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Nero, Tiberius and Caligula
Thanks for the encouragement on Nero. I really appreciate it.

I have no clue what happened to the original Nero image. It just vanished. I guess that Bill Oaf character scared wiki into taking it down. I suppose it could be argued that the first scetch of the graffiti was an original form of art, though not very original if you ask me (copying from stone to paper). I decided to go around it and just do the scetch myself. Problem solved.

I've tried at different times to aid the Caligula article, but its a harder one to manage. Its gets more traffic and gets edited more. Its easier to research though. There are really only three short sources on Caligula (Philo, Josephus and Suetonius) and he only reigned 4 years. I'll try to help out with it and Tiberius (who I know nothing about yet, but would like to)

With Nero, I realized the only way to get the article to stop changing was to source every line and check on it every few days. You really have to own it. After 2000 years, people are still emotionally charged about him which makes him so interesting.

Thanks.Hoshidoshi 04:13, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Tiberius is an interesting character; a lot more complex than I previously thought. Unfortunately the current article is a bit one-sided, mostly emphasizing the reasons for his unpopularity and mentioning little of his policies. To be fair, nearly half of his reign was spent in withdrawal on Capri, but I still think the article does not mention much of his Eastern policies, his diplomacy, his religious policy, etc... especially given the massive coverage provided by Tacitus. Caligula is a bit more straightforward, as you say. His reign was brief and the sources on it are limited. It's a real shame we lost Tacitus' account of this period, although it probably wasn't very positive, given the few foreshadowing comments in his text on Tiberius.


 * When I started editing, the article in Caligula was actually in better shape than the one on Tiberius. I haven't noticed much vandalising btw, but maybe that's because I'm primarily used to watching over video game articles and they get littered with inane comments *all the time*. I'll probably restricit myself to providing citations for the time being. After that, I'll try and expand the article on Tiberius. --Steerpike 13:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Space music
Hi. It seems like you have an interest in ambient music. I wonder if you wouldn't mind taking a look at Space music when you get a chance. There is currently an ongoing issue there with one editor trying to suggest that space music is not a genre of ambient - and the discussion would certainly benefit from outside opinions by knowledgeable parties. --Gene_poole 07:16, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Sonic the Hedgehog (8-bit)
Why do you think that the 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog is warranting an article? It's more or less the same game. - A Link to the Past (talk) 03:56, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Well maybe it doesn't. I checked on that article and saw it had been changed into a redirect so I thought it was vandalism of some sort. Sorry! --Steerpike 10:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Titus
Thanks for asking me to look at the Titus article. Your expansions look excellent; the article reads well, I think all the important material is now covered, and your references to the ancient sources will be very useful for readers who want to follow the info up. The only possible factual issues are with some of the material that was present before your edits; for example, some of the dates for Titus' early career are conjectural. I'll see what I can do about finding sources for these points and the ones you mention on Talk (the Jones-Milns commentary on Suetonius has proven quite handy in looking over the first couple of paragraphs). With a few extra sources the article should easily meet the good article standards. Nice work. :) EALacey 17:17, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Bad links in Elagabalus
Someone wrote me that bad links were being added to this article, and thought that my transcription of Books 79 and 80 might be at fault; I've just taken a look, and the links are bad, all right, but because they're being inserted without looking at the sourcecode of those pages. For example "LXXX.16" is not as inserted, but #79-16.7 — If you feel that direct links to Dio are useful in this article, you need to check they're right.... Best, Bill 11:04, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm the one who emailed you about that, actually :) I was planning to fix this today. Thanks for your reply! You're right I should have looked at the sourcecode, which you mention in your introduction to Dio's Roman History, so sorry for bothering you about it. I browsed through all your FAQs before sending my email but forgot to check the most important page :) Cheers. --Steerpike 11:19, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, that wuz you; makes sense! And I in turn have some filling in of links to do (in other Books of Dio), as I mentioned in our e-mails, now that it's clear they're of use. Best, Bill 11:31, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Steerpike
Nice work on Augustus, dude. Really though, good job, great picture, more coherent sub-section headings, all around more polished because of your efforts and that of wiki member Laura Scudder. Thanks for replying on the talk page too, I too would like to see all of the Roman Emperors (and some important statesmen and generals) lifted to at least GA status. I think that will be my next project as well. I see from your user page that you have made some significant contributions to several articles.

Also, I'm glad you liked the Song Dynasty articles, it was a lot of work creating the six related sub-articles: History, Culture, Society, Economy, Technology, and Architecture.

Lot's of work, but it looks beautifully done. That's how I want Augustus' article to look!

