Talk:Julius Caesar

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Semi-protected edit request on 7 July 2025

Add the great title to Julius Caesar AaronTheHistorian (talk) 08:45, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

 Not done No source provided indicating that this is commonly used for him. NebY (talk) 08:50, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Agreed that this should not be done. Want to note also that Aaron attmepted this unsourced change here but was reverted. Ifly6 (talk) 15:57, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Calendar description

The Republican calendar is twice called "lunisolar" in the article, but this really isn't accurate--the Republican calendar didn't even try to synch its months with the moon. It shows descent from some earlier undocumented lunisolar calendar, but that wasn't what the Julian calendar replaced. 130.44.180.27 (talk) 00:53, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Image

add Filname:Julius Caesar Coustou Louvre.png John George III (talk) 19:14, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Rationale already posted here for use of the Tusculum portrait over the Chiaramonti type. Talk:Julius Caesar/Archive 7#Image reversion, September 2024. The same arguments apply even more strongly for fantasy post-classical portraits. Separately, this is the second – 1, 2 – time you've tried adding this image (improperly with a thumbnail frame) to the infobox. Please desist. Ifly6 (talk) 15:03, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Any particular reason? But sure, why not:. Since we have a hopefully contemporary portrait, we'll obviously not use art made 1700 years after he died as WP:LEADIMAGE. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:09, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Putting aside basic guidelines like WP:LEADIMAGE, I thought this was also just common sense, which now seems to be in short supply! ;) The Tusculum portrait is of course not flashy or very aesthetic like the Chairamonti bust, or the Green Caesar for that matter, but it's authentic, contemporary (i.e. Caesar's lifetime, not posthumous), and backed by scholarly consensus. Keeping it in the lead is a no-brainer here I would say. Pericles of Athens^Talk 00:36, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

More relevant caption for one of the coin images

This coin is currently included in Julius Caesar's article. The coin is historically important because he is identified there as dictator quartum ("DICT QVART"), rather than dictator perpetuo (the more famous title, as we know), thus bearing witness to a sort of transitional period in Caesar’s life. Without a mention of this fact in the caption, including this coin is not very meaningful. Writing this note as a TODO for myself and for anyone interested in contributing. By the way, happy Kalends of March everybody! Yigit Kilicoglu (talk) 20:38, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 May 2026

"This act began Caesar's civil war" - change Caesar's civil war to a link to the wikipedia page Caesar's civil war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_civil_war#March_on_Rome) Poppetty (talk) 10:12, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: I assume you're referring to the second paragraph of the lead, but Caesar's civil war is already linked in the lead in the first paragraph. Per WP:DUPLINK, that's enough. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 14:23, 11 May 2026 (UTC)