User talk:Theranos

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 * Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content, as you did to Dinlas. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If it is a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!--Fuhghettaboutit 05:04, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, maybe someone will delete this Dinlas page someday! As I said this is modern fiction deceptively posing as Greek mythology. There is neither a "Dinlas" nor a "Lamark" anywhere in classical myth.
 * Hmm, let me do some research, and if I confirm that the article is a hoax (which might just mean I can't find any mention of it) I'll propose it for deletion. As suggested in the post above, you could have done so yourself, by visiting deletion policy to see how to proceed.--Fuhghettaboutit 14:28, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I did look at the deletion section, but the process looked extremely complex! And its not something you would probably ever use more than once. The rederict info. was useful, I found a couple of articles where that would be useful - mainly with alternate spellings like Akheloios -> Achelous. I just put a note saying see ... on the article, not knowing there was a redirect option. I'll try attaching one of those to it later.
 * I have nominated the article for deletion. It's listing is at the bottom or near the bottom of today's afd listing page assessible here. I could have linked directly to the entry but seeing the afd page will show you the format of adding remarks to nominations. In order to add a comment, click on the edit link right above and to the right of the listing.--Fuhghettaboutit 15:29, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

RfC
You were active at the Talk:Charun page recently. Perhaps you would like to participate in the request for comments at Requests for comment/Glengordon01. Respectfully, Durova 01:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hellenic polytheism
Thanks for your assistance with the history of the fall of ancient Hellenic religion at Hellenic polytheism. I didn't do too well researching that bit, and I'm glad you were around to catch my mistake. - AdelaMae (t - c - wpn) 04:14, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Cerberus
Don't forget to move the "popular culture" external links too - at least 1 clearly is 15:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Damia (goddess)
Hi, I saw you re added the copyvio tag on this article. I deleted some other articles from this editor which were on Copyright problems but with this one I can't find a copyright violation. Where exactly is the copyvio? Garion96 (talk) 23:01, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. The article is deleted. Garion96 (talk) 17:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Spelling
The chief problem here is that there are two languages involved. In medieval Latin, e, ē, ae and oe were all written as e, as they still are in Italian. When the Renaissance straightened this out, they made some mistakes, so I wouldn't be surprised to find Maerope and Maerops occur in modern Latin. I think this is what Smith and Bullfinch are talking about.

But the equivalent letters in Greek are ε, η, αι, and οι. They have always been distinguished in writing, even though the last three are pronounced the same in Demotic. In ancient Greek it was not so; and they are rarely equivalents even in different dialects. Indo-European a can become Attic-Ionic η, and under some conditions αι in various dialects, but that's not what's happening here. Epsilon should be IE e, which does not become αι.

For an exhaustive explanation of all this, see Carl Darling Buck's Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin.

Thank you for commenting at FAC; you will have seen the comment that the lead doesn't summarize the article. I am probably too close to see if it does or not; can you write a better one? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 17:11, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I also assumed the ancients made some connection between Maira and Merope : Maira being the mythical figure behind the dog-star of Orion's stellar hound Canis Major. In the Nekuia of the Odyssey at least, the names Orion and Maira appear in close proximity, suggesting perhaps the "Homer's" Merope was Maira. But that is admitedly pure speculation.
 * I will see if I can draft some sort of nutshell summary for the introduction & post it on the article's talk page. --Theranos 20:03, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Possible; I'll see what I can find on Maira. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Scholar.google comes through again! See this JSTOR paper, p. 261. She's Erigone's dog, and our author argues, nothing to do with Orion. Fascinating! Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:50, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * And,oops, she's in Natalis Comes; where he found her, heaven knows. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 13:56, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, the Astronomica of Hyginus says Maira (the star Sirius) is the dog of Icarius and Erigone. Pausanias says she is a daughter of Atlas (like the Pleiades and Hyades). Homer likewise has her as a heroine : in his list of heroines he names Iphimedia (followed by references to the Aloadai and Orion), then Phaedra, Procris, Ariadne, MAERA, Clymene and Eriphyle.
 * So here it sounds like Homer's Maera is our Merope, since (1) Orion is mentioned just a couple of lines before, (2) her name belongs to the chief star (Sirius) of Orion's dog, (3) & there is no other mythic female by that name who belongs in such a list of famous tragic heroines. We have incestuous love (Phaedra), unfaithfulness (Procris), abandonment (Ariadne), rape (Maera-Merope), and betrayal (Eriphyle). --Theranos 17:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * See if you can find a source. This is not implausible; but we should include not-implausible ideas by other people, see WP:OR. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:37, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Cerberus in popular culture
Cerberus in popular culture, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Cerberus in popular culture satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Cerberus in popular culture and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Cerberus in popular culture during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Eyrian 16:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on those mythology articles. · AndonicO Talk 14:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:Hephaestus (Greek Mythology).jpg
Hey, just wondering - could you explain why you feel this image isn't public domain? If its not a free image, it may need to be nominated for deletion. Thanks! Shell babelfish 23:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * PD only applies to photos of 2D art works. This does not apply to the decorations of 3D ceramics--e.g. Greek vases--, since there is no generic photo angle for a photo shot is unique. Also this particular image seems to have been modified somewhat, as you can see from other photos of the work. But I don't think it should be deleted since its been on wikipedia for so long. --Theranos 06:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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