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Crete

Have added references to existing text in the Crete section. But they are all Greek language references. I don't know the formal way of presenting foreign language references. Could somebody who knows how -> do the necessary? Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 05:41, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I couldn't find references for the second paragraph in the Crete section. Could probably expand the section using the same reference. But will leave that to somebody else whose got a professional bird's eye view of what happened historically. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 05:41, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Nervous about adding too much to Crete. But hope that you like what I've added. The information came from an on-the-fly translation from a comprehensive Greek text. But that's only a tiny part of what's available. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 07:41, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

If it's a "translation", as you say, it may still be plagiarism. Given the problems you had with plagiarism on another article (see Talk:Ali Pasha), I must ask you to provide some of the original text so we can assess how close the translation or paraphrase is. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:02, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
(ec) Nice! Good job! You'll allow me, I suppose, to format a bit your sources, when I find some time?! "Crete" was indeed one of the sections which desperately needed sourcing. The last paragraph of the section is however still uncited. Can anybody source it? I would remove it as uncited, but it touches a delicate and interesting issue, the alleged reduction of the Muslim population during the Revolution. If this is indeed a fact, there must be some credible sources.--Yannismarou (talk) 08:07, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Plagiarism: "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work." I am not sure of what exactly you are accusing Nipson (misquoting? bad translation?), but, based on the above explanation of the term, I'm pretty sure it must not be "plagiarism".--Yannismarou (talk) 08:22, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

When attempting a similar expansion of the Ali Pasha article, Nipson was found to have been using multiple literally copied sentences from the source he was citing. If he now says he worked by "translation" of the Greek original in the present instance, the obvious suspicion is that the passages he added are again literal or almost-literal renderings of the original. That would still be plagiarism. The fact that it is translated and as such not exactly the same words doesn't make a difference here, nor does the fact that each sentence has a footnote. The footnotes serve only to inform the reader that information contained in the sentence is derived from the source; if the whole sentence including its structure, logical connectives, line of argumentation etc. is taken from the source, that is not covered by the footnote. These properties will still be (falsely) understood to be our own original work, and as such the situation exactly fits the definition of plagiarism you quote above. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:34, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
ty Yannismarou you are more than welcome to format as best suits and benefits the whole section. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 08:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
IMO, what you describe does not fit the definition of "plagiarism", and I insist on that. But, despite our almost irrelevant difference on terminology, trying to understand your worries, what is exactly your problem? That Nipson may have copied word by word phrases from the original (even translated), and put them in the article? Is this what you are worried about?--Yannismarou (talk) 08:46, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
It is precisely what I said: "that the passages he added are again literal or almost-literal renderings of the original". And I insist that he show a sample of the original Greek he was working on, because if it's too close to it, it must be removed, and if he doesn't provide the original I will remove the passages to be on the safe side. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:50, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
If you do that without clear proofs of copyvio I am afraid I'll revert you.--Yannismarou (talk) 09:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I regard both the "plagiarism" accusations (if there are some grounds for a wikipedia policy infringement, then this is for copyvio, not "plagiarism", but I still believe that the relevant arguments are extremely weak for such an accusation) and the related threats for the removal of the materials as absurd. Personally, I do not intend to lose such a useful a material, and I prefer to be occupied with what really matters: the substance. I thus have four important questions to Nipson:
  • I see that the Panagiotakis' work is a collective 3-volume work, and Panagiotakis is the editor. Therefore, Nipson, for the article of this collective work you use, there must be another author, which should be cited instead of Panagiotakis. Who is this author? Can you check it?
  • Συνεργατες του τομου Μανολης Μπορμπουδάκης, Χρυσα Μαλτεζου, Νικολαος Μ. Παναγιοτάκης, Στυλιανος Αλεξίου, Γιωργος Αμαργιανάκης, Θεοχάρης Δετορακης, Κωνσταντινος Σβολόπουλος, Λιλή Μακράκη, Χάνγκεν ΦΛάισερ, Γεωργιος Αικατερινίδης, Νικολαος Κονσταντόπουλος.
  • Attempted translation of above paragraph:
  • Manolis Mbormboudakis, Chrisa Maltezou, Nikolaos M. Panagiotakis, Stylianos Alexiou, Giorgos Amargianakis, Theochari Detorakis, Konstantinos Svolopoulos, Lily Makraki, Hagen Fleischer, Giorgos Aikaterinides, Nikolaos Konstantopoulos.
    Ok, but which of them is then the author of the chapter you use, and which is the name of this chapter.--Yannismarou (talk) 20:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
    You're good. You ask all the right questions. The chapter is called: Η ΤΟΥΡΚΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΡΗΤΗ it starts from page 333 and ends at 436. The chapter was written by Theocharis Detorakis. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 04:41, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
    Thanks, but I am not so good! I am just a bit more experienced (after 3 years στο μαγαζί!) and accustomed with how WP wants its articles. I'm also a bit "κολλημένος" with correct and detailed referencing but this is a "mania" I had from university. And I definitely do not intend to lose the useful information you added in the article. We do not have the luxury to throw away good material, and to "bite" users who offer this material, even if we have then to work a bit more on it, in order to bring it within WP policies and standards. When we have to do with useful edits in an article my belief is "work on them and upgrade them; never throw them away". Unless, of course, the article gets extremely long, and you have to relocate this material per WP:SS. But this is another issue ... --Yannismarou (talk) 07:58, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
  • "In 1828, Ioannis Kapodistrias decided that something had to be done about the klephts and the pirates based at Grampousa. He sent Alexander Mavrocordatos with British and French fleets to Crete to deal with them." Doing some ce in your edits, I noticed that there is some incoherence between this sentence and the rest of your story. Why Kapodistrias "decided that something had to be done with the klephts"?! You don't explain what (if something) happened that forced Kapodistrias to take this decision. Had they become real klepths (=thieves)?!!!--Yannismarou (talk) 09:40, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Not long after the forts at Grambousa and Kissamou were captured they were practically abandoned by the insurgents because they were moving around Crete trying to spread the insurgency. This disturbed Mustafa (yet another leader) who rounded up 2,000 men in an to attempt to retake the forts. His efforts to take the forts failed but he managed to stop the spread of the insurgency to western provinces (page 382). The insurgents were surrounded/sieged in Grambousa for a couple of years. They had to resort to piracy to survive. For two years Grambousa was a hive of piratical activity and they weren't fussy about whether the ships they captured were Turkish or European. During that period the population in Grambousa became organised and they built a church called Panagias ths Kleftrinas (for the protection of klephts, namely the pirates). Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 20:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
  • And how's "Grampousa" and "Amouryelles" in Greek? I try to find Greek sources.--Yannismarou (talk) 09:59, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Γραμπούσας και Αμουργέλλες. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 20:08, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
    Just wanted to point out that there is a big difference between "Grambousa" and "Gramvousa". I think that "Grambousa" is better than "Gramvousa" unless there is a source that says otherwise because it is closer to the actual pronunciation. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 11:35, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
    Actually, it is not. Γραμβούσα is the more common form in Greek, and correspondingly Gramvousa is the most common form in English too. Constantine ✍ 13:16, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
    ok. Thanks for that. Apologies for not knowing that. When I talked to somebody today they too pronounced it with a "v". It's a bit strange that the historian/experts have spelt it Γραμπούσας in the reference though. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 23:28, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
    Also noticed that on the top right of the page there's a note that has the British, French and Russian fleets only at Navarino. The British and French fleets at Grambousa also need to be added. Is it worth using the words "only in naval battles", instead of "only at the battle of Navarino", in the same way as was used for the "Vilayet of Tunisia" since the British and French navies were used at Gramvousa. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 20:17, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
  • "On 28 May 1822, an Egyptian fleet of 30 warships and 84 transports, led by Hasan Pasha, Mehmet Ali's son-in-law, arrived at Souda Bay with the task of ending the rebellion.[60]""In 1823, the new military leader Hussein [...]" I see here a "Hasan" in 1822 and a "Hussein" in 1823! Are they the same or different persons? If they are different, what happened to Hasan?--Yannismarou (talk) 10:13, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Around the end of February 1823 Hasan fell off his startled horse at Kastelli Pediados and was killed. But not before he rampaged around Crete burning villages all over the place. General Hussein is a completely different person. Hence the use of the word "new". Hussein was an 'αρχιστράτηγος' and a professional soldier. Hasan was not as competent and his soldiers were disorganised and difficult to control (αταχτους). Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 20:02, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
    Wow. I just did a search on Google for Panagias ths Kleftrinas. The only reference on the English web and the only reference on the Greek web is what we've just listed on Wikipedia. It's mentioned nowhere else! I can't believe that a romantic story like that has been overlooked globally. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 23:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
    Well, the bitter truth is that on-line and off-line sources for the Greek Revolutions are extremely poor and this is a shame for modern Greek historiography.--Yannismarou (talk) 07:55, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Hatzimichalis Dalianis

Just noticed that the specific section doesn't mention the revolt of 1826 under the Epirotes Dalianis and Argyrokastritis. I'll make some additions the following days.Alexikoua (talk) 06:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Good! Looking forward to them. But then we may seriously think if we should trim some sections of this article and create sub-articles per WP:SS. I'm afraid the article is getting overwhelmingly long, which is inevitable for an event with so many parameters, but we should think how we'll deal with this fact. If this is indeed a fact, because I may be the only one who believes it!--Yannismarou (talk) 07:58, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Doesn't Epirus deserve its own section or sub-section due to so much happening there? Although I suspect there is overlap with Macedonia. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 20:23, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
There had been plenty of revolutionary events in Epirus, like: the siege of Souli (1822), the failed siege of Arta, and the liberation of Parga by Perevos. I'll check about them soon.

