Talk:Maximinus

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[edit] Son of his sister

Shouldn't it be half sister? Just so people understand it better or at least faster.Smileyface 12 91 11:34, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

To Waldir, who put the merge tags up: why? They're two seperate Emperors and I see absolutely no reason to merge them! I also find it ironic that when someone removed the merge tags, you put them back saying "please state in the edit summary, at least, the reasons for your edit", but you never explained why you put the tags up in the first place! - rst20xx (talk) 16:27, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

In fact I'm gonna put these tags' addition down to a mistake, and remove them. If you want to re-add them, please justify. - rst20xx (talk) 16:29, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi rst20xx, thanks for your edit. I admit I put those tags out of a suspection I had, since when I was working on the Elias and companions and Firmilian (Roman governor) articles, I couldn't figure out for sure which Maximinus the sources referred. And since they were both roman emperors, governing at overlapping periods (308 to 313 and 305 to 311), and had suspiciously (or at least I though) the very similar names of "Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus" and "Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus", and almost overlapping life periods (270-313 and 250–311), and finally taking into account that historical records from those times are often imprecise and sometimes there are many accounts of the same events; I then decided to make sure they were different persons by putting the merge tag, expecting someone (like you) to come and clarify the issue. So, are you saying that all these coincidences are just that -- coincidences? Or there is a (even remote) chance they could be the same person? Waldir talk 21:39, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
No, they're different people, and you have to bear in mind that Roman naming conventions worked in different ways than naming conventions do nowadays, so them having such similar names is much less of a coincidence. If you read the articles you'll find that one is the uncle of the other - rst20xx (talk) 15:01, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Lol, that's interesting... but I didn't know about this thing of there being more than one roman emperor at a time... By the way, can you tell me which one of them is the one referred in Firmilian (Roman governor)? Waldir talk 15:39, 3 March 2008 (UTC)