Take care.-- Pericles of Athens  Talk 13:57, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Sejanus GA on hold
Nehrams2020 21:54, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Praetorian Guard
It's done, with appropriate citations. Thanks for bringing that to attention.-- Pericles of Athens  Talk 20:29, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Titus
Nice work on getting this to GA status. I hope you make a push for FA before too long. :) --mav 18:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! It's one of my prouder articles on Wikipedia :). Still needs some tweaking before I'd take it to FA though. --Steerpike 21:24, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This article looks to me like it could go to FAC. Is there any content missing? Do you need a hand for this? Nergaal (talk) 16:59, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The main problem with this article at the moment is that it references ancient (primary) sources almost exclusively. This almost guarantees a quick-fail during the FAC review process. The content should be re-written from the point of view of modern academic (secondary) literature. Unfortunately, the only major biographical work concerning Titus (The Emperor Titus, Brian Jones) has gone out of print. --Steerpike (talk) 17:36, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Berenice of Cilicia
The article Berenice of Cilicia you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Berenice of Cilicia for things needed to be addressed.  T Rex  | talk  02:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Congratulations it has passed.  T Rex  | talk  03:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Article importance scale for WikiProject Equine
Hello. WikiProject Equine is discussing an article importance scale here. Your POV would be appreciated. --Una Smith (talk) 18:39, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Tomb Raider
I should've put an explanation on the talkpage when I added the template. That was my mistake. Anyway, there are too many images in the article, most of which are unimportant; we don't need pictures of "key items" or multiple locations Lara encounters in her travels, and the "Unfinished Business" image is exactly the same as the original box art. Just the original box art and a couple screenshots are needed. There was a similar problem of a glut of copyrighted images on some of the Harry Potter character pages, which we solved by simply removing some of them and leaving a couple older ones.  Beemer 69  23:46, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'm just going to copy-paste this to the relevant section on the Tomb Raider talkpage. We'll continue from there, so others can join in. --Steerpike (talk) 14:31, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Bust of Domitian
Just in case nobody can make it up to the museum, the TMA has the following on their website:

For Images, Rights Permission, and Licensing

Please send a written request to:

Rights and Reproductions

Toledo Museum of Art

P.O. Box 1013

Toledo, Ohio 43697

or fax to 419-254-5089

No e-mail requests will be processed.

They may be able to send you some great images that Wikipedia can use. Since I can see international mail being a bit expensive I would be happy to send a letter for you; if you provide me with a .doc of what to send. Hope that helps! §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  20:32, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! For now, we can just wait and see if any Wikipedians come up with pictures. If nothing turns up, we could consider writing the museum. It's quite possible of course they deny free use of official photographs. Cheers. --Steerpike (talk) 21:51, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you Steerpike. In short, I will extend this article. Jaime85.


 * I'm so sorry I'm just replying now! You sent me a message about sending a letter to the museum over the summer.  It happened while I was recovering from getting nussed and it got archived without me seeing it.  I subscribed to the indexer bot and it came straight to my attention. So here I am! Now that that's out of the way.  Did you have anything in particular you'd like the letter to say?  Sorry again,  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  00:25, 9 November 2008 (UTC)


 * That's ok, not your fault. Might not be worth the trouble writing the museum though. They'd have to be willing to donate free pictures, which they probably won't. It would be less of a hassle of someone just went there and took the picture him/herself. But right now, it's not really urgent for me anymore (if it ever was). I still think it's an amazing statue (the most beautiful of this emperor to have survived), but right now the article has plenty of pictures. So, don't feel hard-pressed to write the letter. Cheers. --Steerpike (talk) 11:33, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

The music section
When you say Reasons for deletion? (at the Tomb Raider article). What are you refering to? --Tulok (talk) 17:04, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That comment was related to another edit, made by an anonymous user. But regarding the music section: there really isn't thát much worth mentioning, at least not much that can be properly sourced as far as I know. So I don't think it really deserves a prominent place in the article. I did wonder why you deleted the composer information though? --Steerpike (talk) 18:33, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Tigidius Perennis
Regarding this diff - nothing's wrong with them, if you say they're okay. The edit was made by an abusive sockpuppet with no constructive contribs from any of his many accounts (aside from this edit, apparently) so I reverted them to be on the safe side. If you vouch for the content and sources, it's fine by me. Kafziel Complaint Department 07:27, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Domitian
Agreed. Excuse me my brevity, but I translate English better than what I speak or write. When we finish these two articles, there will be two new FAs ;). Regards. Jaime —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.7.172.111 (talk) 00:28, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice work in article Domitian --Rjecina (talk) 23:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Domitian (FA)
Congrats! Ealdgyth - Talk 01:37, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Dear God! You rock. I will have to read this article in its entirety. Manhattan Samurai (talk) 06:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! That was sudden, actually. I don't think it's quite perfect yet, so I'll probably keep tweaking :) --Steerpike (talk) 11:26, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