"Παναγία η Κλεφτρίνα"

The issue has been raised [1] whether the church of those pirates was called "Panagia i Kleftrina" ('Our Lady the Piratess')or "Panagia tis Kleftrinas" ('Our Lady of the Piratess'). Other references on the web (eg. [2]) convince me the word "Kleftrina" ('piratess') is grammatically indeed in apposition to the word "Panagia", not in a possessive construction. The genitive "tis kleftrinas" in the source Nipson used is evidently only due to the fact that the main noun "Panagias" is itself also in the genitive ("the church of Our Lady the Piratess"). In other attestations you get "afieromeni stin Panagia tin Kleftrina" ('dedicated to Our Lady the Piratess'), where both nouns are in the accusative, and here [3] you have "Panagia i Kleftrina", with both in the nominative. So, yes, literally, the Panagia is indeed herself called a Klepht or Piratess here. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Is everybody ignoring the reference itself which states "Panagias tis Kleftrinas"? What I suggest is if there is no other reference then the quoted reference must be assumed to be correct. Also note that the accent within Panagia is on the iota and not the alpha.Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 20:29, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Uhm, you do know what a genitive is, do you? Greek is an inflectional language; just because a source happens to use the whole phrase in the genitive case doesn't mean that is the citation form of the name. That's just how Greek works. In fact, genitive forms like panagias are never citation forms. And i just gave you two sources using the other case forms. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:32, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Just to explain further, "... tis Panagias tis Kleftrinas" is of course precisely the same kind of construction as found in "(eklisia) tis Panagias tis Kamariotissas", "... tis Arxisporitissas", "... tis Galaktotrofousas", "... tis Glykofilousas", "... tis Proussiotissas", "... tis Katakekrymmenis", and so many others. In all these cases, the citation forms are, of course, "i Panagia i Kamariotissa", "...i Proussiotissa", "... i Katakekrymmeni", etc. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:33, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Fut.Perf. is right!--Yannismarou (talk) 13:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
It doesn't sit right to call the Panagia a Klepht. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 16:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
If you call it "Panagias tis Kleftinas", nothing changes! You are calling it once again a klepht! You are just using genitive, while nominative is the correct case!--Yannismarou (talk) 16:46, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Proposal

I suggest:
to trim Crete, Macedonia and create a 3-4 sentence section for Epirus.
to incorporate the 1822-1824 section should be incorporated in Pellopones and Central Greece.Alexikoua (talk) 10:35, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Gramvousa and Emmanouil Tombazis

I created a page for Gramvousa and another for Emmanouil Tombazis that I have Wikilinked to from Greek War of Independence. I hope you like them. I noticed that there is a beautiful photograph on Greek Wikipedia of Gramvousa. It's a bit large. Is it alright to use that photo for the Gramvousa section on English Wikipedia (made smaller)? The photo is at:

http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF:Imeri_Gramvousa.jpg

The Gramvousa article has already been subjected to a couple of edits including an edit that involved redirecting the Constantinople Wikilink to the Istanbul page. I have reverted that change. I prefer that the Wikilink directs to a page called Constantinople since the history concerns old Constantinople and not modern Istanbul. Be aware that my edit may well be reverted. I understand the technical reason why somebody would want to do that. I personally do not appreciate that kind of gamesmanship. Although I do appreciate the "de la Giocca" suggestion which is probably correct. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 14:44, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

The image is fine. It's already on Commons, so you can use it here right away. No need to worry about the size. Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:20, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the image. :-) Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 04:01, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Mistaken/False citations removed

I checked the citations provided for note iii explaining the claim that

"Modern scholars assert that the Greek Orthodox Church played a pivotal role in the preservation of national identity, the development of Greek society and the resurgence of Greek nationalism.".

in the "Greeks under Ottoman rule" part of the article and I found out that:

1. The book including Coughlan's article named "Cypurs: from Coroporate Autonomy to the Search for Territorial Federalism", edited by Yash Ghai and published in 2000, is not in "The Cambridge History of Turkey" but "Autonomy and ethnicity: negotiating competing claims in multi-ethnic states".

2. Coughlan is not talking in general about the Orthodox Church's role in the Ottoman empire, but about it's role in Asia Minor and Cyprus "during the last half-century of Ottoman rule". To prove what he says, Coughlan cites Kitromilides.

3. Kitromilides -as you might already guess- is referring to approximately the same period.

"The most important effect of the expansion of Greek education into the interior of Asia Minor was the spread of the Greek language among younger generations. Thus from the 1860s onward the major thrust of the educational effort was aimed at the substitution of Greek for Turkish as the language of the members of the Orthodox communities in the Turcophone regions of Asia Minor. The same objective applied to the Greek-speaking parts of the Greek East, like Pontos, Cyprus and the Greek-speaking communities of Cappadocia, with their highly idiomatic archaic and Byzantine idioms, which however were incomprehensible to speakers of the common Modern Greek tongue. These sharp linguistic peculiarities, which were looked upon as symptoms of cultural and ethnic degeneration, were as much a target of the linguistic rehellenization of the East as the Turkish speech of other Orthodox communities. Thus the educational effort of the nineteenth century promoted the linguistic homogenization of the Christian Orthodox populations of the East, as the basis of their incorporation into the broader community of the Greek nation."

What Kitromilides says is so obvious that I suspect that he was cited just because Coughlan does so in his article. *sigh*

So, I decided to remove Coughlan and Kitromilides, as they are irrelevant with the claim they are supposed to support [which btw leaves us with one not-so-modern scholar, Georgiades-Arnakis, who studied Theology, not History.] Ashmedai 119 (talk) 15:22, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Can you enrich the article with more specialized and up-to-date sources? When working on it, and despite our ambitious goals (which could be still achieved), I had a serious problem to find such sources.--Yannismarou (talk) 12:43, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for being so late to respond, but I'm doing my military service and I didn't have a lot of free time the last few months.
Well, I think that Douglas Dakin's 'The Greek struggle for independence, 1821-1833', which is used as a textbook in relevant Uni classes, and David Brewer's more up-to-date 'The Greek War of Independence' could be quite useful. George Finlay's 'History of the Greek Revolution' could also be cited charily in reference with facts, as it is a primary source. Kitromilides enjoys the status of an authority on the current that gave birth to the Revolution, the Enlightenment, that is -and rightly so.
Now, if sources in Greek are to be used, I would recommend the third volume of the recently published "Ιστορία του Νέου Ελληνισμού" -which I have traced online here [4], in case that you are interested. Regards, Ashmedai 119 (talk) 08:30, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Source for Areios Pagos Anatolikis Ellados.svg?

The flag of the Areopagus of Eastern Continental Greece

I saw this flag in the Areopagus' article, and now Constantine added it here. I also thought that it would be useful to have it in this article as well. The problem is that the file's description page provides no source. I then searched the web, but again I did not manage to find it in any reliable sources, except for wikipedia sites and blogs. Can anybody provide any source (book, article, site etc.) verifying the accuracy of this flag?--Yannismarou (talk) 08:50, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

This was Areopagus' seal, but I think that we cannot use it, because of copyrights.--Yannismarou (talk) 09:03, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

I remember seeing it in a book on Greek flags a long time ago, and then in the web, so I created the original bitmap version. I don't really know what original source was used for it, it is certainly a unique design among contemporary revolutionary flags. I don't generally trust Greek flag books, they're prone to bad research and wholesale repeating of national myths (see the discussions on the Flag of Greece talk page). If someone has access to this book, perhaps it'd be of help. If the image presents a problem to achieving GA and (hopefully) FA standards, by all means let's remove it until it can be sourced. Constantine ✍ 09:25, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I say that we keep it for now, and we see. After all, keeping it may attract attention by somebody who can provide sources.--Yannismarou (talk) 09:33, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

"Massacres" section

I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate this section with all my heart! I regard it as uncyclopedic, purely written and as a failed attempt for exercise of diplomatic balance! My feelings about this section came to the surface again, because of the last reverts by Phanariote. As we say in Greek, this damned section puts in the same sac (σακί), the assassination of Gregory the 5th, the massacre of Chios, and the Tripolitsa slaughter! Events with completely different contexts, which happened in different areas and in different times are suddenly linked in a attempt to prove what?! That they both slaughtered?!! Really?!

I have repeteadly attempted to "save" the section, but I am always appointed with the result as hard as I may have tried. And, why are we obliged to deal with this situation?! Because of a pathetic troll (yes, I refer to Laertes d, and I don't give shit whether my caracterizations are extreme or not; that's how I feel and that's how I express myself), who made a mess of this article and obliged us to deal with a per se problematic section.

  • "Greek revolutionaries massacred Turks, Muslims and Jews, mainly inhabitants of the Peloponnese and Attica where Greek forces were dominant, identifying them with the Ottoman rule. On the other hand, the Turks massacred Greeks identified with the revolution especially in Anatolia, Crete, Constantinople, Cyprus, Macedonia and the Aegean islands." A long and useless list about who massacred more and where. As if we have a contest, about who exterminated more ethnicities and who did it in more locations!
  • "Some of the more infamous atrocities include the Chios Massacre, the Destruction of Psara, the massacres following the Tripolitsa Massacre, and the Navarino Massacre." Some examples so that we do not speak in vain! Who cares if they may have no relation with each other!
  • "There is a debate among scholars over whether the massacres committed by the Greeks should be regarded as a response to prior events (such as the massacre of the Greeks of Tripoli, after the failed Orlov Revolt of 1770 and the destruction of the Sacred Band[118]) or as separate atrocities, which started simultaneously with the outbreak of the revolt." Is there actually a debate? Do the modern scholars really care about who did it first? For instance, reading Dimitropoulos, Theodoros Kolokotronis, 61-62, I don't see an effort of Frantzis, Spiliadis or Trikoupis (all Greek historians) to link the incident with other atrocities, but I see instead insightful approaches to the psychology of the mass. It is really shocking what Spiliadis writes, that the revolted mob had to be familiar with blood and death, in order to realize that their former lords were now their enemies, and that there was no way back.
  • "During the war, tens of thousands of Greek civilians were killed, left to die or taken into slavery.[120] Most of the Greeks in the Greek quarter of Constantinople were massacred.[121] A large number of Christian clergymen were also killed, including the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V.viii" Again, unrelated events, sentences without cohesion, and the execution of Gregory whose place is somewhere between "Danubian Principalities" and "Outbreak" but not here.
  • "Sometimes marked as allies of the Turks in the Peloponnese, Jewish settlements were also massacred by Greek revolutionaries. However, such a tragedy seems to be more a side-effect of the butchering of the Turks of Tripolis, the last Ottoman stronghold in the South where the Jews had taken refuge from the fighting, than a specific action against Jews per se. Many Jews around Greece and throughout Europe were supporters of the Greek revolt, using their resources to loan substantial amounts to the newly formed Greek government. In turn, the success of the Greek Revolution was to stimulate the incipient stirrings of Jewish nationalism, later called Zionism. Following its establishment, the new state attracted a number of Jewish immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, as it was one of the first countries to grant legal equality to Jews." This is the most interesting and the best-written part of the section; it is actually the only well-written part of the section, because it has a clear subject.

