Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Triaria

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. - Mailer Diablo 22:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Triaria

Doubtful source, irrelevant. Also see [1] LostJedi 10:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. No evidence of lasting historical contribution to anything, beyond virtually being a dicdef. Tychocat 10:49, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Neutral The wife of an emperor has the potential to be historically significant but obviously more needs to be included into the stub to establish that. I'll be interested to see what the AfD would bring. I could go either way. 205.157.110.11 10:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete If she was married to Lucius Vitellius, how come she's not mentioned in his article? --Dennette 11:28, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Tacitus seems to confirm she was L. Vitellius's wife and she had some independent political activity. The Histories ISBN 0192839586 p.94 says her cruelty was altogether unwomanly (aside, here I bite my tongue and pass on quickly) and that she terrified Flavius Sabinus the City Prefect. She was the mother sister-in-law of the future emperor Aulus Vitellius. Also behaved in a rather unfeminine fashion at the sack of Tarracina, however Boccaccio praised her for her courage. Dlyons493 Talk 11:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if Dlyons is kind enough to put his Tacitus and Boccaccio attestations into the article. Everything that's in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology should be Wikipediable too - ideally, Wikipedia ought to be a superset of specialist encyclopedias of that kind. But the Boccaccio thing is what really matters: it shows she was still notable over a millennium after she lived. Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:39, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I've done that now. Dlyons493 Talk 21:46, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per the two persuasive comments above. Sandstein 19:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep the improved article. The best outcome of an AFD discussion is an improved article. GRBerry 02:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Future Perfect. This is precisely what WP is for, I had no idea that the mother of Vitellius mentioned in Tacitus was also mentioned in Boccaccio. I do not disagree with GRBerry's statement, but I would urge him not to mention it, as it screws up the incentives for AfD-nominators. Hornplease 06:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I'm really confused now ... Lucius Vitellius still says, "He married Sextilia, a reputable woman from a distinguished family. They had two sons: Aulus, who was the short-lived Emperor Vitellius in 69, and the younger Lucius." ... was Sextilia another one of her names? Neither of those articles (father and son) make mention of her, or link back to this article. Is someone going to fix those two as well? (BTW, that would change my "Delete" to a "Keep".) --Dennette 07:13, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep.' – Alensha  ^talk 18:45, 11 September 2006 (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.