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Thomas the Slav is currently undergoing review as a Featured Article candidate. Any interested user is invited to state his/her opinion and offer criticism! Constantine ✍ 12:56, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Campaign of the Mallians

I desire for this article to go under intense review. I'm still working on it, but I'm going to finish it in the next two hours or so. If this is not where this is supposed to go, please let me know. I couldn't find where it was supposed to go.SteveMooreSmith3 (talk) 20:06, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! The best way to get feedback for your article at this stage would be to submit it for a Peer Review, especially the excellent WikiProject Military History Peer Review. After it is done, you should nominate it for Good Article, where it will receive another in-depth look-through. Congrats on a series of interesting articles BTW! Constantine ✍ 08:10, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Piraeus as a city distinct from Athens

It is true that “lato sensu” Piraeus belongs in the greater urban area of Athens, being the historic seaport of Greece’s capital.

However, from an administrative point of view, Piraeus is not included in the Athens metropolitan area. Piraeus has its own (independent from Athens) municipality (http://www.piraeus.gov.gr/); Piraeus used to be for almost 160 years (up to December 2010, when prefectures were abolished in Greece) the capital of Piraeus Prefecture, which included the islands of the Saronic Gulf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saronic_Gulf) as well as the islans of Kythera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kythera) and Antikythera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera); and, most importantly, Piraeus is nowadays the capital of the Peripheral Unit of Piraeus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_units_of_Greece ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheries_of_Greece). Furthermore, Piraeus has its own electoral districts: i) the “Piraeus first electoral district” (which includes the municipality of Piraeus), and ii) the “Piraeus second electoral district” (which includes Piraeus’ suburbs, such as Keratsini, Perama, Drapetsona, Nikaia etc). Therefore, the citizens of Piraeus elect their own MPs and they are represented in the Greek Parliament by the MPs elected in Piraeus and not by those elected in Athens.

Administratively, Piraeus is totally independent from Athens! It is a different municipality, belonging in a different peripheral unit, having its own electoral districts!

According to the official data available by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (http://www.statistics.gr/) and the Municipality of Piraeus (http://www.piraeus.gov.gr/) the wider area of Piraeus includes the homonymous municipality and six more municipalities-suburbs with a total population of 466.065 and an extent of 50.4 square metres.

I would like to underline the fact that in the table depicting the largest Greek cities the population of Athens (3,165,823) does not include the population of Piraeus, simply because Piraeus is not a part of Athens!

As aforesaid, officially, the Piraeus urban area is the third largest urban area of Greece with a population of 466.065 people. That’s why the correct version of the table is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Largest_cities_of_Greece&direction=prev&oldid=440483607. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicephore (talk • contribs) 14:56, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What to call Spiridon Lebesis

Over at WikiProject Athletics we're trying to work out how to spell the name of a Greek javelin thrower. English sources mostly call him Spiridon Lebesis or Spirídon Lebésis (following the sport's main governing body), but other variations of his name I've seen so far include (Spiridon/Spyridon) Lebessis, Lembesis, Lempesis and Lempessis. "Spiridon Lebesis" seems quite close to meeting WP:ENGLISH, but pretty much every article on Greeks with that given name is at "Spyridon". (Additionally, Greeks seem to mostly call him Σπύρος Λεμπέσης, and this form of his given name is also seeing some English use.) Any help would be appreciated. Sideways713 (talk) 09:50, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Greek name would be Σπυρίδων Λεμπέσης, which by the most common form of transliteration would give Spyridon Lebesis or Lembesis. Σπύρος/Spyros is simply a short, colloquial form for his name. Unless use of the latter is overwhelmingly used (cf. Kostas Karamanlis) use the former, which is the formal full form of the name. Constantine ✍ 11:58, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Greece did not participate in the 1960 Winter Olympics...why?

Hello, I am working on the 1960 Winter Olympics and noted in my research that Greece did not participate. It is one of the few Olympic Games in which Greece did not send athletes. What is interesting is that a standard bearer did march in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Due to Greece's special standing within the Olympic Movement, and the fact that this may be the only Games (Winter or Summer) that Greece missed, I think it is important to note why they didn't participate. Problem is I can't find any English sources that give me the reason. Does anyone at this project have an idea or even better a source that would tell me why they didn't participate? I'd sincerely appreciate any help. H1nkles (talk) _{citius altius fortius} 20:39, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Input requested regarding article title

I just closed a move discussion at Talk:Tzachas#Requested move, and then an editor objected to the move. Before doing anything further with the page, I'd like to see input from some more editors, so we can be certain that we're getting the correct title. If anyone here can register an opinion there, it would be helpful. Cheers. -GTBacchus^(talk) 17:32, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 Hello, I am working on the [[1960 Winter Olympics]] and noted in my research that Greece did not participate.  It is one of the few Olympic Games in which Greece did not send athletes.  What is interesting is that a standard bearer did march in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.  Due to Greece's special standing within the Olympic Movement, and the fact that this may be the only Games (Winter or Summer) that Greece missed, I think it is important to note why they didn't participate.  Problem is I can't find any English sources that give me the reason.  Does anyone at this project have an idea or even better a source that would tell me why they didn't participate?  I'd sincerely appreciate any help.  [[User:H1nkles|H1nkles]] ([[User talk:H1nkles|talk]]) <sub>[[User:H1nkles/citius altius fortius|<span style="color:#030">citius altius fortius</span>]]</sub> 20:39, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
+== Input requested regarding article title ==
+I just closed a move discussion at [[Talk:Tzachas#Requested move]], and then an editor objected to the move. Before doing anything further with the page, I'd like to see input from some more editors, so we can be certain that we're getting the correct title. If anyone here can register an opinion there, it would be helpful. Cheers. -[[User:GTBacchus|GTBacchus]]<sup>([[User talk:GTBacchus|talk]])</sup> 17:32, 12 August 2011 (UTC)