Talk:Spartan Army

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Contents 1 Who is working on this? 2 Copyeditors 3 Quality Issues 4 Vandalism 5 one of the toughest?? 6 navy section 7 Tactical structure

[edit] Who is working on this?

Would anyone working on this article sign here please? I'm trying to work out how popular it is.

--Samrsharma 17:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

It's on my watchlist and I'm the one who gave it the "start" class assessment. But, to your question: no, I'm not actively editing the article. Why don't you check the edit history? --Kimon^talk 17:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks-I didn't know about that! Samrsharma 19:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I had done a minor correction concerning the number of oar levels on biremes (listed as 20,changed to 2) and triremes (listed as 30,changed to 3),but the Navy section is entirely different now. SpartanGlory1983 (talk) 13:15, 7 April 2008 (UTC) SpartanGlory1983

[edit] Copyeditors

Can an experienced copyeditor look at this please? Despite loads of attempts I can't seem to banish that tag

Samrsharma 19:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quality Issues

Some parts of this article sound like they were written by a three year old and other parts sound like they were written by a high school kid who has only learned of Sparta from movies about Greek tales. The section on values and Tactics is especially bad. - 24.10.25.141 07:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

That's the problem with an article made into a film! I noticed that sort of thing before, do you have any idea about how to fix it? I've had a stab at it, but it is probably incomplete. This ties in with the copyedit tag. Kai Su?^{My Talk Page} 14:02, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Some idiot has put that spartans listened to atreyu and Pantera as they went into battle, And while if that were true, it would be awesome, it's not true, so I'm gonna delete it. If anyone sees this re-entered, can they get rid of it too? Also, Atreyu? The Spartans would listen to Slayer, Amon Amarth and Cannibal Corpse ;). Kung Foo 16:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

A few more counts: Someone called the delphic oracle 'gay niggerrs' and put 'Sparta is gay' at the start. This may need similar treatment to Sparta itself. Kai Su?^{My Talk Page} 18:14, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I've removed a comment about "Helen of Troy being hot". Jeeez. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.86.2 (talk) 17:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

I think somebody needs to remove this: "For wrestling if the opponent won he would get to choose wether the loser gets to suck his balls or get his balls sucked. giggity giggity goo, alright! Who else but Quagmire!"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.29.124 (talk) 01:47, 8 February 2008 (UTC) 

[edit] one of the toughest??

I do not agree with that Spartans were THE toughest soldiers known to man, and the best there is doubt about it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.31.182.173 (talk) 19:01, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Is it cited? If not well done, one of the is teneble but THE toughest is up for debate... Kai Su?^{My Talk Page} 19:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] navy section

it has noting in it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.35.146 (talk) 07:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Fixed now - It was vandalism 87.114.14.127 (talk) 18:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tactical structure

in the first paragraph the Second Messenian War is mentioned, in the second paragraph the phrase "By the end of the war, the structure had changed" refers NOT to the Second Messenian War, but to the Peloponnesian War, could somone please correct that, not everyone who comes here knows the all the wars, (start and end dates), off by heart. 203.206.248.84 (talk) 06:52, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Did some copyediting. Hopefully clearer now. Cheers, Cplakidas (talk) 10:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC)