User talk:Voytek s

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Mithras is not Mitra

Over at Mithras you added an interwiki to pl:Mitra (mitologia). This was incorrect and has been removed.
pl:Mitra (mitologia) is apparently the equivalent of en:Mitra (not Mithras). en:Mitra is also what the article at the polish wikipedia is interwikied to. -- Fullstop 21:38, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Of course it is. In Polish Mitra, Mithra and Mithras are described by one word - Mitra. Mithraism is linked to pl:Mitraizm from pl:Mitra not Mithra. The same is on italian Wiki - it:Mithraismo from it:Mitra. Similar situation is many other Wiki versions. Of course it is a little mess with this names, but i think that my interwiki was correct. Voytek s 07:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

You misunderstood me. On the english Wikipedia, "en:Mitra" is a (sort-of) disambiguation for three different entities, which is essentially what the pl:Mitra page is in substance as well. That the lead section of pl:Mitra starts talking about Vedic Mitra (en:Mitra (Vedic)), then somehow gets it confused with Zoroastrian Mithra (en:Mithra) and then shears off into "pl:Mitraizm" (which insanely enough throws all three together again instead of sticking to the Greco-Roman sphere) is a polish problem, not related to the English wikipedia. That the polish wiki doesn't actually have separate articles for the three *different* entities (its insane not to do so) is an equally unrelated matter. The en:article that you tagged with pl:Mitra is specifically for Greco-Roman Mithras, which is *one* of those three entities, not all three.

Your observation that "in Polish Mitra, Mithra and Mithras are described by one word" does not preclude that the Polish wikipedia can't have three different articles. The three cannot (and should not) be treated as if they were all the same.

With respect to it:Mitra and it:Mithraismo: Although the lead section of it:Mitra is just as confused as the Polish one is, the italians quite correctly distinguish Greco-Roman Mithras from the other entities. They don't however have a separate article for Greco-Roman Mithras but instead deal with that entity directly under Mithraismo, which corresponds to en:Mithraism and is the general academic term for the Greco-Roman cult of Greco-Roman Mithras (the other entities don't/didn't have cults or -isms, and unlike the Greco-Roman Mithras, are not extinct).

-- Fullstop 21:08, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ps: please reply here, its easier to follow the conversation that way.

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