Talk:Kardhiq

Greek and Albanian forces against Albanians

The article as it is today, says that "Muslim Albanian inhabitants were massacred by Greek forces ...". This sentence has 3 footnotes, one of them (Foss, Arthur (1978)) explicitly referring to "Greeks" alone. The others do not seem to mention details. The one source seems to be a kind of touristic book, by an author (Jim Potts) who holds a Bachelor of Arts and appears in the bibliography with 2 more books on irrelevant subjects. This Foss obviously did not do any research himself, being the author of some other more or less historio-touristic books about Ibiza, Scotland, Ionian Islands etc. Certainly not a source on which you can base an anti-greek polemic. I propose that we include the 19th century source (not excluding the others) that, if anything, was closer to the events and probably had first hand info. Otherwise, I wouldn't care less, since for other nationalistic purposes "Greek means Orthodox (including Albanians)" (See Suliotes etc). Happy New Year. Hale N., "The History of Modern Greece: With a View of the Geography, Antiquities, ...", Boston, 1827, pp. 73, 74: "No place now remained for him [Ali] to conquer, but Gardiki, which had first offended him, ... Ali's own generals discoverered a reluctance to execute his vindictive intentions, upon which he despatched a confidential officer, at the head of a large body of Greek and Albanian troops, ..." --Skylax30 (talk) 12:07, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Constantine Santas' book on the poet Arist. Valaoritis is not a history source either, and doesn't give details on the ethnicity of Ali Pasha's troops. The author specializes on films and literature, including Humphrey Bogard, Ingrid Bergman etc. However, he knows well what fiction is.--Skylax30 (talk) 12:33, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Removal of wp:RS

Zindel reads: Chaonien im Süden gehōrte zum Stamm der (griechischen) Epiroten., I wonder why the part about the mention of the Greek Epirotes should vanish [[1]], because it reads better accoring to what?Alexikoua (talk) 03:14, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

The sentence "the later region belonging to the northwestern Greek group of tribes of the Epirotes." is bad English. You can rework that around to sound better. Botushali (talk) 03:19, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

That's not a reason to remove the identity of the Epirotes. You know that you removed that.Alexikoua (talk) 03:29, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

@Alexikoua, buddy, take a breather and maybe come back to the topic. The sentence "the later region belonging to the northwestern Greek group of tribes of the Epirotes." does not make much sense. I simply made the sentence more concise. You're free to change around the wording, just make sure people can actually understand it this time. Botushali (talk) 03:32, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

I see you followed my initiative, and now the sentence actually makes sense. Didn't have to be so hard, did it, buddy? Botushali (talk) 03:34, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Also an advice from my side: You need to be slightly more careful when rephrasing a sentence. But it's good that we agree on the current version.Alexikoua (talk) 03:39, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

I’ve decided to remove that line entirely. I’ve realised that the source does not mention Kardhiq nor is the sentence in context to Kardhiq. If people want to find out who the Chaonians were, they can head to the article of the Chaonians themselves. That line is irrelevant and undue to this article. Botushali (talk) 02:39, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

The reader needs to understand the definition of Chaonia: which Kardhiq formed part. This is common in settlement articles. Removing that kind of information falls into wp:DISRUPTION.Alexikoua (talk) 04:32, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

You are misusing policies. Take it to the admins if you think my removal of irrelevant and unrelated information is disruptive. Botushali (talk) 05:23, 17 July 2023 (UTC)