Template:Did you know nominations/Constantine Dalassenos (duke of Antioch)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:54, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Constantine Dalassenos (duke of Antioch)[edit]

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... that Constantine Dalassenos twice came close to marrying Zoë Porphyrogenita and becoming emperor of Byzantium and twice failed? Source: Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, p. 584; Norwich, John (1991). Byzantium: The Apogee. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-670-80252-2, p. 306.

Reviewed: Up to date with QPQ. Cashing in Bhadrambhadra.

Improved to Good Article status by Gog the Mild (talk). Self-nominated at 16:20, 20 June 2018 (UTC).

Interesting life, good article on good sources, offline and French sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. Cute unusual hook! - For the article: please sort refs by number, and I never need more than three ;) - Article title: why is Duke not capital, as I understand the title of a specific person should be? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:39, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt:

Refs reordered.

Duke/duke? I moved it to Duke, which resulted in this. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:39, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Understand. How about Constantine Dalassenos of Antioch then (if duke is a misleading translation)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:09, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Well, he wasn't of Antioch - he was just posted there as doux for a while. It is to distinguish him from a Byzantine admiral of the same name, so the obvious - to me - endings would be (Byzantine general) and (Byzantine admiral). But Cplakidas (Constantine) won't have it. He is tremendously knowledgeable and helpful on all things Byzantine and associated. But he can be a stubborn Greek; when I changed to "Duke" he reverted without consultation. (Another editor re-reverted and for a while I thought that things would get nasty.) You may have noticed that he made a couple of edits to the article during the GA assessment. I prefer not to get on his wrong side; and he really is very helpful and a huge asset to Wikipedia. And, frankly, do I care just how he is disambiguated? Gog the Mild (talk) 14:47, 21 June 2018 (UTC)