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A fact from History of Alexander appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 February 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Cleitarchus's History of Alexander, written in the fourth century BC, was criticized by contemporaries as being overly sensational?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/History of Alexander.

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Article as it stands

It's currently little more than a stub, but there is significant room for improvement. The body of work on this work is vast, and while the work itself is lost there is more than enough data to go into further detail on the image the work presents on Alexander, and the composition of the work. The section on the Vulgate Tradition can and should be considerably expanded, before being split into it's own article. However, this will all need to wait until I get around to obtaining some of these works, but in the meantime I believe the work is ready to be moved to mainspace. -- NoCOBOL (talk) 10:09, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ptolemy, in origin section.

Judging by the dates given, the hotlink to Ptolemy may actually be to a different writer of the same name. 110.145.170.78 (talk) 03:23, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]