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Under my personal policy of "easier, simpler, better" I am organizing all entries under the correct user/paragraph and will be deleting old (and only old and out-dated mail, there will be no censorship) from time to time. It´s simply better for me to notice, find, understand and eventually to answer your mail. What can I say? I am simply lazy. Flamarande 21:24, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


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Again, welcome. - JustPhil 17:42, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Hippalus - Roman Empire/reorganization

Flamarande, here is how to delete pages that were created by mistake: Misplaced Pages:Speedy_deletions and Misplaced Pages:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion.--Hippalus 07:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, Flamarande, I'm glad you are planning to invest in Roman Empire/reorganization. I follow the page on my watchlist, and make a contribution now and then, but I haven't got the time or the energy to really write the sections. I'm more of an editor than a writer. I do feel it is an important project though.

Re: Historic maps

Sorry for the delay. You asked me how to create the historic maps. I did it with the Generic Mapping Tools and GIMP. But be warned: GMT may seem difficult to use; it is a set of command line tools. You would need to work through the GMT's own tuturial, after that see User:Captain Blood/GMT Example. The colouring and maybe the labeling can be done with Gimp or any other graphics program. Good luck --Captain Blood 17:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC) PS: if you have questions, it was right to contact me at de:User:Captain Blood, I am more often there than here. --Captain Blood 17:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

There's Misplaced Pages:Requested pictures, but I'm not sure how active that page is. Kirill Lokshin 20:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II

The April 2006 issue of the project newsletter is now out. You may read this issue or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following the link. Thanks. Kirill Lokshin 18:39, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Survey on the use of Latinized/Greek names for Byzantine rulers

Hi Flamarande. There is a survey on the names of Byzantine rulers at Talk:Constantine XI. Maybe you are interested in.--Panairjdde 17:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Flamarande, you are free to vote as you prefer, in the survey. But note that your addition of support for the second option does tilt the balance in favour of that option, and does nothing against the third, because it is already losing. Just a tought, do as you please, of course.--Panairjdde 13:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Ops, you are right. I am truly for Nr1 and not for Nr2. Only if 1 is defeated, will I accept Nr 2 as a compromise. Flamarande 13:49, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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Survey on the use of Latinized/Greek names for Byzantine rulers Follow Up

Greetings. As a recent contributor to the survey on the names of Byzantine rulers at Talk:Constantine XI, you may be interested in the following. A mediation sought by Panairjdde resulted in the recommendation that "that proposal two from this page be implemented in the short term, until a consensus can be reached about proposal three". Accordingly, before resuming the editorial process, I am seeking feedback on whether option 2 or 3 of the former survey is more acceptable. Please state (or re-state) your opinion in the follow up survey on Talk:Constantine XI. Thank you for your time, Imladjov 14:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Reference Desk

Please do not 'correct' people's spelling for them. Suggesting 'I think you meant ___' is one thing, changing it yourself is another. As it is, the 'mistake' you corrected in my post was deliberate: a reference to a particular magazine. On top of the chance of this sort of thing, it is rude to alter people's words without their consent and doesn't allow any lessons to be learnt, unlike pointing errors out. Thank you. Skittle 15:59, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

History of Greek and Roman Egypt - your reorganisation

Copied to Talk:History_of_Greek_and_Roman_Egypt.

Hi there. I just noticed your reorganisation of History of Greek and Roman Egypt into two separate sections for Greek history and Roman history. Personally I think the article was fine as it was, as it makes sense to treat the periods together (there was actually not that much change at the time of Octavian's conquest, as Egypt had already effectively been within the Roman sphere of influence for some time).

A more troubling problem involves the comment you made at the talk page: "Only when we are finished can we request a "erradication" of this empty article." - I presume because you actually ended up putting a redirect in place, and from your quote marks, that you didn't mean "eradication" - that would lose the page history of everyone who contributed to History of Greek and Roman Egypt, which would be an awful thing to happen.

Also, copying and pasting huge chunks of material around Misplaced Pages is not the right way to do things - it creates problems for those trying to trace the article history. For example, in this edit you only say "tranfering all Greek/Macedon material" - but, and this is crucially important, you fail to say where you are transferring it from. This actually contravenes the GFDL, which is very bad. This is why splitting and merging articles is very complicated and needs to be done with care and with detailed edit summaries. Please take more care over such things.

Another point is that when creating redirects like you have done here, from History of Greek and Roman Egypt to Greco-Roman, you need to use the "What links here" tool to check that all the links that previously point to the "history" article should be pointing to Greco-Roman and not somewhere else entirely! See here for a list of the 110 links pointing to "History of Greek and Roman Egypt". I've checked several, and they need to be redirected to the Greek or Roman history articles, not to "Greco-Roman". This, again, is another reason why splitting or merging mature article needs to be done with a great deal of care. These redirects urgently need fixing, or the redirect changed to somewhere more suitable. In fact, I suggest creating a short summary style article at History of Greek and Roman Egypt, with links to the daughter articles of Ptolemaic Egypt and Roman Egypt.

Hope this all helps. Carcharoth 22:43, 29 June 2006 (UTC)