody doubts that they are different people. But they have (at least partially) the same name. As stated, I created the redirect without checking "what links here" because of the usage in Cassius Dio and a quick Google search returning nothing but Nerva after a search for P. Silius. My edit was entirely reasonable. Please restore it. Srnec (talk) 23:24, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You'd prefer a redirect to an article? You are too obsessed about getting your way for your own good. -- llywrch (talk) 23:44, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * That's not what I said. The article should exist, no question. I want my edit restored to the edit history since it was very inappropriately deleted. Why is this problematic? Srnec (talk) 02:15, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * As an aside, drop the lecturing tone about my use of my time and my own good. You're the one who is out of line here and spent 20 minutes whipping up an article to paste over your screw-up before another admin reversed you. Srnec (talk) 02:18, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hello. I noticed that you attempted to file a deletion discussion on the article Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul suffectus) but did not complete the process. Please note that, when listing an article for deletion, a discussion page needs to be made for other users to discuss whether to keep or delete the article. This is typically done by following the steps listed here. Note that if you are editing as an unregistered user, you cannot create a discussion page. Please consider registering an account or asking another user to help you complete the process at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion. Thank you. ansh 666 18:37, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I am completing this process as you typed the above. And I can complete it quicker without notes like this. Thank you. -- llywrch (talk) 18:50, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to make sure you were aware; people often stick the tag on and forget to finish it. Sorry about the stuff about unregistereds; I've really got to make a version of the canned template for experienced editors. ansh 666 20:25, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * No harm, now. At the time I was trying to walk thru the steps of nominating two articles at a time, & feeling frustrated. I nominate articles to AfD so seldomly each time I feel as if I'm doing it for the first time. I hope I wasn't too verbose in my explanation about why the articles should be deleted. (And I'm not the only one who can see what a swamp 2nd century Roman history is.) -- llywrch (talk) 21:54, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's a horribly complicated process, unfortunately. Looks good though now! Cheers, ansh 666 22:52, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for the review. ALT2 proposed per your suggestion. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 22:02, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

SS Clifton
FYI. Non-lead hooks with at least 15K and #1 for October. We are the leader for the month of October! It would have been bigger (I think) if they ran the picture, or in the lead slot. Thanks for the review. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 17:39, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
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Decimus Fonteius Fronto: Consul in 161?
Hi, Llywrch! Ran across this inscription while adding the Petellii to gens Petillia, and tried to date it:. If I read it correctly, it's dated to the third consulship of Marcus Aurelius, i.e. AD 161. Fronto is listed as consul designatus, but he wasn't on the list of Roman consuls, or the list of consuls designate. Checking the list of undated consuls, he's listed as circa 151. Not sure what the basis for that year is, although you might be. But if my understanding of the inscription is correct, it strongly suggests that Fronto was consul designatus—and probably consul shortly thereafter, since he's listed as an undated consul, not a designate—in 161. Does this give us a firm date? P Aculeius (talk) 15:20, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * There's a couple of issues here. One (which I found after looking over List of undated Roman consuls), is that there are two entries for Decimus Fonteius Fronto: one with the date "Between 149 and 151" & the other "c. 151". One of those needs to be removed. (And I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few more duplicates lurking there.) The other is that the name in is of "Decimus Fonteius Frontonianus" -- an easy mistake to make. (In his book, Alföldy criticizes another scholar for confusing those same two names.) So there is a mistake there, just not the one you thought. -- llywrch (talk) 08:23, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes, I noticed the difference yesterday while checking to see if you'd replied to this. Unfortunately, I can't really consult Alföldy.  Not only don't I have access to his work, but since it's written in German, I probably wouldn't benefit much from it if I did.  I hesitatingly head to Google Translate when I need to unravel something in PW!  It's better at German than Latin, but I can usually figure out some of the Latin without help.  Well, assuming that Fronto and Frontinianus aren't the same person, I guess we have another designatus.  P Aculeius (talk) 14:07, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, the point of my mentioning Alföldy was to assure you that I wasn't insulting you by pointing out they are two different, although very similar, names. (If an expert makes the same mistake, then we amateurs shouldn't be too harsh on ourselves.) As for PW, I find that its greatest usefulness lie in (1) providing citations to the primary sources that I would otherwise easily miss, & (2) sometimes confirming that I have found all of the information available about a given personage. The last is sometimes not as comforting as it might seem: learning that all we know about a given consul is a name & a date undercuts all enthusiasm for writing an article. On a related note, one of my chief complaints of other language Wikipedias is that far too often an article will be little more than a translation of an older version of the English Wikipedia -- which I find disappointing when I know there are better & more recent experts writing in that language on that topic, & those Wikipedians would be doing a better service mining those secondary sources than simply repeating what is in en.wikipedia. -- llywrch (talk) 22:47, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, of course, I didn't think you were trying to insult me! You're the expert in this field, and have access to sources that aren't very useful to me, by comparison.  I did find an interesting article on JSTOR called, "D Fonteius Fronto: Proconsul (of Asia)" by a certain Decimus Franciscius.  It's just two pages, and it makes the case for Fronto being a different person than Frontinianus, although I'm still analyzing the implications.  I note, however, that there are abundant inscriptions referring to Frontinianus in the Clauss-Slaby database, and I'm not finding any for Fronto (if you haven't noticed, although I expect you have, you get different, often helpful results if you put the name into the ablative, especially for consuls).  Which is not to say that they're the same person and that French is mistaken.  Given what I know about Roman naming practices, I'd say that "Frontinianus" was likely the son of a "Fronto".  In any case, do you agree that Frontinianus would probably need to be added to the list of designates for 161 (or c. 161)?  P Aculeius (talk) 14:00, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm. What I overlooked the first time I looked thru my sources was that while Alföldy states Frontinianus was consul in 162 (held in absentia because he was otherwise attested as still governor in Numidia), & he should have been included in the list, at least one later source doesn't list him as consul that year. I'm wondering if someone between 1977 (when Alföldy wrote his prosopographical book) & now found evidence that he wasn't consul that year. And this means I should check the entries I took from Alföldy once again & make sure I didn't omit any other names he offers as consuls. Anyway, Frontinianus needs an entry somewhere. I'm not sure what the criteria is to put people on the "undated consuls" list vs. the "designated consuls" list. This is something I've been wondering about for a while, since I've stumbled over a few other designated consuls. Maybe the latter list is for people who were selected to be consuls, but for some reason did not actually hold the fasces. In any case, feel free to add him to the most appropriate of the two lists. -- llywrch (talk) 01:02, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

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Fasti Capitolini (new article)
Making good on my plans, I finally devoted today to creating a separate article for the Capitoline Fasti, after spending much of yesterday filling in the tables. They could stand to be better, although I generally like the layout and appearance of the tables. Wish it were easier to set the spacing vertically. Wonder if you could have a look at the article. I know I can be a little precious about my prose (sorry), but I'd like to know if it seems decently written, sourced, and (most importantly) useful. Considering the hours I spent on the tables, I hope it is! I know it overlaps the list of consuls, but my goal was to make the source inscriptions more accessible for easy reference, and I'd like to do something similar with the Ostienses and the minor fasti (possibly combining the shorter ones). I suspect my discussion of the historicity of the Fasti isn't the strongest, and is likely to generate disagreements with the Forsythians. Can you think of any obvious improvements to the structure of the article, or its appearance? P Aculeius (talk) 04:48, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, this is definitely a needed article; good work. I've been meaning to write something like this for a long while. And it well organized, & competently written. That said, I do have some comments (& thus reveal why I've delayed in writing this & other articles myself.)
 * I think you worry too much about "the Forsythians". Somehow Gary Forsythe has acquired a menacing reputation with you, as well as a lot more influence than you think. (Drummond is far more of a "hyper-critical" scholar, & champions some theories I find unconvincing.) I haven't looked at Forsythe's book in months, but IIRC his primary, if only, criticism of the FC is that he believes Livy provides a better version of the consular lists. And you must admit it is lacunose & later than the other three important versions.
 * The article would benefit from some more recent sources. Three that I thought of were:
 * Lily Ross Taylor, "The Date of the Capitoline Fasti", Classical Philology, 41 (1946), pp. 1-11
 * Lily Ross Taylor, "Degrassis' Edition of the Consular and Triumphal Fasti", Classical Philology, 45 (1950), pp. 84-95
 * C.J. Simpson, "The Original Site of the Fasti Capitolini", Historia, 42 (1993), pp. 61-81
 * All should be available thru JSTOR. If you still don't have access to JSTOR, email me & I'll send you pdfs.
 * Isn't the latest edition of the FC the one Attilio Degrassi produced? I wish either we had someone who was competent in Italian to help us access his work, or someone on it.wikipedia who was actively using his work. There have been more than a few times I've needed to know what is in his publications.
 * I wonder if having a transcript of the Fasti Capitolini is justified including in a Wikipedia article. After all, there is an English translation from an unidentified edition at attilus.org. If so, in my opinion it might fit better on la.wikisource -- if such a thing exists. might know the answer.
 * On the other hand, AFAIK there is no copy of the Fasti Ostiensis on the Internet, so a transcript of that somewhere would be a good thing. (The version at the Epigraphik Databank is barely useable in the form provided, although better than nothing.) The copy I've been using was edited by Ladislav Vidman (which is entirely in Latin; it's exotic to read a book in Latin published in the last quarter of the 20th century), although I know a more recent edition was published in Italian.
 * Hope my comments help. Otherwise again, good work. -- llywrch (talk) 18:56, 27 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the lookover, Llywrch! This transcription is in fact based on the CS Databank version, so it should be the latest available.  I plan to do the Ostienses as well, but think I'll start with the Fasti Triumphales first.  That probably won't take nearly as much work as this one did, so I might be on the Ostienses by next week.  I don't have open JSTOR access, but I do have an account and can check out three things at a time.  That might be enough, provided I don't need to consult anything else I don't have for a while!  In either case, I'll gladly modify what I wrote to take advantage of the newer publications.  Once again, thanks for looking over this for me!  P Aculeius (talk) 19:06, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Very useful article. Surprising that it didn't exist before!
 * To answer the question above, yes, there is a Latin Wikisource, though I don't work on it myself. I don't see a copy of the Fasti Capitolini on it. Andrew Dalby 15:10, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, it takes a lot of patience to transcribe stuff like this into a table! But I'd rather keep it here, where it's more likely to be found, and included in the article about the subject.  Working on the Triumphales since yesterday; should be just a little longer, and then I can start on the Ostienses.  Llywrch's work on the main list of consuls is very helpful for ensuring I have people under the correct years, since that's often difficult to tell from the original inscriptions.  P Aculeius (talk) 17:43, 28 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Did the Triumphales the day before yesterday, cleaned up a bit yesterday, but still need to check out those sources you mentioned. Finished transcribing the Ostienses, but would appreciate an opinion on the format I used (in my main sandbox) before I add them to the article.  I thought about a side-by-side format like in the list of Roman consuls, which would probably have been more faithful to the original, but possibly would have created unnecessary ambiguity, so I put each magistrate on a separate line.  Did something similar with the notes section, which was basically anything in the inscription other than the magistrates themselves, using the line breaks from the original, but that makes some of these rather long.  Not sure if I treated missing lines/gaps well.  Also considered putting date references for consules suffecti in another column, or with the magistracies, by just making that column wider.  Would that be better than including them with the magistrates?  It might be clearer in cases where multiple suffecti took office at the same time, but is that enough to justify the additional clutter?  Let me know if you have any thoughts.  P Aculeius (talk) 04:26, 1 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Edit: after trying a few ideas I came up with what I think is a good result. Could use some help translating the notes column into readable English, if you know someone who could help with that.  Posted in the existing article, which I've revised a bit.  P Aculeius (talk) 16:51, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Moving Roman gentes
Sorry to keep posting here, but a new problem has reared its head. As you probably recall, we had a problem at one point with people moving these articles to the bare nomen, on the grounds that (gens) was unnecessary disambiguation, even though the bare nomen would invariably refer to individual women for many gentes (theoretically almost all of them). This would make the names of these articles completely unpredictable; users wouldn't be able to guess what to type in for the gens, or whether the nomen led to a page about a person, a gens, or in some cases to other things (towns, institutions, spiders, butterflies). The solution to this seemed to be to title the articles without parentheses, since the word "gens" is usually attached and often included in references to the topic.

