User talk:The Emperor's New Spy/Archive 6

Byzantine surnames
Hello! This is to let you know that I've answered your question on Byzantine surnames on the WPGR talk page. If you have any further questions, I'll be happy to help! Cheers, Constantine  ✍  07:16, 2 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Precisely, feminine forms differ from male forms, hence the different plurals. For the Mamas surname, I can't really say. Mamaina might be a feminine form, but for the plural, I can't speak with any certainty... Constantine  ✍  07:52, 2 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The male plural forms would be Doukai Vatatzedes (Δούκαι Βατάτζηδες) and Douke Kamateroi (Δούκαι Καματεροί). Constantine  ✍  04:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Agnes of Habsburg
Fine, I will fix it. Since Agnes' husband Albert II, Duke of Saxony and his brother John I, Duke of Saxony were ruling together the commonly 1260-inherited duchy of Saxony, however, gradually splitting it into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg, there are today different interpretations to take which event as definite splitting, either one in 1269, or one in 1272 or one in 1282. If one takes the latter date, Agnes would have been co-consort with Ingeborg between 1273 and 1282.

Best wishes Ulf Heinsohn (talk) 23:34, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor
Hi, I've noticed that you have changed the Ancestors section in the article Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor. Can you please explain why? I think it was pretty good before. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to revert it or something, I'm just curious--why change things that work? With regards --Iohannes Animosus (talk) 18:37, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Because it leaves a big white chunk on the article page since there is a House of Habsburg template. We could revert it to the old one after more info is added to his article. --Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 04:38, 16 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I see, that's a clever solution. Thanks for explanation. --Iohannes Animosus (talk) 18:23, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Soissonaire queens consort
Soissonaire? I've never seen that before. You're sure about this? Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:48, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know. I saw it on Suessiones.  What you suggest?--Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 23:53, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Category: Emperors of Ethiopia
I noticed that you added a number of these rulers to the category Orthodox monarchs. Are you aware that Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity is a very different denomination than Orthodox Christianity, with a number of beliefs & practices which may be considered heretical by the latter group? -- llywrch (talk) 20:12, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I wasn't. I thought they were the same. --Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 01:30, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, you corrected yourself, so no harm done. :-) llywrch (talk) 20:44, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Princess Alice information box
Happy New Year! Someone has just made a major overhaul of the article on Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, but there seem to be some problems with the information box (for example the titles line doesn't display). I made some adjustments, but someone who understands how royal info boxes work (and don't work) would be better-equipped to fix the glitches and ambiguities, especially between Alice's being daughter of Queen Victoria and marrying a future Grand Duke of Hesse. —— Shakescene (talk) 15:32, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. As for Alice, I think they omited the extra titles part of the infobox when they merged all the different Royalty infoboxes.  Some of the other things omited from the old British royal infobox include the military, saint, and christening parts.  "Royal House" needs to be "House" from now on to be able to show up. See Template:Infobox royalty for more.--Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 21:00, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I already put a note on the Template's talk page about restoring a line for date (and place) of marriage, which appear in most other biographical info boxes. Do you think it would be worth suggesting they have separate lines for the House someone's born to and the one (s)he marries into? Otherwise, for queens consort who are born into a royal house, the lines can be confusing and/or misleading (e.g. Hohenzollern on one line and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on another). The template's documentation says you should indicate which is which, but that doesn't seem to be done much in practice. —— Shakescene (talk) 15:05, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Victoria's issue
It looks as if someone may have saved both of us a great deal of labo(u)r, yea even unto the fifth and sixth generation. See Descendants of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, 1840-1945 —— Shakescene (talk) 00:04, 3 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, and happy new year. You unintentionally wiped out several sections of Grandchildren of Victoria and Albert which I was able to restore, together with your very welcome marriage table for Princess Helena and new picture of Prince Ludwig. I'm not sure what your last edit to Victoria, Princess Royal, was trying to do, so I wasn't able to restore that. —— Shakescene (talk) 19:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Oops. I think was using that section as a test edit and accidently pushed saved. --Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 20:43, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

¶ Just a courtesy note to let you know that I'm thinking of removing a couple of the lower-quality pictures that only show a couple of children, such as Edward VII's. Thanks mainly to my efforts for good or ill, this article has now quadrupled in size to over 100 kB (kilobytes), which makes it harder to load for those with limited computer memory (RAM), narrow band-width (e.g dial-up), or slow connections. See WP:Article length. That doesn't mean that we should start slashing radically, but we should probably be slightly more cautious in how much we add to the article, and keep in mind any possible ways that it could be painlessly trimmed without affecting content, style or usefulness. ¶ (Feel free, if you prefer, to move any discussion over to a new section at Talk:Grandchildren of Victoria and Albert.) Best wishes as ever. —— Shakescene (talk) 20:29, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Empress of Spain
Hello QEII! I reverted your removal of the cited statement that Urraca did indeed claimt he Imperial Title of Spain, for according to Bernard Rielly she certinly did. Her ex claimed the title through her, and while the title was not absoultely hereditary, it did decend largely from the rulers of Leon. ♦Drachenfyre♦ · Talk 16:56, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Eadgyth
Courtesy note as you're a previous editor of the above, just to let you know that I've just updated Eadgyth to include info from an article in the Guardian today. I thought you might want to check it for errors, as this is not my usual subject-matter. Interesting story, though.--Storye book (talk) 15:04, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 09:09, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Elizabeth Ramsay of Mar -
 * Seriously I don't really even care. I don't even remember when or why I created that but I'm not against deletion. But thanks for telling me. Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 04:43, 26 January 2010 (UTC)