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Why does this template stop arbitrarily and abruptly in 875? Louis II wasn't even the last Carolingian King of Italy. That would be Ratold in 896 (or Arnulf in 899). And why doesn't it continue beyond the Carolingians at least until Arduin or Conrad II (son of Henry IV)? Srnec ( talk) 04:33, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Gennarous' recent edits effectively turned this from one template into another. Note he left the template at the bottom of the Ostrogothic Kings' articles, which it obviously shouldn't be now.
I'm not sure why he did this, as it's basically taking an existing template and making it less useful by making it cover less articles. His first edit (the move) seems (based on the edit summary) to have been carried out on the justification that back in the middle ages, the Kings of the Lombards were called "Kings of the Lombards", not "Kings of Italy". But at this point it seems he realised the template covered more than the Kings of the Lombards, so while he should have moved it back, he in fact removed the other Kings, instead.
If no-one objects, in a few days I'd like to take this to WP:RM and get it moved back - rst20xx ( talk) 21:00, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
This template is wrong. Justinian has never been "king of Italy", he was a Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor. Between 553 and 568 there weren't kings of Italy, Italy was a prefecture (later an exarchate) of the Byzantine Empire. Alboin, the first lombard king of Italy, invaded Italy in 568, so the date of the beginning of his reign (in Italy) according to the template (565) is wrong. Odovacar was Herulian so why don't write "Herulian" rather than "non-dynastic"? Excuse me if my english isn't perfect but I'm italian.-- 79.22.20.21 ( talk) 21:25, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Can we maybe change the name of this template? Someone posted it on Charles the Fat and I just automatically reverted it because it is such a counter-intuitive use of the world "antique". How about "Pre-Modern Kings of Italy"? Or "Medieval Kings of Italy"? (with fuzzy edges). "Antique" is an odd way of dodging "ancient" and "medieval", and it frankly sounds bizarre, given that we're not talking 18th century chamber pots or horrid Victorian porcelain terrier. Trigaranus ( talk) 09:12, 19 March 2022 (UTC)