This article covers subjects of relevance to Ancient Anatolia (either Prehistory of Anatolia or Classical Anatolia).
Since some users literally got rid of Turkish names in articles of placenames in Greece, should we delete Greek name here based on the same logic? Or will this practice become double standard? Filanca (talk) 18:01, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't mean to be provocative - especially in view of the comment above - but it is truely quite an accomplishment discussing the history of Magnesia without any reference to the word "greek" or its derivatives. I can sympathize with the political sensitivities of some readers, but I don't believe this should compromise the information content of this - or any - wikipedia article. DrMits (talk) 10:28, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
It should be great to read about the byzantine/greek period of the city. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.80.66.87 (talk) 18:26, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
I suggest we remove the direct quote by Loder Park (below) since the same subject matter of 1922 is already served by Fisher and Kinross references. I checked to see these were added by an anonymous user passing under the name DragonTiger23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/DragonTiger23. It would have been much better to have regular contributors with profiles handling such sensitive topics but well, that's wikipedia.
"James Loder Park, the U.S. Vice-Consul in Constantinople at the time, who toured much of the devastated area immediately after the Greek evacuation, described the situation in the surrounding cities and towns of İzmir he has seen, as follows:[13]