Since the most recent kerfuffle, it's apparent that all gens articles should eventually be moved to this style, and all new articles have been written with it for the last several weeks. This is all the more important as we now have other wikipundits insisting that parentheses are the least preferable form of disambiguation. So the new style deflects both groups and is still a natural naming style. Articles that already have the new style shouldn't be moved to the old style; old articles should be moved to the new and better style. That may take a while, and right now I'm focusing on making sure existing articles are written in the proper format, but we should get to that. I urge you not to move the newer articles back to the old style, which is just going to leave them vulnerable to unnecessary criticism from the wikipundits. P Aculeius (talk) 00:35, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Ugh. I hadn't heard there was a "kerfuffle" or other discussion on the matter. (Some people need to spend more time turning those stubs into full-length articles.) I was simply going on the fact most of the articles I'd seen used the style "(gens)" -- which works for me -- & the articles ought to be consistent. (I'll admit it's not the style I'd pick, but it's good enough & not worth quibbling over.) But I'll stop. -- llywrch (talk) 00:57, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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March 14, 1891 lynchings
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Lucius (or Spurius?) Oppius
Hi, Llywrch. Thought I would call upon your expertise. While making a mini-catalogue (for my own reference) of certain uncommon names found in the CS databank, I ran across a few mentions of a Spurius Oppius who was consul in AD 43. This is interesting to me as a very late example of the name, although there seem to be isolated instances as late as the second or third century in the databank. The table gives his praenomen as Lucius.

On further examination, it looks like the praenomen has been interpolated in some of the inscriptions, but there are two from Herculaneum in which it's written: once as Lucius and once as Spurius. Gallivan has it as Lucius, as you note, but he does not mention any uncertainty. Perhaps the second inscription was not known to him? At any rate, the interpolated entries seem to prefer Spurius, which suggests to me a deliberate choice, for there ought to be some reason. A Google search turned up nothing helpful! Do any of your sources for this period shed any light on why Spurius might be the preferred reading? I see insufficient cause to change it in the table or elsewhere unless some scholarly source can explain why one should be preferred over the other—wishful thinking is not enough! P Aculeius (talk) 23:14, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * : From digging around what sources I have, it appears we know the suffect consul Oppius' praenomen from two wax tablets from Herucleanum. And the current expert on what these documents say -- they are in poor condition, & IMHO reading items like wax tablets is as much an art as a science -- is Giuseppe Camodeca. Previously, the initial appearing on them was read as "L"; Camodeca has argued this should be read as an "S" as follows (translation from the Italian via Google):
 * "Surprising and the right reading of the first headline of the first consul: not L., as read by Della Corte and obviously accepted by all, but Sp(urius). Since the Augustan age onwards are no longer known senators, who have brought this first name, widespread only in the late-republican age for members of the Senate, I carefully considered the degree of certainty of this reading: now after the long S absolutely safe (and that can not be confused with an L), a short vertical line appears at the top of which one distinguishes another oblique and even shorter: therefore a P, more than a T. Certainly excluded, in any case, the possibility, more obvious, to read the first name Sex, if only for the insufficient space before the noble."


