User talk:Saepe Fidelis

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[edit] Creating new articles

Hello, Michael. I'm new to wikipedia and I noticed you've been here for a long time. Could you help me out by telling me how to create an article?

If you enter the title you want to the article to have in the search box, and you're told there's no article with that title, you should see a thing to click on that will take you to the editing page and you can start entering the new article.

Generally at the very beginning you should give sufficient context that the reader can tell right away what general subject area the article is to be about. My favorite example remains the article titled schismatic temperament. The usual meanings of the words schismatic and temperament made me think the article would possibly be about a psychiatric disorder, and nothing at all in the first sentence suggested otherwise, nor told me what it was about. Reading further, I realized it was about musical tuning. So I edited the article to begin with the words "In music, schismatic temperament is..." etc. That's often all it takes.

The title phrase should be set in bold at its first appearance as in the sentence in quotation marks above, usually in the first sentence. Note that Wikipedia conventions call for rather sparing use of capital letters in article titles and section headings. Thus it would be incorrect to have titled that article Schismatic Temperament with a capital T. However, it is a good idea to create redirect pages from such incorrect titles, redirecting the user to the correct title. The same applies to plausible alternative titles and commonplace misspellings or misnomers: make them redirect pages. Also, after creating the article, you should figure out which other articles should link to it, including, but not limited to, lists (e.g., see list of circle topics, list of inequalities, etc.). The first letter of a title generally appears as capital but is case-insensitive in links; the later letters are case-sensitive in links.

To create section headings just follow the format you see in articles you edit. Type == for a main heading, === for a second-tier heading, etc.

Generally External links should be the last section the reader sees, and category tags and links to counterpart articles in other languages should come below everything the reader sees.

And you should follow the norms of Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Saepe Fidelis (talk) 03:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Jews of Byzantium

I haven't read the entire article, but it seems like you did a great job. Although I mainly contribute about modern history and politics, I have done some contributions to our articles on Byzantine emperors, and am very interested in that period of history, so let me know if you need any help with anything. The one change I made was to add categories. In order for your article to get read a lot, it is important for it to have categories, as well as to be linked in other articles. The categories I added were "Religion in the Byzantine Empire" and "Judaism." Finding other places to fit this subject in other articles will be more challenging. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, and for the compliment. I do have a question for you: how can I redirect other names to this article? Saepe Fidelis (talk) 04:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)


It's a bit hard to explain. If you tell me what titles you want redirects for, I can make the redirects, and hopefully you can see from that how it's done. It took me a long time to get too, but basically you type in the word #Redirect, and the link it to the article you want to redirect to. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Could you redirect "Byzantine Jewry" to the article? I'll try to imitate that for other titles next time I'm on wikipedia (although right now I gtg). Saepe Fidelis (talk) 04:39, 30 May 2008 (UTC)


Done. I also added a link to the article on the Byzantine Empire page, in the religion section. I hadn't looked at it before, but it seemed to say previously that Christianity was the only religion in the empire, which is a distortion in my opinion. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your continued help.
To get the word out on the article, do you think it would be a good idea to try to get it on the "Did you know?" on the main page? How do we do that? Saepe Fidelis (talk) 15:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)


Go to WP:DYK. I've not been active in this area, but it seems fairly simple. Go to section 1.2, and it should explain. Academic Challenger (talk) 19:43, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Done and done. Thanks. Saepe Fidelis (talk) 16:29, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello! Great article on the Jews in Byzantium! However, if I might make a suggestion, since this article does not deal with the overall history of the Jews in the Byzantine period, but rather with their legal status, I would propose renaming the article to reflect this, perhaps Legal status of the Jews during the Byzantine Empire or Jews under the Byzantine Empire. "Byz. Empire" instead of "Byzantium" is IMO to be preferred BTW, because there is the latter is less specific, since it can also refer to the ancient Greek colony preceding the Empire. If ypu want help with anything, I'll be happy to help. Best regards, Cplakidas (talk) 20:35, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, Cplakidas, for your compliment and suggestions. You are correct in saying that the article only deals with the legal status of the Jews of Byzantium. Maybe the solution is to expand the article, rather than move it. I think that "Legal Status of the Jews during the Byzantine Empire" would be somewhat cumbersome, especially given that there would not be a more general article for the Jews of the Byzantine Empire. Your point on "Byzantium" vs. "Byzantine Empire" is well taken. How can I change that? Saepe Fidelis (talk) 09:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
First, you don't need to paste the entire conversation on a talk page, only add your replies. :) As for the title, if you intend to add more on their general history, then by all means let's change it to History of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire, or the more general Jews under the Byzantine Empire. You can easily change the title of an article, you go to the "move" tab in top, and just follow the instructions. I can do it if you want. BTW, if you do expand the scope of this article, as soon as my university exams are over, sometime next month, I'll try to find some information about the Jews in the Byzantine Empire. Cheers, Constantine ✍ 09:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll get working on it. Saepe Fidelis (talk) 12:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC)