Talk:Darius I of Persia
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I removed the incorrect part about the origin of the name Darius, which indicated it is from the Old Testament. The same mistake was also made about the name of Cyrus, which indicated it is from Hebrew (which I corrected and provided the correct etymology on that page). Both names are originally from Persian and "Cyrus and Darius" are the Greek/Latin versions of the original Persian name, which are Khourvash and Darayvash. In Persian vash is a suffix of similarity or characteristics, which to this day exists and many Persian names and words contain this suffix. -- Keyvan Partovi
Cleanup
I performed a clean-up and removed the tag. The Brittanica article provides a good start, but I think we could still expand it a bit. But I should be working on my paper instead of worrying about this now ;) --Jpbrenna 03:35, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Font
Unfortunatly, the standard font doesn't have Old-Persian characters. Could you please provide with a Font name that I can download in order to view it correctly? Thanks, Boris A
Dates and numbers in this article
Wikipedia policy is clear on the use of Eras in articles:
- Both the BCE/CE era names and the BC/AD era names are acceptable, but be consistent within an article. Normally you should use plain numbers for years in the Common Era, but when events span the start of the Common Era, use AD or CE for the date at the end of the range (note that AD precedes the date and CE follows it). For example, 1 BC–AD 1 or 1 BCE–1 CE.
It is up to the author(s) of an article to determine the dating system to be used and there must be consistency with each article. In this case, for a non-Christian topic in a non-Christian region of the world, BCE/CE appears to make the most sense. Sunray 18:01, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
I've gone back to BCE/CE since User: Jpbrenna has indicated on other articles that he prefers BCE/CE notation. Sunray 07:01, 2005 May 23 (UTC)
Note to Jguk and other editors: Please do not revert this page for reasons of date notation (eras) from BCE/CE to BC/AD or vice versa. This issue is currently the subject of an arbitration matter concerning Jguk Sunray 17:54, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
