Talk:Nereid

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this is a very important topic, the nereids were one of the major classes of divine beings of ancient greece and generally more respected than the other classes such as dryads and nymphs who were often isolated whereas the nereids were together, and btw i'm sure that some sources refer to 3,000 nereids213.106.124.3 (talk) 11:20, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

First of all, I don't think understanding the Nereids is of "high" importance to understanding Greece as a whole. Second, as a member of the Classical Greece & Rome project, I don't think the article, whatever its importance in the religion of archaic Greece, merits a priority rating of "high" in terms of the project's attention. Third, "mythology" is not just that of Greece, and even in relation to other topics of Greek mythology is of modest importance to WP readers: Nereid was viewed about 8,772 times in the month of February, compared, say, to Greek mythology with 196,937 hits, and Zeus with 240,824. Cynwolfe (talk) 14:06, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

The names appear in Iliad when thetis comes to console Achilles after Patroclus is killed. Forms and spelling in this list might reflect Homer. Wetman 08:30, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Isn't the plural of Nereid Nereides? -- 81.153.96.219 19:00, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't the pronunciation of the word be in IPA? It just looks funny... --Kitty ^who? 21:25, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Where do we find they have blue hair? Njál 10:16, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Furtive vandalism added 15:35, 8 July 2005 by User:148.122.128.112 and not caught till now!--Wetman 11:24, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Is Cassiopeia a Nereid? It says so on her page, but here she is not listed. Can someone verify this? -Safay 18:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation

This page needs to become a disambiguation page. Way too many hatnotes. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, but the disambiguations affect mainly redirects. I think it is best tackled with a combination of

• turning some redirects into stubs (where some literature on the exploits of these sea-nymphs exists, see e.g. Panopea)
• turning other redirects into dabs (where there is no literature of note, see e.g. Callianira).

Have asked the Greek project for assistance, added template to that effect. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 01:47, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

The question is always "What is the Wikipedia reader looking for in entering Nereid?" Chopping the page on nereids into the smallest possible pieces is not encyclopedic thinking: it is in the nature of a gazetteer of names. General information is lost in this atomization process. Is the reader served, or just Wikipedia hobbyists? --Wetman (talk) 02:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Hatnotes

The top of this page was cluttered with hatnotes; it made more sense to have disambiguation pages for the various names there. So that's what I did. I trust that's OK with everyone. Moonraker12 (talk) 12:58, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

That was awesome, thanks for doing it! (By the way, shouldn't the species names have a period after the first letter?) --Waldir ^talk 13:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! It's been niggling me for ages! And you're right about the species names; I've re-done them where necessary. Moonraker12 (talk) 14:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Dablinks

This page is tagged now for excessive dablinks. I've fixed some of them ( the one's I know) which leaves a redlink to an "N (Nereid)" page, but I don't know if that's the best solution. Some of the links are to "N (Mythology)", and one of them ("Opis") doesn't link anywhere, leaving the name in plain text.
Any thoughts on what would be the best thing to do? Moonraker12 (talk) 13:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

List and parentage

I don't think it's a good idea to list a collection of Nereids from different sources. According to this article, Asia/Clymene is a daughter of Nereus and Doris but she is generally known to be a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.

ICE77 (talk) 05:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Conflation of nereid with mermaid - necessary?

In the lede, nereids are glossed to mermaids - but the current article on mermaids equates them with sirens, which have their own provenance. This just has to be a mistake, so I have pulled the word 'mermaid'. (20040302 (talk) 11:06, 3 February 2012 (UTC))