Talk:Theodosius of Bithynia

Classical Greece and Rome Low‑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
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Greece

	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
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Astronomy Low‑importance

	Astronomy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Astronomy, which collaborates on articles related to Astronomy on Wikipedia.AstronomyWikipedia:WikiProject AstronomyTemplate:WikiProject AstronomyAstronomy articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Biography: Science and Academia

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group (assessed as Low-importance).

Astrology

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Astrology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Astrology 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.AstrologyWikipedia:WikiProject AstrologyTemplate:WikiProject Astrologyastrology articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Mathematics Mid‑priority

	Mathematics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mathematics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of mathematics 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.MathematicsWikipedia:WikiProject MathematicsTemplate:WikiProject Mathematicsmathematics articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-priority on the project's priority scale.

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 August 2018 and 7 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Civi7786, Taggreen8.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 11:15, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tripoli, Bithynia[edit]

Tripoli is in Lybia and not in Bithynia. The name Theodosios of Tripoli is a confusion coming from the article von Theodosios in the byzantinian Suda.--Meilenweit (talk) 13:55, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion[edit]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

Archytas of Taras.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 06:09, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link to Tripolis[edit]

Theodosius in the past often claimed to be from "Tripolis", based on a mistake from the Suda Lexicon (as of recently, quoted in the article.) However, the Suda Lexicon does not explicitly say which Tripolis this was supposed to be (there were several cities/regions by that name at the time – it's Ancient Greek for "three cities"), and the intended one is not immediately clear from context. I didn't do any kind of exhaustive search, but I can't find any clear scholarship about it, and there is some ambiguity here. Nonetheless, it is very useful to readers to be able to click through a link to Tripolis which explains that Tripolis or Tripoli means "three cities" and was the name of several historical (and modern) places.

User:Onel5969, apparently one of Wikipedia's most pedantic petty bureaucrats, insists on repeatedly removing this disambiguation link, despite its obvious benefit to readers and benefit to the encyclopedia project, based on an exaggerated misquotation of Wikipedia's manual of style. He has already blown past the three revert rule (User:Onel5969: if you want a policy page about basic Wiki etiquette please carefully read WP:BRD, and note the crucial "discuss" step; it's not BRRRR, stop edit warring), and in addition to refusing to engage on the talk page, is now making arrogant threats. I am going to leave a discussion here for a day or two before restoring the link. –jacobolus (t) 22:46, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I went to significant trouble to expand the claims about this. It's probably not really that useful/interesting to most readers compared to truthful biographical details. Now a footnote contains an explicit "See Tripolis (disambiguation)" so stray professional Wikipedians don't get too deeply confused when it leads to a disambiguation page. –jacobolus (t) 00:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A link at some point to the disambiguation page is useful. I'm glad that you've found a useful solution. Furius (talk) 10:21, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely, so nice to see WP guidelines being followed.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 17:19, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]