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Hi Alessandro, long time no speak. Thought you might be interested in this.[1] As far as I can see, the editorial pattern mimicks the usual "fight for a European Caucasus" narrative. - LouisAragon (talk) 23:06, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
- Pinging my old friend Chipmunkdavis who's also well aware of such recurrent POVs on Wikipedia. I don't think said account is a sock, but given their determination to change the overal "consensus" on Wikipedia (i.e. changing content on several related pages on the same day), this might be something to keep an eye on. - LouisAragon (talk) 23:12, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @Louis, I'm OK, thanks, compatibly with the situation (war and Covid, which here in Switzerland rages again among general indifference). Coming to the article, the problem is that all these users play on the ambiguity between physical geographic definition and geopolitical definition. I have to say that the article in question is not very clear: when it reads "Geopolitical data for Asia", "Asia" must obviously be meant in the sense of physical geography, and maybe it should be specified. Otherwise, as it has happened, someone can pretend (rightly, since this is described in the paragraph) that the three countries in question belong geopolitically to Europe, and then remove them from the list. :-( Maybe we should change the title of the paragraph in "Geopolitical data for countries geographically located in Asia". However now the article is on my watchlist. Bye, Alex2006 (talk) 06:58, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Administratime term
Alessandro57 reverted my correction of a mistranslation in the article about Corsica. I had replaced the meaningless expression "territorial collectivity" with the meaningful term "region". Alessandro reverted my correction claiming that it is an "administratime term", whatever that means. "Collectivity" means 1. The quality or condition of being collective. 2. The people considered as a body or whole. So "territorial collectivity" must mean "territorial quality or condition of being collective" or else "territorial people considered as a body". Neither expression makes any sense, even if we admit that it is an "administratime term", since it isn't an "administratime term" in the English language. Banderswipe (talk) 02:00, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hallo Banderswipe, and thanks for writing. You can read here that the term is not meaningless, and that cannot be translated with region. Actually here at wikipedia it is quite normal to translate administrative terms from foreign languages into English. To comfort you I can tell you that "collettività territoriale" does not make much sense even in Italian (my mother tongue), yet it has been translated so on Italian wikipedia. Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 05:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
President of South Tyrol
Hello Alessandro, thank you for letting me know about my edit to South Tyrol, I was not aware. Do you think that other instances of Governor should be changed to President . Furthermore, should the article List of governors of South Tyrol be renamed as the Italian equivalent does indeed favour Presidente. I would be interested to hear your opinion before make by any such changes. Many thanks, Vesuvio14 (talk) 13:31, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Modification of Corsica page
Unauthorized modification and propagation of false information on the Corsica page. Please stop editing the page with your fake information. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sxmi (talk • contribs) 11:03, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
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Spanish Steps
Alessandro
You removed a paragraph that I added to the article on the Spanish Steps about the Maserati being driven down the steps on what appeared to be the grounds that this is a common occurrence. If so why not leave my addition in place and preface with with "Since they were invented cars have occasionally been driven by accident or intent down the steps. One of the most notable incidents was the ....."
John
- Hallo John, thanks for writing. The problem is that compared to the three-hundred-year history of the monument the episode you describe is not notable. As mentioned, only during the last ten years the descent of a car, SUV, motorcycle. etc. has happened at least three to four other times. Sometime one makes a mistake, sometime someone else wants to pull a stunt; a few steps are damaged, then they are repaired, and the incident is forgotten. I removed your contribution according to a wikipedia policy named WP:RECENT. And if I hadn't done it, someone else would have done it a week or two later. This happens because your addition is not encyclopedic, and goes against the WP:RECENT policy. Bye, Alex2006 (talk) 06:57, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
Zurich
The correct spelling of Zurich in the English language does not include an umlaut. Please refrain from further vandalizing the article or you will be reported. 190.193.5.188 (talk) 00:11, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
- I protected the article in the pre-editwar version. Please take note of Talk:Zürich. --Leyo 00:22, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
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Cesi family
Sorry Alessandro but didn't you see that there was a draft page. I created the link, but then they moved the draft page to me. You have done an automatic translation. Now we have to integrate even if there are things that are inaccurate in the corresponding article in Italian. Best regards Peter39c (talk) 18:57, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Fair enough
I confused myself believing Hadrian made it a Municipium rather than a Colonia. The fact that it was settled by Italic peoples it's mentioned by Appian, it's also in Julian Bennnet's biography of Trajan, in Emilio Gabba's studies on Italic emigration, and in Knapp studies on Iberia. You can find the sources here: Italica#History. This is why Italica has that name and it's also the reason why we can trace Trajan's and Hadrian's family roots back to Tuder (Todi) and Hadria(Atri), their families moved from these places to Italica.Barjimoa (talk) 06:57, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
BTW can you also keep an eye on the mention of Italica as a municipium made up of Italic settlers. It's universally accepted scolarship, mentioned by both the Ancients and the modern authors, and has been there for quite some time but one user keeps removing the information, this same user has removed a couple sources about Trajan's family which were there some months ago and now are gone. In fact i believed i had corrected this other user regarding the Municipium, not you. Barjimoa (talk) 07:26, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
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