Category talk:Seljuk palace Ani
Reaction to remarks on 6-1-2012
On two occasions I found you refer to my site as a blog. Today: “Please do not write your personal notes here, use them on your blog.” The Wikipedia has as a definition for a blog (and I agree) “a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.” For site I quote “A website (also written as web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.” I consider my website a website because it has been on the air for 17 years, has been regularly updated, added to, changed because of input of thousands of viewers, some of them esteemed professors from the best universities. Errors have been corrected when found out. I try and use the best information I can find, some from books I own, some picked up during my travels, some from extensive web searches. To call it a blog I find patronizing. You call it a blog, your own ministry of tourism and culture called it a site, so please use that name. My remark about a diversion between what’s in the Wikipedia and my own information was meant to nuance the information. I just found after a web search that the palace is “built between the 12th and 13th centuries.” I think this can be read as “built in the 12th or 13th century”. I also just checked the wav recording I made, reading a notice on site when taking the picture, it says it’s the Selçuklu Saray, from the 12th century. That’s the note I refer to. I think the best thing to do is correct the Wikipedia, as it does not agree with information on site. As for what you wrote “Title can be improved” (I wrote Seljuk Palace Ani), what do you mean? Should it be … in Ani? For the name of the palace itself: it’s the universally accepted name, even the Unesco uses it. Though I found in an article “(variously called Seljuk Palace, Merchant’s Palace, or Bagratid Palace)”. The article is by Heghnar Watenpaugh, University of California, Davis, UCD · Art and Art History in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, from that university. As you feel free to give me unrequested advice I feel free to advice you to be more nuanced in what you write, instead of the short remarks you tend to make. I trust you’re busy, but a few more words might make a difference. Dosseman (talk) 16:59, 6 January 2021 (UTC)