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The Hashemite main page should lead directly to the current disambiguation,instead of going to the Jordan recent branch.

• Banu Hashem tribe
• Hashemites of Jordan (current dynasty)
• Hashemites of Iran (current Ayatollah)
• Hashemites of Morocco (current dynasty)
• Hashemite dynasties (historic)

This will reduce the current confusion we see on the talk page Tiwahi (talk) 21:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

• Tiwahi, this sounds like a good idea to me. If other editors are alright with it, I don't see why we should not list the Banu Hashem tribe and the different Hashemite clans under the main page. Векочел (talk) 00:10, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello! I've noticed you've been editing Cleopatra a lot lately. Would you be interested in reviewing the article in its current form, at the Featured Article Candidacy page? If not, I understand, since reviewing an article takes a considerable amount of time and work, but I would greatly appreciate it if you would help in the process of lifting the article to Featured status. Regards, Pericles of Athens^Talk 21:47, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Alright, I think I will.
Векочел (talk) 00:13, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

That's great! Thank you kindly. Feel free to take as much time as you need. The review process will probably take another month anyways, at the current rate it is going. Bring up any issues or concerns you may have with the article, or any areas you think need improvement. Regards, Pericles of Athens^Talk 00:17, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Could I ask you a small favor? Could you go back to the FAC page for Cleopatra at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Cleopatra/archive1#Comments_by_Векочел and change the sub-heading "Comments by Векочел" to "Support by Векочел", please? I think it would make it easier for the reviewers to see the support for the article. Thanks! Pericles of Athens^Talk 18:53, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

I will change the sub-heading. Векочел (talk) 23:55, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Ptolemy IX Lathyros 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 Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 11:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

The article Ptolemy IX Lathyros you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Ptolemy IX Lathyros for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 12:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

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The article Faisal of Saudi Arabia you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Faisal of Saudi Arabia for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of HaEr48 -- HaEr48 (talk) 15:40, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, Векочел. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Marcus Aurelius at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Tdslk (talk) 19:28, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, I've noticed that you've been changing the image for Constantine the Great quite a lot. For the sake of standardization and stability of Constantine's wiki page, I think it best to decide on a good image and leave it as is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spykryo (talk • contribs) 23:27, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

@Spykryo: Does File:0 Gaius Flavius Valerius Constantinus - Palatino.JPG sound good? Векочел (talk) 23:30, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that will be good. Thank you! Spykryo (talk) 23:36, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

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STELLA HORREI TACITI (the Barnstar of Tacitus) For your prolific contributions to Marcus Aurelius and other related pages! Informata ob Iniquitatum (talk) 22:23, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for this! Векочел (talk) 23:53, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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On 28 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Julia Domna, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Roman empress Julia Domna helped philosophy flourish in the Roman Empire and was involved in many building projects? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Julia Domna. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Julia Domna), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Hello! I just saw that you recently nominated the article Marcus Aurelius for "Featured Article" status, but it did not become an FA. That is not surprising, since the FA standards are extremely high and Marcus Aurelius is an extremely significant historical figure, both for his role as an emperor and his role as a philosopher, meaning that any article about him would have to be in absolute top-shape to qualify for FA status. (I happen to have recently nominated the article Pythagoras for FA status; it did not become an FA either.) I would recommend nominating Marcus Aurelius for "Good Article" status, which I think would be completely attainable for that article. Also, if you look at current FAs, a very large number of them were previously GAs before being promoted, so bringing the article to GA status could be another step towards FA. --Katolophyromai (talk) 01:49, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Alright, I will nominate it for GA status soon. Векочел (talk) 03:13, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

I suspect that it has a good chance of making it to GA status. Even if it does not pass GA review, the process of going through it will still help improve the article. --Katolophyromai (talk) 03:21, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

You added some templates to the Cleopatra talk page, but I think they've just been collecting dust since the nomination was never transcluded to Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates. Are you going to finish nominating them, or can the templates be removed from the talk page? Modulus12 (talk) 18:56, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

I will nominate them. Векочел (talk) 22:43, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Векочел! I just thought of something we both could benefit from: what would you say if I review Basil II at the FAC and you review an article of mine, History of aluminium? It's okay if you're not particularly familiar with the topic: most readers are casual readers anyway, so response from them is very welcome.--R8R (talk) 11:48, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

