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History

Hi

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/History_and_society and http://en.wikipedia.org/Portal:History .

Also, I'd like to collaborate with you on making our article a feature article! I'm considering picking up this http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0199261083/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance either on amazon or at the library. It looks like the seminal reference for the subject. JPotter (talk) 04:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

You can find my email by clicking on the "Email this user" link on the left. also, I removed many of the hyperlinks as per http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Links. Please have a look and you'll see why I made the edits I did. JPotter (talk) 07:35, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Try now. JPotter (talk) 21:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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Roman Constitution

You have done/are doing an absolutely marvellous job on the Constitution of the Roman Republic page! If I can offer some advice though, you could do with a lot more references for the information you're putting in. Are you mostly using the Lintott book, or is that from somewhere else? Another thing, is that perhaps just cosmetically, you could do with fewer subsections: the subsections should ideally have links to "main page" articles. But I'll be really interested to see it keep taking shape. Keep going! Wikidea 11:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I only know bits and pieces about the topic, and a few general things about Roman law, so I couldn't be much help with content. I think you're doing a good job without much help anyway! Wikidea 10:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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Late Roman army

Hi RomanHistorian

Could you give us a hand with the Late Roman army article? Thanks Wandalstouring (talk) 19:05, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Good job!

Hey man, great work you're doing on the article, Constitution of the Roman Republic. Just want to say, keep that up. — EliasAlucard (Discussion · contribs) 09:42, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Doing a good job

keep up the good work

		The Original Barnstar
		for your hard work on Constitution of the Roman Republic JPotter (talk) 11:11, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator elections

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! Kirill 16:56, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Milhist coordinators election has started

The February 2008 Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of fifteen candidates. Please vote here by February 28. --ROGER DAVIES  21:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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Retiarius peer review

Hello! I saw your name listed on the Peer Review volunteers page. I hoped you might take a look at retiarius, which I placed on Peer Review yesterday. The peer review is here. I'm looking at taking the article to Featured Article Candidates, but before I do that, it needs some more eyes to look it over and check it out. Any suggestions you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. — Dulcem (talk) 05:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Peer review idea

Hi, I have made a proposal that no peer review request be archived without some response. To aid in this, there is a new list of PR requests at least one week old that have had no repsonses beyond a semi-automated peer review. This list is at Misplaced Pages:Peer review/backlog.

There are just over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, so I figure if each of these volunteers reviewed just one or two PR requests without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog (as there have been 2 or 3 such unanswered requests a day on average).

If you would be able to help out with a review or two a month from the "no responses" backlog list that would be great (and much appreciated). Please discuss questions, comments, or ideas at the PR talk page and thanks in advance for your help, Ruhrfisch _><>° 00:17, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Tarquin and the Sibylline books.jpg

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Image copyright problem with Image:Dictator Sulla.jpg

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Constitution of the Roman Republic

The article is at present 163 kilobytes long. According Misplaced Pages:Article size, such articles are considered too long. Read Misplaced Pages:Article_size#A_rule_of_thumb. If an article exceeds 100 KB, then the article "almost certainly should be divided up". To maintain wikipedia's standard article size, a length 32 KB is preferred. The article certainly need to be spitted into multiple articles. The History and Origin section should be shortened and the excess information should be mention in a different article. For that, you can create a new article titled History and Origin of the Constitution of the Roman Republic. The Senate section is too long. It should be shortened and details information should be given in the main article Roman Senate. The Executive Branch section is too long. Give information in concise manner and create new article titled The Executive Branch of the Constitution of the Roman Republic where you can give the details. In this way the article can be shortened. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 08:16, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

The Executive Branch section is clearly too long. If there are different articles present, that's fine. But a confined article is needed only for the Executive Branch. Which is why a new article titled The Executive Branch of the Constitution of the Roman Republic can be created and the information in this article should be mentioned in two to three paragraphs. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 08:40, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		The Epic Barnstar
		For your expansion of Senate of the Roman Republic, I award you the Epic Barnstar. I chair a body that has recently voted to hold its next meeting outside, "Roman style". What they meant by this was that we should all wear togas, but I thought that it might be fun to add a few procedural flourishes as well. Unfortunately, until your recent expansion of this article, I couldn't find any information on Roman parliamentary law. Thank you! Sarcasticidealist (talk) 16:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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