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=> Re: in which I catch Wikiassyrians at their tricks.....

Re: in which I catch Wikiassyrians at their tricks.....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, April 27 2012, 1:05:05 (UTC)
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...they turned down my request to remove the section on modern Assyrians because of no "consensus"...I just think they didn't bother to read...after all, these guys' lives and livlihood doesn't depend on how good of a job they do, as editors, because it isn;t their JOB...just like Frye can say what he wants about midern Assyrians, but couldn't get a JOB teaching the subject...the way Dr Joseph can and has.

So, I limited my next request to one line...the same one I quoted above but this time ina formal request...let's see what comes of this one....


Request to remove Uncited Material

I can see my first request had way too much information for any volunteer to be able to deal with, after all, you people have to spend some time gainfully employed. So, I will stick to a much narrower request to remove particular uncited material, one sentence to be exact. Either that or provide the citation. As per your own rules, "all encyclopedic content must be verifiable"...that's just what I tried to do with a statement, in a subsection of the article titled "Names". The section begins with this line...

"Distinctively Akkadian language names are attested into the Sassanid period (224 AD to 651 AD), before they were generally but not wholly replaced by Christian names."

...the words "Akkadian language" and "Sassanian" are highlighted in blue so I clicked on them knowing there is no such evidence but here at Wikipedia. Under "Akkadian language" I found information about the Akkadian language, but no list of the names "attested to"...clicking onto "Sassanian", and hoping that maybe there I might find these "attested to" names, I found only a general history of the Sassanian period, but still no "attested to" names. These were the only words bluelined, and neither gives the Akkadian names that were supposedly in use during the Sassanian Empire. Since there is no citation where these "attested to" names can be found, one can only conclude that they are not attested to anywhere, or if they are, the writer of this article failed to cite just where, for they certainly don't appear in what he or she wrote. is this specific enough to at least get you to verify my comments?



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