PontiffSulivahn

Follow-up on edit

Hi PontiffSulivahn, a quick follow-up request about this edit at Fatimid Caliphate: you added a citation to Köhler 2013, but that reference isn't in the list of sources yet so it doesn't refer readers to anything at the moment. Could you add the reference to the list? (Or even let me know where to find it and I can add myself.) Thanks!

PS: Just a heads-up, on the same edit but an unrelated point, I removed the flag icons you added to the infobox because practice is to avoid having them there (with some exceptions). See MOS:INFOBOXFLAG. R Prazeres (talk) 17:56, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Forget my request! The source is indeed there (assuming you meant Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers in the Middle East) but I just figured out why the citation wasn't linking to it. I'll fix it myself in a moment. Thanks again for your addition to the article. R Prazeres (talk) 18:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi R Prazeres, thanks for correcting my wrong quotation. I meant indeed "Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers in the Middle East" (and hope to actually expand it once I finish reading this and a related article) but I did the citation wrong - thanks for correcting!

Also thanks for letting me know on the flags. I personally like it colourful, but I understand that it can be a bit distracting. Cheers! PontiffSulivahn (talk) 20:21, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Missing cite in Ezzolied

The article cites "Schultz 2018" but no such source is listed in the bibliography. Can you please add? Or is it a typo in year? Also, suggest installing a script to highlight such errors in the future. All you need to do is copy and paste importScript('User:Svick/HarvErrors.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Svick/HarvErrors.js]] to your common.js page. Thanks, Renata•3 01:28, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi Renata•3, it was a typo in the year as I copied the citation around - my bad. Thanks for the code, that is really handy and I have copied it into the common.js page (my first script, yay!) Cheerio, PontiffSulivahn (talk) 20:32, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Khirbat Faynan

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Thanks, I have found better sources and reincluded the information. PontiffSulivahn (talk) 16:52, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Priory of Our Lady of Atlas

Thanks for the article! Priory of Our Lady of Atlas. I have reviewed it during new page patrol. Lightburst (talk) 16:21, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Lightburst, appreciated :-) PontiffSulivahn (talk) 16:52, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

New article on parting of the ways

Hi PontiffSullivahn! There’s a new article on the split of Christianity and Judaism that could use help from a great religion editor like yourself. :) Zanahary (talk) 15:55, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi Zanahary! Thanks for the shutout, much appreciated. I am afraid that I have as of now little knowledge about this topic though it is very interesting (alas, life is to short for everything...). I am also a bit more focused on the early to middle medieval period with some excursions along the way when I come across some hidden gems.

However, let me know how I can help and should I come across some sources, I shall forward you to them.

Cheers, PontiffSulivahn (talk) 18:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Pontiff! If you happen to find any good (especially overview and historiographic) sources, those would be very useful Zanahary (talk) 23:09, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, PontiffSulivahn. Thank you for your work on Mor Bar Sauma Monastery. Ingratis, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thanks for creating this article. I have reviewed / accepted it. The title is "Mor Bar..." but the lede opens with "Mar Bar...". Could you decide which form you prefer and edit accordingly? Best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 18:47, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi Ingratis, thanks for letting me know, you are absolutely right.PontiffSulivahn (talk) 23:15, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

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Sourcing on En-Calcat Abbey#Abbots

Nice article, but the section En-Calcat Abbey#Abbots in your recent article, needs sources.

Thanks for fixing this.  // Timothy :: talk  08:23, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Timothy, thanks you very much!

So I added as citation the website of the monastery to each line but am a bit doubtful. First, I was wondering whether there is a more elegant way to do it then to add it then to add it to each line and second, there are basically four pages on the website of the Abbey where I took the information from. So should I add each singular page into my sources separately or is there, again, a more elegant way to do it.

Would much appreciate your guidance, I have not found anything on how to proceed in these cases and am still kind of new to Wikipedia :-) PontiffSulivahn (talk) 13:13, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Undefined sfn reference in Arabic poetry

Hi, in this edit to Arabic poetry you introduced {{sfn|Noble|1994|pp=618-619}} but no such work is listed as a source. This means that nobody can look it up, and also adds the article to Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you could supply the missing source it would be appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 14:57, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi @DuncanHill, thanks for notifying! That was a mistake of mine, I copy pasted the snfp citation without adjusting it properly. I have fixed it as of now. PontiffSulivahn (talk) 18:44, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 18:53, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Tzamandos

Hi, for your information, I ended up removing your addition to Melikgazi, because it is actually a different place from Tzamandos. The fortress of Tzamandos is next to the village Melikgazi, Pınarbaşı, the article of which has not been created yet. (Actually, creating an additional page about the fortress of Tzamandos would be even better.) Melikgazi is also a district located further west and is a recently created administrative division, not a historical place by itself. Aintabli (talk) 05:48, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Aintabli, thanks for the notification and for providing me with this information! That location also makes more sense as on maps the location did not seem to agree but as the search for Tzamandos redirected to Melikgazi, I thought that somebody had already established that link. I have to find a good source though, for now I only found this page that associates Tzamandos with a fortress next to the village your mention: https://www.castles.nl/zamanti-castle

I have therefore changed the Tzamandos redirect for now to the Pınarbaşı article and added there also the other information I added to the Melikgazi article. I am currently with some other projects but hope to take care of the Tzamandos article in the medium future. PontiffSulivahn (talk) 11:11, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for the work. I have been working on historical articles with sources that frequently referred to the fortress. So, I was thinking about creating an article about the fortress, but I have been pressed for time in the last several days. Let me know if you get to create the article before I get the chance to, I might have some content to add. Thank you once again. Aintabli (talk) 01:04, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Split of Christianity and Judaism

Hi PontiffSullivahn! I noticed you cited Three Powers in Heaven at Diocese of Gaza. You may be interested in helping out at Split of Christianity and Judaism. Thanks! :) Zanahary (talk) 16:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Nice work. An image would be a nice addition.

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Nice work

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North8000 (talk) 14:55, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Dositheus of Gaza

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Hi @Uncle Bash007,

Thanks for your message and I have contested the deletion. In short, the page is a mirror of a previous version of the article on Dorotheus of Gaza and I plan anyway to rewrite the existing text, but have a look for the answer I provided there why the article should not be deleted. Cheers, PontiffSulivahn PontiffSulivahn (talk) 17:43, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @BusterD,

It seems you already deleted the page without that my answer was considered, so I wanted to see how to proceed from here. As mentioned in my response to why the page should not be deleted, the above mentioned page which is claimed to be the source (https://santosepulcro.co.il/en/saints/st-dorotheus-of-gaza/) is a mirror page to wikipedia. If you check the history of the article on Dorotheus of Gaza (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorotheus_of_Gaza&action=history&offset=&limit=250), you will see how step by step the information, which is now on the mirror page, came to together. You will also be able to see that I started reworking the article on Dorotheus by using actual literature and not just some random internet pages as source material.

In this context I moved the information about Dositheus to its own wikipedia article as it did not fit in this detail to the wiki article on Dorotheus. As you could also see in the new article I started, I started reworking it by rephrasing and again using some more serious sources instead of the random wikipedia pages from which the original part on Dositheus was assembled. I would also like you to consider the work I did on Dorotheus and Barsanuphius as two related articles that I brushed up and reworked to better quality and which I would have done as well with the material on Dositheus.

So how do we proceed from here? Can you restore the article? Should I start a new article on Dositheus? Am I actually allowed to do that or does that result in some kind of block? Also, is there some kind of tool that can help next time to prevent using copyrighted material?

Cheers, PontiffSulivahn (talk) 22:14, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry I misunderstood the situation. I looked at the speedy tag (added by a completely different editor), ran the Earwig duplication detector and saw 79%. That's way past my threshold for deletion. When I restore the page and remove the speedy tag, I strongly recommend you blank the page completely before you create a single new pixel. You should avoid using any of the previous text (regardless of its source), because other good faith editors will likely make the exact same error the tagger and I made. BusterD (talk) 23:12, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @BusterD! I will then proceed as you say and first submit a blank version of the article before doing then some rewrites. Have a great day, PontiffSulivahn (talk) 06:51, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Well, there is 79% copyright violation, may be you need to rewrite and paraphrase very well. then you can notify someone to remove the tag.

Best Uncle Bash007 (talk) 07:35, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Incomplete info for Libanius (Imperial salary)

On your page edit for Libanius, you said that he "continued to receive an imperial salary, which was temporarily cut between , which resulted in..." citing Kaster's "The Salaries of Libanius." I edited it to read "which was cut for a period of time," until the proper dates can be inserted. Toby42 (talk) 17:14, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Oh dear, thanks for notifying me @Toby42! I will check again on the source to correct this. Until then, thanks again for notifying me and fixing the mistake in the short-term. Cheers, PontiffSulivahn (talk) 21:59, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Adding misleading and unsourced content

Please avoid adding misleading or unsourced content to historical articles. Your recent edits to Golden Age of Jewish Culture in Spain appear to misrepresent sources. Simon the son (talk) 18:51, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi Simon, thanks for your message. I do always try avoid adding misleading or unsourced content to articles and disagree with your message, but believe your concerns have been already addressed by user Andre on the respective talk page. Cheers, PontiffSulivahn (talk) 21:49, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

I think it is worth noting that this is a bogus "warning," Simon the son is posting inaccurate and likely LLM-hallucinated stuff on the talk page. Andre🚐 03:37, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

For posterity noting the user was indeffed for disruptive LLM use. Andre🚐 16:47, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, @AndreJustAndre :) PontiffSulivahn (talk) 18:39, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

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Preview

Hi there, just a friendly reminder to try and always use Preview, as your recent edits at June 12 and June 13 both contained multiple citation errors. Fixed now, no big deal, just a heads up. Thank you, Jessicapierce (talk) 03:34, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Hey @Jessicapierce, thanks for your fixes and your message. I typically do preview my edits, but this time did not. I really shouldn't edit in a rush before lunch... Anyways, thanks again. PontiffSulivahn (talk) 16:47, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

No worries! You were obviously improving the page, and I've done way worse myself. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 17:05, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

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