User talk:Sivigliano

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Happy editing! – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 17:12, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Civic nobility in the Papal States' March of Ancona, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 17:49, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Sivigliano, and welcome to the English Wikipedia. I noticed your contributions, especially in the article Civic nobility in the Papal States' March of Ancona, and found it quite impressive in terms of formatting and depth of research. It looks like you've been actively working on the article over at Italian Wikipedia for almost a year now; congratulations on your accomplishment!

As someone with no prior knowledge of the subject, I found the article extraordinarily difficult to understand. Would you be willing to make some edits to "dumb down" (for lack of a better phrase) the article such that it would be accessible to the common reader here on Wikipedia? For instance, I wouldn't expect most people reading to understand what historiography is off the top of their head; perhaps it deserves some more explanation here? Although, you are quite obviously the subject-matter expert, so I'll defer to you on the scope of the article you've created. I'd love to talk more about this; feel free to ping me with {{ping|Staraction}} when you reply.

Thanks again for your contributions, and I hope you stay; we need experts like you here on Wikipedia. Best, Staraction (talk | contribs) 21:59, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if the article was a translation of the Italian article (as implied in it:Discussione:Nobiltà civica nella Marca pontificia#Versione della voce su wiki eng), it would require attribution, as discussed at Help:Translation#Licensing. Could you confirm whether this is the case? Thanks, Staraction (talk | contribs) 22:30, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Staraction:, and thank you very much for your kind message and for taking the time to read the article.

You are absolutely right that the article is a complex and rather dense piece. It largely reflects the way the topic is treated in Italian historiography and in the original Italian article, which I have been expanding over the past year. I’m fully aware that this makes the English version challenging for a general reader.

Over the next few weeks I’ll work on making the article more accessible: simplifying the prose where possible, clarifying or briefly explaining technical terms (for example “historiography”, "contado", and other specialist concepts), and improving the structure so that the main narrative is easier to follow without prior knowledge of Italian social history. I will try to keep the scholarly depth while making the entry less intimidating for non-specialists.

If there are specific passages or sections that struck you as particularly opaque, I would be very grateful for any pointers or concrete examples – that would help me prioritise the most urgent changes.

Thanks again for your feedback and for the warm welcome. I really appreciate it and I’m happy to keep improving the article in the spirit you suggest. Sivigliano (talk) 08:43, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]