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Ok folks, this article is RIFE with Harvard cite warnings...actually none of the refs in "secondary sources" work the way they are supposed to, there are 47 - 47 - Harvard warnings. If possible, I will work on pulling apart every single stinkin' ref to try to get each ref to actually work and yeah, this will be a long-term project. In case you're not seeing the issue, I have the following script installed - "User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js". Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 13:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, after further review I have decided to not even try to fix these issues, I would have to pull apart each individual reference and verify the stated information. Not being familiar with the material all this is beyond my scope at this time. Am hopeful that some of the regulars around here can maybe take this on. Shearonink (talk) 13:39, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Details regarding the expansion of the Rashidun Caliphate in the lead
The article is about the Roman-Persian wars. Not a single Roman-Persian war is wikilinked or referred to in the lead, yet all the individual Rashidun invasions are. --Z11:28, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Requested move 8 August 2025
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 reviewafter discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Roman–Persian wars → Roman–Iranian wars – The Parthian Empire was not meaningfully "Persian", and did not use Persian as a common administrative language. The conflicts between Rome and the Parthian empire are not generally described in the academic literature as part of any "Roman-Persian wars" as far as I can tell. Hemiauchenia (talk) 14:35, 8 August 2025 (UTC) — Relisting.ASUKITE16:28, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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.
Scope of this article
Why do we have a separate article for Roman–Parthian wars but not Roman–Sasanian wars? In my move discussion above, Necrothesp failed to give a good reason why a page that discusses the Parthian wars as well as the Roman-Sassianian wars collectively should be called the "Roman-Persian wars" when one of the titular "Persian" combatant parties was not Persian and almost never referred to as such. As far as I can tell, the vast majority of authors dealing with conflicts between the Roman and the Parthians and Sassanians deal with the Roman-Parthian conflicts separately from the Roman-Sassanian ones, and don't discuss them collectively, and when they do use the term "Roman-Persian wars", they are generally exclusively referring to the Roman-Sassanian wars. One solution would be to have this page solely deal with the Roman-Sassanian wars, for which the title "Roman-Persian wars" have been used in the academic literature e.g. The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628: A Narrative Sourcebook (2002). Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:44, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]