@R8R: Alright, I can review your article. Векочел (talk) 13:57, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Just in case, I'd want a review from you that could under some conditions become a support vote (or just straight-away support if you've got nothing to add; though if you do, that would be very welcome) and I'll try to give you something of that kind as well.--R8R (talk) 16:58, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Векочел, your nomination of Template:Did you know nominations/Ptolemy I Soter was reviewed back in early September, and you were pinged on this page then that there were issues involved with the nomination that needed to be solved. Are you still interested in pursuing the nomination. If so, you need to respond soon on the page I just linked to. If not, you can let me know here. If would be a shame if we didn't hear from you and the nomination had to be closed. Thanks again for nominating, and I look forward to seeing progress. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:26, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello. You added ages to many late Seleucid articles, however, the age estimation need two fixed date to calculate. Antiochus X is considered to have been born c. 113 BC and died either in 92 or 88 BC; those are fixed dates, and you can calculate that he died aged either 20 or 25. Philip I does not have such precession; he was born between A and B, and died in A or B. You have no fixed numbers to calculate. The into in in the article itself to allow the reader to get an idea and do his own calculations, but editors should not indulge in highly speculative statements in the infobox for example. Same goes for Cleopatra Selene. Being born between 135 and 130 does not give a specific year, hence it is speculative and does not belong in the infobox. For example, if we think someone was born between 1910 and 1950 and we know he died in 1990, then it is not really acceptable to write his age at death between 40 to 80.

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Just a comment. If you do a google search for "a companion to marcus aurelius study.nju.edu " the first or second link should lead to a PDF document containing the 500+ page book of this publication

I saved a PDF copy for myself...although my main interest is not Marcus himself and I do few edits on wikipedia. On page 87, is the only authentic epigraphic evidence of Marcus Aurelius' rain miracle. There are many interesting article and the copy is only 3.11 MB. I assume you already have it. I can't afford $228 US for this book. Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 09:55, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Векочел (talk) 12:05, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

• No problem at all. I hope you find the book to be helpful as I see you are very knowledgeable on M. Aurelius. I am mostly active on Wikicommons where I am a license reviewer as this shows I mostly edit about Egyptology on Wikipedia in the past but today I have to work (in real life) and some users you meet on Wikipedia can be very nasty sadly. Best Regards from Canada, --Leoboudv (talk) 18:26, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Векочел. If you intended to submit Marcus Aurelius for an ACR, I assume that you did, then you need to complete steps 4, 5 and 6 of the instructions. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:59, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

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On 12 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ptolemy I Soter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ptolemy I Soter (pictured), a companion of Alexander the Great, founded the Ptolemaic dynasty to which Cleopatra belonged? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ptolemy I Soter. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ptolemy I Soter), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Here is a PDF copy on Hay's book on Meditations: http://seinfeld.co/library/meditations.pdf

I assume though you already have it. Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 21:58, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for the link. Векочел (talk) 22:39, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: I checked and Googled for the best books on Meditations and many people said here that G. Hays version is one of the best. And this is his updated version with "An Introduction by G. Hays". I'm happy if you are happy. Kind Regards from Canada, --Leoboudv (talk) 01:17, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

• A final comment...if I may! G. Hays' introduction is on page 7 to 67 of the book and it is very good. I thought that the only remaining intact version of meditations was the Vatican Museum copy since the Xylander copy was lost. That is indeed true...BUT if the Xylander copy did not survive into the 16th century, no one would care about MA's Meditations...since the Vatican copy is almost unusable.

Why? As Hays says on page 52 of his introduction: "The fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 led to an exodus of scholars, bringing with them the Greek texts that inspired the Italian Renaissance. The Meditations must have been among them. Yet even at this date the work’s survival hung by a thread. The only complete manuscript to survive is a fourteenth-century codex (now in the Vatican), which is riddled with errors. The first printed edition did not appear until 1559, when Wilhelm Holzmann (known as Xylander) produced a text from what seems to have been a more reliable manuscript. That manuscript, unfortunately, has not survived. But even at its best it was a very imperfect witness to what Marcus himself wrote."

In other words, if the copyist of the Xylander version of Meditatiuons was not more careful, MA's Meditations would be considered a lost work today sadly. The Meditations survived on just a single reliable manuscript...and it went into mass print before it was lost forever. How lucky is that? Very lucky indeed. Goodbye, --Leoboudv (talk) 10:19, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks so much for all you do. I've already acknowledged your hard work and I am pleased to see it continue. I do, however, have a little request. Could you please try to make less serial edits, and instead combine them into a single change and please try to use edit summaries more often. It may seem minor, but it is really helpful to other editors to have less changes numerically. For instance, the 4 changes you made to Marcus Aurelius, between 18:28 and 18:36 could have been combined with a comment like "CU of succession content"; or the 6 changes you made between 21:42 and 21:57 could likewise have been combined into a single final edit with an appropriate summary.

