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Contents 1 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008) 2 Rollback 3 Talk:Byzantine Empire#Populations - 13th century estimate 4 Persian Mesopotamia 5 Chariot racing 6 Resubmitting Tenacious D for a WP biography peer review 7 Greeks article 8 Cyprus 9 Also Greece national football team 10 Meetup in Athens 11 Pontic Greeks 12 Foreign relations of Greece 13 Welcome note 14 Tenacious D 15 Biography peer review 16 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVI (April 2008) 17 Hi 18 Giorgos - Elgin Marbles 19 Mac. naming... 20 Question 21 Hope you don't mind... 22 Roman-Persian 23 Thank you for the invitation 24 Map 25 Editing-saving articles 26 Modern Greek 27 Map 28 Request 29 About Enosis 30 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008) 31 Seleucid-Parthian-Roman map 32 Roman-Persian Wars 33 Hellenism

[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008)

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[edit] Rollback

Hey Yannis, I am interested in recieving roll back rights. I keep a watch out for Byzantine and warfare/battle articles and find it tedious to undo several edits by the same user.

Respectfully,

Assyrian and proud of it (talk) 05:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Much obliged. Tourskin (talk) 22:56, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Byzantine Empire#Populations - 13th century estimate

Hey Yannis, since you seem to be the most dedicated to maintaining the article by ensuring it is verifiable with references, I was wondering if you could turn your attention to the 13th century estimate of the Byzantine empire's population in article, which has the population at 3,000,000. But 3 million what and where? In 1200, the Empire consisted of mostly western Asia Minor and Greece. 10 years later it was in control of 2/3 of what it had in Western Asia Minor as Nicaea, alone. Or is this figure counting Epirus and Trebizond? Does it count Greeks under Seljuk Turk rule, Latin rule, Greek rule, either or all? You see that this estimate results in more puzzling questions than much useful info. As it stands, without a reference, it is quite unsatisfying in my opinion. The 13th century is a very hectic time for the Empire, a crumbling power in 1200, a battered exile in 1230 and a rising opportunist in 1270.Tourskin (talk) 05:24, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Persian Mesopotamia

Hey, I need your help in resolving a small dispute. The article Persian Mesopotamia has, after much debating, overwhelming amount of references presented by User:Chaldean and the introduction of a Third Opinion been decided to be re-named to Achaemenid Assyria. However, such a move needs an admin or a mod, and thats where my request for your aid comes.

Respectfully,

Tourskin (talk) 04:27, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

PS, I know ur busy, but please take a look!!!

There seems to be a consensus. But let's wait for the 5 days period WP:RM asks for!--Yannismarou (talk) 16:45, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Right thank you, I was just going to suggest to wait. The discussion was dead when I left you a message thats why. Thanks anyways. Tourskin (talk) 23:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chariot racing

Hi Yannis, sorry I missed this; I didn't ignore but it was that I wasn't around. It was kept, but I'll give a once over when the humour takes me. Ceoil (talk) 18:38, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Resubmitting Tenacious D for a WP biography peer review

Hi Yannismarou, you made some very constructive comments on a Tenacious D peer review here. I was wondering if I could submit this article for another peer review, as I feel all the issues have been covered in this one. Thanks Tenacious D Fan (talk) 09:40, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greeks article

Hi Yianni, we recently got the Greeks article to GA status and Nikos suggested you would be a good person to talk to for advice on how to improve it for a possible FA nomination. Your input would be extremely appreciated if you can spare the time since you have brought several articles to FA and know the pitfallas and process. Eucharisto for your time.Xenovatis (talk) 12:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Yianni, thanks alot for your reply. I am looking forward to your ideas and your edits on the article. Eucharisto.Xenovatis (talk) 12:28, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I saw your reveiw on Greeks page, very good :)P m kocovski (talk) 04:19, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cyprus

I edited the article. How do you find it now? --Ioannes Tzimiskes (talk) 08:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for the advice.Much appreciated for my editing in the future. I don't know if you remember how the article looked like (especially History section). I did a nip/tuck rewriting and several times left some sentences intact because of luck of time. As for citations i am not much of an expert about the island's history i retained almost all of them. --Ioannes Tzimiskes (talk) 13:34, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Also Greece national football team

