Talk:Spartan army

This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Military history: Classical B‑class

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

B

This article has been rated as B-class on the project's quality scale.

This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: criterion met Coverage and accuracy: criterion met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met

Associated task forces:
/
	Classical warfare task force (c. 700 BC – c. 500 AD)

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Greece B‑class Mid‑importance

	Greece portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Greece, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Greek history 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
B	This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Classical Greece and Rome B‑class High‑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
B	This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Who is working on this?

Would anyone working on this article sign here please? I'm trying to work out how popular it is.

--Samrsharma 17:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's on my watchlist and I'm the one who gave it the "start" class assessment. But, to your question: no, I'm not actively editing the article. Why don't you check the edit history? --Kimon^talk 17:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks-I didn't know about that! Samrsharma 19:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had done a minor correction concerning the number of oar levels on biremes (listed as 20,changed to 2) and triremes (listed as 30,changed to 3),but the Navy section is entirely different now. SpartanGlory1983 (talk) 13:15, 7 April 2008 (UTC) SpartanGlory1983[reply]

Copyeditors

Can an experienced copyeditor look at this please? Despite loads of attempts I can't seem to banish that tag

Samrsharma 19:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quality Issues

Some parts of this article sound like they were written by a three year old and other parts sound like they were written by a high school kid who has only learned of Sparta from movies about Greek tales. The section on values and Tactics is especially bad. - 24.10.25.141 07:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's the problem with an article made into a film! I noticed that sort of thing before, do you have any idea about how to fix it? I've had a stab at it, but it is probably incomplete. This ties in with the copyedit tag. Kai Su?^{My Talk Page} 14:02, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The second footnote is completely wrong. Armies suffered very few casualties in battle. Anthropodismos (a total slaughter) very rarely happened. Usually a sidewould lose a few rooops and then retreat. The enemy would chase and get a few more, but there was never horrible slaughters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.212.215.11 (talk) 23:55, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

one of the toughest??

I do not agree with that Spartans were THE toughest soldiers known to man, and the best there is doubt about it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.31.182.173 (talk) 19:01, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is it cited? If not well done, one of the is teneble but THE toughest is up for debate... Kai Su?^{My Talk Page} 19:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

navy section

it has noting in it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.35.146 (talk) 07:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed now - It was vandalism 87.114.14.127 (talk) 18:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tactical structure

in the first paragraph the Second Messenian War is mentioned, in the second paragraph the phrase "By the end of the war, the structure had changed" refers NOT to the Second Messenian War, but to the Peloponnesian War, could somone please correct that, not everyone who comes here knows the all the wars, (start and end dates), off by heart. 203.206.248.84 (talk) 06:52, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did some copyediting. Hopefully clearer now. Cheers, Cplakidas (talk) 10:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

300 (film) showings

According to this edit, the film "300" was on HBO, an American television station. I reverted a whole bunch of unuseful IP edits, including the usual batch of movie quotes. Probably there'll be more of that over the next day or two. I'll leave a note on the film article's talk page too. --_{tiny plastic} Grey Knight ⊖ 08:29, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Right on. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 23:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spartans in Halo

I've had to revert back out a reference to spartans in Halo. With respect, we need citations that state that the reference in the game s towards of that of the soldiers of Sparta. Without that reference, it is original research, specifically, synthesis to put the two together in speculation - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 23:43, 10 June 2008 (UTC) please check the game, spartans are in halo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Halolove (talk • contribs) 23:54, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In Halo: The Fall of Reach it says that the halo series main character was taken from his home at the age 8-10 and put in with other children around his age group. The training consisted of obstical corses that had to be completed as a team or they wouldn't get dinner and other such training. During this training they were also taught about the Spartans from Greece showing them fight as a team and win countless battles. Another connection between the spartans and the SPARTAN-II super soldiers is how they are pictured; both are armor clad soldiers taking on and killing multiple foes, both are looked up to by soldiers of the other city states/army branches, both have been training to kill since a young age, and both had been trained to work together to achive victory. I think the refrences are pretty clear to me--69.72.15.224 (talk) 19:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with File:Michigan State Logo.jpg

The image File:Michigan State Logo.jpg is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check

That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for the use in this article.
That this article is linked to from the image description page.

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --08:23, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My knowledge in this area is limited, but I'm relatively sure the Persian Army at Thermopylae could not possibly have had two million men. 68.92.62.109 (talk) 02:12, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]