Talk:Pompei

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[edit] Merge with Pompeii

Most of this page is about the history of the Roman city before the eruption, and this is overlapping with the Pompeii page. There does not seem very much to tell about the modern city. I think these articles should be merged, or at least all the Roman history should be moved there. Andreas Kaganov 14:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree, or at least the pre-eruption material should be moved to Pompeii, trimming this article down to just describing the modern city (while still noting that it used to be Pompeii, of course). I'd be fine with having two articles, one for each time period, as long as they're clearly differentiated. For example, we have separate articles for Istanbul, Constantinople, and Byzantium, even though they're just different stages of evolution of the same city. -kotra (talk) 21:07, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Strongly disagree with Andreas Kaganov on the merge, Pompei with one "i" is the modern day administrative city entity; it has articles in seven different languages. Pompeii note the two i's, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritige Site is an extict city and archaeological site. Two different things which are notable enough to each have an article. - Gennarous (talk) 06:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)