Talk:Elgin Marbles

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Elgin Marbles article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7: 60 days

Greece: Athens Mid‑importance

	Greece portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Greece, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Greece on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GreeceWikipedia:WikiProject GreeceTemplate:WikiProject GreeceGreek articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Athens task force.

Classical Greece and Rome Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome, a group of contributors interested in Wikipedia's articles on classics. If you would like to join the WikiProject or learn how to contribute, please see our project page. If you need assistance from a classicist, please see our talk page.Classical Greece and RomeWikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and RomeTemplate:WikiProject Classical Greece and RomeClassical Greece and Rome articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Visual arts

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Visual arts, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of visual arts on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Visual artsWikipedia:WikiProject Visual artsTemplate:WikiProject Visual artsvisual arts articles

London Mid‑importance

	London portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject London, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of London on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LondonWikipedia:WikiProject LondonTemplate:WikiProject LondonLondon-related articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

British Museum Top‑importance

	This article relates to the British Museum. Please copy assessments of the article from the most major WikiProject template to this one, as needed.British MuseumWikipedia:GLAM/British MuseumTemplate:WikiProject British MuseumBritish Museum-related articles
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale.

Sculpture

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sculpture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sculpture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SculptureWikipedia:WikiProject SculptureTemplate:WikiProject Sculpturesculpture articles

Archaeology Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Archaeology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Archaeology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchaeologyWikipedia:WikiProject ArchaeologyTemplate:WikiProject ArchaeologyArchaeology articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Recent statement by Turkey[edit]

Hello all,

I have removed the recent statement by Turkey from the lead as it is not sufficiently important and Wikipedia is not news. The statement appears in a summary form under the "Legality of removal from Athens" section, where it is probably worth mentioning as a tangential fact. Please note that Turkey is not a party to the dispute between Greece and the UK, and the article already states that no one has found the original firman in the Turkish archives. Therefore the Turkish statement says nothing new except that Turkey supports the return of the marbles to Greece. There are certified copies of the firmans in Italian and English translation in the archives and the issue among scholars is the interpretation of them. Wikipedia is not the place to record every statement by every country on the issue.

Also please note that Turkey should be given its common name in English WP:Commonname There is no need the call it "The Republic of Turkiye", just as we don't call Germany "The Federal Republic of Germany" every time we refer to it in an article. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 04:38, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Aemilius Adolphin: You actually forgot to remove the aforementioned recently added content from the lead. I went ahead and removed it myself; per your reasoning above, as well as per Andreas Mastronikolis' comment in User talk:SilentResident § Your edit to Elgin Marbles page, who introduced it in the lead. Demetrios1993 (talk) 13:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]