Is way more than B-Level IMO. --Ioannes Tzimiskes (talk) 08:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

• It can't be more than B, because it has not gone through a GA review. IMO it may even be lower than B, because it has no inline citations. Check the B-Class criteria of WP:GREECE here. As far as the Cyprus article is concerned, I hope I'll read during the week, and you'll have my remarks. Congratulations for your contributions!--Yannismarou (talk) 15:41, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup in Athens

Hello Yannismarou,

pardon me for not contacting you before. I'm Jonathan from Germany. You gave me your phone number, but I appear to have lost it. I'd gladly chat with you again regarding the situation of Wikipedians in Greece. I'm available at Skype as "j.crusius". Or you could send me mail. Sarazyn • 丁人LK • DE 15:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pontic Greeks

I edited heavily that one too.I hope i improved it.Check it when you have time.Cheers! --Ioannes Tzimiskes (talk) 10:41, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Foreign relations of Greece

Check the article. I believe i improved it a lot. Cheers! --Ioannes Tzimiskes (talk) 17:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome note

Never got to thank you for welcoming me into the wp's project 'Greece'. So, thank you :) --157.228.x.x (talk) 19:12, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tenacious D

Thanks for the suggestions. The article was in dire need of some prose comments. I'll get on it. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 14:57, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Biography peer review

Hi Yannis. I always appreciated your reviews; your comments helped put Huldrych Zwingli to FA. I have just put up another one on PR, Thomas Cranmer. If you could take look, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! --RelHistBuff (talk) 11:27, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

• I hope I will be able to review it within the next two days. Cheers!--Yannismarou (talk) 19:26, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Hi

I am relatively new in wikipedia, so I would like to make some questions:

• After expanding the article Eleftherios Venizelos, I have submitted it for a review here, but I was wondering how the review works, i.e. who are the people who review the articles, and how rapidly they do it?

• Is possible to have a look at the article (even if it is a quick look) and give me some comments/suggestions/tips?

Thanks in advance! A.Cython (talk) 02:17, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply... I will keep in mind what you told. But what is the normal procedure? First review and then assessment or the other way around? So should I remove the article from assessment list and submit it for review? A.Cython (talk) 13:04, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

ok that good to know... ευχαριστώ και εις το επανιδείν! A.Cython (talk) 14:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Giorgos - Elgin Marbles

I have been working on the Elgin Marbles article for several days now and I am proposing that it be renamed. Unfortunately I have not managed to attract any responses yet, so if you would be interested to comment on my proposal I would appreciate some feedback. I am planning to notify others as well in the hope to start a discussion--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 13:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mac. naming...

Sorry to bug you about this, but I'd appreciate if I could have a comment from you at our discussion at Talk:Accession of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the European Union, or the follow-up at WT:MOSMAC. Thanks, -- Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:55, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Hello friend! I have left a question at WikiProject Greece --> here. Please let me know what do you think. Thanks. - Darwinek (talk) 10:47, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hope you don't mind...

RomanHistorian (talk · contribs) was asking me questions about getting Constitution of the Roman Republic up to FA-status. I have no FA-related history and no particular expertise in the article's subject. You seem to have both, so I suggested that he contact you. Cheers, Sarcasticidealist (talk) 12:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Since you have a history in nominating Greek/Roman articles for FA status, I was wondering if you could look at my entry on the Constitution of the Roman Republic. I am interested in taking it to FA status. It is part of my series on the Roman Constitution, but this is probably the best article in the series. I still have a few more weeks of work to do on the other articles in the series, but Constitution of the Roman Republic is almost done. So I was wondering if you could give me your opinion on this.RomanHistorian (talk) 13:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Roman-Persian

Γεια σου Γιάννη!

I feel that "continued to designate the late Byzantine state with the same name, without differentiating between Romans and Greeks" is inaccurate because the state was Roman and the people were Roman. It's true that the Persians (and other eastern neighbours) called them Roman (unlike the Western neighbours who called them Greeks, for their own reasons) but simply because that was their name; it wasn't a (somehow) special designation extended to "Byzantium" only by the Persians. 3rdAlcove (talk) 17:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps, but it should still be removed. While it might not have been the "mighty Roman empire" it was the 'leftovers' and its inhabitants were the Romans. 3rdAlcove (talk) 17:36, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Since you don't mind, I'll go ahead and remove it. Thanks for being so cooperative. 3rdAlcove (talk) 17:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for the invitation

Thank you for the invitation to Wikiproject Greece! Invitation accepted. I hope it won't be a very demanding task!... Pel thal (talk) 17:47, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Map

May I ask what kind of a map you are looking for?--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 14:21, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

• Are you talking about the Roman-Persian Wars article? Read my introductory comment here, and what the reviewer proposes there about maps. The German wiki has two very nice maps (I mention them and link them in the above page), but ideally they should be translated in English. I'd be grateful, if you could have a look at the article in general. Your opinion and suggestions would be welcomed.--Yannismarou (talk) 14:27, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Alright, we are talking about the same map. I saw your request the ohter day and I asked a friend to see if he can do the changes. He is some kind of photoshop wizzkid. He will see if he can do it--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 14:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks a lot! I am really grateful to you! Ευχαριστώ ανεξαρτήτως αποτελέσματος!--Yannismarou (talk) 14:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

If that doesn't work out, you can always use colour legends (orange - Sassanids, yellow - Sassanid vassals and so on. or whatever colour code it used). It'd be a shame to let those maps go to waste. 3rdAlcove (talk) 14:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I have a series of quite relevant articles in PDF, would you be interested?--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 14:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I certainly am. 3rdAlcove (talk) 14:53, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Is there any way to email them?--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 14:56, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I enabled e-mailing on here. Feel free to send them whenever you can. (sorry for taking up your talk page space, Yannis) 3rdAlcove (talk) 14:59, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Something like this, I mean. Wish I knew how to get the boxes all lined up, though. 3rdAlcove (talk) 15:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Editing-saving articles

Just a question: is there a way to save articles that one is working on/editing on some sort of wikipage without others seeing it and making contributions/amendments? The obvious is to save everything as a personal Word document but I was wondering if there is another, more wikipedian way. Thanks! Pel thal (talk) 20:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure. Just make a subpage in your namespace, edit the heck out of it, and then move it to the article space. In simple English:

• Click on User:Pel thal/Name of subpage and start editing it.
• Hit the "move" (=rename) tag on the top-center of your screen when you're done
• New article is created and the history (i.e. list of your first edits) follows it in the new name!

Third users generally won't edit in your namespace, but if they do, you can ask them politely not to. Still, you can invite other users to edit it for help if you wish. Hope that helps. NikoSilver 20:42, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Very helpful indeed! Pel thal (talk) 21:14, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Modern Greek

Thanks for the quote from Tr., and for your work on the Modern Greek article! A pity he didn't say more about the geographical distribution. :-) By the way, I just found we have a first-rate published expert on making linguistic maps on Wikipedia (User:Koryakov Yuri); I'll tap into his knowledge for our coverage of languages of Greece. Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:49, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Map

The Map will be ready by the end of this week but it will not include any captions. You or somebody else will have to translate the names and include them in the map, is that OK?--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 17:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I sent you the cleared map. If you received it please let me know--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 13:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

So, how is it going with the map?--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 18:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I got a bit slow and did nothing! Είμαι τόσο άσχετος με το Photoshop που δεν έχω αξιωθεί να κάνω τίποτε. But some day this week I'm afraid I'll have to test my abilities. In any case, we don't have to put all the captions of the initial map. I think that just some of them would be fine. We don't have to translate everything!--Yannismarou (talk) 19:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I will give it a try now then--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 19:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank God! I did not have the balls to ask it myself! Have in mind that you can also upload it yourself, in order to take the credit for its creation and all the work you did!--Yannismarou (talk) 19:05, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Have a look at your email. I just sent it. I'd rather you had a look first and if you find it agreeable than upload it. I don't care who will take the credit as long as it is useful--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 20:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I just had another look and found out that a place name is missing. I don't know whether I should include all of the dates either... So I 'd prefer it if you would send me your comments first. I will try to incorporate as many improvements as possible and then get back to you with the finished result. Aesthetically speaking the original was infinitely better...--Giorgos Tzimas (talk) 21:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

We cannot have a perfect result. But, at least, we can have a very good map in English. I could put it in the first place in its original form in German. But I thought that it would be better for the English user of the English wiki to have it translated. The second map works already fine with 3rdAlcove's proposal, since what is there basically needed to know is what each color represents.--Yannismarou (talk) 07:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request

