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The article finally made it :) It was a long hard struggle, but the article finally passed its FAC review :) - Vedexent (talk) - 18:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"Province of Italia"
Sorry, it's been years for me, but I'm really, really pretty sure that there was no such thing as a "province of Italia" in the 70s BC. Italy was treated as a special jurisdiciton outside of the system of provinces in the Republic and early Empire -- I think it only became a province in the 3rd century AD. I mention it because the phrase "province of Italia" is right now (7/24/07) on the front page of Wikipedia and really jumped out at me ... not to cast aspersions on the hard work of what is a great article, but I'm going to fix this unless someone wants to tell me I'm wrong... --Jfruh (talk) 00:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
During the Republic, Italia (which extended at the time from Rubicon to Calabria) was not a province, but rather the territory of the city of Rome, thus having a special status: for example, military commanders were not allowed to bring their armies within Italia, and Julius Caesar passing the Rubicon with his legions marked the start of the civil war.
I'm going to make the change and try to get the front page fixed. --Jfruh (talk) 00:20, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
When (ambiguous seasonal references)
in the spring of 71 BC
In the spring of 72 BC
the winter of 73 BC
Poetic wordings such as these are ambiguous and are likely to cause confusion. Seasons should not be used interchangeably with dates as seasons occur at different times of the year in different parts of the world. Thus, they are not encyclopedic. These should be reworded so as to be more precise. If a specific month is known, it should be used instead. Otherwise, substitute other wordings as appropriate. --B.d.mills 03:04, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
