Talk:Olympos
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Congratulations, JustSomeKid, on the tidying, and yes some of the previous text did seem to come from a tourist leaflet,and yes about the prosaicness of methane too. However the final part describing Olympos as it is today, as a hippy resort etc., is just factual observation and quite encyclopaedic. I don't think our descriptions should stop at some arbitrary time in history before modern times, so I think it or most of it should go back. TobyJ 20:02, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
This sounds pretty dubious and unsubstantiated:
"Scientists are as mystified as the people of ancient times as to how fire spontaneously erupts from holes in the mountain. The fuel source for the flames is natural gas seeping through cracks in the earth. Scientists are still unable to discover the compounds of the gases."
In the 21st century, it's not hard to determine the nature of some gas seeping out of the ground if you have the right equipment.
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" It really did need cleaning up. It had bad grammar, a huge-ass image, unclear and fragmented writing, etc. I did what I could, but considering the way it was written I may have unintentionally distorted the meaning of the article. -JustSomeKid
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Hello, my name is Heiko. I am from Olympos. Dear JustSomeKid: Thank you very much for spending so much work on the Olympos page. If you dont mind, i will do some work on the page too. Some things really need to be changed.
regards Heiko Heiko's Homepage from Olympos Heiko's 2nd Homepage
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22 September 2005
Yesterday i added 60 new pictures to my website from the Olympos ruins and beach, i'll add a link to the article. Heiko
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The appeals to mystery makes it sound like a tourism pamphlet, and the final paragraph definitely sounds like one. So I omitted some of it. I paraphrased the stuff about the mythical chimera (it has its own article), and reluctantly omitted that during the Lycian federation, it had suffrage (it was poorly worded and nondescriptive).
All I could find supporting the historical bits were vacation and tourism sites. In Turkey or Greece the historical bits might be common knowledge but I tend to be skeptical of things which have to romanticize their subject matter. Anyone have a book source, or a non-tourism URL? -JustSomeKid
