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Thanks for creating David Brainard Spooner, पाटलिपुत्र!

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Hi Patliputra. I removed the image you added to Krishna because it cannot be verified as being Krishna. Please provide a direct link to the image on cng coins so that it is clear that the image is that of Krishna. Thanks. --regentspark (comment) 22:09, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've reverted my edit.--regentspark (comment) 13:47, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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	Thanks for adding a number of images from CNG coins to Commons. Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara looks interesting as well. Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 13:40, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, check out this video on how to easily cite sources in a structured manner. Use of the sfn template will also help in avoiding duplicates and streamlining the reference section. Adding quotations becomes easier as well. Just an FYI.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 10:06, 29 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm obviously repeating myself here. But please consider switching to structured citations. Just looking at the myriad "Marshall", "A Guide to Sanchi, Marshall", "A Guide to Sanchi, John Marshall", "A Guide to Sanchi, Marshall, John, 1918", "John Marshall, A Guide to Sanchi, 1918", etc. in Sanchi is sending my brain into a tizzy. Then there are the typo'd references such as "Marhall, "A Guide to Sanchi"" and "Epigraphia Indice" … Such occurrences can be drastically reduced through the use of {{sfn}} and similar systems. Thanks.—Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 16:46, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll try to do some studying! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 17:01, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Cpt.a.haddock: OK, the {{sfn}} format is a bit too tricky for me, but I'll go with the Cite template on top of the edit window. It is neat indeed. Thanks for the reminder! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 19:06, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at this edit, it looks like you're filling in the fields by hand and creating extra work for yourself :) All you should need to do in the Cite toolbar dialog is to paste the URL of the book in the URL box and then click on the magnifying glass next to it. This should auto-fill all the available fields. You can do the same thing with the ISBN field.—Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 13:01, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Cpt.a.haddock:Thank you! This is indeed incredibly easier!! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 17:37, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for all your various improvements to so many articles. However, why not simply provide attribution or a note in the edit summary (as explained by Diannaa above) when you copy text from one article to another? This is just one of many recent additions where you reuse content (from Yaudheyas in this case) without proper attribution. Please also cite sources for the many images of coins that you're adding to article; even cngcoins.com, if applicable, is fine. Cheers.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 08:38, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I'm Boleyn. पाटलिपुत्र, thanks for creating Hormizd II Kushanshah!

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	Thank you for creating and expanding a significant number of pages on the rulers of Bactria and Gandhara. You're input, including your excellent coin-derived reliefs, has covered a big knowledge gap in wikipedia for a fascinating time in history, from the Hellenistic states, to the Kushanshahs, to the last of the Hunic emperors! alx_bio 16:41, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm Salimfadhley. पाटलिपुत्र, thanks for creating Vishnu nicolo seal!

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	For your excellent work on Indian History related articles. Razer(talk) 10:21, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

it seems that you have good knowledge of Magadha empire and Gupta empire.please give some guidance regarding the following. which I want to add in Chandragupta of Gupta dynasty

In the middle of the 19th century MaxMuller for the first time termed the identity of sandrokottas with Chandragupta Maurya as the sheet anchor of Indian history. It is being challenged since its inception. M.troyer^[1] was the first to oppose it in the letter to prof.MaxMullar and since then a number of scholars like T.S.Narayana Sastry^[2], N. Jagannatharao^[3], M.Krishnamachariar^[4], Kota Venkatachalam^[5], Pandit Bhagavadatta, D.s Trivedi^[6] and other are opposing it in their books and articles.^[7]According to Kota Venkatachelam

The greatest mistake that has ever been committed in the field of the Chronology of Ancient India-nay the greatest harm that has ever been done to the cause and progress of the ancient Indian History and Literature-is the so called identification of Sandrocottus, Sandrocyptus, of the Greek writers of Alexander’s history with Chandragupta Maurya, the first king of the Maurya Dynasty, and of the so-called identification of Xandrames or Andramen with Nanda, the father of the said Chandragupta Maurya.

^[8]

Greek writers mentioned along with sandrocottus two other names Xandrames his predecessor and sandrocyptus his successor. wantonly they ignored the Gupta Chandragupta whose predecessor was chandrasri or chandramas or chandrabija and successor SamudraGupta, who could easily be identified with Xandrames and sandrocyptus.In spite of lack of any correspondence between xandrames and sandracyptus with mahapadmananda and bindusara, the predecessor and successor of Chandragupta Maurya respectively, the latter was declared to be the cotemporary of alexander and relegated to 327 B.C., thus reducing the antiquity of Indian history by more than 12 centuries.

^[9]--Raghvendra99674010 (talk) 06:24, 31 August 2017 (UTC) [reply]

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Thanks for the feedback. I am aware that the Huna are often referred as in South Asian contexts as "Huns". However, this is controversial among scholars and will be confusing to many lay readers of Wikipedia, because Huns has a different quite possibly unrelated usage, in regard to the people who entered West Asia/Europe as early as the 3rd century CE, led by Attila.

Following your feedback, I have moved the page to Alchon, which avoids:

• the issue of neologism that you raised;
• redundancies like "Alchon Huns" and "Alchon Hunas" – i.e. since all of the Alchon were Hunas/Huns, and referred to themselves simply as "Alchon", there is no need for a qualifier (Huns/Hunas) and;
• the controversial translation of Huna as "Huns".

Grant | Talk 06:20, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore:

• If it is the case that a majority uses a dubious name, it is also clearly a redundancy that has become semi-normalised (in much in the same way as tuna fish or "PIN number").

• Which is why WP:COMMON does not necessarily require the most common name, especially if that name is demonstrably controversial or incorrect, e.g. it is: misspelled, ungrammatical, is a pleonasm (e.g. a redundancy), a neologism or anachronism, or a similar reason. Hence it's not necessarily relevant that "almost nobody in the literature uses ... Alchons ... without the suffix 'Huns'"

• "As far as I know, at Wikipedia, we are not supposed to invent new terminology " – indeed, "Alchons" as plural noun is itself a neologism, since there is no evidence for an -s plural in the language of the people in question, i.e. they used Alkhon, Alxon, Alkhan, Alakhana, Walxon, Alchon etc as a genitive or plural noun (on coins etc). So even the -s in Alchons is redundant.

• Coins are practically the only texts that the Alchon themselves left, so its highly significant as you yourself note that "Alchon ... is only used as an adjective as in "The Alchon coinage".

• It is not correct to claim that:
  • Alkhon, Alxon, Alkhan, Alakhana, Walxon or Alchon without or the qualifier is exceptionally rare on Google Books. There are at least 673 relevant references to these terms and +huns OR +hunas -alkhon-huns -alxon-huns -alchon-huns -Alkhan-huns -Alakhana-huns -Walxon-huns -alchon-huns. Including authoritative and relevant examples like Michael Maas (ed.) 2014, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila and Daniel T. Potts, 2014, Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era
  • A separate search for Alkhons, Alxons, Alkhans, Alakhanas, Walxons or Alchons +huns OR +hunas -alkhon-huns -alxon-huns -alchon-huns -Alkhan-huns -Alakhana-huns -Walxon-huns -alchon-huns brought up up 166 hits.

Any other, more substantial objections?

Grant | Talk 12:35, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any special problem with the name Krishna? 119.42.159.36 (talk) 15:53, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We have to stick with what the sources say (and what Heliodorus says on his pillar...). And anyone clicking Vasudeva will know what the relationship with Krishna is anyway. Cheers पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 16:17, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks @Johnbod for the welcome! I do appreciate! I am not so sure what you have in mind for images, so please do not hesitate to try your prefered format. पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 16:56, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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@Razer Thank you!! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 17:37, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for creating Minor Rock Edicts, पाटलिपुत्र!

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Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:02, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

With this edit you added a source to an unsourced quote. When I checked the source, I noted that the Hultzsch translation does not match the quote. This quote may, or may not be a faithful reproduction of a reliable academic source. Adding a source that does not match the quote does not improve this encyclopedia. Please see MOS:QUOTES for more info. JimRenge (talk) 08:56, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@JimRenge: Thank you. The reference is correct, but you are right the previous translation in the article was a bit off. I'm correcting according to the source. Thanks! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 09:06, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the source because the Ashoka inscription is the main argument of the "Buddha was born in Nepal" campaign. The message of the inscription is unambiguous: Ashoka and his advisors believed that Gautama Buddha was born in Lumbini. Enthusiastic supporters of this campaign have been involved in disruptive editing on the Gautama Buddha page for some years. The article is now indefinitely protected. I think it is a good idea to prevent the manipulation of historical inscriptions/sources by campaigners. JimRenge (talk) 11:33, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@JimRenge:Thanks! (and thanks for correcting a sentence that had escaped me!) पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 11:53, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work on Ashokan Edicts articles! I have been adding definitions for Ashokan Prakrit words on Wiktionary and your articles are very helpful. Aryaman^{A (talk, contribs)} 02:25, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@AryamanA: Glad it helps!! And congratulations for your titanic work on Wikitionary! Do you know how to make links to your Wikitionary pages from Wikipedia articles? I tried [[wikitionary:𑀢𑀼𑀭𑀫𑀸𑀬#Ashokan_Prakrit|𑀢𑀼𑀭𑀫𑀸𑀬]] for Tulumaya (Ptolemy), but it doesn't seem to work... पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 04:57, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You spelled "Wiktionary" (not "Wikitionary") incorrectly, that's all :) It should be [[wiktionary:𑀢𑀼𑀭𑀫𑀸𑀬#Ashokan_Prakrit|𑀢𑀼𑀭𑀫𑀸𑀬]] or just [[wikt:𑀢𑀼𑀭𑀫𑀸𑀬#Ashokan_Prakrit|𑀢𑀼𑀭𑀫𑀸𑀬]]. Aryaman^{A (talk, contribs)} 21:13, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@AryamanA: Thank you, it works!! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 04:25, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@AryamanA: By the way, I have another question for you. The name "Ashoka" is written in the Maski edict as attached. To me this should be pronounced Asoka, rather than Ashoka. Can you confirm? If so, would you happen to known where the "sh" pronounciation as in the English transliteration "Ashoka" comes from? It is also spelled Asoka in this 1st-3rd century CE inscription. पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 04:38, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The name was probably re-Sanskritized at some point; perhaps the first documents confirming his identity were in Sanskrit, and were discovered before his edicts. ś → s is a regular development from Sanskrit to Ashokan Prakrit. Aryaman^{A (talk, contribs)} 14:33, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@AryamanA: Thank you!पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 15:53, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating Tholos (architecture), पाटलिपुत्र!

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Hey पाटलिपुत्र,

I'm here to inform you why I rolled back your edit on Phocas, since I failed to do so in the Rollback itself. Generally artistic renderings, be it statues, paintings, mosaics, drawings, etc, are preferred to raw coins, as the coins are often damaged or show less detail. Thanks. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 20:42, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 20:56, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating Chaman Hazouri hoard, पाटलिपुत्र!

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Great article in Nasik inscription of Ushavadata! Keep it up! Regards, SshibumXZ (Talk) (Contributions). 07:08, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Another great article creation in Buddhist caves in India! Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 08:47, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!!! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 10:42, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you!! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 16:10, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Per this edit, please see my comment on the talk page. --Kansas Bear (talk) 06:29, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Responded on the article talk page.पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 06:35, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not post anything on my talk page again, other than required procedural notices. You have harassed me in the past and I find your editing to be a problematic, something I noted with edit diffs in my SPI case against you last year, one that led to a block on you. If you do not stop your behavior by continuing to post on my talk page after I have asked you not to, you may face admin proceedings regarding your editing privileges. @RegentsPark: please note. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 17:54, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ms Sarah Welch:@RegentsPark: Dear Sarah. I certainly have no intention to post anything on your Talk Page, but if you are entertaining a disparaging discussion about a user on your talk page, I would imagine it is at least normal that the user in question can have a right to answer and clarify some facts. By the way, I believe my clarification was extremely civil [2]. Cheers पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 18:07, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If Ms Sarah Welch has banned you from her talk page you shouldn't post anything there (other than required notices). But you do have other options if you think it necessary (though, looking at the discussion itself, ignoring it was probably the best option). You can always bring the discussion up at the talk page of the OP, bring it to the attention of an admin (stating that you can't yourself respond there), or, if it is particularly egregious, bring it up at ANI. --regentspark (comment) 18:20, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 18:22, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and thanks for starting the articles on the Lygdamids! One question, though: Pisindelis left his throne circa 452-449 BCE, but his son Lygdamis II died in 454 BCE, bringing the dynasty to an end? The dates don't add up. Constantine ✍ 09:52, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I haven't sorted out yet the precise, exact dates according to most sources. Please correct if you can sort it out!.. पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 09:58, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello पाटलिपुत्र, your edits are very appreciated on this site. However, there is a small issue, Template:Satraps of Lydia fills out too much unnecessary space. Could you perhaps make it like traditional templates a la Category:Ruler navigational boxes? --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:53, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for making the change. पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 14:13, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thank you for adding so many valuable pictures/images to Wikipedia. Really great. I was wondering; do you also have images/drawings/etc. of the destruction of Persepolis at your disposal? - LouisAragon (talk) 19:56, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@LouisAragon: Thank you! Nothing at this moment on the destruction of Persopolis, but I will keep my eyes open. पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 21:05, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

We should probably rename these three files;

• [3] "Xerxes tomb Ionian with petasos" ---> "Xerxes I tomb Ionian with petasos or kausia"
• [4] "Xerxes I tomb Ionian with petasos soldier circa 480 BCE" ---> "Xerxes I tomb Ionian with petasos or kausia soldier circa 480 BCE"
• [5] "Xerxes I tomb Ionian with petasos soldier circa 480 BCE cleaned up" ---> "Xerxes I tomb Ionian with petasos or kausia soldier circa 480 BCE cleaned up"

Thoughts? - LouisAragon (talk) 02:56, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Made renaming requests. Thanks! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 06:01, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

LinuxDude (talk) 23:03, 15 January 2019 (UTC) I don't know how you tilted your table of contents but it's pretty cool. In any event please don't revert my edits to the Behistun article. Herodotus didn't know that same people were called one thing in Assyrian and another thing in Babylonian. Three separate Assyrian scholars all noted (at least 100 years ago) that the one people were called by two names. They were Sayce, Edwin Norris and Rawlinson. I went back to the source cuneiform and confirmed that Norris and Rawlinson were correct and included links to these references so people could see for themself. Accordingly when you revert you restore the Herodotus view and not the view of later Assyriologist. If you have someone who has shown Norris, Rawlinson and Sayce wrong - fine, revert. If not please let my edits stand as it reflects views more current than the ancient Greek view you restore.[reply]

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	You've filled a lot of holes in antiquity related stuff, well done and thanks. HistoryofIran (talk) 23:56, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!! Very much appreciated!! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 05:46, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I've put the Kash picture you requested up, in full size so you can use it if you want. However, I'm new to Commons, have been uploading mainly mosques so far, intend to go on, and don't have a clue how to react to messages like yours. As a matter of fact, don't know if you'll find the Kash picture without my informing you it's at up. I can see it at has a link. If you could help me find the messages-part, please do. Dosseman (talk) 19:38, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

From my understanding the Kings of Persis held the title of Frataraka, and there wasn't any specific 'Frataraka dynasty' that was different from that of the Kings of Persis. Shouldn't Kings of Persis be kept in the Template:History of Iran with Frataraka removed then? --HistoryofIran (talk) 14:04, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@HistoryofIran: Hi HistoryofIran! From what I have seen, the Fratarakas were not Kings: they did not claim to be kings on their coins (whereas the Kings of Persis did), and were probably some local religious rulers or governors under the Seleucids. Conversely, the Kings of Persis were not Fratarakas, only their successors: they claimed the title of Kings, and were actually sub-Kings of the Parthian Kings for the most part. I really wouldn't mind though if you prefer to remove the Fratarakas from the Template:History of Iran, since they do not seem to have been full-fledged rulers. Up to you! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 15:12, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, there's a lot of new stuff regarding the Kings of Persis/Frataraka here [6] --HistoryofIran (talk) 20:19, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@HistoryofIran: Thanks!! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 20:25, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, Iranica has a bad habit of spelling every name of its articles in a New Persian form, which is often the least used version of the name. A good example is Vahbarz, who is in reality better known as Wahbarz (such as in the source I just linked). I might do some article name moves here and there if you don't have any objection to that. --HistoryofIran (talk) 21:05, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@HistoryofIran: Fine with me पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 21:07, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Been reading about the Kings of Persis and their use of the title of Frataraka, and there doesn't seem to be any 'Frataraka dynasty'. Furthermore, the early kings of Persis are also included with the rest of the later kings as belonging to the line of Kings of Persis in both Iranica and Shayegans work (btw already under Wahbarz the kingdom of Persis declared independence per Shayegan). I'm gonna try to expand Wahbarz to GA [7] and then I'll see what I can do at the Kings of Persis and Frataraka articles. --HistoryofIran (talk) 00:01, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@HistoryofIran: The Fratarakas and Kings of Persis are treated separately by both Shayegan (who separates "early rulers of Persis" in "two groups" p.168-, with the Fratarakas forming the first group or four or five rulers) and Encyclopedia Iranica (which has two clear separate articles: Frataraka and Kings of Persis). Iranica puts them together in one list under the title "Dynast of Persis", not "Kings of Persis", in TABLE 1. Shayegan lists them under the title "Rulers of Persis", not "Kings" in his Table 3 p.179. As known from their coinage, the Fratrakas did not have the title of Kings, and the later Kings (who had the title mlk on their coins) conversely did not have the title of Fratrakas, with one or two tansitional rulers between. Appart from their titles, they all had various levels of independence, either from the Seleucids or the Parthians. The expression "Frataraka dynasty" also seems quite current [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]. Good luck with the GA for Wahbarz! (Wahbarz wasn't King though, Shayegan only lists him as a Frataraka "early ruler of Persis" [13], and he also clearly writes p.177 that "he refrained from adopting the royal title". This will have to be corrected) पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 06:38, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dynasts/Rulers/Kings, same same. What I'm trying to say is that they're listed as ruling the same kingdom. There weren't two separate entities in Persis during this period as Wikipedia currently lists it. --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:09, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@HistoryofIran: Not "same same" at all, there is a big difference. A ruler, "someone who rules" can be many things, including satraps for example. A dynast is "a member of a powerful family, especially a hereditary ruler", but not necessarily a king. Shayegan clearly says that Wahbraz "refrained from adopting the royal title" [14], so there is no way he can be referred to as "King", or even as a member of the "Kings of Persis". From what I've seen, reputable sources don't present him as a "King" or a "King of Persis", only a ruler or a dynast: simply, he was a Frataraka (sub-satrap) ruler of Persis. He ruled a region or a province, not a kingdom. Fratarakas and Kings of Persis clearly form two sets of rulers, following one another chronologically, per the above references. Treating them separatly is what Encyclopedia Iranica does with two separate articles (Frataraka, Kings of Persis) as well as Shayegan. Encyclopedia Iranica clearly defines the Kings of Persis as "the Persian dynasts who between the 2nd century BCE and 3rd century CE ruled as Parthian representatives in Persis": this has nothing to do with the Fratarakas, who date to well before the Parthian expansion. Looking forward to a great encyclopedic article on Wahbarz. पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 13:08, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. Generally trying to do so... पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 21:00, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you for the additions on the Indian beads in Egypt. However, there are several Etched beads in the Petrie Museum. The Middle Kingdom ones are here: [[15]]. The one you depicted is much later. Check also the Museum database: http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/search.aspx best wishes from LDN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:7E05:9A00:54B0:B721:2E4C:5862 (talk) 15:27, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much!! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 15:39, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your edits on Narmer, especially the edit that fixed the format of the caption on the photo of the Narmer Palette. I tried and tried to get that result, but couldn't.Heagy1 (talk) 20:31, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Heagy1: You're very welcome! पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 05:45, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your valuable adds on Persian king and the defeated enemies. Your new sources make me wonder how the cylinder was misattributed to Cambyses II for the first time (a seemingly wrong information that unfortunately spreaded all across the web) rather than the plethora of other more suitable Achaemenid rulers suggested by academics. Anyway, thanks again. Khruner (talk) 10:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Khruner: I agree, this is rather weird. Thanks again for identifying this issue!! Best पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 10:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Again on this seal: given that the more-or-less same scene is depicted on more than one seal, I thought that maybe it would be better to switch the article subject from the specific St. Petersburg seal to the scene itself (the title would remain the same). Your thought? Khruner (talk) 19:55, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Khruner:Sounds fine to me! Best पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 08:17, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I am a little troubled by your some of your edits on Wikipedia, which, in my understanding, seem to pay short shrift to Wikipedia guidelines about WP:Copyvios and WP:Spamming. For example, on Earwig's Copyvio Detector,

