Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sicily/Archive 3

Hoax article, presumably?
Rochina is a new article about a Sicilian ‘province’. Ian Spackman (talk) 08:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

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Sicani
Hi y'all,

I've been in a seemingly interminable dispute over mentioning the Sicani wherever the history of Malta comes up. I put out a request for a third opinion, and the editor who came over sided with me, but that did nothing to resolve the dispute. Maybe someone here can help work things out? The dispute is based on the following assumptions, none of which have been backed up by reliable references:


 * The Sicani were the original inhabitants of Sicily, dating from 8000 BC. (We only know they were there c. 1000 BC when we have our first records, and that the Greeks believed that they were the oldest of the three indigenous ethnoi present at the time. That leaves 7000 years of possible immigration to change the ethnic makeup of Sicily, and after all we do have evidence of Minoan contact.)


 * Gozo & Malta were settled by the Sicani in 5000 BC. (This follows from the first assumption. I accept that it is established that Gozo & Malta were settled from Sicily, just not that the settlers were necessarily ethnic Sicani.)


 * The Sicani have linguistic ties to Iberian. (Thucydides reports that they came from "Iberia", which included Gaul in his day, but the linguistic connection does not follow. BTW, if they came from Iberia recently enough for Thucydides to know about it, IMHO it seems far fetched to assume that the immigration occurred 7000 years earlier. I'm not advocating that we state this in the article, only that it casts doubt on the assumptions above.)

I'd be very interested to learn that I'm wrong!

Thanks, kwami (talk) 00:15, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Never mind. Looks like it was just sockpuppetry. kwami (talk) 03:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Help
Hello, I have started the Lombard version of this project. It works fine enough, but not completely (I mean: by a technical point of view...how many people will take part to it, that's another matter!). Could you take a look there, please? I have added the appropriate intewiki link on the English project page. Many thanks, --62.101.126.226 (talk) 09:38, 18 August 2008 (UTC) (lmo:user:Fithuus)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Sicily
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