My firm belief is, for years now, that these atrocities should not be hidden. They deserve their place in the article, but in their historical context, so that they make sense and so that they do not look like an amateur patchwork. This section constitutes neither historical nor encyclopaedic writing. It is a stupid and condemned attempt to compromise incompromisable approaches of extremists of both sides. This section is the result of the mayhem that Laertes and the anti-Laertes brought to this article. The sooner we understand that we must get rif of this section, the better for the article.--Yannismarou (talk) 21:18, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, all you have to add is the context of each event like the Jewish section.--— ZjarriRrethues — talk 22:23, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
"They deserve their place in the article, but in their historical context, so that they make sense and so that they do not look like an amateur patchwork."
Hear, hear! This section should be abolished and bits and pieces should be allocated in relevant sections. It make no sense not mentioning all these events in their temporal context, but in the end of the article. Moreover, as far as I know, such a colligation is not advocated by any scholar studying the Greek Revolution. Why should Wikipedia?
PS. I 'm sorry to notice that "the best-written part of the section" about Jews is a mere copy from pages 421-2 of the source cited and hence should be rewritten -ideally taking into account more eminent scholars, like Katherine Fleming). Ashmedai 119 (talk) 23:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Fully agree with Yannis and Asmedai. Each event should be mentioned where and when relevant. Bunching sporadic episodes of violence against civilians together into a grand unified narrative of slaughter is misleading and ahistorical. Constantine ✍ 06:12, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

frequently?

"During this time, there were frequent revolts by Greeks attempting to gain independence"

tell me some? by the way, the reference's name was "the dark age of greece 1453-1821". and we are talking about objectivity here.


--78.171.96.86 (talk) 01:37, 1 February 2011 (UTC)


"During this time, there were frequent revolts by Greeks attempting to gain independence"

this sentence, wit a references of a book "the dark age of greece", should be removed from article. first of all, "the dark age of greece" is an anachronism as the ottomans didn't conquer greece, they conquered Roman Empire (later known as byzantine empire).

secondly, if the sentence above is true, these "frequent revolts" should be mentioned.

Niyeti bozuk http nesnesi (talk) 12:32, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

The book Woodhouse: A Story of Modern Greece (with the chapter "The dark age of Greece") is a perfectly good source. And the frequent revolts are mentioned further down in the main text. 79.160.40.10 (talk) 20:39, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

They were not mentioned when I first wrote that, so now it looks good.

Niyeti bozuk http nesnesi (talk) 16:23, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

About Greek Revolutions and Roman empire-Greece

There were indeed many Greek revolutions before the one that evenyually ended with the formation of the Kingdom of Greece.. You asked for one.. 1st Kladas revolt after the Ottoman Venetian war (1463-1479). He marched from Koroni to Mani in 9 October 1479 leading 16000 men and declared his will to continue fighting for independence. (Ελληνικές Επαναστάσεις, Παντελής Καρύκας). As refered to the article the revolutions of 1600 and 1611 in Agrafa and Ioannina respectively leaded by Dionysios the Philosopher. I already counted three and there are more. As for the relation of the Roman Empire and Greece i have to say that the Eastern Roman Empire , which was eventually (and unfortunately for my personal beliefs) conquered by the Turks of the Ottoman Sultanate , was the Greek speaking part of the Roman Empire. As for the name Grek and the reference that someone made that it was an insult i would say to read some of the following to have a more accurate opinion :1. Romanus III, "Towards the son of Romanus himself", p.49 2. Anna Comnena, "Alexiad", prologue 1 3. Anna Comnena, "Alexiad", 15, 7 4.Espugnazione di Thessalonica, pp.32, Palermo 1961 5. Nicetas Choniates, "The Sack of Constantinople", 9 ’¦Å, Bonn, pp.806. Finally despite thios arcticle is relatively accurate i would say that a revolution cannot be presented perfectly through scientific manners... Revolutions have to do with passion and so the historical terms of massacre from the Christian side is something odd. Being under foreighn occupation which treat you as a slave surely fills you with much hatred.. But thats another discusion. Finally i am deeply worried that Wiki generally refers Arvabites as Albanian migrants (something untrue by many historians).. It has been nice to participate in this talk.. Greetings.Panagiotes (talk) 02:07, 10 February 2013 (UTC)PanagiotesPanagiotes (talk) 02:07, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Total Casualties

The total casualties both the military and the civilians ones, are not correct or accurate...I suggest of further researching the matter on this..Don't just find a source and add it there. I would have changed it, but lately Wikipedia has an issue with changes so...I am just suggesting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GiorgosY (talk • contribs) 18:28, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

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Copy and paste policy of WP

It's my understanding that WP articles are assumed to be original writing in the editor's own words. Yet I often come across passages in articles written in what is apparently antiquated or literary prose, indicating the possibility that the article in question is a pastiche of copy-paste from its sources.

I don't have access to anti-plagiarism software, and have to go by my intuition, followed by Googling a phrase or short passage in an effort to find it on Google Books, which I often have done and found. Clearly, WP has a policy which is honored in the breach, but I'm not comfortable with this, as WP seems otherwise to strive for some sort of policy consistency, often obsessively.

I'm therefore curious about the following passage recently added to Greek War of Independence. It passes the Google Books test, yet I doubt it consists of the editor's original wording:

From the United States came the doctor Samuel Howe and the soldier Samuel Jarvis to fight with the Greeks.[1]

This is not the only such passage recently made by the editor in question, A.S. Brown. In fact, a large portion of this article's prose may (my opinion) have been borrowed from Brewer's book without proper attribution (i.e. plagiarized). I'm therefore asking A.S. Brown and any other editor(s) to comment, not necessarily on the originality of the prose, but on the WP policy of "your own words," and whether there is any consensus on a requirement for original writing on WP.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:06, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

  1. ^ Brewer, David The Greek War of Independence London: Overlook Duckworth, 2011 page 241.

Greek Revolution and Arvanites

The history of the Greek Revolution will be incomplete and rather obscure if we don't consider Arvanites element. This revolution which was in fact an Arvanito-Romeliotes uprising against Ottoman yoke, ended up being called “Ελληνική Επανάσταση”.

http://books.google.com/books?id=KEUOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=george+finlay+greek+revolution&hl=en&ei=2Y1hTJqBPMG88gbvsoSGCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

The "Arvanites in Revolution" narrative is mostly a 20th century construction, promoted by Greek Left and Albanian nationalism. Having red most of the original greek sources of the Revolution, including official documents, I didn't see any "Arvanites" mentioned, excepting the muslim Albanians who were doing the dirty job for the Ottomans. In some non-Greek primary sources you may find as "Albanians" the bilingual Greeks speaking Greek and Albanian. But this is as much reliable as calling "Arabs" all the people who can speak arabic.--Skylax30 (talk) 18:47, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

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Fantasy Art, Poetry...

This article is too full of fantasy art, poetry and what appears to be propaganda from primary sources all prominently displayed. There should be more history, this does not come across as a serious history article. Some of this could be moved into a gallery or even to a separate article (which the longquote from Byron probably should be). Also text sandwiches are really not a good thing, they should be avoided because they display badly on small screens, netbooks, chromebooks etc. which many people use. I always make sure they are fixed before I pass articles in GA Reviews, and there is certainly no good reason to edit war over restoring them. Seraphim System (talk) 07:16, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Rigas work is essential for the understanding of the pre-revolutionary era in Greece. In fact he was the major contributor of the local Enlightenment.Alexikoua (talk) 07:22, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Restoring Byron as an image is a violation of MOS:IMAGES. A short quote like Riga should be worked into the text. I see you have been editing since 2008, but I don't expect you to know every part of MOS:IMAGES. Why don't you read it through and self-revert. Seraphim System (talk) 07:39, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, due to the formatting of the box quotes which I have not seen on any other article, and my dark theme which makes them a wonderful striking shade of brown by default, I thought it was an image when I removed it. It should still be removed, quoting the poem itself doesn't add anything and distracts from the text, which everyone works on, so we generally don't prefer garish quotations like this. It also creates a text sandwich, which is still a problem even if it not an image, and this should be obvious. This is a history article, I actually clicked on it to learn history and I can barely read it from the box quotes and text sandwiches. (It looks even worse on mobile btw.) Seraphim System (talk) 08:01, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
The quotes provide valuable and interesting context. The mere fact that you don't like them is not reason for removal. Have you edited wikipedia with another account before btw? You sound somewhat familiar. Khirurg (talk) 19:04, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
No, I haven't - sorry, there was one edit when I was new but I doubt that is what you meant and it was several months go - in that case, WMF did find that the Check User policy had been violated. Regarding the article and basic behavioral and civility guidelines, if you post on talk you should wait for a response before reverting. You certainly should not edit war and template others for edit warring. I have explained the issue with the current formatting, you are free to fix it or improve but not to ignore MOS or make the article unreadable for those with smaller screens/mobiles. Seraphim System (talk) 04:55, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
WMF? CheckUser? What the hell are talking about? You're removing sourced material and edit-warring like crazy. Stop it. Khirurg (talk) 07:22, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Stop what? Removing images that are not related to the text or otherwise discussed in the section? Fixing text sandwiches? Why would anyone restore a text sandwich? You know why I can't be an admin - I wouldn't be able to help myself if someone did something like that. I'm also a stickler for correct comma usage in general, but I don't expect anyone to know every detail of MOS. What I don't understand is why you continue to dispute it after it has been pointed out to you. Seraphim System (talk) 08:23, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
What is wrong with inserting the text as a blockquote after the line "Ypsilantis issued a proclamation calling all Greeks and Christians to rise up against the Ottomans" - I am not even making significant content edits anymore, because I don't feel they are wanted. This is a simple formatting revision. Why is it so hard to resolve that without it escalating to ANI? Seraphim System (talk) 08:28, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