Αγαπητέ Γιάννη, επειδή έχω από καιρό αποχωρήσει από τη WP, θα μπορούσες παρακαλώ να διαγράψεις οριστικά τη φωτογραφία January_2006.jpg που υπήρχε στη σελίδα μου‎; Θα εκτιμούσα ιδιαίτερα τη βοήθειά σου και ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων. Dr Moshe 10:22, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] About Enosis

Well, I am not an expert on the subject, but I have seen a few sources describing the Cretan's desire for union as enosis. I will dig a little further in the next few weeks to find these sources (I have a bad memory)... but it might be better (if there are sources that describe it as enosis) to change the enosis' article to be more generic...just an idea... A.Cython (talk) 22:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

• This is an interesting idea about the enosis article.--Yannismarou (talk) 10:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Ha, I just saw your comments for Eleftherios Venizelos, I will read them and try to improve the article, Thanks a lot, this will help me! :D ευχαριστώ!A.Cython (talk) 22:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I have added some comments and questions on the review of Eleftherios Venizelos. Any comments are welcomed. A.Cython (talk) 09:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Seleucid-Parthian-Roman map

Hi Yannismarou, yes it should be possible. The only problem I can see is that the base map already has a lot of color on it, but User:Porikolpok Oxom has done a great job of showing me how to add more colored nations with his corrections on my map of Tibet .

I may need a few days to do this, but I will do my best and upload it when finished. Respectfully, Thomas Lessman (talk) 17:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry Yannismarou, I forgot to check the existing Seleucid map before I posted my response. It only shows part of the Roman Republic (otherwise the map would have been larger than some editors prefer). For this new map, should I expand it to include ALL of the Mediterranean Sea (in order to show all of the Roman Republic), or does the existing map show enough of the Roman Republic for what you need?

Also, is this (200BC) map the one you want to display, or is there another year you would prefer (hopefully one where I've already made the map!) Thomas Lessman (talk) 18:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay I've uploaded a version of the map and replaced the Tibetan map I put here earlier, but it needs a few "fixes".(Image:Rome-Seleucia-Parthia 200ad.jpg) Like I uploaded it under the wrong filename (ad instead of bc). And I want to add "Roman" above "Republic". I'll make those fixes and upload them under the correct filename either tonight or tomorrow morning. If you have any thoughts or anything else you'd like to see on it, this would be a good time to point it out! Respectfully, Thomas Lessman (talk) 01:47, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I just uploaded the finished product. I actually did quite a few changes, especially which color went to which nation. It just doesn't seem right unless Rome is the purple one..!

Anyway, the finished map is (Image:Rome-Seleucia-Parthia_200bc.jpg). It's also in this discussion thread, right where I've been placing maps related to this discussion. Let me know if there are any problems or questions, etc. Respectfully, Thomas Lessman (talk) 08:32, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Roman-Persian Wars

Hello again Yannis. Yes, I would be happy to help out here, but it will be a few days, at least, before I get to it. Hope all is well, and best. Ceoil (talk) 22:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Killed in Action. Cheers! Cam (Chat) 22:46, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hellenism

Hi, Yannis, You apparently have something to do with the replacement of a relatively informative page on Hellenism and introducing, unfortunately, quite original page that reveals your, although you are Greek (!), may be slightly defective knowledge what concerns Hellenism in general. You do not seam to be a Hellenist by profession and I would suggest that this page be written by the experts. You now removed my just a slight improvements on the introduction (the rest still contains number of mistakes!), that was obviously not up to date. Can you explain why?Draganparis (talk) 13:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

If you want an encyclopedia written by the "experts" you are at the wrong place my friend. In any case, judging by the edit I reverted, allow me to to have my doubts on whether you qualify as an "expert" or not. I would also suggest that you have a look at Wikipedia's policies, and understand the notion of "consensus". Your edit significantly altered and obscured the meaning of the lead; therefore it was not an "improvement", but an important change, which IMO should have been discussed in the talk page. Now, if you want to know why I regard it as inaccurate, raise the issue in the appropriate place (the article's talk page), and you will have my comments. But I do not intend to discuss the issue here. Respectfully,--Yannismarou (talk) 06:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)