Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aristius Fuscus

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The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:41, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aristius Fuscus

Article is a single sentance mentioning that this person was a friend of Horace, and is mentioned in one of his Odes. Personally, that doesn't seem encyclopedic. -- Dcfleck 02:38, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)

• Weak Keep & Expand. I'm inclined to think any person who we can put a name to after 2000 years is notable. Obviously not vanity! -- 8^D ^gab 02:48, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
• Keep per the "2000 year test" of non-vanity. Kappa 03:06, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Everyone mentioned by Horace is notable. Klonimus 03:29, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • P.S. he shows up in a Ben Jonson play too. Kappa 03:08, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and Expand. A total of 191 Google hits in its English and Italian forms. Given that he's not exactly in the news lately, and was somewhat of an important social/literary figure in his day, this article merits inclusion.NatusRoma 04:21, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge unless expanded--is this all there is on the person? If we can't write more about him than one sentence, he deserves to be merged into the Horace article (or else an article on that Ode). Meelar (talk) 05:29, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
  • Pretty much, yes. He has a two-sentence entry in Lemprière's. (Note that this reference accidentally/erroneously conflates Aristius Fuscus and Aristippus, by the way.) I've supplied a reference to another source dealing with the relationship to Ben Jonson, which manages to get a paragraph out of it. Uncle G 13:27, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
• Weak Keep and expand. As I understand, Fuscus was a friend who Horace hoped would save him from a bore. Fuscus thought it was a funny situation and didn't. I understand that the Jonson reference was based on that. Capitalistroadster 05:57, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per Meelar. Radiant_* 09:17, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as above. --Carnildo 22:28, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. N-Man^talk 11:38, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Subjects can be both encyclopedic and short. Dsmdgold 10:46, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
• merge would be ok too Yuckfoo 01:00, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; he had an entry in the 1870 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities [1], so why not here? David Sneek 16:59, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Verifiable notable historical figure. --Centauri 09:15, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep Lectiodifficilior Mentioned more than once (see Smith 1867 above [2]) and the sort of person Roman poetry people know about as a matter of course. Wikipedia has pages on the most ephemeral things—third-tier 1970s video games!

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