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The Casualties section

Due to the nature of this conflict and the rather poor record keeping of casualties outside individual engagements during this time, I feel getting an accurate and reliable number for either side is rather difficult to impossible. The numbers there seem very unlikely for both sides, even as estimations. It seems to even be admitted that a "Better source is needed". I was wondering what everyone would think about omitting the casualties, or replacing them with "unknown".... Thoughts? SJCAmerican (talk) 18:30, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Since it seems nobody has answered I will remove the casualties section, I will wait a while longer in case anyone wants to dispute SJCAmerican (talk) 18:30, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
So it seems nobody has any reservations against removing the numbers of the casualty section? SJCAmerican (talk) 03:31, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Proposal: "Greek victory" too simplistic

The Greek War of Independence was not just a Greek-Ottoman war, and the result simply cannot be summed up as a "Greek victory" which completely ignores and sidelines the essential foreign involvement and influence that led to the success of the revolution. The war involved many parties, from the French to the Egyptians, all of who played less than minor roles which ultimately led to the successful outcome for the Greek revolution. The situation was much like the American revolutionary war, which was more than a war between just the American and British, and where America's allies played a decisive role, because of this on the American Revolutionary War wiki, the war is listed as being an "American-Allied" victory, opposed to just say a "American victory". I feel the same should apply here to this war.

I propose a change from either of two proposals.

1. Change the result to "Greek-Allied victory"

2. Change the result to "Independence of Greece" or "Greek Independence"

SJCAmerican (talk) 03:39, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

I think the second solution (which is also very close to the one adopted on the Greek WP, "Δημιουργία του ελληνικού κράτους") seems better : 1)in this case the Allied did not formally declare war againt the Ottoman empire (though Russia did on its own later) and presented themselves as "mediators", not "allies of Greece against Turkey", even if their intervention eventually changed the balance in favour of the Greeks (before Navarino they had also forced Cochrane to leave the gulf of Corinth eg, so they weren't unequivocally a party in the conflict) 2) In military terms it is misleadingly simplistic to call the war a "Greek victory" since they were on the verge of total defeat before Navarino, both land forces and Navy failing to achieve signifiant successes in 1827. The war was successful only because of the Western intervention on the diplomatic and military fields.--Phso2 (talk) 18:12, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
I am not sure what the Greek phrase directly translates to, google translate basically says "Establishment of Greece". I also don't think the revolution was on the verge of failure per say, the Greek rebels achieved rapid success and only with Egyptian intervention was it severely threatened, things definitely didn't favor the Greeks, but even then the Egyptians were defeated at mani and were dissuaded from attacking the capital of the revolt in Nafplio due to the strong Greek fortifications and presence there, the egyptians also suffered some heavy losses during their campaign, also it should be mentioned that the foreign intervention in the Morea only served to evict the Egyptians the Ottomans themselves still had a presence and were driven out by the Greek themselves. But again as I mentioned overall foreign intervention was decisive. So how would anyone feel about maybe having the result being "Independence of Greece" or "Greek independence" SJCAmerican (talk) 19:47, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
In 1827 in the Peloponnese the Greek controlled only Argolis, Corinthia and Mani and their fleet was unable to stop its opponent, they had not been able to stop the Egyptians except on half-hearted attacks by the latter months ago, and the Western intervention at Navarino was hastened by the fear that the Egypto-Ottoman navy was about to set sail to the Saronic islands and put an end to the war ; Philhellene Thomas Gordon describes the situation in the months before Navarino in these terms : "vanquished Greece lay(ed) in convulsive throes". So you may think that there was a hope that the Greeks alone could have turn the tides and won alone by miracle, but this is not grounded in actual descriptions of the events. Of what "Ottoman presence in the Peloponnese" do you allude to?--Phso2 (talk) 21:39, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
I was referring to the Ottoman forces that were left behind after the Egyptians evacuated, such as those in Central Greece. I was pointing out that the Greeks weren't defeated and the war continued even after Navarino, so that wasn't necessarily the end of the war, and the revolution was still active, Though I feel going into all this is irrelevant as we seem to be in agreement that simply a "Greek victory" is too simplistic, correct? I think would should stay on this topic, do you have any proposals of what it can be changed to, I have already suggested "Independence of Greece" and "Greek Independence" SJCAmerican (talk) 21:57, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Role of Church

Noticing the fact that greek history books (the ones taught at greek schools) praise the "supportive" role of the Orthodox Church during the war i consider it of topmost importance that a section is to be written on the real role of the church. With source no other but the letters of Kapoditsrias himself to the Patriarchs (and vice versa). The best online source to find the letters is the Center of Resarch on history of the new Hellinism (Κεντρο Ερευνης της Ιστοριας του νεωτερου Ελληνισμου) by the University of Athens. http://www.keine-academyofathens.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120%3A------------2000&catid=52%3A2009-02-25-10-32-12&Itemid=64&lang=el Where it is perfectly read that the church tried to convince Kapodistrias to make Greeks yet again slaves of the Ottomans.. Since i have limited time to write the section myself i hope that someone might get interested since it is pretty sad that Greeks get to be taught lies. (A greek highschool student)P.S. Theres absolutely no danger of contraddictions on the objectivity of what is written since it all shall be copy-paste of original letters/historical documents.85.75.208.41 (talk) 21:13, 10 February 2011 (UTC) 21:09, 10 February 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.75.208.41 (talk) 21:09, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

The above is pure anti-church myth, mostly originating from the left establishment of the universities. It is very clear that the leaders of the Revolution were mostly priests and the local archontes. There is plenty of bibliography on that, and if the "Greeks are taught lies", you can read the european newspapers of 1821. Here is one of the many: Journal de Savoie, June 15 1821, p. 228. --Skylax30 (talk) 21:19, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

far too many Greek commanders and leaders

This infobox is getting needlessly bloated, we really should only include the most important political and military leaders. Some figures here like Anastasios Tsamados, Antonios Kriezis don't really belong here SJCAmerican (talk) 17:36, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

I tried to shorten the list, only to add a couple of religious leaders. The greek revolution was ethno-religious, and many of the political leaders were bishops, at least in the first year. Even some of the military leaders were priests, like Papaflessas and Athanasios Diakos. --Skylax30 (talk) 12:16, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Casualties and losses

The number of 25.000 is too mediocre. In Chios only, at least 20.000 people had been massacred. Ι suppose the source counts only the warriors - soldiers. --Skylax30 (talk) 12:01, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Correct, the casualties under combatants refer to soldiers and not civilians, civilian casualties are listed underneath you can see it says "estimated as high as 105,000" furthermore I am certain that these estimates are only for those killed in battle, and don't include those who perished from disease, starvation.. otherwise the numbers for both combatants would be far higher, I also believe Egyptian caustslies are omitted from the Ottoman side, the casualties section can definitely use more research, detail and work, but in a conflict like this, which was very chaotic, totalling casualties outside battles is very difficult. SJCAmerican (talk) 20:05, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

1832 should be when the war ended not 1829

While the last battle was fought in 1829, the war should be said to end in 1832 with the ratification of the Treaty of Constantinople. This is similar to the American Revolutionary War the last battle was the Siege of Yorktown which took place in 1781, but peace and recognition of the U.S was not realized until the Peace of Paris in 1783. SJCAmerican (talk) 21:11, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Proposal: Remove the Casualties section

Due to the nature of this war, a very long, chaotic conflict in which combatant and non combatant deaths often intermingled (especially during sieges, such as Tripolitsa, or Missolonghi), the wide spread prevalence of famine, disease, and starvation among the civilian populations and combatants. Totaling the number fatalities outside of individual battles is quite difficult to impossible, this has to lead to varying estimates, the figures right now (20,000-25,000 dead) are from Cummings,which are currently admitted to being less than concrete (note the "better source needed") there are many other estimates for instance Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod place battle deaths at 15,000 for the Greeks and 6,000 for the Ottomans (I think omitting Egyptian causalities) the Greeks themselves place their numbers at 15,000, I have even seen estimates of for example from Jeffery Dixon which state 44,000-50,000 Ottoman deaths from all causes. I think it is safe to assume getting an accurate picture of casualties for the entire war is very difficult, and with the great variation of estimates I think it is better to omit the causalities section of the infobox all together, at least until when/if more of a consensus is established, would anyone oppose this action? SJCAmerican (talk) 19:02, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Roman Empire's War Of Independence?

I would be interested to know if many ethnically Greek people involved thought of it as a Roman War Of Independence (rather than the post-empire term 'Byzantine'). To any Greek readers: If you hear the phrase "Capital of Greece" do you think "Constantinople" or "Athens"? Middle More Rider (talk) 23:59, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Keep in mind "This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Greek War of Independence article.

This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject." SJCAmerican (talk) 20:43, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, for this article, what was the context at the time? We know that up until the Turk occupation of 1453, the emperor referred to himself such as Avtokrator kai Vasilevs Romaion etc., so did that fade away by the war of independence or were they fighting as Romans? Is it right to just call Athens the capital, or is it the provisional capital, with the true capital being occupied Constantinople? Also, it would be nice if the nonsense term 'byzantine' was eliminated from this article. Many people, fans of history, feel this term should be eliminated from every history article, book etc. from the present day onwards. Middle More Rider (talk) 13:59, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

also outside of Greece

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem celebrates it. Jerusalem patriarchate celebrates March 25 1821|talk]]) 18:07, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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Use of family, regimental and local flags

I wonder why the commanders of the Greek revolutionary army have their family or local flags in infobox instead of the appropriate flag of the nation/army they were part. As I know there was one Greek flag from 1822.Alexikoua (talk) 20:12, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Dates of the End of the War

Hi, I just want to clear up on some confusing dating in the article. In the beginning, the article says the war of independence lasted till 1830 meanwhile the right-hand template states it lasted till 1829. Additionally, the treaty ending the war was signed in 1832, called the Treaty of Constantinople. The article seems to be a little inconsistent so I think it would be best to standardize it. I personally favour using the Treaty of Constantinople as a marker of the conclusion of the war but I will leave it to discussion to see if I may be wrong before changing. 21Helios12 (talk) 02:34, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Edits without any citations.

