Talk:Vix Grave

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A fact from Vix Grave appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 20 October 2007.

[edit] 83d40m

Hi, 83d40m, Please do not make major edits rashly. I had to undo the majority of your changes.

• Do not change British English into the trans-Atlantic version, it is against wikipedia policy (see here). Thus, It is jewellery, not jewelry (your spelling, jewelery is entirely wrong), and sherd, not shard. Personally, I am also not a big fan of expressions like "a great deal of something", as I think the use of "much" is shorter, crisper and less wordy (there is no difference in meaning between "a great deal of jewellery" and "much jewellery"), but if you prefer the longer version, fair enough.
• Let us avoid too many illustrations, they break the flow of the article and do not add information. Extraneous Hallstatt fibulae or Greek statuettes need not be illustrated, as there are links to the articles on Hallstatt culture, fibula and peplos, where people can look these things up. There'd be hundreds more things that look a bit like something from Vix, but we should only have illustrations that are helpful to further the informative value. What we do need is images of Mont Lassois, plans, images of the graves, and pictures of the actual finds from there.
• Some of your grammatical changes were not desirable. Eg, "the individual buried is traditionally seen as female" is correct, your version "the individual traditionally buried is seen as female" is a major change, as now the word "traditional" refers to the burial, and not to the gender hypothesis. That is not the key point. The gender has never, to my knowledge, been scientifically determined. For the same reason, it should be "the grave", not "her grave" throughout the rest of the text.
• The abbreviation for millimetre is mm, not mmm. I had said that in an earlier edit.
• The object that could be dated to 525BC was not "one item", but one of the Greek vases (cups). My version made that clear, whereas yours anonymised it.
• Fürstensitze translates as "princely seats", not as "aristocratic seats" (that would be Aristokratensitze). athinaios 08:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)