User talk:Pookster11

HELP US MAKING THE PROJECT OF ANCIENT GREEK WIKIPEDIA
We are the promoters of the Wikipedia in Ancient Greek. we need your help, specially for write NEW ARTICLES and the TRANSLATION OF THE MEDIAWIKI INTERFACE FOR ANCIENT GREEK, for demonstrating, to the language subcommittee, the value of our project.

Thanks a lot for your help. Ἡ Οὐικιπαιδεία needs you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.40.197.5 (talk) 19:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Boobykins as a source for Augustus....
Hmm. I'm as amused as you. On the other hand they haven't done their homework quite as carefully as they could have. As you know, at the very top of each of my page, a link that takes you to a FAQ (to forestall a lot of needless mail, but then I do give my e&#8209;mail address there as well): and one of the items in that little laundry list is What Credentials I May Have. (It's not an impressive bag, at least not for ancient Rome.)

Since you yourself are a recent part of American history, don't know whether you've noticed the American and Military History section of my site, which is starting to get some breadth and depth to it; I'll be putting up a book on the San Francisco earthquake in the next few weeks, on the occasion of the upcoming centennial. Plenty more on the way. Best, Bill 01:40, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Jesus Talk Vote (again)
Please come by and vote. I think we're nearing a consensus that can stick. Also, since you are a Ph. D. candidate in history, can you help with the citations in notes 1, 2 & 3 in the article. I'm also especially interested in a cite to any credentialed historian that advocates the nonexistence hypothesis. No one seems to be able to produce one. --CTSWyneken 14:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Latin for Fun
Just thought you could use the comic relief: "nisi pluet, nunquam fluet." Bob--CTSWyneken 03:09, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Persian Wars
I reverted back to your last edition before the full revert and also did some editorial changes. I am aware that I might have put some superflous references on why the Persian army was big. I am also aware that in English speaking literature of the last 100 years there is a concensus that the Persian forces were no more that 250,000 thousand. I did see the discussion page before the edits. I put up all the non-English references because there are few english-language sources that claim that the army was big. Writing only from English-language source creates bias (see Wikipedia:Bias) Sorry if my english is bad, though I lived two years in California when I was in middle school and I did write my thesis in English I cannot escape the fact that Greek is my mother tongue Ikokki 20:53, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Ancient Greek Wikisource
I understand from your userboxes you're interested in Ancient Greek. I've submitted a proposal to add an Ancient Greek Wikisource on Meta, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me by either voting in Support of the proposal, or even adding your name as one of the contributors in the template. (NB: I'm posting this to a lot of people, so please reply to my talkpage or to Meta) --Nema Fakei 20:22, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Caligula
Hello, Pookster 11. I'm confused about your reversion of the Caligula article. In the edit summary, you stated that there was no evidence of a copyright violation. Did you check the talk page for evidence? On the talk page, there is a link to this edit, which shows the material from this website being added. The copied content appears at times in red and at other times as regular text when there is nothing on the other side to compare it to. The copied content is still present in the article. It was mixed with existing content when it was posted and unfortunately has been blended in further since then. If the article is not reverted, the content must be removed manually. I started to do this before it was reverted, but it was very time consuming and I had to rewrite the content as I went because the article did not make sense with it removed. Below are two examples of the copied material. I removed a large section of copied content previously, too. If this is enough evidence of a copyright violation, I suggest that the article be reverted. -- Kjkolb 04:30, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Example 1
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Roman Emporers
Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (b. A.D. 12, d. A.D. 41, emperor A.D. 37-41) represents a turning point in the early history of the Principate. Unfortunately, his is the most poorly documented reign of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The literary sources for these four years are meager, frequently anecdotal, and universally hostile. As a result, not only are many of the events of the reign unclear, but Gaius himself appears more as a caricature than a real person, a crazed megalomaniac given to capricious cruelty and harebrained schemes.

Wikipedia
Caligula represents a turning point in the early history of the Principate (this sentence comes from a different paragraph than the material below). Unfortunately, Caligula's reign is the most poorly documented of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The literary sources for these four years are meager, frequently anecdotal, and universally hostile. Roman historian Suetonius referred to Caligula as a "monster" (this sentence was not copied). As a result, not only are many of the events of the reign unclear, but Caligula himself appears more as a caricature than a real person; a crazed megalomaniac given to capricious cruelty and hare-brained schemes.

Example 2
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Roman Emporers
Modern scholars have attempted to make sense of these events in various ways. The most reasonable suggestion is that Gaius went north to earn military glory and discovered there a nascent conspiracy under the commander of the Upper German legions, Cn. Lentulus Gaetulicus.

Wikipedia
Modern scholars have attempted to make sense of these events in various ways, the most reasonable suggestion being that Caligula went north to invade Britain and win where even Julius Caesar had been forced to retreat.

Greek_words_for_love reversal
I agree that very many references would be out of place in this article, and would belong on the agape article, but these three references in particular. I'd appreciate it if other editors would use the discussion page or contact me prior to reverting my edits - although only single sentence was added, I spent a quite a while working on the sentence and reading greek text of the New Testament, and it's a bit of an affront just to have it deleted the next day without so much as a by-your-leave. Don't mean to sound grumpy. Cheers :-) Oliver Low

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Nomination of Legitimacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq for deletion
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