Again same people edit without giving any citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.133.229.61 (talk) 13:20, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Deletion of well sourced content [header amended]

I recently added the phrase "and Albanians" to one sentence describing the demography of Athens during the Greek War of Independence. This same sentence names the ethnic groups of the Muslim inhabitants, but the Orthodox ones lack such detail. This addition is well supported by numerous sources. The users that undid my addition have provided no valid reasons for the deletion. It seems that it is not allowed to bring up the existence of the Albanian people in this thread, unless it is about the Albanians that participated on the Ottoman side. I think history should be presented truthfully and impartially here, but unfortunately it is being intentionally distorted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Çerçok (talk • contribs) 15:33, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

I am still waiting for a reason why my edit was reversed. Khirurg insinuated first that the information is not relevant, however this part of the article describes the demographic of Athens, so it has to be done accurately or not at all. Then he insinuated that the sources were not credible, which is not the case as I put three sources from first-hand witnesses. Then Othon reversed my edit giving absolutely no reason. Once again, I await any good argument for hiding the existence of Orthodox Albanians in a part of the article which speaks about demographics and does mention Muslim Albanians and Orthodox Greeks, among others. Seems like a clear and intentional double-standard to, but please do explain yourselves. (Çerçok (talk) 11:12, 16 October 2021 (UTC))

In 1821, Athens had about 10,000 people, half of whom were Christian Greeks and the other half were Muslims, being either Turks, Albanians or Greek Muslims was changed to In 1821, Athens had about 10,000 people, half of whom were Christian Greeks and Albanians and the other half were Muslims, being either Turks, Albanians or Greek Muslims citing the following
  • John Cam Hobhouse, writing in 1810, quoted in John Freely, Strolling through Athens, p. 247: "The number of houses in Athens is supposed to be between twelve and thirteen hundred; of which about four hundred are inhabited by the Turks, the remainder by the Greeks and Albanians, the latter of whom occupy above three hundred houses." Eyre Evans Crowe, The Greek and the Turk; or, Powers and prospects in the Levant, 1853: "The cultivators of the plain live at the foot of the Acropolis, occupying what is called the Albanian quarter..." (p. 99); Edmond About, Greece and the Greeks of the Present Day, Edinburgh, 1855 (translation of La Grèce contemporaine, 1854): "Athens, twenty-five years ago, was only an Albanian village. The Albanians formed, and still form, almost the whole of the population of Attica; and within three leagues of the capital, villages are to be found where Greek is hardly understood." (p. 32); "The Albanians form about one-fourth of the population of the country; they are in majority in Attica, in Arcadia, and in Hydra...." (p. 50); "The Turkish [sic] village which formerly clustered round the base of the Acropolis has not disappeared: it forms a whole quarter of the town.... An immense majority of the population of this quarter is composed of Albanians." (p. 160)
It does not appear to be properly referenced as far as I can see. FDW777 (talk) 12:33, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
You mean it is not in the right format? That can easily be fixed. But I am afraid the problem is the systematic deletion of everything that has to do with Albanians by Greek users and moderators (well-sourced information are being deleted in other pages too, on clearly invalid excuses). Anyway, sources are now in the right format, and I added one more just in case.
In 1821, Athens had about 10,000 people, half of whom were Christian Greeks and Albanians and the other half were Muslims, being either Turks, Albanians or Greek Muslims.[1][2][3][4][5]
There are now four sources in proper formatting, supporting my previous edit. This information should be in the article, however I will wait for responses before adding it.Çerçok (talk) 15:49, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ Brewer, David The Greek War of Independence, London: Overlook Duckworth, 2011 p. 169.
  2. ^ "Thus the Arvanites were already inhabiting Athens when the city became capital of Greece in 1834." (p.27)Panourgiá, Neni. Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography.
  3. ^ "The number of houses in Athens is supposed to be between twelve and thirteen hundred; of which about four hundred are inhabited by the Turks, the remainder by the Greeks and Albanians, the latter of whom occupy above three hundred houses." (p.245)Hobhouse, John Cam. Travels in Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in 1809 & 1810.
  4. ^ "The cultivators of the plain live at the foot of the Acropolis, occupying what is called the Albanian quarter..." (p.99)Crowe, Eyre Evans. The Greek and the Turk; or, Powers and prospects in the Levant.
  5. ^ ""Athens, twenty-five years ago, was only an Albanian village." (p.32); "The Turkish village which formerly clustered round the base of the Acropolis has not disappeared: it forms a whole quarter of the town.... An immense majority of the population of this quarter is composed of Albanians." (p.160)About, Edmond. The Greeks of the Present Day.
Well, it seems no one has any valid objections to bring so the information should be added. Please do not go back to force deletions if you do not explain your objections here. Çerçok (talk) 15:28, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Its not really the format. It is that it is anachronistic and it does not follow WP:AGEMATTERS and WP:NOTABILITY thats why can't go. Additionally, you have been throwing insults for the ethnicity of some users here. May I ask why? You should be civil and do not judge fellow editors with according to their ethnicity. Also pinging @Khirurg: since you have referred to him. Othon I (talk) 16:53, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
I have not insulted anyone. Stop shifting the topic.Çerçok (talk) 19:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Oh yes you did, you said this as it can be seen above "But I am afraid the problem is the systematic deletion of everything that has to do with Albanians by Greek users and moderators (well-sourced information are being deleted in other pages too, on clearly invalid excuses)". Please do not make such commentes again otherwise I will request an admin to intervene. Best Othon I (talk) 21:05, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
I said nothing about the format, I said it wasn't properly referenced. Since none of the quotes provided talk about Orthodox or Christian Albanians it's not referenced. FDW777 (talk) 17:31, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Arvanites are Orthodox Christians. So the quote "Thus the Arvanites were already inhabiting Athens when the city became capital of Greece in 1834." refers specifically to Orthodox Albanians, and if you read the sentences preceding this one, you will see the author explains they had been there since the Middle Ages. So according to the author, Orthodox Albanians, or Arvanites, were in Athens during the Greek War of Independence. There is no way to interpret this otherwise.Çerçok (talk) 19:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
That's your interpretation, I say it isn't referenced, it's synthesis and it's of no direct relevance to events between 1821 and 1829. FDW777 (talk) 19:38, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
The relevance of the issue can only apply to the original statement (which it I believe you deem is relevant enough), not its correction. Çerçok (talk) 06:20, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

(unindent) First of all the material is not relevant to the article and seems largely intended to use the article to push a specific POV (WP:COATRACK), second it is based on 19th century sources that largely consist of the recollections of individuals "strolling" around Athens, so it fails WP:RS and WP:AGEMATTERS. Third, the OP had better tone down the aggro or he will find out what a "topic ban" is in short order. Khirurg (talk) 19:58, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

That is only one of the sources - although just noting that Arvanites were present does not require a scientific sample of the population. But what about this paragraph from "Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography":
By the fourteenth century Orthodox Christian Arvanites had made their way into the Greek thema of the Byzantine Empire... ...From then [1579] on Arvanites occupied the Attikan plains from the area of Mesogeia to in the southeast to the northwestern areas of Phyle and Khassia. Thus, the Arvanites were already inhabiting Athens when the city became the capital of Greece in 1834.
This is a book from 1995. The other sources are from the 19th century. How is this non-reliable, too old or anachronistic?Çerçok (talk) 20:49, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

I was able to verify the source that is currently in use for the article, and it turns out the book has been gravely misquoted. The author says:

Athens was a town of some 10000 inhabitants, half of them Albanians, and the rest Turks or Greeks.

And here is what how the article puts it:

In 1821, Athens had about 10,000 people, half of whom were Christian Greeks and the other half were Muslims, being either Turks, Albanians or Greek Muslims.

A grave distortion. I will correct the article.Çerçok (talk) 23:48, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

I will add a whole paragraph of the original source just to clarify for everyone what it says:
On the see-saw of Greek fortunes the structural failure to organize the defences of East Roumeli was offset by one success: the capture of the Akropolis of Athens. Athens was a town of some 10000 inhabitants, half of them Albanians and the rest Turks or Greeks, 'an impoverished community', thought Finlay, 'consisting of torpid landed proprietors and lazy petty traders'.
The inaccuracy of the sentence in this article is unjustifiable. The source does not even specify religions, and the numbers are different from what was claimed here. I will now replace the misquote with the correct citation. Çerçok (talk) 06:20, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

