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Contents 1 Suspect statement in History 2 External link 3 Rebuttal to Bill Thayer 4 Latins vs. Romans 5 Castro 6 spelling 7 shouldn't this article be called Lazio? 8 Requested move 8.1 Survey 8.2 Discussion

[edit] Suspect statement in History

It is believed that Latium is the orginal people of the aryan race, a perfect society of beutiful and intelligent people which now populate Punjab. This can be infered based on the similar beard sizes between men of Punjab and Latium. Latium was also where the theory of geographic luck was originated, as Jared Diamond was inspired by the wisdom of the reigning Santia family, that has ruled Latium for over 600 years.

Who put this Mein Kampf nonsense here? I'm removing it for lack of reference (if not taste). If the author really wants it back in, then they should state a good reason for it on this page.

[edit] External link

I removed

• Lazio Roma for English-speaking travelers

since, as can be seen, it's a small and very inferior site: a single page, in fact, the purpose of which is to draw people to "I.V. Tours".

I replaced it by the best site available. The five provinces maintain excellent sites as well, with at least some pages in English; and there are several dozen small sites in English much better than the above. If a site in English is absolutely required, my own site is a possibility, but (unlike the case for Umbria) I'm not suggesting it: despite its 600 pages, it doesn't provide sufficiently broad coverage of the entire region. Bill 23:21, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Someone came back a few days later and tried to put it back. That page is still thoroughly sub-par, and not about the Lazio either, just a small page about Rome with a few links; a page that spells "Colloseum", too.... Bill 09:33, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Remember that Wikipedia is supposed to be informational, not an adverisement platform for the internet. In general I would be suspicious of any link to a site that is trying to sell something as versus offering information on the subject. The exception being the official authorized establishment (ie. a link to the actual Louvre museum for the article on the Louvre). Sorry, Vian- I'm sure your daughter's site is grand, but it's inappropriate to link it to an article on Latium. -anon 5/11/2006

[edit] Rebuttal to Bill Thayer

Bill, I am the "someone" who added links to ItalianVisits.com on the various Italian Regional sites - and I don't think I was commiting "link spam" or engaged in vandalism when I did so. ItalianVisits.com is a serious endeavour being undertaken by my daughter, Jesse Andrews, who for the past 2 years has been living in Praia A Mare, in the northwest region of Calabria. My other daughter, Arianna, is attending university at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, and also contributes to the ItalianVisits website when she can.

If you look at the section on Calabria, you will see how much work and effort has been put into cataloguing towns and villages that are virtually unknown to English-speaking people, whether they are travelers or tourists, or people who have a curiousity about the area. You will note, I hope, the abundance of wonderful photographs that compliment the text, and present our viewers with images that otherwise would not be available. Incidentally, you should also note the link to Wikipedia resources whereever and whenever there is material on Wikidpedia about a region, town or other locale. We are as committed to Wikipedia as you are.

Jesse has created a vessel into which more information is being added every day. I just spent 15 days in Umbria, for instance, and added pages for Perugia, Assisi, Spello, Bevagna, Gubbio and the Regional Park at Colfiorito. Other contributors, like Katherine Lavallee, have added information about other towns in Tuscany. Such contributions are solicited eagerly so that we can fatten the content on the site.

ItalianVisits.com is hardly a come-on for selling tour packages, although we are trying to attract people to "unknown" parts of Italy, and in so doing, get some business to those out of the way places for local restauranteurs, hoteliers, and others in the travel business. If you are aware of what is going on in Italy now, you will understand that the economy is depressed, owing largely to various difficulties it has and is facing as it tries to integrate with the EU, and as it attempts to compete in a global economy. So, having information for travelers can not be the sine qua non of "link spam". If you look at all the external links listed in the Umbria section of Wikipedia, a number of them are active promoters of travel to the Region. Even in the Sardegna section where you posted identical comments to the comments you made here there is a link to a site called ActivSardegna which promotes travel. Should all of these be removed? And if so, by whom and under what (hopefully) reasonably well-defined policy?

You can coin or use phrases like "link spam", and "cyber vandalism", or other terms of denigration, but I think you, and others who "worry" about Wikipedia, should be careful not to sit on Wikipedia with a holier than thou attitude, deleting other people's contributions, unless a more thorough investigation is done into the content, and sometimes into the motives and objectives of their creators. Many people spend a lot of time, money and energy trying to do good without much reward beyond the satisfactions it provides. This effort to "do good" is manifest on your site Bill, at least, so far as I can see, and I commend you for it.

I'm a bit more than a little chagrined about what you have done Bill, and about how you have characterized ItalianVisits, but I hope we can discuss this if you think I am making an untenable argument in favour of allowing us to post links to the IV website, without fear of having them removed by the over-zealous.

Regards Vian Andrews Vancouver, BC July 28, 2005

[edit] Latins vs. Romans

I am very confused by the statement "Rome granted all Latins Roman citizenship after the Social War in 90 BC." I thought that the Latins were the ancestors of the Romans. ‡ Jarlaxle 00:30, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

It even says in this very article, "The name of the region also survives in the tribal designation of the ancient population of Latins, from whom the Romans originated." ‡ Jarlaxle 00:34, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Not to worry, the statement is correct. It's much as if the US were to grant Canadians, Australians and even Britishers US citizenship. The Brits are the "ancestors", so to speak, of the Americans, but the Americans could do this. Bill 00:47, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Ah. Thanks for clarifying that. ‡ Jarlaxle 00:56, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Castro

Should Castro be included in the list of notable cities of Latium ? -- PFHLai 06:57, 2005 August 28 (UTC)

Probably not. What happens — see Umbria — is that little by little, every place that someone thinks is notable gets added, and you have a big list inside the article. Castro is really very small and though "notable" for archaeological discoveries, so is just about every other place in the Lazio. . . . Bill 10:06, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought the list was too long, too. Thanks for your insights, Bill. -- PFHLai 10:24, 2005 August 28 (UTC)

[edit] spelling

This is my first time here...not sure how to comment about spelling of "inhabitted"....in History of Latium...it should be "inhabited." minor correction needed....but worthy of notice I think. Meliora 17:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] shouldn't this article be called Lazio?

As far as I know, the name of this region is Lazio in modern Italian, and there's no good reason to prefer its Latin name. While this article is stubby, it looks like it's intended to cover the history of the region to the present day. --Akhilleus (talk) 04:16, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes it should, for starters there's the fact that this article is on the Regione Lazio - the Italian administrative unit and not simply the geographical area, and the Regione has never been called Latium. Secondly even going by the rather silly (IMO) 'Common Usage' rule that Wikipedia uses (resulting in an article on the Czech Republic instead of simply Czechia) it should still be Lazio. I have never, ever, ever heard it referred to as 'Latium' except in a _purely_ historical fashion, i.e. if the speaker is talking about Roman or pre-Roman history. Or should we maybe start calling Basilicata, Lucania again? Or move Calabria back to Salento? Seek100 02:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move