 * (Source: Camodeca, "I consoli del 43 e gli Antistii Veteres d'età claudia dalla riedizione delle Tabulae Herculanenses", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 140 (2002), p. 233)
 * I haven't translated the entire article, so I don't know if his reconstruction & reasoning is plausible. But he is the current expert on these sources, so I'd say it's a reasonable alternative to "L." (And there's also the possibility that these sources got the praenomen wrong: wrong praenomina in consular dates are not unprecedented.) -- llywrch (talk) 05:31, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I managed to view the article on JSTOR just now (I've got limited article views, and I don't read Italian, and this is the only time I'm likely to look at it) and translate several paragraphs the same way that you did, with a little additional detail. It would be presumptuous to say that I agree with Camodeca!  But the reasoning seems sound, and I might add that while Lucius was a praenomen of the Oppii, so was Spurius, recalling, as Camodeca points out, not only the praetor of 44 BC, but the decemvir.  Something he doesn't mention in dismissing Sextus as a possibility is that it wasn't a regular praenomen of the Oppii; none of those mentioned on the gens page are Sextus, and when I called up the nomen in the C-S databank just now, I only found about six out of a thousand who seem to have been called Sextus Oppius (which of course is actually more than the number of Spuri Oppii, but all of those were prominent in history).  So while it wasn't totally unheard of, it falls in the category of names like Titus Julius that just don't fit the main line of the family and are largely confined to provincials and persons living in imperial times.  I think it would be safe to change the praenomen in the LoRc, citing to Camodeca, pp. 230, 232, 233 (the full article is pp. 227–236; perhaps a footnote mentioning the earlier reading of Lucius).  On the assumption you'll concur, I'll go ahead and do that, and you can edit it if you want to change something.  Thanks again for your advice!  P Aculeius (talk) 13:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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Odin
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 * "The earliest records of the Germanic peoples were recorded by the Romans, and in these works Odin is frequently referred to—via a process known as interpretatio romana (where characteristics perceived to be similar by Romans result in identification of a non-Roman god as a Roman deity)—as the Roman god Mercury. The first clear example of this occurs in the Roman historian Tacitus's late 1st-century work Germania, where, writing about the religion of the Suebi (a confederation of Germanic peoples), he comments that "among the gods Mercury is the one they principally worship. They regard it as a religious duty to offer to him, on fixed days, human as well as other sacrificial victims. Hercules and Mars they appease by animal offerings of the permitted kind" and adds that a portion of the Suebi also venerate "Isis". In this instance, Tacitus refers to the god Odin as "Mercury", Thor as "Hercules", and Týr as "Mars", and the identity of the "Isis" of the Suebi has been debated. "
 * "Anthony Birley has noted that Odin's apparent identification with Mercury has little to do with Mercury's classical role of being messenger of the gods, but appears to be due to Mercury's role of psychopomp. Other contemporary evidence may also have led to the equation of Odin with Mercury; Odin, like Mercury, may have at this time already been pictured with a staff and hat, may have been considered a trader god, and the two may have been seen as parallel in their roles as wandering deities. But their rankings in their respective religious spheres may have been very different. Also, Tacitus's "among the gods Mercury is the one they principally worship" is an exact quote from Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico (1st century BCE) in which Caesar is referring to the Gauls and not the Germanic peoples. Regarding the Germanic peoples, Caesar states: "[T]hey consider the gods only the ones that they can see, the Sun, Fire and the Moon", which scholars reject as clearly mistaken, regardless of what may have led to the statement. " Dimadick (talk) 12:01, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * , if you believe that Odin should be covered by WPCGR, wouldn't it be more effective to argue this on Talk:Odin than on my talk page? Odin has no obvious connection to Classical studies -- he is a Norse god, & Scandinavia is at best at the edge of the Greco-Roman world, so I doubt I'm the only person who thinks he is entirely unrelated to WPCGR -- so even were you to convince me, this issue will re-emerge. Better to have this conversation on the Talk page & use the ping template to alert me. -- llywrch (talk) 16:52, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * He is not attested only in Scandinavian sources, and Tacitus predates any of them by several centuries. These are all quotes from the Odin article. For better or worse, many Celtic or Germanic deities are primarily known through Roman sources. Dimadick (talk) 07:20, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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Just making sure that you haven't forgotten about Wikidata/2018 Infobox RfC ;-) Take all the time you need of course! Fram (talk) 07:04, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Nope, not forgotten, although delayed by the weekend when the family expects me to spend time with them. I am working on a second draft of my summary, which I would get done faster if a third volunteer would come forward to help with this. :-/ llywrch (talk) 07:09, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, I am definitely not the right person to help you close this, as it would make the close instantly invalid. Thank you for taking this on. Fram (talk) 08:16, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

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I just wanted to say thanks to you and for your well-reasoned close at Wikidata/2018_Infobox_RfC. I know it can't have been easy to have gone through all of the different opinions and !votes here, and I appreciate that you took the time to do so. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:44, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
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C. Bellicius Natalis nomenclature
Hello, Llywrch. Noticed your deletion of "Publius" from the middle of this consul's nomenclature, and wondered, "if there were no source, how did I get it there in the first place?" It probably wouldn't have been in the DGRBM, which usually has minimal information on minor Imperial consuls, and was written when complex Roman polyonomy was still utterly baffling to most scholars; and the cited sources, as you say, don't contain it. Just as odd was the redirect with "Publicus" instead. I guessed perhaps I'd taken it from the List of Roman Consuls, but I still wanted to figure out where it came from. Searching the C-S Databank under Bellicius (root Bellici works) didn't produce anything, and I checked the Fasti Potentini twice. But I also had it on a personal list of Imperial consuls I'd tried to draw up from sources I could identify and check (sort of a "what's in the most unimpeachable and available sources"). It's not in PIR—at least not under "Bellicius".

