Talk:Targitai

Lipoksai
Not English, not Greek mythology and obviously created just to promote a (probably) unreliable etymology. &mdash; S URJECTION / T / C / L / 20:10, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Primary source is Histories (Herodotus). Main subject is Greek mythology. Main page is Targitaos. The text is overall English.--Anton Hougel (talk) 20:34, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * This is not Greek Mythology, but Scythian Mythology via a Greek author, who tried to tie it into Greek Mythology. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:11, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Then I confused two different mythologies. Feel free to overwrite the old stuff. That's all I could find on this.--Anton Hougel (talk) 22:15, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Taking the example of "Targitai", it does appear in some English-language books: . Some of these look like translations (from Russian?), which still counts. Some may be originally English. The more common English spelling appears to be Targitaos or Targitaus, assuming these refer to the same character. 70.172.194.25 20:41, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * You're too diplomatic- the etymology is utter nonsense. I speedied the "Targitai, Targitaus or Targitaüs is recognised by some as the Torgamah of the biblical annals" sense: it's not a definition, it's etymological speculation. Really, though, all four of the remaining "definitions" read like lines in an etymology. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:51, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The removed sense also seems to be "borrowed" verbatim from an earlier version of the Targitaos page on Wikipedia Chuck Entz (talk) 21:01, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Written by an editor with no contributions outside of that particular topic, as if the account was created solely for that purpose? Don't tell me... &mdash; S URJECTION / T / C / L / 21:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * RFV-deleted &mdash; S URJECTION / T / C / L / 17:49, 15 June 2022 (UTC)