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Writing
editThis article is very poorly written. Is it cut and paste from Google Translate of another article in a different language? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:192:4603:5542:6C5E:E6DB:E61A:51BF (talk) 17:49, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Death
editArticle say
In 87 BC Strabo was killed by a disease outbreak in his army
But article is in Category:Deaths from lightning strikes What's right? Y~ruwiki (talk) 11:03, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Requested move 2 September 2020
edit- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Page moved (non-admin closure) Vpab15 (talk) 16:11, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Pompeius Strabo → Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo – Double redirect. Convention is to write the full name. T8612 (talk) 02:44, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:30, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- @T8612, Ammarpad, and Kj cheetham: queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:31, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- @T8612: Which "convention"?, can you provide any link? – Ammarpad (talk) 06:15, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- I thought WP:COMMONNAME applied here? -Kj cheetham (talk) 07:51, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Ammarpad: Convention is WP:ROMANS: "Many Roman men, particularly those of middling fame, will be known by their tria nomina, a set of three names...". Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo is of "middling fame". T8612 (talk) 11:02, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- That seems more like an observation than a convention. It seems to just be saying that in many cases, the tria nomina will be the WP:Common name. It does not appear to be saying that that the tria nomina should be the preferred article name regardless of whether it matches the common name or not. —BarrelProof (talk) 13:28, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- Mild support. But I would add that just "Pompeius Strabo" seems the most natural way of referring to him, especially due to him being the father of the more famous Pompeius. Avis11 (talk) 23:40, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- Support No reason to not include his full name. Dimadick (talk) 09:54, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
- Support. Easier to be sure of where his article is located this way. The abbreviated title can still be used in suitable contexts, and will still redirect to the correct article. P Aculeius (talk) 14:30, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
- Support per nom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.110.217.186 (talk) 21:55, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
- Support per nom. LuciusHistoricus (talk) 14:43, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
- The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Infobox
editThis article, along with several other articles about ancient Romans, was changed to use a different infobox, {{infobox officeholder}}. In consequence, there's discussion about which infobox to use and how at Talk:Julius Caesar#Infobox and then at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome#Infoboxes for Roman office-holders as a more central location. NebY (talk) 19:48, 22 November 2022 (UTC)