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Villehardouin

is the only one that's confusing AFAIK (Geoffrey the chronicler, his nephew Geoffrey I, and Geoffrey II). Sorry to step on your edit. Choess 21:31, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Aristarchus

Oh, no problem.;-> There were only three of them, and all of them sufficiently serious to deserve an answer.

My position on the matter is not intransigent; if I were the only interested editor, what would happen is that Aristarchus would remain the dab page, because of the majority modern usage - but only until Aristarchus of Samothrace becomes a proper article, and the ones that should link to it are written. This will be a while, and I may have to do it myself.

"Correctness" is, according to policy, not the way to settle these questions. See Misplaced Pages:Use English and Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions for more; although several editors regularly ignore them. (You will find several other useful links on my user page; feel free to copy them - or not.) Septentrionalis 15:31, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Nicolaus Copernicus

Regarding your edit, see WP:POINT. Sciurinæ 13:59, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Bridge of Arta

Are you the same user as Χρήστης:FocalPoint on the el.wiki? If you are, can you upload the picture to Commons, so we can include it in the Bridge of Arta article? By the way, we need someone to translate the rest of the article. Thanks! СПУТНИК 01:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Σχετικά με το..., πρέπει να δεις αυτό και αυτό και να πράξεις αναλόγως. Thanks. --Enas Filos 21:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Bourtzi

Excellent photo!! Do you have any others that could be used at Nafplio? Cheers! - Gobeirne 20:25, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Superb! Another great shot - Gobeirne 09:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Category Deletion

Please visit and weigh in!  NikoSilver  23:07, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

en:Perlite

Bonjour,

Ton bot de la wikipedia anglaise, pense que c'est necessaire de mettre un liens vers la wikipedia italienne au sujet en:Perlite. Pourtant, le liens it:Perlite n'existe pas. J'ai fair deja un "revert" mais ton bot insiste. Je te prie de prend la situation en charge. Merci pour ton action.--FocalPoint 3 juin 2006 à 15:20 (CEST)

Bonjour,

Désolé, le bot est un peu idiot :o) Je vais lui demander de faire attention.

Hashar 11:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

POLL

No, no, no, not what you think! This time is for something that all of us need:

Improvement of the <ref> function.

Please weigh in at Misplaced Pages talk:Footnotes#Poll! NikoSilver  18:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Χα! Καλησπέρες και σε σένα Focal. Βασικά την ψηφοφορία αυτή, εγώ την οργάνωσα. Είναι η πρώτη μου εδώ, και μάλλον πάει καλά! Γι'αυτό αν θες μπές στον κόπο να διαβάσεις την πρόταση, και αν συμφωνείς, στήριξέ την.  NikoSilver  23:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

and another Poll...

Hi. There's a debate about how much "X-ian" one must be in order to be considered "X-American" (or X-Yian for that matter) and be categorized as such. The poll is here: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Rules for lists of X-Americans. Kindly weigh in! :NikoSilver: 21:57, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Macedonia (terminology)

Well, that'll be the first article we're not bitching too much about! :-) :NikoSilver: 22:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

2 Polls that may be of interest...

Hey, kindly check:

• Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Misconceptions about Iran
• Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Ehud Olmert and Iran

Thanks. :NikoSilver: 01:14, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Vectorized images

Due to a crash of my HD image epir1.cdr was lost. But I have three CDR images refered to Epir (1235-1251, 1252-1315 and 1315-1358). If you has interest in this images I can send you to your e-mail adress the original cdr files that you can edit freely. They are made in CORELL 11 version. Please contact me. 88.12.146.224 10:57, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

You can see the images in png at http://ca.wikipedia.org/Despotat_de_l'Epir. I believe that historical maps don't need translation because it can be easely understables for all the world. In catalan vikipedia we use sometimes historical maps on english, spanish, italian, french, etc..., only the cyrillic alphabets or others as grec, sinhala etc... offer dificulties. In fact I'm unable to made the maps on correct english because I'm only catalan speaking, and I know only french and spanish (I know only a few words of english, portuguese and italian). I made some historical maps in english (i.e. see urartu) but I'm afraid that they are plenty of mistakes (in language).

