Talk:Exile of Ovid

Is this translated form some other language? It has some very odd word usages that seem like they come from a misapplied phrase book.

English Language Rewrite Required

^^^ Clearly someone else has noticed exactly why I have applied a cleanup template to this article. It is likely written by someone that is not fluent in English (or as the commenter above has noted before me, perhaps it was digitally translated.

In either case, the article (particularly the lower sections, are rife with grammatical errors, incorrect verb use and some word choice confusions, along with some sentences that are incoherent. 79.97.71.19 (talk) 06:20, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion regarding the standard of writing in Exile of Ovid. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top.

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Cleaning up the article

I've started cleaning up the article. I've made a little progress, but there's still a lot to do. Akasanof (talk) 05:29, 20 January 2014 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Exile_of_Ovid&action=submit#

During the major job of trying to make the article acceptably encyclopaedic, let alone comprehensible, I seemed to spot that two editors in particular had been at work on it, leaving a great deal of repetition and redundancy. It was therefore necessary not simply to correct the language but to splice together sometimes antithetical accounts. Despite the exhortation to be bold in the previous section, I hope suggested changes of a major nature will be discussed here first, particularly by editors not entirely at home with English. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 08:49, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Footnotes

Most of the references are missing, eg Fränkel, 1945; Vázquez, 1992; Montero, 2002; Vulikh, 1968; Simón, Rodríguez, 2004, and Verdière, 1992; Holleman, 1985, etc etc. I cannot see this list of references together anywhere else on the web, so to reconstruct them would be a matter of chasing them up one by one, unless the original author can add them for us. Gerry1998 (talk) 01:18, 30 October 2023 (UTC)