Talk:Xiutu

Lucas Chrisotopoulos

It came to my attention a while ago at Jin Midi that User:Lucas Christopoulos had been adding content sourced to himself and has likely been doing the same thing via multiple IPs since. This was brought up in 2022 when it was asked whether he was the same person as the author but he never gave a definitive answer and has since stopped using the registered account. However afterwards a slew of IPs geolocating to Japan, where he currently resides according to academia.edu, have been intermittently adding and re-adding content published by Christopoulos: . These Japanese IPs, likely himself, have been adding Christopoulos' work and conveniently the most recent ones (). In addition to sourcing to himself, he also has no real credentials and nothing can be found on his background other than that he visited China once and is taking a History PhD in Japan. In Chen 2021, the author criticized Christopoulos for providing a completely unsubstantiated translation, which doesn't bode well for the sources' veracity. Qiushufang (talk) 11:10, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Qiushufang is distorting history by natiolanism. Without checking the sources of Lucas Christopoulos. It is most likely a reaction of not-willing to accept that China has been receiving foreign influx during the Qin by the Greco-Bactrians (Qin-Daqin connection). The 12 colossi of Qinshihuang are from the same period and the mother of Hu Hai, the second Emperor of the Qin was a Hu barbarian as well. Please check the articles below and provide explanations for each of the footnote instead of making baseless claims: Lucas Christopoulos, “Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 bc-1398 ad), Sino-Platonic Papers no. 230 (2012); “Dionysian Rituals and the Golden Zeus of China,” Sino-Platonic Papers no. 326 (2022); “Alexander the Great and Herakles as Guardians of the Buddha from Tapa Shotor,” Sino-Platonic Papers no. 350 (July 2024). The present Wikipedia article on Xiutu is ver poorly documented and informations are not correct or distorted (i.e Xiutu, Futu in the Wei sources etc.) Lucas Christopoulos (talk) 00:35, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Nothing here addresses the relevant issues. Why do you avoid answering the question of whether or not you are the same person as your name and that you are editing in material from your own work? Or that the author has no relevant credentials at all on the subject? Qiushufang (talk) 05:19, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Avoid to censor acedemic works that do not fit your Political purposes as your friends do in CCP China. Wikipedia should have an eye on your own activity, or at least let scholars debate in the West. Lucas Christopoulos (talk) 12:20, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

"Avoid to censor acedemic works that do not fit your Political purposes as your friends do in CCP China" sounds a lot like a personal attack (WP:PA) to me and I would advise against making statements like that. You've also once again not addressed Qiushufang's concerns about the author Lucas Christopoulos's credentials or that you may be Lucas Christopoulos, which your user name and activity very much seem to indicate which would be a violation of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest DervotNum4 (talk) 01:55, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Then reveal your true identity, and compete academically with Christopoulos instead of hiding behind words and a poor wikipedia page that you copied in part from his works without mentioning him. You are violating the bases of Western Academic standards of scholars. Lucas Christopoulos (talk) 02:37, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm curious as to what parts of this page you think I copied from his works, given that I've never looked at any of his works. DervotNum4 (talk) 03:14, 2 August 2025 (UTC)