Then inspiration struck. Since partial nomenclatures are sometimes found, I wondered if the explanation might appear under a "Publius Gavidius"... but narrowing my search parameters, I checked the C-S Databank for "Gavidi" and "Tebani", and then I found two inscriptions from uncertain provinces:, which gives the date of an event as: "a(nte) d(iem) VI Idus Iunias / C(aio) Ducenio Proculo / C(aio) Bellico Natale P(ublio) Gavidio Tebaniano co(n)s(ulibus)". , also from an uncertain province, uses the same, but as the name is here reconstructed, it seems less certain. Not sure if the 2009 date means that the current reconstruction predates the publication of the 2012 inscription, in which case there must have been an earlier source for the internal praenomen, which thus far has eluded our searches. But as the 2012 inscription seems to leave no ambiguity (and indeed, it's cited in the List of Roman Consuls as Gallivan's source for Bellico instead of Bellicio, although here I suspect the inscription must be regarded as mistaken, or else simply using an orthographic variant, as his father was a Bellicius, and other inscriptions so give his nomen) and isn't a reconstruction or interpolation, I think there's firm ground for restoring the internal praenomen. However, referring this to you in case you'd already found this and decided that it wasn't to be followed for some reason. P Aculeius (talk) 13:27, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi ! You found the primary source for this intriguing mystery. The reason for my changes was that I had stumbled across the name in a 1951 article by J.H. Oliver where the second praenomen did not appear. Yet it was given in Wikipedia. I searched my usual references -- not only Gallivan's article you mention but Alison Cooley's Cambridge Guide to Latin Epigraphy, published in 2012, & those did not provide a "Publius"; I assumed I had accidentally added "Publius" due to copying from an adjacent line at some point in compiling. On that basis, I reverted the changes. Then I saw your note this morning.


 * So I looked a little further on how it entered Wikipedia. Assuming I/we had simply copied the name from the main list, I looked in the history a ways & found it was there when I started revising it back in May 2016. Since the list in that form originated from the German Wikipedia, I looked there. To keep this brief, I found that Mithykos had added "Publius" to the name back in 2013; he was the one who found the new version of the name, but as is his habit failed to provide a source for this change. That he knew of this information is odd because L'Année épigraphique publishes all of the inscriptions for a given year about 3 years afterwards, so AE 2012, 1959 would have been announced in 2015! And I can't access thru JSTOR because they observe a moving embargo wall: the latest issue of L'Année épigraphique I can access is 2012 (which covers inscriptions published in 2009). Maybe Mithykos reads Scripta Classica Israelica (abbreviated SCI), which is where the military diploma was first published in 2012.


 * I dunno. This is all a little too cutting edge for me, & speaking for myself I'd like to see the commentary on this find first. While military diplomas usually have very accurate texts, & are considered very reliable primary sources, scribes do make mistakes, & I'd like the assurance of an expert that the name is accurately given & item is properly transcribed. Feel free to revert my edit at Bellicia gens, & if there was more than a redirect about this personage I'd add a line about this new form of his name to the article. (As it is, there simply isn't enough information about C. Bellicius Natalis Gavidius Tebanianus ‎to justify writing an article: all we know about him besides he was a consul is the name of his father, his wife (about whom we know just a hair bit more than Tebanianus) & of his son. If someone had access either to Scripta Classica Israelica or even L'Année épigraphique, it might just meet the expectations to justify a separate article. -- llywrch (talk) 18:20, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * 2) Talk:List of Singapore Airlines destinations/Archives/2018, and
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 * The second is more problematical. If I read the discussion correctly, the issue was how to treat Hong Kong & Macau: the issue was raised that these are not independent & sovereign states, but parts of China; Taiwan is mentioned, but only as a secondary issue. Moreover, a quick count of noses shows opinion apparently divided. While you appear to have made the correct call here -- as an uninvolved party, beyond giving too much attention to Taiwan, I have no objection to it -- this is a tricky case. Tricky cases probably should be left for Admins to close, because unhappy parties will look for ways to wriggle out of the call, & complaining that "an Admin should have closed this RfC" & therefore an Admin should reclose it. Despite that most Admins will spend about 15 minutes reviewing it & agree with what you did.
 * As for the "Living dinosaur" page, any comment is moot since someone has turned it into a redirect. IMHO, I suspect this debate is simply one more exchange in the long-running fight over cryptozoology, & any closing is going to leave at least one party unhappy.
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I just saw an old request from you at WP:CGR to translate some French text and I didn't even realize I missed it. It's from about a year ago, but don't want you to think I would intentionally ignore you. SpartaN (talk) 23:57, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I did? [looks] Oh yeah -- "would you have the time to consult Settipani & tell us if (& what) he has to say about these two personages?" I assumed at the time, you simply didn't have the time. No problem. Although I'm still curious to know exactly what Settipani has to say in a number of places where he's cited without reference to specific pages. While I suspect a certain banned editor abused used him -- specifically attributing to him a number of fabricated names & relationships -- & from what I've read about him he sounds as if he's a bit too eager to see genealogical connections, I still would like to believe his research is basically sound. Maybe figure out some simple test to isolate the trash attributed to him from what he actually wrote. But as I said before, only if you have the time & interest. And no real hurry about it either. Thanks in advance if you take this on. -- llywrch (talk) 02:36, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I can't find a preview of the work to go on except for snippets, and I'd hate to translate a small portion of a page out of context (which leads to inaccuracies). I'd buy it to add to my collection and keep up on my French, but it's out of my price range ($308 on Amazon). SpartaN (talk) 11:14, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Just another example of why the Foundation should make available funds for established volunteers to obtain materials for research. :-( -- llywrch (talk) 19:17, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

