Clonclon

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Good luck, and have fun. ----Darkwind (talk) 05:10, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to mention that I fixed the capitalization of the name of your new article for you, since you can't do that yet. However, please do take a look at the guidelines linked above (especially regarding source citations) to improve your new article. --Darkwind (talk) 05:12, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

What I want to see reviewed for the Sicily article

1)Change the Greek, Phoenician/Carthage, Roman period, and call it "Ancient Sicily". And in the "History of Sicily article, I want to have a seperate Greek section and Roman & Carthagian periods and mention the Punic Wars.

2)Hopefully consolidate the Arab period and simply call it "Arab Sicily" or "Muslim Sicily" instead of having 4-5 different headings for that period and a few sentences underneath.

3)Change the name "Arab Norman" period into the historically accurate Norman period...this is very misleading and makes it seem like these two factions and their leaders were allies or that they ruled together in harmony, which is far from the truth.

4)Add the Hohenstaufen and Angevin periods that for some reason are not mentioned? The Angevin period, saw the Sicilian Vesper rising and is a very important event in Sicilian history.

5) Add Demographics, Cuisine, Politics and Sports.

6)Most important...Make sure that the majority of the material in all sections have references and citations. So this is purely a factual, accurate article.

• • • We will discuss this as a group and bring in experts to determine what is correct and what should stay(Scipio3000 20:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)).