Misplaced Pages

User talk:Krakkos

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Andrew Lancaster (talk | contribs) at 21:53, 8 February 2020 (large number of hidden reverts with misleading edsum?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 21:53, 8 February 2020 by Andrew Lancaster (talk | contribs) (large number of hidden reverts with misleading edsum?)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
This user is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries.

Welcome!

Hello, Krakkos, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits have not conformed to Misplaced Pages's verifiability policy, and may be removed if they have not yet been. Misplaced Pages articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Misplaced Pages also has a related policy against including original research in articles. As well, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

If you are stuck and looking for help, please see the guide for citing sources or come to the new contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Misplaced Pages:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  Go Phightins! (talk) 19:43, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

A page you started has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Vangio and Sido, Krakkos!

Misplaced Pages editor Falkirks just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

I have reviewed and passed your new article. Great Work!

To reply, leave a comment on Falkirks's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

Peter Heather

On the Vienna School of History article I see reference to Heather supposedly criticizing Halsall for being biased because of money he got from the European Science Foundation? It comes across as quite a strong accusation. First small concern: the wording needs tweaking to avoid implying that Liebeschuetz also mentioned this organization? Secondly though I do not have access to the 2018 article being cited, but when I went searching I find Peter Heather thanking this same European Science Foundation for his own participation, and numerous references to such a friendly connection. So I am wondering if his remark was really as strong as we are reporting it?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 09:33, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

@Andrew Lancaster: In his 2018 essay Race, migration and national origins, Heather does write that the European Science Foundation has given a huge amount of support to the Transformation of the Roman World project. Heather was himself at one point part of this project. He writes that this project is suited to the political aims of the European Union. Wolf Liebeschuetz and Bryan Ward-Perkins writes the same thing. Jeanine Rutenburg and Arthur M. Eckstein, in their review of Heather's book, also points out the role of the European Science Foundation in boosting the theories of the Vienna School and the Toronto School. They don't mention Guy Halsall however, but Walter Goffart. Krakkos (talk) 10:22, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge

Excellent work, feel free to put up your articles here!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for February 3

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Romance peoples, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Christian (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 12:09, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Goths

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Goths you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 21:20, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

large number of hidden reverts with misleading edsum?

Was it on purpose that you did not mention all the reverts in this edit or by mistake? The reverts being made are all regarding very concrete concerns you've had quite some time to explain on the talk page also. If this was just done by mistake, can I ask you to fix that? If not, then I think the onus is on you to give justifications on the talk page. As pointed out in detail, the versions of these sentences you have reverted to are badly sourced and appear to be a POV fork section which deliberately argues against another better sourced part of the article.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 17:38, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

This should be discussed at Talk:Germanic peoples. Krakkos (talk) 21:03, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
Nope. As you know very well, the article relevant topics ARE being discussed at the article talk page. This message to you personally as an editor, is about your editing approach. Article talk pages are not the right place to point out systematic problems with individual editors, and it is always good to assume good faith as much as possible anyway, and first try to explain concerns to other editors, giving them a chance to explain any misunderstandings etc. Do you think there were any misunderstandings or errors?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 21:53, 8 February 2020 (UTC)