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A question was asked at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome about articles edited recently by Special:Contributions/24.18.119.54. I glanced through Lucius Seius Strabo. My opinion (reached very hastily) is that all the changes were (certainly or probably) improvements. The anonymous contributor All these changes were good. I think the contributor's fault is not to have realised that it's better to have an account, and better to explain major changes on talk pages. You reverted the article -- and I can see why you did! -- but I think, in this case, it would be much better to accept the changes. And rew D alby 18:22, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) removed the alternative name Lucius Aelius Strabo, which was a mistake made by someone who doesn't understand Roman names;
 * 2) removed some irrelevant material that belonged in other articles;
 * 3) improved the phraseology, and, more important,
 * 4) made it clearer what are facts and what are uncertain deductions.
 * I agree :) --Steerpike (talk) 20:46, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * [At the same moment you wrote that, I wrote:] I see now I was writing to the editor who largely wrote the article. Sorry for not realising that. I still think the anonymous changes were largely improvements -- but, since you have written so much on Roman history, I recognise that you may well have had good reason to think otherwise! And rew D alby  20:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Domitian again
That's a very impressive article. My envious regards to you! Haploidavey (talk) 02:36, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Steerpike (talk) 12:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Diurpanaeus, Decebalus.
Hello, browsing through Trajan's biography by Julian Bennett, I read that the Dacian king Diurpanaeus abdicated in favour of Decebalus after defeating Domitian; the Wikipedia entries on Domitian, Trajan and Decebalus, however, all sustain that Diurpanaeus & Decebalus were the same person, and that "Decebalus" was a title, meaning "the brave one". As this is not the sole instance of possible doubles/doublets in Ancient History, how do you think this should be mentioned? ThanksCerme (talk) 16:24, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've checked with my volume of "The Emperor Domitian" by Brian Jones, and it does appear that Diurpaneus and Decebalus were two distinct persons. In a footnote, Jones further comments that Diurpaneus (or Dorpaneus) may be another name for Duras, who actually preceded Decebalus as king of Dacia. I will investigate the issue further and see how the information can be incorporated into the articles. Regards. --Steerpike (talk) 17:13, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Septimius Severus
Hello! On first sight, I think you did a nice job. Birley is a very good scholar for biographies, although he, imho, sometimes overdoes it with his conjectures. As for the section for Religious persecution, it needs improvement (it's entirely based on primary christian sources). I know it is not yours but, perhaps, you can improve it since you own the Birley's book (I don't). Regards.--Dipa1965 (talk) 18:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I actually meant to expand the article to three or four times its current size but I abandoned the project when I was about halfway through Severus' early career. I'm sort of busy with college related stuff right now, but it's certainly a project I plan on returning to in the near future. Beyond that though, I have to admit that I plain don't like Septimius Severus all that much. The subject didn't turn out to be as interesting as I thought it would be. Apart from his provincial origins, he's actually one of the less fascinating emperors in the history of the Roman Empire (for me at least). Regards. --Steerpike (talk) 21:59, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Map error?
Please see the recent comment at Talk:Year of the Four Emperors. The map is titled 69, but seems to include Vespasian's additions to the empire, which of course mostly postdate 69. --Dweller (talk) 13:57, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Ignore me. I've misread the map, as had the original poster. I'll respond. --Dweller (talk) 14:03, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

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 * I have absolutely no attachment to those pictures (sentimental or otherwise), so if you want them removed be my guest. Regards. --Steerpike (talk) 21:39, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

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Hello. I would like to use your useful image File:Flavian_family_tree.png to illustrate a book I am writing. It would be inside a chapter, about 1/2 page in size. The book is commercial (though it is scholarly and therefore not likely to sell a lot of copies). May I have your permission to use it for this purpose? What name should I use for the "creator" of the image? Thank you very much. Sofia Roberts (talk) 02:09, 28 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your message. I don't think you actually need my permission to use the image since permission is automatically granted by the image's licence (but it's nice of you to ask). For attribution, you can use my real name (Ben Meuleman) instead of my Wikipedia user name. Alternatively, you could easily recreate the image in powerpoint on your own, since it's just a bunch of boxes linked up with lines. Then you'll have no licenses to worry about. Cheers. Steerpike (talk) 15:31, 28 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you, I appreciate it. Now that I am looking at it closely, I think that there is an error. Quintus Petillius Cerialis was married to Vespasian's daughter, not Vespasian's sister (who according to the Wikipedia Vespasian article) died in infancy. I have looked and I don't see any reference to Cerialis having two marriages. Sofia Roberts (talk) 17:10, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

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