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Is there a email address or phone number to the Delphi_Archaeological_Museum?[edit]

I need to email or phone them about buying a postcard from the nearby town of Kirra,_Phocis. Venustar84 (talk) 00:52, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1, Click on the English article you have very nicely linked to above, thanks. 2, Then scroll down to the greek text linking to the greek version of the article. 3, At the greek article, scroll down to external links, and click on the link for the museum. 4, When at the museum's article, http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/gh151.jsp?obj_id=3404 click on the little British flag meant for Americans and Canadians. You will find http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3404 and 5, in the future you can do this and also plug the text or url into google translate if you can't read the relevant language. μηδείς (talk) 01:08, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Click on the little British flag meant for Americans and Canadians”. Tosh! In the spirit of entente cordiale I will over look that gross faux pas.

Telephone: +30 22650 82313, 82346

Fax: +30 22650 82966

Email: iepka@culture.gr)

Please forgive μηδείς, she often commits fingers to keyboard before engaging brain and before reading the OP's question properly.--Aspro (talk) 02:01, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I was clicking around on all the other buttons around there in the page she linked thinking they might be a poorly labelled contact us page, but didn't think to look under information for some reason. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 16 Adar 5775 02:07, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The OP seems to be Canadian, she might be American, Aspro. She is always asking about things in the former Oregon Territory and has admitted as much. In any case the next GOP regime will probably annex Canada....

B-but, Canada is part of the USA, right? Boom-tish. </convict-descended bumpkin>

Given how successful the Republicans have been in their attempts at annexing Vermont, I'm sure the Canadians are quaking in their boots. RomanSpa (talk) 11:03, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The inhabitants of Alberta should be very nervous, for obvious reasons.--Shirt58 (talk) 06:23, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It now looks like the four-yearly why-the-hell-is-there-an-Electoral-College-anyway?-fest will not be Bush v Clinton II: Electric Boogaloo. But it may well be part 3: Return of the JEBi, who I have decided to refer to (except in article-space, of course) as George the Third, for obvious reasons.

(And yes (a) I do know it should be "whom I have decided", and I. do. not. care. (b) I do know why there is an electoral college: it's because the Founding Fathers didn't trust the people to elect a suitable Prez and Veep. The thought that - gasp! - a black man or a woman might be a candidate one day probably didn't even cross their minds, otherwise they might have ruled that out too. Ooh, I am in a snarky mood today. Bicycle ride while listening to the cricket time, I think.)--Shirt58 (talk) 04:50, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not exactly. It's because the founding fathers reached a compromise to get the Constitution ratified, which allowed for giving a collectively greater voice to small states. Without it, the US would look more like medieval Europe. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:42, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you hypothetically use whom, then you might hypothetically make it to whom I have decided to refer. Indirect election makes sense when, for much of the electorate, there's no practical way to get good information about candidates. —Tamfang (talk) 08:02, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have a first in Eng.Lit. (well, it started off as Eng.Lit., then I changed universities and I ended up with a degree in ~~Cultural Marxism~~ Cultural Studies) as well as a degree in being finicky about wording at $ 300 per hour, so I should deffo know better. But as Wadical Descwiptivist, I prefer to use language as it is spoke.

Thank you, Bugs and Tamfang. I follow American politics to the point of obsession. I've learned a lot in this thread.--Shirt58 (talk) 10:01, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As for you, Mister a "scroll in every port" Archaeloger, you should be well aware of the method of scanning a scene and focussing on what stands out. There's one English word on the page I linked first to. Care to guess what that English word was in English? The second page was not Greek to me. Venustar is quite smart and has been around here for a long time, and we need not do all her homework for her. Neither was a single thing I said misleading or in the long run, unhelpful. μηδείς (talk) 02:43, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the long run ? That is the point: Ὁ βίος βραχύς. Why not dish the answer up on a plate and not squander time that only passes us by once. --Aspro (talk) 13:18, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ha. Unfortunately the links on the page all lead to the Description page rather than the individual pages. Rather unfortunate way to code a site, but what can you do? Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 17 Adar 5775 02:57, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Και ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ--Greek for, "give a girl a fish... teach a girl to fish...." Venustar is a longtime user and smart enough to deserve to be told how, like an adult, to get the answer herself; not just to be given the answer, like a child being told "because I said so." μηδείς (talk) 21:27, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The OP requested: I need to email or phone them. Why not just give it? Is that not the adult thing to do?--Aspro (talk) 23:23, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, at the reference desk we hand the user the phone book. We do not read it for them. This is not the answer desk. (Also, this user has a very long history of asking very concrete question that could simply be googled, and has used multiple accounts, and has been repeatedly warned about her behavior, and has repeatedly promised to behave better, which she has.) Having told her exactly how to find the correct answer herself using our references was the perfect response--and the one those who spoonfed her the answer, rather than the reference, followed after my lead. Are we to suppose she couldn't read my answer, only ref desk editors could? So, no, it was wrong, absolutely wrong just to give her a phone number, rather than to show her how to get to the website where she could get it herself. μηδείς (talk) 02:37, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! Hope you feel better for getting all that off your chest but this is the Ref Desk. --Aspro (talk) 13:13, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And here I thought Germans were incapable of Sarkasmus. In any case, not only did I give her the link, you repeat my point--this is the reference desk, not the automated phone directory. μηδείς (talk) 00:55, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Going to another Xena convention this year, are we? Deor (talk) 18:42, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What I could never work out was how did Xena the Warrior Princess adorn herself with modern pink lipstick? I could never calibrate my TV into showing a believable colour rendering.--Aspro (talk) 19:52, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So... can we mark this one as resolved then? Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 17 Adar 5775 02:57, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The best thing would be to leave a message on her talk asking her to mark this closed if she is satisfied. She posted a very similar question within the last few months, but helped us out this time by giving the museum as a specific target. μηδείς (talk) 03:45, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's because I responded to her last question about buying a postcard in Kirra,_Phocis with a suggestion to try the museum at Delphi - which seems like the most likely place to have a gift shop with postcards that stands a chance in hell of being geared up to sell it online and ship it internationally. That said, I think it's still probably a long-shot. Another alternative that occurs to me is to find someone who can speak passable modern greek and to start dialling numbers with the Kirra phone number prefix at random - then offering to send whoever answers a nice, crisp $20 bill if they'd buy a local postcard and post it to you signed "Love Xenas' Mommy"...or whatever.

SteveBaker (talk) 05:04, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

female wikipedian[edit]

After wadwitz who iwas another noted female wikipedian who had also died ? I had once read in wikipedia signpost. Forgot the name.

Learnerktm 17:25, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe one of the entries at Category:Deceased Wikipedians will jog your memory. Dismas|^(talk) 17:35, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cindamuse's death was noticed in the Signpost last year. Deor (talk) 18:38, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]