Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Middle Ages/Archive 21

Viking expansion listed at Requested moves
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Constantine Dalassenos (Duke of Antioch) listed at Requested moves
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Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain listed at Requested moves
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:48, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Hundred Years' War (1337–1360) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Hundred Years' War (1337–1360) to be moved to Edwardian War. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 00:45, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
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Questionable sources used on articles about torture devices.
On many articles about torture devices, such as the Knee splitter or Head crusher, the sources are all incorrect about two key hoaxes: the Iron Maiden which is known to not have been used as a torture device, and the Spanish tickler" or "cat's paw" which is a hoax that was created on Wikipedia.


 * 1) Medievality - A website with no sources
 * 2) occasional hell - A website which does not cite its sources very well. It has a list of sources, but some of the questionable devices are not cited
 * 3) A book titled: The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment Through History - It appears to have incorrect information regarding the historicity of the "Cat's paw" and the Iron Maiden.
 * 4) Infernal Device: Machinery of Torture and execution - A book written by the person who manages the occasional hell website, using the same information that the website uses.

Should these sources be considered reliable? What should be done regarding the pages that only rely on any of these? Many have become popular on the internet because of those sites, books, and Wikipedia.

BananaBaron (talk) 03:54, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Hugh of Lincoln listed at Requested moves
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Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln listed at Requested moves
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Misurata listed at Requested moves
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Owain Glyndŵr listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Owain Glyndŵr to be moved to Owain Glyndwr. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 15:59, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
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Gjon Kastrioti move request
Trying to widen a discussion of the title of the Gjon Kastrioti article. The issue is under discussion here if you care to participate. —  AjaxSmack 17:35, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Historicity of King Arthur needs work
Please see Talk:Historicity of King Arthur/Archive 1

TL;DR: There's some coatracking going on there, and some merging out of material needs to happen, or perhaps a separate article on the Nart–Sarmatian–Alan hypothesis. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  18:19, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Norsemen listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Norsemen to be moved to North Germanic peoples. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 10:59, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
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Latins listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Latins to be moved to Latins (Middle Ages). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 14:14, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
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