I have already given you my personal user award, the Barnstar of Tacitus, and am considering giving you a second one. But as someone who reviews the changes to this and other pages, this would make my efforts easier. Informata ob Iniquitatum (talk) 01:57, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

• Yes, thanks for your advice. Векочел (talk) 06:03, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

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Hi! It looks as if User:Векочел/Sons of Antiochus VIII was created by copying stuff without attribution from a variety of other Wikipedia pages. You're free and welcome to re-use Wikipedia content, here or elsewhere, but our licence does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum by an appropriate edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page (e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution). It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk-pages of both the source page(s) and destination page. Please provide attribution in this case (or tell me where you copied the stuff from and I'll do it for you). If you've copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons for it at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Oh, and please don't remove speedy deletion templates from pages that you created yourself – let someone else do that! Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:05, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Векочел. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Basil II at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 22:44, 11 March 2019 (UTC))

Hi Векочел, hereit looks as though you are removing the emdashes I added and changing them for unspaced endashes. To comply with the Wikipedia style guide – with which articles should comply to get through FA review – If you want to use endashes please use them with a space on either side; like this: text here – test here; please see the MOS. Choice of dash should also be consistent throughout the article, and punctuation should precede references, not follow them. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 00:39, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

As per the above; I'll be adding spaced endashes for the rest of the c/e. Baffle☿gab 17:38, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

You've been told about this before. At Salman of Saudia Arabia you've just removed several references. I've reverted you - maybe you had a good reason, but you didn't provide one so it's impossible to tell. If an IP was doing that I might block them. Doug Weller talk 18:56, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

• In these instances, the same citation is being used twice without any other citation being used. For instance it might read 'Info...[35] More info...[35]' but not 'Info...[35] Other info...[36] Other info...[35]' Векочел (talk) 19:09, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

And you are still doing it – I've just reverted some of your edits to Mahathir Mohamad‎ because you removed references without leaving any edit summary to explain why. Our advice on edit summaries reads, in part: "It is considered good practice to provide a summary for every edit" and "To avoid accidentally leaving edit summaries blank, you can select "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" on the Editing tab of your user preferences". That represents community consensus, and should not be ignored unless there's a very good reason for doing so. If references are duplicated they should be combined under a single reference name, not removed – please ask here if you don't know how to do that. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:09, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi. I have quickfailed your GA nomination of Basil I because the article is a long way from being complete. Again, for what feels like the n-th time, please don't nominate until you are certain that the criteria are met, and have seriously worked on meeting them yourself. Taking other people's work and copyediting around is not the way to success. Just a couple of days ago we had the same discussion: Wikipedia is not about racking up GA/FA nominations, but about building an encyclopedia. This pattern of behaviour is troubling: it contributes nothing to the encyclopedia, and only creates additional work and distracts other editors from more productive things. Please take time to work on and get to know a topic before nominating in the future. Constantine ✍ 09:05, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

I have to agree with Constantine, the Basil I article needs considerably more material on his reign and legislation. This is something that cannot add to at present, as I do not have the sources. Urselius (talk) 13:56, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi Векочел; your edits are being discussed at WP:ANI. The thread is titled GA/FA nominations by user Векочел. Baffle☿gab 18:44, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

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@PatGallacher: The entire paragraph is uncited and has been that way for some time. The Domitian article is an FA. Векочел (talk) 15:08, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi, this article is nowhere near GA status, and would require considerable improvement before reaching it (at least twice the size of the current article). Primary sources discussion and bibliography are missing; some very important sources are missing (such as this Ronald Syme's article, and many others for example here). I am tempted to fail it right now, but can let you several weeks to improve it if you wish.

Please also use the edit summary when you edit an article. T8612 (talk) 16:57, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

• @T8612: Are there any topics you want covered in the article? It's a bit hard to go into much detail about Galba given the brevity of his reign. Векочел (talk) 17:15, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

You can start by including the contents of the very rich article from Syme I listed above. It gives many details on his career, associates, reign, his appointments, the reasons for his failure, etc. Try to also look at the sources Syme gives and include them as well. T8612 (talk) 17:27, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

@T8612: Unfortunately, I don't have access to JSTOR. Векочел (talk) 17:37, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Here you go. You also have access to six free articles per month if you register on JSTOR. T8612 (talk) 17:56, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

@T8612: Note: The requirements for GA are not as strict as those for FA. I will look for sources but FA is perhaps a long-term, but not an immediate, goal. Векочел (talk) 16:33, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Reign of Marcus Aurelius at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 04:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

On 15 May 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Reign of Marcus Aurelius, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius co-ruled with his adoptive brother Lucius Verus in the first joint rule between Roman emperors, and later co-ruled with his own son Commodus? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Reign of Marcus Aurelius. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Reign of Marcus Aurelius), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

The article Ptolemy XII Auletes you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Ptolemy XII Auletes for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MrClog -- MrClog (talk) 22:40, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

The article Ptolemy XII Auletes you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ptolemy XII Auletes for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. MrClog (talk) 14:46, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

• Congratulations on achieving GA status on the article. It was packed with interesting information. Amitchell125 17:12, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

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