88.12.146.224 22:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

==George Rallis==

Copied from Lincher's talk page.

I believe that you should have another look at your assessment of stub class for this article. My opinion is that a start class is more fair to its authors (I only put 4-6 letters, so I cannot be counted among them).--FocalPoint 15:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

The stub tag goes with the no sources added to the article which is a real problem on wikipedia. If references are added to go with the article or sources of the original material is given then start- or maybe B-class can be given. Lincher 15:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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Chronicle of Morea

I have Morea on my watchlist, and that led me to click on the Chronicle link, which I seemed to recall was a redirect to Morea. I briefly looked at it, but I'll see if I can add anything to it. Adam Bishop 21:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Help needed

OK, here's the story. The person you mention probably had a good SQL script that ceased to work because MediaWiki database schema was changed. Of course, I could take a look at the script, find out what's wrong, etc., but I'm only moderately familiar with the schema in question, and I don't have a toolserver account (which is - as I gather - necessary to run SQL scripts against the database). However, there is a simple(r) solution: I've taken a look around and found a page dedicated exactly to this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/Requests_for_queries. If you take a look there, you'll find a request virtually identical to yours, and it seems that the SQL solution is here. So, there are already queries that do the job, you'll just have to inquire at the Requests for queries page and ask for somebody to run the script against the Greek wiki and copy the result to the location of your choosing. Hope this helps... GregorB 18:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, after the closure of Wikisign, I had problems with establishment of SQL scripts on my PC, so I haven't done any from that time on. Sorry. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 10:51, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Article for deletion

Hi, have you any idea why this article is not included in this list for further dicussion? I fear that it is not visible to a wide audience there could be a biased verdict. Unfortunately I have not got the expertise to fix it; that is if there is something wrong. Thanks, Georgeg 17:55, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

and how do i get hold of the relevant administrator? Aftos o KRBN (A.K.A. Moutalos) mou tin exei pai3ei, mou exei salatosei 2-3 arthra sto parelthon.Georgeg 18:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your AfD recommendation. Unfortunately I do not know many of the intricacies of Greek football - being uninformed I decided it would be best if I decline to comment on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Achaia Football Clubs Association, which in any case looks like it is going to be kept anyway. Qwghlm 22:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey, don't worry about it. I think it was fine that you alerted me to the other AfD, no need to apologise at all! Qwghlm 15:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Good friends are all around! Dr Moshe 10:02, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Cyprus-stub

To template για το cyprus-stub προτείνεται απο τουσ τουρκους να αλλάξει. "This Cyprus-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it." Ηδη προτείνεται να αλλάξει το link για την Κύπρο στο να ειναι link gia το αρθρο για τη γεωγραφία της Κυπρου, και επίσης κερδίζει ηδη έδαφος στο να φύγει η σημαια μας και να αντικατασταθει με τον χαρτη της Κυπρου. Ηδη προσπαθω εγώ μόνος μου αλλα και εγω ειμαι σε εξεταστικη περιοδο και δεν μπορω να πολυασχοληθω με τιν βικιπέδια αν μπορουσες να βοηθησεις... KRBN 14:27, 9 January 2007(UTC)

Thanks once again

Πολύ κακές παρέες, όντως. Παρασύρετε αθώες κορασίδες στην ακολασία, στον επικίνδυνο κόσμο του Ίντερνετ. Θα προσπαθήσω όμως να δείξω χαρακτήρα και να μην παρασυρθώ από τα εντυπωσιακά λάβαρα των Φράγκων ιπποτών και τα οικόσημα των Παλατινών αρχόντων! Και φυσικά ευχαριστώ για … το τρίτο ποδαρικό!--Elena153 18:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Ευχαριστώ!

