User talk:Ephestion

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1 Welcome to the Wikipedia
2 NPOV edits are important
3 Insults
4 Koine in the Roman Empire
5 Seeking some sensible consensus about the Roman Empire
6 Signing
7 Roman Empire
8 Φίλε...
9 Poll (Macedonian Slav or Macedonian)
10 27 March 2006

[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

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[[User:ClockworkSoul|User:ClockworkSoul/sig]] 13:14, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV edits are important

Hi Ephestion,

Thanks for your contributions, but after a period of dormancy you suddenly appear to making a number of edits which are far from neutral in tone. These will usually get reverted. Can I encourage you to take a look at Wikipedia's policy on editing from a Neutral Point of View. NPOV is an important concept in a collaborative project like Wikipedia where many contributors have differing opinions. -- Solipsist 19:14, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Insults

You'll find that insults don't work so well on Wikipedia. I didn't revert your edits on Alexander because I'm gay and like to excite my gayness. I did it because your edits are NPOV, and really rather ignorant. There are, you should note, no real "moderators" on Wikipedia. I can revert you, but you can revert me. At some point, hard-fought topics can go into mediation. A record of name-calling will not help you there. So, try to stick to the point, for the sake of your argument's credibility if nothing else. Lectiodifficilior 22:45, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Koine in the Roman Empire

Do you have a source that states or shows that ancient Greek was far more common in the Italian, North African, Gaulic and Hispanic provinces than Latin? -- llywrch 18:08, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Seeking some sensible consensus about the Roman Empire

Hi Ephestion,

I hope you read my comments on the talk page of the Roman Empire. I have carefully read your latest revision, and I don't want to get into an edit war.

Apart from a disagreement about the lingua franca, I can't see anything wrong with the drift of the info that makes up the difference between your revision and mine. It's just in the wrong place. This is supposed to be the introduction to an article about the period of classical civilization between 31 BC and - say 500 AD. It's just not relevant to introduce material about the Crusades etc.

I agree with you on the following points:

A. During the first four centuries, I'm willing to bet that most non-historians underestimate the contuining importance of Greek in the Empire. They may be aware that in terms of high culture Romans derived most of their inspiration from Greek models, but they are probably not aware that Latinity barely touched the eastern Koine-speaking half at all.

B. Giving a date as 476 (the last emperor in the West) is wrong and 1453 is indeed the true date for the end of the Roman state. And, we have to make the continuity between the "Roman" and "Byzantine" empires very clear.

But we have to periodize, and to a certain extent we're stuck with the traditional periodization.

Having said that, I hope you will respond to a sensible reworking of the introduction without automatically reverting it. Djnjwd 18:59, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Signing

You sign by typing 4 tildes like this ~ ~ ~ ~ (but without the spaces)

Djnjwd 20:30, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Roman Empire

Hi Ephestion, you've been reported for violating the three-revert rule (3RR) at Roman Empire. If you violate this again, you're likely to be blocked from editing without further warning. Please try to reach a consensus on the talk page for your edits. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 11:16, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Φίλε...

i think you should use a word processor when making edits. just wanted to let you know. Project2501a 01:50, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Poll (Macedonian Slav or Macedonian)

I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. There is a poll in the talk page of the 'Macedonian Slavs' article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll

Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonians without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people that _possibly_ share or represent a different point of view. Your contributions to the discussion and the poll are welcomed.

[edit] 27 March 2006

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Age of Empires III. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Kareeser|^Talk! 17:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

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