User talk:Sicelidas

Apropos of different tags for Virgil's book of ten eclogues, the following deserves notice IF the present medium has any claim to authority as opposed to mechanical repetition of common notions: Since the title Bucolics, clearly credits his debt to The­o­cri­tus, use of Eclogues as a name for Virgil’s book has been rightly called “unfortun­ate.” [Oxford Classical Dictionary (19993)1604a, by Don & Peta Fowler; Virgil’s use of The­o­cri­tus’ title also recognized by Richard Hunter, Theocritus A Selection, 5] While it is true that tradition has often committed a kind of metonymy, using the label of the parts, 'eclogues' to stand for the whole book, this metonymy has been especially pernicious because it occluded the fact that Virgil did construct a single book (unus liber as an ancient commentator calls it). In this regard, the Virgilian Encyclopedia does a better job of reporting. Sicelidas 02:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Sicelidas 15:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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A tag has been placed on Book of Bucolics, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Your recent edits
Welcome to Wikipedia! Your recent edits to such articles as Virgil, Eclogues, and Book of Bucolics give the impression of being designed principally to include links to your own Web site and to advance the interpretations found thereon. Your essays may well be reliable sources, but before making major changes to an established artice such as Virgil, it is customary to discuss the changes on the article's Talk page, seeking the consensus of other editors who work on the article. In addition, any material for which the sources are not properly cited can be removed at any time by any editor. It might be a good idea for you to read the relevant WP guidelines, such as those linked above, as well as WP:NPOV and WP:COI, before you proceed further. (Note also that even though my previous boilerplate message instructed you that a speedy-deletion template is not to be removed by an article's author, you went ahead and removed it anyway. Such actions are likely to get one into trouble around here.) If you have questions about any of this, please leave a message on my Talk page. Deor 00:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * An article's (or user's) Talk page can be accessed by clicking on the "discussion" tab at the top of the article or user page. With regard to your attempts to use, and link to, Book of Bucolics rather than Eclogues, please see the first three paragraphs of WP:NAME. The titles Eclogues and Bucolics have both been traditionally used for Virgil's work in English, but the title you suggest has far less precedent and is therefore inappropriate in an encyclopedia such as this. Deor 02:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * By the way, please insert your comments at the bottom of a Talk page. Deor 02:11, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Please note that changes you want to make to an article should be discussed on the article's Talk page (so that all interested editors can respond), not on my Talk page. Deor 03:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

August 2007
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Do not sign edits, please
Please stop inserting your signature in mainspace articles. Deor 11:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Name merged back to Eclogues
Please see Talk:Eclogues --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 11:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

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