Talk:Parthia
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The information from the list of Parthian rulers seems to differ from other sources, such as this one (http://www.parthia.com/parthia_chrono.htm). Maximus Rex 00:32, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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I added a sentence to the last paragraph of the body, suggesting one of the possible names for Parthia in the eyes of the Parthians. "The Parthians," by Malcolm A. R. Colledge (London, Thames and Hudson, 1968) is the source. (And if you're looking at this page, you want to read that book anyway.)
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 makes the most sense. Sunray 17:49, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
We seem to have some sort of edit war going on here; the article was using both systems originally, and I changed the dates in the sections I cleaned up to BCE/CE. I agree that for this topic it's more appropriate to use these era names. siafu 18:29, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
To those engaging in reverts...
Twice now I've had unrelated changes be reverted by editors fighting over BC/AD vs. BCE/CE. While I'm not completely removed from those, PLEASE TRY TO ONLY CHANGE WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO CHANGE. I don't want to have to replace the stupid metallic statue image yet again because someone was trying to revert the whole article. siafu 23:09, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
- As far as I know, and you can please check the history, I did not alter the article itself or the images. Amir85 accused me of doing this, i.e. ruining the picture, but it was not me - and I didn't appreciate his accusation when he could very easily check the history. Either User:Jguk (most likely) and/or User:RickK. Siafu, I believe a consensus as regards this article is in order to prevent Jguk and RickK from reverting again from BCE/CE to BC/AD. Jguk's constant reverts have resulted in much loss of data from articles, including those I've worked on extensively. Hopefully he will stop this nonsense. SouthernComfort 23:41, 23 May 2005 (UTC)