This article is within the scope of WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome, a group of contributors interested in Wikipedia's articles on classics. If you would like to join the WikiProject or learn how to contribute, please see our project page. If you need assistance from a classicist, please see our talk page.Classical Greece and RomeWikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and RomeTemplate:WikiProject Classical Greece and RomeClassical Greece and Rome
This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history
This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ancient Near East, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ancient Near East related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Ancient Near EastWikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near EastTemplate:WikiProject Ancient Near EastAncient Near East
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Greece, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Greece on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GreeceWikipedia:WikiProject GreeceTemplate:WikiProject GreeceGreek
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Iran, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles related to Iran on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project where you can contribute to the discussions and help with our open tasks.IranWikipedia:WikiProject IranTemplate:WikiProject IranIran
This did not, however, save Athens from being marked for destruction, along with Eretria, by the Persian king, Darius.
So before this, Athens was the only "problem" of all the Greek cities before the Persian wars. I.e. Thebes, Sparta etc. ? --198.254.16.20115:17, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm trying to improve the depth of coverage for the Greco-Persian wars across all articles, and get all of them up to at least Good Article status. However, this article, is problematic, for one main reason, namely that there is almost no detail provided in the ancinet sources. So the article can never be satisfactorily expanded, and there's very little to say. Thus, I don't think it really needs a separate article.
I think that the events at Ephesus in 498 BC can be adequately covered at Ionian Revolt#Battle of Ephesus, without needing a separate article. I suggest leaving this page as a redirect to the above article, and moving any content which is not already covered there, to Ionian Revolt. The Greco-Persian Wars navigation box would still have "Ephesus" in it, but now directing to the appropriate subsection of the Ionian Revolt article. This is the approach I have used for some other battles which are clearly not going to have a full article written about them.
Ultimately, if the consensus is that this deserves its own article, then I will not contest that.
Having checked briefly, it appears that are probably not many editors with a vested interest in this article. There is only one comment on the talk page, and no-one has made a significant contribution to this article since February 2008. Some of those editors seem to be inactive or banned. So, I will wait one week for any opinions, and then act as described above. MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 16:39, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
