Talk:History of the Levant
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- probably because "History of the Levant" would be a better title.
Somebody added a PDF version of the article. Not sure that this is a good idea, since a) waste of disk space and bandwidth if done for every article b) PDF version will soon be out-of-date.
? I fail to see the logic in having a pdf version of the very same article. Anon is right this will be out of date in a short time. --mav
- Two questions. Would it be desirable to have online conversion to PDF format on Wikipedia server ? Does the PDF format have additional merits over HTML for Wikipedia ?
--Kpjas
- 1: Doubtful. 2: Articles that use non-ASCII characters could have a better chance of appearing correctly, as the font outlines can be embedded in a PDF. That's conceivably a marginal nicety. For this article it's completely useless, and the PDF isn't even from the printer-friendly version. There's zero need for it. --Brion VIBBER
A definition of the word "Levant" would be nice. --Auric The Rad 20:55, Nov 25, 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Egypt?
In the "See also" section, there is a link to the article History of Egypt. Egypt is located in North Africa, and is not in the Levant. So why does this article that's about Levantine history have a link to Egyptian history?--Gramaic 05:39, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
The article itself includes much discussion of the entire Ancient Near East that doesn't belong. It encourages confusion as to the denotation of the term "Levant," and also reinforces the impression that the Levant was just the empty, undeveloped, or backward area where "empires" met to trade and fight.
I assume the inappropriate links share their origin with the inappropriate text. And I suspect that origin has something to do with the article once having a different title.
--Americist 18:57, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