(unindent) First of all, I will strongly advice you to learn how to write in WP talk pages. Please familiarise yourself with Wikipedia:Indentation rules. Second, I will again advice since you seek consensus here to not deliberately the material [5] that 3 editors are explained already to you as violating the WP guidelines for WP:COATRACK, WP:AGEMATTERS and even the relevancy of your edits. They do not add any value, only serve your POV. This is a friendly warning, if your continue I will request from an admin to intervene. Best Othon I (talk) 08:01, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Do you deny that the source was misquoted? My last article edit did not even use any additional sources, only the one that was already there, simply correcting. Why did you restore a misquotation? Please do not divert attention to the other sources or the format. Why did you restore a misquote? Çerçok (talk) 08:25, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
WP is written according to the WP:NPOV guidelines. Additionally, you need to achieve consensus in order to add material that is challenged/disputed by other editors. Then add he material. I have not misquoted anything, I have reinstated the stable version. Again, I would advise you to stop being aggressive otherwise I will request an admin to intervene. Best Othon I (talk) 08:44, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Take it easy and stop diverting. I did not say you misquoted anything, I said you restored a misquote. Do you deny that the current version misquotes the source? Çerçok (talk) 08:52, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Please refrain from such comments and be civil. The article is stable as is, the content is sourced. The focus are the Greeks and not the Albanians. Your edits are irrelevant and do not add value, what is the value-added to specify the demographics of Athens at that time? Which was a village as well there were Greeks and other nationalities coexisting, that's what the sentence says. Read what WP:COATRACK is and familiarise yourself. Please drop the stick and move on. Othon I (talk) 09:16, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Once again you are sidetracking. The content is wrongfully sourced because it misquotes the book. I did not add the sentence on the demographics of Athens, I only corrected it. So your argument on how relevant this sentence is, has nothing to do with my edit. Please try to discuss the accuracy of the sentence which I edited, as that is the main point. I showed you the quote from the book and I showed you what the article currently states. You have to admit this is a misquote, or argue the book is accurately quoted (though I do not see how). It is that simple. Of course I won't move on until truth is established. Çerçok (talk) 09:27, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
The truth? Alright, so what you present as "truth" is a reference to what Finlay saw in Athens during a stroll. There are shed loads of other sources that do explain the situation back then in Athens, you just WP:CHERRYPICKING the one serves your POV which is near the margin of the Albanian nationalistic POV. The article is stable. If you would like to continue you need first to reach a consensus. Otherwise many users that do not comply have been banned from Balkan topics. Best Othon I (talk) 11:36, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Once again, you are avoiding the issue. The accuracy of the book is a separate thing altogether that goes beyond the matter here, and something that we can discuss subsequently. But since you have already accepted the book is reliable enough to be quoted in this article, you should also accept this simple truth: the book states something very different from what the article does. This is a misquote. It violates WP:VERIFIABILITY as it is not supported even by the source it lists. What the article currently states in indefensible. Please do not WP:COATRACK from this very simple issue, just give a reason why you insist on keeping an inaccurately cited statement in the article. And please stop with the unnecessary threats WP:CIVILITY. Çerçok (talk) 12:18, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
I have tried to help you. You do not really want to be helped. Your additions are irrelevant to the topic and are a clear example of WP:COATRACK. I have given the warning for your ethnicity based accusations to the other editors as seen above "But I am afraid the problem is the systematic deletion of everything that has to do with Albanians by Greek users and moderators (well-sourced information are being deleted in other pages too, on clearly invalid excuses).". Enough said, if you continue this, you will get the same response from other editors. Not need to waste my time more on this. Good day. Othon I (talk) 13:16, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
It's not an addition, it's a correction. You have only impeded the improvement of the article by insisting on maintaining a lie in it. You have repeatedly refused to address the issue of misquotation, repeatedly diverted the topic of discussion, and never answered why you want an inaccurately cited statement to remain. This is a clear case of WP:COATRACK in an attempt to escape the failure to comply with WP:VERIFIABILITY. I have given you at many chances to explain yourself for deleting my latest correction of the cited statement, and you have intentionally diverted. I am afraid that under the provisions of WP:VERIFIABILITY I will have to correct the statement again. The misquotation cannot stand. So I will give you one more chance to explain. Please tell us why should an inaccurately cited statement be part of this article? Çerçok (talk) 13:59, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Çerçok, as you can see from my comment below, I am sympathetic to your basic point. But your tactics are terrible. You should assume good faith -- as should those who disagree with you -- and keep the discussion civil. Your statement "I will have to correct the statement again" suggests that you intend to edit war, which is not productive and not tolerated. That statement in itself is probably enough to earn you a block. --Macrakis (talk) 15:00, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Macrakis Thank you for taking a more balanced and open approach. I am not employing any tactics; I am new here. I do not want to be part of an edit war, and as you can see I have not re-edited the article yet. WP:VERIFIABILITY states that the burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material. Despite several days of exchanges, Othon I has not justified why an inaccurately cited statement needs to be in the article, so still waiting. I mostly agree with what you said in the comment below, that there is a broader issue about this article and I would welcome gradual changes, however I would like to resolve this one very specific, and easily verifiable problem first. We have the correct quote from the book now, we know that the one in the article is a distortion, so really there should be no issue here, assuming good faith. Çerçok (talk) 15:37, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Could you please name the gradual changes you are referring to? Othon I (talk) 15:54, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Othon I No, this section is and always has been about one particular sentence, which inaccurately cites a book. Please, do not WP:COATRACK any further. Please explain how do you justify maintaining an inaccurate citation in this article? Çerçok (talk) 16:28, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

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Çerçok correctly observed that the article doesn't treat Orthodox Albanians very clearly. Almost all mentions of Albanians in this article are to Muslim Albanians fighting for the Ottomans. But there were substantial numbers of Orthodox Albanians in Greece in 1821, and many of them fought on the Greek side: "During the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role on fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as national Greek heroes."Arvanites#History Nowadays, the local Orthodox Albanians of Greece are called Arvanites, but in 1821, they were called Albanians.

Of course, ethnic identity is a problematic concept in this period. Linguistic, political, and religious identification didn't necessarily coincide, the terminology isn't consistent, "ethnic" identity was fluid (cf. Stoianovich), Albanian nationalism didn't exist yet, and terminology was inconsistent.

Çerçok's edits aren't great, but his point that Orthodox Albanians are not represented adequately in the article is reasonable. So rather than fighting, I would recommend that other editors try to find a way of incorporating his point using encyclopedic language and good WP:RS. --Macrakis (talk) 13:55, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Not really, Orthodox Albanian-speaking / Arvanites people are mentioned a lot in the article, there are various references to Souliotes, Hydriots and others. What exactly is missing? can you please point out? Additionally, aren't the motives of an editor as the above clear to a editor of your experience? If you believe that a stable article as such lacks of information regarding certain topics, please make any relevant suggestions. Best Othon I (talk) 15:54, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
I don't worry too much about motives. I worry about getting a well-balanced encyclopedia article. In response to intemperate and inappropriate language like Çerçok's ("deliberately racist deletion" etc.) which does not follow WP:AGF and WP:CIVIL, I try to educate the user about our standards here, but I also try to understand whether there is a substantive issue. In this particular case, as Çerçok pointed out, this sentence is at best misleading, and at worst incorrect:
In 1821, Athens had about 10,000 people, half of whom were Christian Greeks and the other half were Muslims, being either Turks, Albanians or Greek Muslims.
This makes it sound as though all the Albanians in Athens were Muslims, which is probably not correct. After all, Christian Albanians continued to be a significant part of the population of Attica in general and Athens in particular after the revolution. Also, the term "Greek Muslim" is anachronistic here. Any Greek family which had converted to Islam was defined at the time as Muslim, and not as Greek, even if they were Greek-speaking, which many of them were.
It is also unfortunate that the article talks about Muslim Albanians as Albanians, but Orthodox Albanians under names like Souliotes and Hydriots.--Macrakis (talk) 17:31, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Again all these need to be back by WP:RS especially the claim about Athens, most of the maps do not include Athens as Greek and Albanian-speaking especially after the revolution. Brewer in his book is just referring to what Finlay saw in a stroll probably around. It is not Indeed though, Arvanites where a dominant element in areas around Athens and this is reflected in the article, I am not sure why you believe the opposite. Additionally, you mentioned "but Orthodox Albanians or Albanian-speaking people are referred under names like Souliotes and Hydriots" which I frankly do not understand what you trying to say. Souliotes who have an article are known by that name and not as Orthodox Albanian only. We could probably stress it if you trying to say that but it is really the point that adds any value? The Arvanites where of course part of the struggle but what more can be said apart from the Souliot (Orthodox Albanians), Hydriot (The majority of them where Arvanites not all of them) and Spetsiot (The majority of them where Arvanites not all of them) contribution and the the event of the Tripolitsa massacre. Last but not least, sentence pointed out indeed needs to be revised. However, it currently references a source that indicates what someone (Finlay) saw in a stroll in Athens. We need a source of demographic or as you said encyclopedic nature. I will try to find something out but in no way in Athens half of the population where Arvanites. There were various people coexisting indeed but half of them is just WP:FRINGE since Arvanites had a quarter in Plaka area (or kandyli as was known back then), I will write something inclusive once I find the source such as "In 1821, Athens had about 10,000 people, half of whom were Christian Greeks and Albanians, and the other half were Muslims, being either Turks, Albanians and Greeks.". I will also add a part about the Benizelos family who were "in charge" in Athens since I believe its notable. Best Othon I (talk) 09:49, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
You need to stop distorting the source. It does not say that half of Athens were Arvanites but Albanians. In all likelihood this includes both Orthodox and Muslim Albanians, though religion is not even specified. Please stick to what is written, it is not difficult. And this is not about the period after the war, but at its start. I am happy to see that the appearance of the word "Albanian" has inspired a rigorous concern about the accuracy of the article as well as the reliability of the source, which you had absolutely no complaints about until I discovered that it actually mentions Albanians. But there is no need stall or waste any more time looking for the distorted source, here it is: [6]. Çerçok (talk) 10:26, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Insult me once more and you are going to be reported and an AE will be on its way. The article needs sources and not one source. If you just stick to one source you are WP:CHERRYPICKING and the statement you are sticking falls under WP:AGEMATTERS, WP:OLDSOURCES etc. and is completely outdated. And as Macrakis said above Of course, ethnic identity is a problematic concept in this period. Linguistic, political, and religious identification didn't necessarily coincide, the terminology isn't consistent, "ethnic" identity was fluid (cf. Stoianovich), Albanian nationalism didn't exist yet, and terminology was inconsistent.. These people that Brewer calls them Albanians, other sources call them Arvanites. An inclusive statement can be written but sticking to one source that fits your POV is a tantamount endorsement of POV. I am going to find more sources related to the demographics of Athens before the war. You can provide more sources here related to the changes that you want make. In any case the contribution of Orthodox Christian Albanian-speaking people who were no more than 15% of the population of the regions of Rumelia, Morea, Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, Aegean Islands, Crete and Ionian Islands its not so much of a great event but for sure it should be mentioned as it is, for the contribution of the Souliots and other Albanian-speaking people. Othon I (talk) 11:52, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
I have not insulted you in the slightest. You have been speculating about my motives and threatening for days now, and I have not complained. Not because your speculations hold any truth but because I want to focus on the issue. The fact remains, this is the one source that you yourself accepted before. When I tried to add new sources you rejected them and restored the version that only has this one. But now that you know even this source says Albanians were half of the population in Athens, suddenly it is unacceptable and you criticize it, while still protecting a sentence that distortingly refers to it. After almost a week of WP:COATRACK, you are still holding in the article an inaccurately cited statement which violates the guidelines of WP:VERIFIABILITY as well as WP:Neutral Point of View. Protecting an inaccurate statement without providing any reasons to do so is just POV pushing I'm afraid. Accuracy cannot depend on any one person's unjustified desires. Çerçok (talk) 12:41, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Firstly read and familiarise yourself with what the WP:COATRACK WP policy means and read my comment above if you believe that I am not agreeing of adding that bit. It needs more WP:RS sources. Secondly, if you don't understand that your language is aggressive and inappropriate which 3 editors have explained that to you, it does not leave any other choice than to request admin intervention. Good day Othon I (talk) 13:04, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Alright then, if you are in agreement that "Albanians" should be added to the sentence, please go ahead and do so, since my own attempt was reverted. On my part, I do agree that more sources would improve the material and I am open and willing to subsequently discuss ways of doing so. However, this particular detail can be fixed from now. Çerçok (talk) 13:24, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
What does now mean, again refrain from such comments? Once all the sources are here the sentence will be updated accordingly. I am working on this and will be done soon. Othon I (talk) 13:37, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
I said now meaning all the information is already available for the correction of the citation to be made. But since are saying you will expand to a more comprehensive version soon I am happy wait and see it when it is ready. Çerçok (talk) 20:08, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
A simple issue of a misquote that can be verified and corrected with a 3 second google search has now been dragged for 10 whole days. There is still no reason given for the delay or the refusal of the correction. The source itself, is very clear. Çerçok (talk) 15:06, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
I fail to see why contemporary demographics of a specific settlement is notable in this article. By the way Athens wasn't the most populated settlement the time when the revolution broke out, while the Greek capital just after the revolution was located in Nauplion.Alexikoua (talk) 05:32, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
@Alexikoua: It is indeed irrelevant the topic of the article however my edit was to make it more inclusive since the sentence was there. I happy as well to remove it from the article because I have also expressed the fact that it is not relevant nor notable too. Thanks Othon I (talk) 07:27, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

