Those with my e-mail shall not reply here but direct and please dont drop it or my name here. Otherwise I fear my e-mail could be flooded in the near future.
All here is the real stuff and has no build in failures to prove priority or such like. Originally the intention was to give the German language school of portolan research some more public. WP had no chance to get modern cartometric illustrations. So I decided to give free some of my own work. Because without the graphics people could hardly understand what the whole thing is about.
But by continuing my own research some unexpected results came up and reminded me on the Bibhistor work at the German Wikipedia. I meet him some years ago and (with minor help of others) he presented a plausible solution of the Ptolemy problem. It had blocked my portolan research and I tackled it a long time without success.
His knowledge on papyri, libraries and classical transmission was an eye opener not to find anywhere. It was suggested to bring him to Wikipedia to give him competent co workers and, well, some check too. He was supplied with hard and software and mainly my technical advice. I co worked in creating his graphics. Visual presentation of information is one of my specialties.
The result exceeded any expectations. Two other users brought new evidence that strongly supported him. One was a Greek text that was well known but (deliberately?) wrong translated at the crucial point. As a good catholic Bibhistor never even thought to check an official translation of his church. The other was a book by a German professor of law that gave me very new insight on medieval times. Bibhistor pointed me to direct implications for my portolans.
Now, by putting a lot of my own results to WP I hope other users can point me to neglected maps, books or citations on my subject too. I plan some print publication in the future and have still some work at hand. The portolan research is far from over and I want to concentrate on it. Things related with the Mercator letter, Leonardo or the unrecognized transmissions are interesting but not on my main track. I would like to hear about and contribute but not focus on.
This is stuff for others because Bibhistor may not be able to take on it. He is old and ill and his treatment by most users in the German WP was not like expected and gave him the feeling that his work was unwanted there. Unfortunately he could not be convinced to write about the Library of Alexandria and the Carolingian Renaissance, both he had quite to say something. In 2011 I lost contact with him and had to write the final of some pages without his support. I hope he still will read it.
Someone on portolans and the mentioned related stuff can reach me here - but only on this page here. Drop your e-mail and I may reply. But I request confidentiality on my name and e-mail by the reasons above untill publication. -- Portolanero (talk) 13:26, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Portolanero, just thought I'd drop by and point you at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps in case you had not seen it. You might be interested in getting involved in that? EdwardLane (talk) 17:22, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
These prevent pages from being shown on Google. It's standard for pages such as yours. I'm not sure they belong in your userspace in any case, but as long as they are there, they shouldn't appear on Google. Dougweller (talk) 13:10, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Portolanero, thanks for contacting me! I have been interested in early trans-Atlantic voyages, and the portolans are interesting in their own right. I am not sure what 5.2 refers to, as 5 shows as the Literature section when I display it. I am not sure whether Wikipedia is the right vehicle for your work - do you have a web site? Thanks in advance. Jpaulm (talk) 17:00, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
I`m shocked that it looked different to you. On my userpage should be:
1. What is unsolved about portolans? The Problem of the Portolan Charts 2. With focus on cartometric: The History of Portolan Research 3. Some info on oldest chart: Carte Pisane 4. The portolans of the North and the relation to the southern portolans: "Caerte van Oostlant" 5. The most important portolan and the transmission map: Pizigani 1367 Chart 5.1 Cartometric Analysis II 5.2 The Maps of King Arthur? 6. A crucial issue: The Ptolemy Problem 7. The root origin: Traces of a Classical Portolan World Map And how the survey was done and the role of the Secret Courts. 8. Synopsis - Timeline Literature (And four Supplement articles.)
Sorry to go in such detail, but I think I have to fix something if it looks different to you. -- Portolanero (talk) 20:59, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. - LuckyLouie (talk) 17:16, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
This discussion is now over and deleted but can be seen here. -- Portolanero (talk) 19:47, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at WP:Miscellany for deletion/User:Portolanero/subpages regarding your userpages. Thank you. - LuckyLouie (talk) 00:37, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Sorry it took a while to write back. Looks as though your impressive collection of material has drawn considerable attention. I'd suggest that much of this material would contribute a lot to the Portolan chart page if you restructured it in that way. Some of it might also be appropriate for the Terra Australis page.
The question of how much of the Earth's surface was known when ... even long before the early Greeks ... is a fascinating one. There's little question that ancients knew much more than we've given them credit for. Prime example:Göbekli Tepe. It's entirely possible that Polynesians et.al. had explored much of the South Pacific long before recorded history, and that some of the portolans reflect those, or Chinese, or Incan explorations as yet undocumented. Materials you put together here might even further such investigations, in time, if your cites are sound; I know little on the subject but would certainly welcome a very thorough Portolan page. Twang (talk) 05:43, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
This is my answer for the message you left at Talk:Out-of-place artifact. I read the discussions and the consensus against maintaining your work in your userspace. Right now I have no idea how much of it is fringe, but a priori I think much of your work could greatly enrich several current Wikipedia articles. How you done some research on it? But if you would like to present your whole corpus, then maybe you should think of your own website. Good luck! --Againme (talk) 15:12, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Portolanero, I have found some of your contributions very interesting in the past but now I see that all your user pages seem to have been deleted from here and from Commons. Is there another project or website where they can be accessed? --Hispalois (talk) 22:27, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Portolanero, I suppose you already saw this: [2] Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 13:14, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Portolanero. I think this article may be of interest to you: The longitude of the Mediterranean throughout history. --76.230.48.181 (talk) 07:08, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
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