Regional Descriptions: Help the EBII Team

[mephiston]

I'm almost done with Syrthim: in a couple of days it should be ready. The fact that finally I managed to have some free days greatly contributed to the matter.

Some remarks on the description of Trinakrie.

Caltania

Catania is the correct spelling.

Syrakosai

As above, Syrakousai is the correct translitteration.

Mount Aetna [...] Monte Lauro

I feel kind of disturbed by the mixture of English, Latin and Italian: imho it's better to stick to one standard.

20-30 degrees Celsius

Two rules for numbers with unit of measure are used:

1) numbers and unit of measure written extensively ("between twenty and thirty degrees Celsius")
2) compact form ("20-30 °C")

One should stick to one or the other.

Dionysus I

The Latin name of the famous tyrant is Dionysius, while the Greek one is Dionysios. Dionysus = Bacchus.

But the delay is strong in me... Probably my remarks are no more relevant due to @Kull 's editing.

Thanks; like you, I'm happy to help. Hope I didn't come across as too much of a jerk - this whole description business, given the academic standards of the mod, requires a lot of research in different directions. It's easy to get lost if you dont already have a lot of knowledge in all of the fields you are describing.
Incidentally, that's why I'm confounded by the plans of some people to translate EB II into other languages. Honestly, it's easier to just learn English. Especially seeing as creating any translation (much less a mod with a body of texts so large it would put Tolstoy or GRRM to shame) of an acceptable standard is a difficult and time-consuming business.

I encourage you to type every remark you have: you clearly know your stuff, and even if you were a jerk (which you weren't) still, as you said, the mod requires deep and diverse knowledge which you possess and I do not. Therefore I welcome every piece of criticism

If you can find something more appropriate, please post them (with actual location identified). Keep in mind that all "constructed icons" have to fit inside a frame, and picture dimension (excluding frame) is 378x121 pixels (i.e. roughly a 3-1 ratio). You don't have to provide pix of exactly that size, but that's the cropping/stretching I'll have to put them through.

I may have something for Nikron, since I'm quite familiar with the region: in the next days I'll give a deep look to my collection of pictures.

I also bit the bullet and developed Strabo-based descriptions for 10 other "description-less" provinces. At this point, every province on the map has *something*! There are still eight which only have the "strategy" section, but I'll try to get something for those, too.

Nice!