(←) Considering Alexikoua's comment and having a closer look to the paragraph, the sentence about the demographics of Athens it is indeed not relevant nor notable to the paragraph that it was placed. I strongly believe though that it would add value to the History_of_Athens#Ottoman_Athens paragraph were it is also already included. If you agree I will move it to that but, in this article it does not fit to that place. There is no any other mention to the demographics of another town. Best Othon I (talk) 09:27, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Exactly imagine adding that Vlore had a Greek community in the article about the Albanian deceleration of Independence. It's the same kind of out of the subject information.Alexikoua (talk) 10:32, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

(←) @Alexikoua:@Othon I: Once again, the issue of relevance, completely ignored while the article wrongfully described the demography of Athens, is brought up as soon as it is corrected to mention Orthodox Albanians. This is only one instance in a long list of systematic erasures of Albanians, and most importantly Orthodox Albanians, from the history of Greece. In this particular article, Albanians are mentioned 11 times (besides one in the end that does not refer to Greece). Here they are:

-'Muslim Albanians ravaged many regions in mainland Greece'
-'the Albanian general Omer Vrioni who become infamous for his "Greek hunts" in Attica'
-'the Ottoman state turned to hiring Albanian tribesmen to fight the Greeks'
-'the bulk of the Ottoman forces in Greece were Albanian mercenaries'
-'The Albanian tribesmen, whose style of war was very similar to the Greeks, fought only for money and were liable to go home when not paid or able to plunder in lieu of pay.'
-'Gogos Bakolas betrayed his own side to the Ottomans, allowing Albanian infantry to advance up the ridge.'
-'Northern Albanian forces under Mustafa Reshit Pasha from the Pashalik of Scutari'
-'Southern Albanian forces under Omer Vrioni from the former Pashalik of Yanina'
-'During the summer the Souliot Markos Botsaris was shot dead at the Battle of Karpenisi in his attempt to stop the advance of Ottoman Albanian forces'
-'unlike the Turkish and Albanian units'
-'held by Turkish and Albanian troops'

So 11 mentions that you are not claiming to be irrelevant, each and every single one of them in association with the Ottomans. Why is one side of history included, and the other omitted? If even the mention of Orthodox Albanians is strictly forbidden and immediately edited out, the same should apply to all ethnic labels, although this would impoverish the article. Please, Alexikoua, conforming to Neutrality Guidelines, how do you justify the complete ommitance of Orthodox Albanians in this article and the regular mention of the Albanians who participated in the Ottoman campaigns? Çerçok (talk) 11:13, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

You are off topic here. Mentioning Orthodox Albanians in the article has nothing to do with the demography of Athens before the war. The sentence is about demography o Athens so it does not fit just that, it fits somewhere else e.g. here History_of_Athens#Ottoman_Athens, none said that is wrong. As for the "ommitance of the Orthodox Albanians" from the article. Please feel free to make any suggestions based on WP:RS and WP:SECONDARY sources and stop moaning about it. Othon I (talk) 11:55, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Othon I Please refrain from use of such language and try to comply with Civility. This is not off-topic. There are two issues with the way the article depicts Albanians: the narrow specific issue that the demographic details of Athens are suddenly irrelevant as soon as Albanians are brought up, and the broader issue that Albanians are unjustifiably portrayed as part of the anti-revolutionaries. Albanians have played important roles on both sides. It would be fair to either mention them in both cases or not mentioning them at all. Çerçok (talk) 13:31, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
No it is not relevant for the paragraph, I have edited the line without reading the whole paragraph but since I read it after Alexikoua pointed that out, I agree that it is indeed not relevant to add the demographics of Athens when the topic is the fight in central Greece. In any case, it is relevant for this section History_of_Athens#Ottoman_Athens. As I said, please feel free bring the adequate WP:RS and WP:SECONDARY and add the related topics that you believe that are missing and again stop the accusations about omittance etc., a week ban was not enough for you? Othon I (talk) 14:56, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
What accusation? I don't think I accused you of anything. You should stop threatening though. If wish to ban me, go ahead with your plans if you wish. I agree on the info being more relevant to the history of Athens page. As for this article, I will prepare some improvements and present them here. Çerçok (talk) 19:09, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Cercok: the use of ethnographic terms on such a way is problematic, also note that "Turkoalbanian" is also used plenty of times but we avoid to make use of it.Alexikoua (talk) 13:12, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
"Turkoalbanian" is a problematic, politically charged, and outdated term which falsely equates religion with ethnicity. The corresponding problematic terms were "Latin Albanian" and "Greek Albanian". I agree that these should not be used any more. Orthodox Albanians, on the other hand, only means Albanians of the Orthodox faith, and just like Catholic Albanians or Muslim Albanians, is not offensive or problematic in any way. Please try to focus on the grave misrepresentation of Albanians rather than on these obvious non-issues. Çerçok (talk) 13:31, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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Infobox

MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE says the purpose of an infobox: to summarize (and not supplant) key facts that appear in the article. There is no mention of the Regency of Algiers (or any form of Algiers) nor Beylik of Tunis (ditto for Tunis) in the article, therefore they don't get mentioned in the infobox. Should there by any more entries than need removing then do, that does not justify the retention of entries that violation the guideline. FDW777 (talk) 16:26, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

@FDW777:Now that these are mentionned by their name, are you satisfied and will you self-revert ? --Phso2 (talk) 17:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Quotes requested

Could the editors adding the text with following citations please provide the quotes from the books that support their change?

  • William St. Clair. That Greece Might Still Be Free The Philhellenes in the War of Independence. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. ISBN 0-19-215194-0, p. 43
  • J. M. Wagstaff, War and Settlement Desertion in the Morea, 1685-1830, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 3, No. 3, Settlement and Conflict in the Mediterranean World. (1978), p. 301
  • Phillips, Alison W. The War of Greek Independence, 1821 to 1833. London, 1897, p. 61

Thank you. FDW777 (talk) 17:14, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

