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[edit] Possible copyright infringement

I took this out: Papyri

• P. Köln 1. 8, in B. Krebber and R. Hübner, eds, Kölner Papyri 1 (1976) 27-32.
• Krebber, B. Naustologoi bei Strabon: ein neues Papyrusfragment (P. Colon. inv. nr. 5861). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 9 (1972) 204-221.
• Krebber, B. Corrigenda. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 10 (1973) 188.
• Merkelbach, R. Methone - Methana. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigaphik 10 (1973) 194-96.
• P. Oxyrhynchus 3447, in A. Bülow-Jacobsen and J.E.G. Whitehorn, eds, Oxyrhynchus Papyri 49 (1982) 47-73, (numerous fragments containing text from Geography 9.1.14 - 9.5.22).
• P. Oxyrhynchus 4459 in M.W. Haslam and others, eds, Oxyrhynchus Papyri 65 (1998) 71-75. (two fragments, containing text from Geography 2.5.20-24).

because it is copied just about word for word from Sarah Pothecary, given a cite web in external links. Moreover, Sarah has the goodness to offer some explanation of this gobbledegook which if offered without the explanation is totally inscrutable to any but the expert on Strabo papyri. We could after hours and hours of research, many links and an explanatory expansion of the section make it our own. However this article is not about the manuscripts of the Geography or at least I do not think it should be. Tell you what. Let whoever put this in here exert himself a bit more than a simple copy-paste and give us the section with cite book specifications and explanations so that the reader can know what all those abbreviations and numbers are and where the papryri are located and what they say more or less with some notes as to where the fragments are from and how valid they are likely to be and any other relevant notes on the papyri, making sure to cite his sources of information, and then we can evaluate whether it belongs in here or in a separate article on the papyri of Strabo. Until that time I for one just prefer to link to Sarah Pothecary so the reader can see the same thing with her explanations and not only that but just to copy with but slight modification from her website without attribution I believe might be a copyright infringement.Dave 01:14, 4 November 2007 (UTC)