User talk:Sira Aspera

Block account
@Bbb23 I notice you blocked my account for "multiple account abuse". This is my first and only account here and if there is an objective way of verifying it it will be verified. I would like it done quickly. If you don't like the way I contribute to Wikipedia it's a different problem we can discuss. Thank you. Sira Aspera (talk) 19:31, 20 August 2022 (UTC)


 * @331dot It is simply not reality, but a pure belief that I don't know even know how it was born.Sira Aspera (talk) 21:41, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * You were blocked on August 1, 2022, at tr.wiki for socking by . Your first account, MuhammetFurkan1, was blocked on April 23, 2022, at tr.wiki for socking by (also a CheckUser). I'm not sure if there are other accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:07, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * @Bbb23Too bad that MuhammetFurkan1 Is not a my accounts or people I know. I didn't even notice the block on tr because I hardly ever visit wiki in that language. Simply, the Turkish pages related to my interests are BAD and full of untruths, as anyone with a bit of knowledge on the subject can tell you, but apparently the improvements there are not appreciated. Apparently, the answer is to denounce people with absurd charges and prevent them from defending themselves instead of, I don't know, contact them. So does it work like this? Did this suspicion / belief come to you and I am out without even being able to defend myself or prove that you are wrong? It doesn't seem fair to me.Sira Aspera (talk) 08:21, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Block
@Bbb23 Thank you. I'm happy this inconvenience is end. Is it possible to get the unlock also on wiki tr? I don't really care as en wiki, but it bothers me that I got blocked for a fake reason by a segnalation by random user who didn't like my contributions. Sira Aspera (talk) 20:31, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * You'd have to make an unblock request at tr.wiki. I have no authority there.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:08, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hello, Sira Aspera. Thank you for your work on Laura Orsini. User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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&maltese; SunDawn &maltese;    (contact)   23:33, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks to you, it was nice to start the day with this comment! Sira Aspera (talk) 04:50, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Really important question
All sources clearly confirm that Şivekar Sultan and Şekerpare Hatun were the same person! Take a look at Turkish Wikipedia. Why do you say otherwise? IgnacyPL (talk) 14:55, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Turkish Wikipedia is probably among the worst on the topic (it regularly includes fanfiction among its sources) and in any case Wikipedia cannot be its own source. Secondly, no, that they were the same person is information that has been obsolete and has been denied for many years and is simply due to a misunderstanding about similar names. The two were two separate people: as you can read on their pages, which in turn report many reliable sources in English and Turkish, all absolutely agree in separating them, there is not a single point in their lives that could suggest they were the same person, apart from having both been in the same harem. Sira Aspera (talk) 15:10, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Question
What evidence do you have that Şivekar Sultan and Şekerpare Hatun were not the same person? IgnacyPL (talk) 07:08, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I have already answered this question: any serious and up-to-date source that mentions them, including those on their own pages. Please read them and stop bothering me. It should be enough to realize that they were two different women with completely different lives.Sira Aspera (talk) 07:45, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Important question
Why do you think Sultan Mustafa was born in 1600 instead of 1592? IgnacyPL (talk) 06:54, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @IgnacyPL Because the research has continued and the cited sources, which are the most up to date and have demonstrated that Mustafa could not have been born before 1600, say so which, as in the past, you did not bother to check. In the future you are:

Thank you. Sira Aspera (talk) 07:26, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * asked to do so;
 * avoid changing the information to your taste by falsifying the source;
 * stop bothering me by treating me like a library reference/as if I had to justify myself to you for having read the sources.

Afife = wise?
Hello! I wanted to ask, what your source for Afife meaning "wise" was? I've only ever understood it to mean "chaste" or "pure." Thanks! Evansknight (talk) 14:51, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello again! First, I wanted to say amazing job on your constant upkeep of the normally neglected Ottoman articles. I did quite a bit of updating the consort articles back in the day after I stumbled across a copy of Harun Açba's Kadınefendiler, but you've gone above and beyond. One thing I had a question about, and it's pretty purely a stylistic thing, however, is it necessary to include the literal translation of every name in every article about an Ottoman woman? I don't know if there is a larger body or task force for these things that might have established a ruling on this. I think including the name in the Osmanlıca script is useful, especially if one is using that to then refer back to Ottoman sources or visual arts in which the name is recorded thus, but including the translations, particularly multiple translations (such as in the Gülnuş Sultan article) just gets excessive and starts to make the header complex and confusing. It has never been the SOP for names in Arabic/Persian/Turkish to include the translations, only the native spelling, whether for male or female figures. It seems particularly unnecessary for names like Fatma or Hatice or Ümmügülsüm for instance, because the literal translation is irrelevant since the person is named AFTER someone who already had that name, for whom the literal translation might have been relevant, but once it becomes a common use name, it seems unnecessary to include it. For instance, we don't include the literal meaning of Thomas in every article about a person named Thomas, because once a word becomes a name, it loses some lexicality and ceases to be just a word with a meaning. Do you know what I mean? If anything, I could see perhaps linking to a specific page if one exists (e.g. Hatice), but I don't know. This may be a larger conversation. Thank you!Evansknight (talk) 18:35, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Evansknight First of all, thank you for the compliments.

As for the translations of the names, it was a my initiative. Initially I added those of the concubines because the names given to them reflect a precise characteristic of the Ottoman harem, namely that of "objectifying" them by giving them names which in almost all cases were not real names of the Ottoman tradition, but poetic names, a sort of "fantasy names" that distinguished them from free women (a sort of historical version of the "Aerith and Bob" trope). But later I also came across the names of the princesses, and at that point I thought it wouldn't do any harm to add them. Obviously if other users do not agree they can act accordingly. Sira Aspera (talk) 09:00, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Now that you've explained it, I actually get it. From a structural standpoint, I wonder if it might work to put the direct translation in the body of the article (like..."Upon entering the harem, XYZ was given the name ABC which is Persian/Turkish for DEF."), at least in the case of concubines. Evansknight (talk) 17:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)