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Villehardouin

I do, but I've just moved so I don't have access to my books or my own computer :) I have the edition by Juliam Eugene White, but there is an older one by Jean Alexandre Buchon on Google Books. Note that our article on Buchon (via Britannica) says "None of his publications can be described as thoroughly scholarly", and this one has the annoying habit of translating random Old French words into modern French in brackets. I'll try to get to White's edition as soon as I can. Adam Bishop 00:37, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I have books and Internet! White's edition is based on one manuscript but he says he used Edmond Faral's "definitive edition" (I do not know whether this edition is still the definitive critical one). It's not exactly the same as Buchon but the differences are no greater than expected from variant Old French manuscripts (i.e. all the orthography is different!). Adam Bishop 15:30, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Studi Veneziani

Hi FocalPoint, this doesn't appear to be available online, through JSTOR or elsewhere. My university library has it though, back to 1959. Adam Bishop 08:31, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Indo-Greek kingdom

Hi FocalPoint! Thank you for your vote on the Indo-Greek FARC! My understanding is that the subject of the presence of the Indo-Greeks in India, even if more than 2000 years old, still hurts some national sensitivities. Some users such as User:Devanampriya, who actually initiated this FARC through a request to an Indian administrator, have been very aggresive with any claims of Greek influence in India, and very aggressive with other users in the process. This combines with the fact that many things are indeed uncertain about the Indo-Greeks, hence the request by a few initially uninvolved users to have more references etc... to which I complied (rather intensely) during the last few weeks. In the process, I think the article has become even better than before, more balanced, and much much more referenced. In any case, I believe this is a fascinating subject, and that this Misplaced Pages article offers one of the best summary available anywhere on the Indo-Greeks. Thank you for your support! PHG 19:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi! I have replied to your post on Indo-Greek discussion. Best regards--Sponsianus (talk) 10:45, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Thank you

Oops, just noticed you replied here. I have created the dump in my user space, but feel free to move it anywhere else (or copy and split it, the page may be a little too big). Creating the dump doesn't take much time, so I can do it whenever you want. Cheers! -- ReyBrujo (talk) 19:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Anna (name)

Thank you for your message. I have fixed all the interwiki links to Anna (name). --Pipep (talk) 20:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Nice

Nice contributions. Any chance of transferring the Greek Gazette information (spread across 3 issues by Kyriakos Metaxas) to the Anglo-Hellenic League article? The pictures are almost certainly free of copywrite and many are of hight quality. Politis (talk) 20:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)t

Garni Inscription

Dear Focal Point. Thanks a lot for your interest in the discussion. I have to caution you though that all my remarks constitute OR and they cannot therefore be used in any article. My transliteration and my translation are most certainly flawed since they are based on a rather sketchy copy. I will keep on looking for an authoritative publication of the inscription which may be properly used in wikipedia and post every bit of information to the relevant discussion pages. I am very happy to see that you are interested and I look forward to any feedback. Thanks again!--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 08:53, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Interwikis in Greek Βικιπαίδεια

Anything to help! :-) I got the full list (I think there were 9,000 hits) but am having a little trouble at splitting it... I was going to create a list for every starting letter, but I think there would be like 30 or 40 lists, some small and some long. I am trying to overcome my almost complete ignorance of Greek, though :-) -- ReyBrujo (talk) 22:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Greek Misplaced Pages Interwiki project

Hi!

I noticed that you have a serious project to improve interwiki links in the Greek Misplaced Pages.

In the Hebrew Misplaced Pages we have such a project, and it has been pretty successful. I was looking for such projects in other Wikipedias, but found nothing. I started setting up similar projects in Wikipedias in Russian and Esperanto (i know these languages), and then i stumbled upon your project in the Greek Misplaced Pages. (I found a link to it at Misplaced Pages talk:Special:WithoutInterwiki.)

Unfortunately i don't know Greek, but i would like to know what is your way of working.

You can find a description of our way of working here: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Interlanguage Links/Ideas from the Hebrew Misplaced Pages. I'll be glad to share our experiences!

One last thing: I added an interwiki link to your project from Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Interlanguage Links. This project in the English Misplaced Pages appears inactive (i am trying to revive it), but a link to your project may facilitate the communication between our projects. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! Please note that I have filed a request for appeal here. Comments welcome! Best regards PHG (talk) 16:16, 29 November 2008 (UTC)