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Cosmology before Bruno
'Ello, and I just replied to your 2010 comment here, so at this rate I suppose we shall chat again in 2026. Do please enjoy excellent health until then. 09:46, 26 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by .Raven (talk • contribs)
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Hi Llywrch, I am looking to do some work on a few Romans to try and bring them up to B class. I don't want to joggle your elbow, so is Lucius Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus one which you would rather I left alone? There are plenty to go at, so don't be shy if you had it ear marked to work on yourself. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:36, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * No, it isn't. Thanks for asking. I consider it a good candidate to not only bring up to B class, but would make for a fine GA candidate, due to Minicius not only being a military figure but one of the few ancient Olympic athletes who is more than a name. (FWIW, there used to be more images in this article; I don't know where they went.) Good luck with this article! -- llywrch (talk) 07:00, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, I just saw you had closed a discussion while I was typing a (too) long post in it. As it was a new section, it ended up outside the closed part. Please feel free to remove it if you feel your close covers it, although I proposed stronger action. Have a great day! Jeppiz (talk) 20:54, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I am not going to start a long discussion, let me just summarize what happened. You banned me from the topic where I made zero controversial edits and participated in the talk page discussion that lasted just a couple of days. During that discussion I declared an intention to edit that and some related articles after I read more on that topic, and made a couple of not completely careful statements that could be seen as insulting by a person with good fantasy (later, when I read more on that subject, I realised I was not completely right and I apologized). By the moment the ANI request was submitted the discussion essentially ended, so, if we assume that there was some violation, the ban was purely punitive.

Furthermore, since you write you "cannot fathom" a reason I requested apologies, I'll explain: people accused me of the lack of competence and pushing fringe theories. I provided the evidences that prove the views I was advocating were not fringe (probably, significant minority), which demonstrated both arguments were wrong. I apologized for my not careful statement, and it was logical to ask them to concede they were not right.

Regarding the "threat" to submit an arbitration request, every user has a right to inform any other user about their intentions, and I do not understand what is wrong with what I did. Moreover, I just tried to be honest, because I am really contemplating to resort to arbitration, because I sincerely believe a situation when a mob insufficiently competent users have a right to irresponsively vote for sanctions against those whom they dislike poses a significant danger to Wikipedia. Since you cited this as a reason for the ban, you actually punished me for being honest. And, by the way, if a ban is aimed to protect Wikipedia, and the major action I was sanctioned for was my possible intention to address to ArbCom, how can this ban prevent me from that?

In general, I think your decision is far from optimal, but I perceive the situation more from a humorous point of view: admins were definitely supposed to end it and to take some action. I am not too interested in this narrow topic, and I already realized that there is no chance for me to edit this particular article, because the core of the conflict was not about sources or a content, but about style, which is a matter of one's taste, so in that case the decision in made by a vote.

I will be technically unavailable during next couple of weeks, so I have no choice but to take you advice and make a break. After that, let's try to think together how to resolve this ridiculous situation, because it sets a bad precedent.--Paul Siebert (talk) 22:00, 5 August 2019 (UTC)