Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sestertium

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The result was Redirect to Sestertius --JForget 23:56, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sestertium

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Dicdef accompanied by a series of irrelevant calculations involving various seeds and units of weight. (The sestertium was a monetary unit of account and never embodied in any physical form.) The use of the term to refer to an amount equivalent to 1000 sesterces is discussed in the article Sestertius, and I can't see how this could be, once the nonsense is subtracted, anything more than a dictionary definition. CSD G1 tag was declined, so here we are. Deor (talk) 00:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

• Delete and redirect to sestertius. This seems to be a misunderstanding of the Latin phrase as having a separate meaning, as if we needed an article dollars to fully explain phrases like thousands of dollars. The contextual discussion in sestertius is sufficient. --Dhartung | Talk 01:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
• Delete - and redirect to sestertius per above, in which the use of "sestertium" as an abbreviation for thousands of them is explained. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 02:16, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect This really does not need to be deleted but merged with Sestertius Ziphon (^ALL_ears) 04:25, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
  • I've redirected the page. Ziphon (^ALL_ears) 04:33, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
    • My bad WP:Guide to deletion#You may edit the article during the discussion But I don't understand why this had to come to a discussion. Clearly it should be merged. Anyways, I'll stop whining. Ziphon (^ALL_ears) 08:21, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to sestertius, this article is only a misunderstanding of the term. The cited source does not verify the article. JIP | Talk 05:28, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to sestertius per above; sestertium is a case-form, and therefore a likely reasonable search term. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 16:11, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to maintain the search term, but there isn't anthing worth merging. _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 19:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.