I can only assume the failure to reply by one editor, despite being pinged on ANI to this precise discussion, is because they can't provide the quotes. I have read the first two, and they contain no text I can see that references the addition. I very much doubt the remaining reference, an 1897 book, even contains the term "ethnic cleansing". The addition was improperly referenced. FDW777 (talk) 23:12, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
I don't see how this is supported by those sources. The 1897 source surely doesn't use this language (too modern). Wagstaff one page 305 has "internecine strife", but I don't see "ethnic cleansing".--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 05:48, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
The quote from page 301 Wagstaff that's of any potential relevance is The war began as the popular rising of a colonian people against its masters. A series of uncoordiated, largely undocumented attacks was made on the Muslim population of the Morea during March and April 1821. It is reported that, as a result, more than 3000 Muslim farmhouses and dwellings were destroyes and between 10000 and 15000 people-perhaps 31 per cent of the Muslim population-were murdered. However that's nothing like the quotes provided at Turkish War of Independence, it simply confirms that Muslims were killed and homes destroyed, but not that is was a specific aim of the war itself. FDW777 (talk) 08:23, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
It does not have to contain exact name of "ethnic cleansign". See the wikipedia article. The Final Report of the Commission of Experts established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 defined ethnic cleansing as "a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas". William St. Clair, That Greece Might Still Be Free The Philhellenes in the War of Independence, especially Chapter 4 "Two Kinds of War" clearly describes ethnic cleansign. It is telling how many turks were there and after the massacres most of them were dead with the exception a little partion who managed the excape. Their holdings and valuables confiscated. The region had a lot turkish residents and they had been killed or sold the slavery. "Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous." this is from wiki article. What happened to turks was systematic, it was forced removel, it was based on ethnicity and it created a homogeneous region. In conclusion it was a ethnic cleansing.
in page 41 "The Greeks, however, offered a convention whereby they would be granted a secure passage to Africa. They had neither the intention
nor even the means of doing this and one of the Greek negotiators boasted later that he destroyed the copy of the agreement so that no evidence should remain. When the gates were opened the Greeks rushed in and the whole population of between 2,000 and 3,000 were killed with the exception of about 160 who managed to escape." says their intentions and means were killinn the local turkish population and they did so.
The spelling of ethnic cleansign was not there but according to wikipedia definitions it was ethnic cleansign. Göktuğ Canik (talk) 11:53, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Phillips, Alison W. The War of Greek Independence, 1821 to 1833 in chapter 4;
page 48 and 49 "Everywhere, as though at a preconcerted signal, the peasantry rose, and massacred all the Turks men, women, and children on whom they could lay hands.
In the Morea shall no Turk be left,
Nor in the whole wide world.
Thus rang the song which, from mouth to mouth, announced the beginning of a war of extermination. The Mussulman population of the Morea had been reckoned at twenty-five thousand souls. Within three weeks of the outbreak of the revolt, not a Moslem was left, save those who had succeeded in escaping into the towns."
"...With an imposing religious ceremonial a crucifix was erected in the central square of the town, and a pro- clamation issued in the name of the Greek leaders, containing merely these emphatic words, * Peace to the Christians ! Eespect to the consuls ! Death to the Turks.' l The sole immediate result, however, of the rising at Patras was the destruction of a once flourish- ing town."
page 51 "Kalamata, besieged by Petrobey and his Mainotes, had fallen even before the arrival of Kolokotrones. Of the Ottoman inhabitants, the men were massacred, the women and children enslaved ; and on the banks of the wild mountain torrent that rushed past the town twenty-four gorgeously vested priests, surrounded by an army of five thousand warriors, sang a solemn Te Deum, in celebration of the first victory of the war."
page 57 "The Turks, weakened by famine, and rendered desperate, whether they trusted the promises or not, grasped at the last straw of hope that was held out to them. They opened the gates of their citadel, and laid down their arms. The greater number of them now elected to go into exile ; and the work of embarkation began. Six hundred had already gone on board the brigs, when, suddenly, the Mainotes burst into the town, murdering and outraging all those who had not as yet succeeded in reaching the shore, or who, trust- ing in the promise of Prince Demetrius that their homes and lives would be spared, had chosen to remain in the town."
page "they plundered the Turks, and forced the Jews to give up to them all the money and jewellery in their possession. With the wealth of which they were thus deprived these poor wretches had hoped to purchase the protection of the captains of the Armatoli; and as soon as they could do so, they informed the Greeks of Nourka's treachery, and laid down their arms on promise of personal safety. That promise was immediately violated. The massacre commenced with the Jews. Men, women, and children were murdered without mercy, after being tortured to make them reveal their supposed hidden treasures. The poorer Mussulmans shared the same fate."
Again clearly describing ethnic cleansign and even genocide. I can not quote all the book but there are many more paragraphs telling the massacres and intentions. Göktuğ Canik (talk) 12:25, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
See WP:SYN, also WP:ONUS even if the claims were properly referenced which they aren't. FDW777 (talk) 18:19, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Ethnic Cleansign and Massacres Sources

I posted this at talk about quotes needed. But people still deleting information and sources.

See the wikipedia article. The Final Report of the Commission of Experts established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 defined ethnic cleansing as "a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas".

William St. Clair, That Greece Might Still Be Free The Philhellenes in the War of Independence, especially Chapter 4 "Two Kinds of War" clearly describes ethnic cleansign. It is telling how many turks were there and after the massacres most of them were dead with the exception a little partion who managed the excape. Their holdings and valuables confiscated. The region had a lot turkish residents and they had been killed or sold the slavery. "Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous." this is from wiki article. What happened to turks was systematic, it was forced removel, it was based on ethnicity and it created a homogeneous region. In conclusion it was a ethnic cleansing. in page 41 "The Greeks, however, offered a convention whereby they would be granted a secure passage to Africa. They had neither the intention nor even the means of doing this and one of the Greek negotiators boasted later that he destroyed the copy of the agreement so that no evidence should remain. When the gates were opened the Greeks rushed in and the whole population of between 2,000 and 3,000 were killed with the exception of about 160 who managed to escape." says their intentions and means were killinn the local turkish population and they did so. The spelling of ethnic cleansign was not there but according to wikipedia definitions it was ethnic cleansign.

Phillips, Alison W. The War of Greek Independence, 1821 to 1833 in chapter 4; page 48 and 49 "Everywhere, as though at a preconcerted signal, the peasantry rose, and massacred all the Turks men, women, and children on whom they could lay hands. In the Morea shall no Turk be left, Nor in the whole wide world. Thus rang the song which, from mouth to mouth, announced the beginning of a war of extermination. The Mussulman population of the Morea had been reckoned at twenty-five thousand souls. Within three weeks of the outbreak of the revolt, not a Moslem was left, save those who had succeeded in escaping into the towns." "...With an imposing religious ceremonial a crucifix was erected in the central square of the town, and a pro- clamation issued in the name of the Greek leaders, containing merely these emphatic words, * Peace to the Christians ! Eespect to the consuls ! Death to the Turks.' l The sole immediate result, however, of the rising at Patras was the destruction of a once flourish- ing town." page 51 "Kalamata, besieged by Petrobey and his Mainotes, had fallen even before the arrival of Kolokotrones. Of the Ottoman inhabitants, the men were massacred, the women and children enslaved ; and on the banks of the wild mountain torrent that rushed past the town twenty-four gorgeously vested priests, surrounded by an army of five thousand warriors, sang a solemn Te Deum, in celebration of the first victory of the war." page 57 "The Turks, weakened by famine, and rendered desperate, whether they trusted the promises or not, grasped at the last straw of hope that was held out to them. They opened the gates of their citadel, and laid down their arms. The greater number of them now elected to go into exile ; and the work of embarkation began. Six hundred had already gone on board the brigs, when, suddenly, the Mainotes burst into the town, murdering and outraging all those who had not as yet succeeded in reaching the shore, or who, trust- ing in the promise of Prince Demetrius that their homes and lives would be spared, had chosen to remain in the town." page "they plundered the Turks, and forced the Jews to give up to them all the money and jewellery in their possession. With the wealth of which they were thus deprived these poor wretches had hoped to purchase the protection of the captains of the Armatoli; and as soon as they could do so, they informed the Greeks of Nourka's treachery, and laid down their arms on promise of personal safety. That promise was immediately violated. The massacre commenced with the Jews. Men, women, and children were murdered without mercy, after being tortured to make them reveal their supposed hidden treasures. The poorer Mussulmans shared the same fate." Again clearly describing ethnic cleansign and even genocide. I can not quote all the book but there are many more paragraphs telling the massacres and intentions of ethnic cleansign. 

Please look with neutral point of view not with nationalistic view. If you think soruces somewhat invalid then explain yourself. Do not undo things just because you don't like it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Göktuğ Canik (talk • contribs) 18:00, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
See WP:NOR, also WP:UNDUE once you get over the original research hurdle. FDW777 (talk) 19:06, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Theese boks are not results of original research. First you said you read the books and there was no part in theese book about information given. After giving some quotes, you are saying no original research. In the first page of the second book first paragraph says "this book is not result of original research." So you did not read the books. Stop lying and being one sided.
"Neutrality requires that mainspace articles and pages fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in the published, reliable sources." Sources are reliable and neutral. "Keep in mind that, in determining proper weight, we consider a viewpoint's prevalence in reliable sources, not its prevalence among Wikipedia editors or the general public." According to reliable sources ethnic cleansign viewpoint is held by a significant minority and massacres viewpoint are in the majority. Göktuğ Canik (talk) 19:55, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Yes, it is original research. It's classic synthesis to take a definition and claim any incident meets that definition. FDW777 (talk) 20:12, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Not to mention also WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS and WP:UNDUE. Khirurg (talk) 20:23, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Dear turkish users, have you noticed that the article is about a national revolution, and not about a chess tournament?--Skylax30 (talk) 13:48, 28 April 2022 (UTC)


Requested move 15 September 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Consensus indicates that the proposed title is broad while the current title is specific. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 16:36, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Greek War of Independence → Greek Revolution – I would like to propose this change as it is a shorter, more concise title and I'd say the more common name of the two. A simple Google search shows that 50,000,000 results show up under "Greek War of Independence", whereas "Greek Revolution" displays 151,000,000 results, which is a significantly higher number. Additionally, the Greek title for this battle is "Ελληνική Επανάσταση", which directly translates into "Greek Revolution". Within this article itself, there are more sources that dub the war as the "Greek Revolution" (there are numerically more sources labelled under "Greek War of Independence", but that is due to the fact that multiple references have been cited that are all from the singular source of David Brewer's book). There are also more secondary sources in the article that use the term "Greek Revolution" than "Greek War of Independence". Thus, I think it would be more beneficial for this article to be titled as "Greek Revolution". Please let me know your thoughts below. - Therealscorp1an (talk) 09:25, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Comment: That is only in recent years and you see that historically, the term "Greek Revolution" has been more popular. - Therealscorp1an (talk) 11:34, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
  • Oppose the term War of Independence is more precise than the term Revolution is, because it led to their independence from an imperial authority. It helps better distinguishing from any other revolutions which like the others pointed out, have a broader use and are not really helpful for an encyclopedia such as this. The Revolution is already present on the article as the alternate bolded name in the very first sentence in any case. --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ (talk ✉ | contribs ✎) 11:56, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Very clear common name in English-language sources. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:56, 21 September 2022 (UTC)


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Protected edit request on 20 September 2022

I’ll change the victory site to “Greek/Allied victory’ since it wasn’t just Greece Tise exists (cool) (talk) 20:29, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: The page's protection level has changed since this request was placed. You should now be able to edit the page yourself. If you still seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:00, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
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