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[edit] Gelon

A legendary Scythian city, the northernmost Greek colony. Mentioned by Herodot in the book VI. In 512 B.C. Gelon was burnt out by the Emperor Dariy Gistasp. Supposedly Gelon was situated in the locality of Saratov. http://www.saratov-digital.com/presentation/past/gelon/eng_index.html Gelon - name of mega-yaht in Saratov

[edit] Gelo or Gelon

It's confusing that the title of this article is Gelo yet throughout the text he is referred to as Gelon. I wouldn't know which of the two versions is more standard but I have only heard of him under the name Gelon. If Gelon is standard, then the page should be moved - if Gelo then it should be changed in the text with the variant noted at the start. --Spondoolicks 22:49, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree --5telios 11:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

For what it's worth, Gelon is the preferred form, at least in everything I've ever read (latin and english). I have never seen Gelo. I reitereate Spoondolicks' point, that it is horrible encyclopaedic practice to have the lemma disagree with the title.--Ioshus^(talk) 22:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

In most translations of Archimedes I have seen, he is called Rex Gelon. Honestly, this is the form I would prefer, but since this is en, not la, maybe King Gelon?--Ioshus^(talk) 01:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I think straight Gelon is preferable. To those familiar with Sicily or the classical world in General will be looking for Gelon for the person and Gela for the place. I think having Gelo as the article name would be like having Ruggero as the article name for Roger of Sicily. --5telios 09:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Gelon is already taken...--Ioshus^(talk) 16:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Since there have not been any pro-Gelo voices so far, I suggest that this article is moved to Gelon with a disambiguation header for the city, while the Gelo page becomes a disambiguation page for the Gelao people, the racing team and the tyrant. The pre-existing Gelon page shouldn't be too much of a problem (although I'm not 100% clear on exactly what the procedure should be). Perhaps an administrator could be drafted in to move things around to preserve page histories and so forth. --Spondoolicks 10:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I thought it was usual in English to leave off the -n? Or is that the case only with Plato? Anyway, I created the redirect from Gelon simply because Gelo already existed. Adam Bishop 14:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)