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Thank you today for Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis, "about a (relatively) big hit in the field of archaeological theory, and an interesting snapshot of the science-loving processual trend in the archaeology of the 1970s and '80s. In 1970, a graduate student named Art Saxe came up with a set of eight ideas about how a society's funerary practices might tell us interesting things about its social organisation. Numbers one through seven were barely noticed, but the eighth was adopted by another young scholar, Lynne Goldstein, and turned into a sharp if controversial tool for reading the archaeological record. Essentially, Saxe and Goldstein argued that cemeteries are really about competition over resources, and a society's use of formal cemeteries is a good indication that people in that society are fighting over something."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Today's main page features four biographies I helped to bring there, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, - a record for me, I believe ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:07, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I note that several of the pages on which i see errors are locked. Why is this and why am I unable to access them to make corrections? Is it my lack of understanding to process or are these errors literally locked in? --Gradaws (talk) 22:20, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Certain pages are protected, which means that they can only be edited by certain editors. Usually, this means that there has either been persistent vandalism, or the topic is particularly controversial, which means that major edits usually need to be discussed and find consensus before being implemented. If you're not able to edit one of them, you can go to the Talk page and use the {{protected edit request}}. If the proposed edit is more subjective than a straightforward "fix", it might be wise to open a discussion thread first and explain what you think is wrong and how it should be changed, with reliable sources to support your view. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 10:18, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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On 21 February 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Golding (art historian), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John Golding avoided painting horizontal lines in his work so that his pieces would not be mistaken for landscapes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Golding (art historian). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, John Golding (art historian)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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hola, como pongo una ubicación --Nachosancionado (talk) 10:40, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

On 27 February 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Golden Bough (Aeneid), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a golden branch in Virgil's Aeneid inspired a painting by Turner, poems by Yeats, and an anthropological study of ritual murder? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Golden Bough (Aeneid). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Golden Bough (Aeneid)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

HurricaneZeta^C 00:02, 27 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Can I be a user and have an article with the same name as my user name at the same time ? --Lord JajiRose (talk) 04:06, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello -- in principle, yes, but that article would need to be about something that meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. This normally means that it has been widely discussed in published sources. Most people don't meet those criteria (you'll find the details on the page WP:BIO), though other sites are available that are often more suitable. However, there are many users named after well-known historical figures, so it certainly can be done! UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 09:18, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

مرحبا --Mohammed.7366 7366 (talk) 04:17, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. I just wanted to say that your work on the Golden Bough article is amazing. I actually started reading the Aeneid a few weeks ago, and have definitely become a fan. It's nice to see articles relating to the subject getting more attention and love. I still have about 1.5 chapters left, and haven't really gone through the Harvard School article, but I can definitely see how the Aeneid includes some anti-war elements in it. I was also a bit surprised that despite Dido being a Carthagian, the epic actually has a very sympathetic depiction of the figure. And the whole "fate vs. free will" with Aeneas often being forced to move along is interesting.

Anyway, Book 6 was more or less my favourite one, and I would like to provide comments in the FAC. But I'm probably not gonna be too quick with it, if I do get involved. Is that all right with you? I also tend to be kinda anal with my FAC reviews, so hopefully I won't come off as too nitpicky/annoying.

Also, I found Aeneas' descent with the Oracle quite interesting as well. While I haven't read it yet, it did remind me a bit of Virgil acting as Dante's guide in Inferno, and reading the Golden Bough article, I saw that this guy Lucan also did a similar thing. Are there any other instances throughout antiquity or after of a similar "motif"? PanagiotisZois (talk) 19:29, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Panagiotis -- good to see you here, and thank you for the kind words. I'd be glad of your thoughts at FAC, though there's no rush: Michael Aurel is in the middle of a detailed review that seems to be chugging along well, and another editor has kindly offered to put some comments in as well. Nitpicking is really what FAC is about: if there are deficiencies in the article (as oppposed, of course, to simply things that another person would choose to do differently), they should be corrected, even if they're relatively small. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 20:17, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey UC. I wanted to send you a message for a few things. Firstly, I have started going through the latter part of the article, but with work, I may not be able to finish it until Sunday. Though I will do my best to achieve that goal, or at least finish it by Monday!