• your recent edits in Neolithic, bring up: "Violation Possible 72.2% confidence journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095714 Checked Sources URL Confidence Compare https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095714 72.2% Compare http://www.mama.org/exhibits/ancient/prehistoric/ 65.9% Compare https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15694#ref10 43.8% Compare
• your edits in Indus-Mesopotamia relations are even more problematic: "Violation Suspected 82.4% confidence journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0073682 Checked Sources URL Confidence Compare https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0073682 82.4%
• in Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley Violation Possible 51.3% confidence penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/7B*.html Checked Sources URL Confidence Compare http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/7B*.html 51.3%
• in Major Rock Edicts 95.8% Copy vio suspected
• in Epipalaeolithic Near East Violation Possible 58.8% confidence journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167151 Checked Sources URL Confidence Compare https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167151 58.8% Compare https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27880839 58.1 Compare https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0160687 56.1% </nowiki>

In addition, again in my understanding, you seem to be engaging in image spamming, lifting maps from PLOS One, and other mega-journals—whose articles are sometimes more in the nature of preliminary announcements, awaiting formal publication in mainstream journals—sometimes chopping or altering the maps to make a Wikipedia point or illustration that while respecting the letter of the WP guidelines, borders on WP:OR or synthesis in its spirit. A look at your Commons contributions of the last month seems to bear this out. Map after map is uploaded on Wikipedia, then distributed to various articles with disturbing dispatch. To me, a 12 year veteran of Wikipedia, who labors over both prose and images, this is disturbing. I became suspicious after seeing your earlier edits to Indus Valley Civilisation, but at that time did not say anything. However, your last edit, one of lifting a map from a Scientific Reports article, "Intensified summer monsoon and the urbanization of Indus Civilization in northwest India," whose caption you may read at Figure 1 and caption—and pasting it to the "Geographical extent" section of IVC, in which a new reader is attempting to understand where the sites of the civilization lie in relation to the geography they barely know, and how far they spread, was puzzling. But perhaps, I have overlooked something. I would like an explanation from you. I'm pinging some editors who I have noticed have made contributions in these fields: @Joe Roe:, @Diannaa:, @RegentsPark:, @El C:, @Doug Weller:, @Dbachmann:, @Johnbod:. Again, I hope I have made a terrible mistake, and there is a perfectly innocent explanation. Best regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 22:12, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]