User talk:Aus Chia

Welcome!

Welcome to wikipedia, on behalf of all the editors here. Thank you for all your edits under your IP. I am not a genius on IPs and you are correct that most computers connected to the internet have a unique IP, and most of those change regularly. Some ISPs have a single IP as was the case in your ISP (although they can probably find out a more specific IP for your computer to block if they need to). Do not be concerned that people will think that you vandalise wikipedia. It is understood that many people may use an IP. In fact, it is reasonably difficult for someone to work out that your account edits from the IP (you need to ask a check user which is a special 'rank' of user who can be trusted with the tool, and you need a good reason to request it.)

Just a few things while I am here; don't forget to sign posts you make on talk pages with ~~~~ so we know who we are talking to and when. Also, the good thing about wikipedia is that you can always revert an edit. So anything you save on wikipedia, unless permanently deleted, will be able to be retrieved. An example of this is that I went back and read what you wrote on my talk page before you edited it ;) No worries about it, but just keep it in the back of your mind. Any more questions or if you want some help, please just leave me a message as you just did and I would be more than happy to help! Tiddly-Tom 15:19, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Columbidae

I'm not questioning that your edits were anything other than good faith, just inappropriate. There are existing pages for Feral Pigeon and Domestic Pigeon, so I removed all the "see alsos" (not just the war pigeons) because they referred to just those two forms, and none were relevant to the family as a whole.

If you consider that the fact that they are members of Columbidae justifies their presence on the family page, then the logic is that we should have "see also" for every interesting fact about every one of the 300-ish species, and the bird page should have links to every interesting bird fact.

People searching for information about domesticated pigeons, whether in war use or not, are unlikely to enter Columbidae as the search item anyway. Jimfbleak (talk) 14:30, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

I notice that you have added the war pigeon bit to Rock Pigeon. Since that article is primarily about genuinely wild birds, can I suggest that either you lose the heading, so it becomes a part of the previous section about domestication, or that you move the section to Domestic Pigeon Jimfbleak (talk) 14:44, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, have a good 2008, Jimfbleak (talk) 06:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Tutankhamun

I've removed your addition to the article on Tutankhamun because it is not certan how he died. You have written about this new theory about the broken leg too conclusivly, but in fact it is far from that. You have almost compleately written of the murder theory as invalid, just because of the latest news and research.

"He was buried in the Valley of the Kings, in a small tomb today known as KV62, that was not intended for a king, further evidencing the idea that his death was sudden and possibly accidental."

- that is only the case if you ask doctor Hawass. To most it tells exactly the opposite. It proves that he was buried with very little respect, and pharaohs, especially at that age do not just die like that and that easily. Many scolars have used this evidence from his tomb to support that his death was not accidental but intentional- foul play.

It has been suggested that he my have suffered injuries (leg,head blow) in war, but I do agree with you that this is highly unlikely. Not everything was written by the ancient egyptians, especially bad things such as the violent death of the king in war or a palace plot, so even if he went to war and died this would go unrecorded. Who would record such a tragedy and dishonour? For example there have been no direct egyptian records about the imprisonment and execution of the pharaoh Psametik III by the Persians.

Cheers! Egyptzo (talk) 22:02, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for my late reply - I've been very busy beginning my Masters Degree!

Egyptzo, thank you for your communication. Yet I see that, looking back through all the previous revisions, despite your criticisms and claims here, you did not actually change any of my corrections - you did not touch my comprehensive clean-up of the 'Parentage and Lineage’ (I also added 'Lineage') which I completely re-ordered and added to; you did not touch my important additions throughout the article that, in fact, no records exist of Tutankhamun ever having gone to war. And you also did not touch my additions detailing the latest CT scan evidence and subsequent theories on Tutankhamun's death through possible infection of his broken leg - in fact, ultimately, all you changed was the single word, 'accidental' to 'unknown' - is this be because of my accurate provisions of citations and references for all my corrections?

I also disagree with your assertion toward me - I did not make the murder conjecture invalid at all - indeed I retained the conjecture on murder, as the quote below attests - I merely updated and added the most current widespread academic theories - surely any layperson reading this article should be alerted to the current CT scan evidence and most up-to-date academic interpretations - anyway, I see that, since our discussions back in December, others have added more details under 'Cause of Death' and even added a new sub-heading titled '2005 Findings' which details the most recent scientific evidence as well as Dr. Hawass, his colleagues' and others' conclusions quite objectively.

Furthermore, just one more point, as far as I know, the old claim that Tutankhamun may have been murdered stems from just one source, Bob Brier's book, and also has no ancient Egyptian evidence to support it - if there really were a plot to murder the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, it is astounding that it was never recorded by later Egyptians - for example, we possess a wealth of documents recording the plot to murder Ramesses III.

And really, your example of Psametik/Psammetichus III cannot be likened to Tutankhamun at all, since Psametik was the final pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty - any comparions between the 26th Dynasty and the 18th Dynasty must acknowledge that the 18th Dynasty is one of the best recorded by the period’s ancient Egyptians themselves, whereas in the 26th Dynasty the Egyptian culture was effectively wiped out along with Psametik’s rule by the Persian empire. Who was left in the Egyptian empire to record Psametik’s death? The reason there is no Egyptian record of Psametik's death is because there was effectively no Egyptian society left at the time after the Persian invasion. And in fact, we do have records of Psametik’s capture and murder by the Persians from Herodotus - no such documentation is recorded for Tutankhamun, including through the wealth of historical records by the classical Greeks and Romans. Surely you are not suggesting we presume Tutankhamun participated in any wars or battles when there is no evidence from his direct period or from any other such as the later Egyptians right to the classical Greek records.

Further, on a final note, the Egyptians of the 18th through to the 20th Dynasties did indeed record tragic deaths in battle, not as 'dishonourable' as you presume, but as valiant deaths in defence of Egypt, but deaths to war injuries nevertheless. But it is indeed widely accepted that Tutankhamun never went to war, based upon an absence of any records of such from the well-recorded contemporarily detailed 18th Dynasty.

Aus Chia (talk) 06:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Meetup invitation: Melbourne 26

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Thank you, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, for this message and invitation! Much appreciated and really nice to speak with you here ~ Aus Chia (talk) 02:28, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

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