I also wanted to apologize for some of me comments being too nitpicky. I guess in my haste/excitement to go through the article, I neglected how tired I was and may not having paying as much attention as I should have when reading it.

Moreover, I also wanted to apologized for being too blunt/rude with some of my comments yesterday. That had less to do with you or your comments and more with me. It sucks when you're in a good mood, but a single customer can ruin your entire day, you know?

Anyway, I have taken your comments into consideration about not trying to force our own views on what an article should look like on the nominator, and will be far less nitpicky with the "Reception" portion. PanagiotisZois (talk) 11:04, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments so far -- I think I've just managed to polish off the last of Michael's, so Sunday/Monday would be great (but of course there no deadline). No worries about the review comments at all: I'm sorry if I was a bit curt with some of my replies. As I said above, there's nothing wrong with nit-picking small errors at FAC, as long as there actually is a nit (problem) to pick (fix) -- there's no pressure to find things to comment on purely for the sake of doing so. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 12:38, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The motif of a journey to the underworld is very old indeed and common to a lot of ancient myths -- see katabasis for examples. One of the interesting things not mentioned in that article is how often the journey is only symbolically to the Underworld (as it is in Lucan) -- for example, the entry of Theseus into the Labyrinth is reliably described in katabatic terms, as is the journey of Priam to the hut of Achilles in the Iliad (and, in some important ways, that of Odysseus to the house of Circe in the Odyssey. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 20:17, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, in this edit to Golden Bough (Aeneid) you introduce {{sfn|Pickup|Smith|2010|p=17}}, but there is no such source listed. You did add a source "Pickup & Smith 1990". If you could work out what you meant and correct the article it would be appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 22:49, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up -- someone's already got there! UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 07:22, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I want to create an article/an athlete profile of myself. Could you help me how i can do it? --Srijana Subba (talk) 04:40, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! The usual advice is that writing your own Wikipedia page is a bad idea. One of the key principles of Wikipedia is keeping a neutral point of view, which means that it's discouraged to write about anything where you have a conflict of interest. Articles also need to be based on what's published in reliable sources rather than necessarily what's true but unwritten, and it's almost impossible to have a detached perspective on the difference when you're the subject. Once the article is written, it's open to anyone to edit, and many people who have written their own biographies have ended up very dissatisfied with how they've turned out, or when the community decides to delete them -- there are various standards and criteria as to which subjects can have a stand-alone article. The received wisdom is to wait for someone else to get there first: if it's obvious to everyone else that a person should have a Wikipedia article, someone will see that and write one. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 10:33, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I stumbled across this the other day: Richard Firth, "Considering the Linear B Tablets in British Museums", in TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez (Cambridge, Mass, 2022), pp. 71–88, available online here. It seems to overlap several of your interests: British Museum acquisitions, Linear B tablets, Evans and Knossos, Gilliéron casts of Mycenaean antiquities. In addition to the two genuine tablets acquired from Evans in 1910, the BM has a dozen casts acquired in 1927. According to Firth these were purchased from G. père, although the museum's online catalogue attributes them to G. fils. Neither WP article mentions Linear B tablets among the reproductions made by the family firm. I'm not sure it deserves a special mention, but since the Bronze Age stuff is your bailiwick, and since the article may be interesting to you for other reasons, I thought I'd pass it along. Choliamb (talk) 13:41, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting -- I'll give it a proper read a bit later, but it sticks out that Gilliéron père died in 1924: if the acquisition was indeed 1927, it was almost certainly from the son, though of course that doesn't say anything about who actually produced them. In general I think the son took on more of the family firm's work as time went on, so he's the prime suspect -- we can probably get a line into his article. Andrew Shapland (formerly curator of the Bronze Age galleries) seems to have another relevant article on a similar topic. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 16:54, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]