EB is not Historical?

[Ludens]

Yes, it's been made sufficiently clear that the OP did not make a good impression. Can we move on?

Ludens, what I think annoys many here is that people bump in here with a bunch of lukewarm facts and claim that they know more than the EB-Team or the community(as it apparently has not pointed that out before. And most importantly they don't go into an existing thread and argue with the others or they first read existing threads, they open up a new thread and claim their ideas are absolute and that it has to be changed, not a suggestion, a demand. at least that is waht angers me every time I read one of these posts. As I'm not part of the EB team I'm not as enraged as when it'd be MY mod/share of the research.
from a mod I worked on I remember people always comeing up with how wrong my ancient greek would be as I write Oxybeles instead of Oxyvelis and so on. or that my research was not conform with the discriptions from Age of Empires: Mythologies(the DS tough version).

Understood, and I agree. But what Bobbin says is true as well. We all start with misconceptions about history, and because we know so little about it we assume them to be solid truth. Of course, if you're not familiar with a topic, it's best to ask rather than assume you know better. But it's a quirk of human nature that the less we know, the more we think we know. Check out the Dunning–Kruger effect for the extreme version of this.

[Arjos]

I agree on that, but so many people just ignoring sticked posts is soooooooo annoying...

[fomalhaut]

it's due to the large number of stickied posts, reducing the value of each one. one or two sticked posts would make each much more important and much less to read, rather than 1/4 the page like we have here.

[jirisys]

But it's a quirk of human nature that the less we know, the more we think we know. Check out the Dunning–Kruger effect for the extreme version of this.

Heh heh... I have that!

~Jirisys ()

[fomalhaut]

then you must be american ^_^

[Ca Putt]

ha, thanks ludens! I'll going to use word a lot :)))))))

and yes I do agree with bobbin aswell :)

[jirisys]

then you must be american ^_^

No, I'm just smawt.

~Jirisys ()