Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Gaius Petronius

~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Gaius Petronius
The only quote is this article is not from "Gaius Petronius", aka Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus, a Roman consul in 37 AD, but rather from "Petronius Arbiter", aka Gaius Petronius Arbiter, aka Titus Petronius. Actually, the quote is a misattribution, but that's already well covered in the more robust and correctly titled article Petronius, which also matches the Wikipedia article. (This is the first nested misattribution that I've seen, but this misattribution level is not famous and seems only to be an editor's confusion over Roman names.) Given the laundry list at Petronius (disambiguation), none of which are identified as "Gaius Petronius", I think even a redirect is more confusing that just expecting folks to look for Petronius or Petronius Arbiter (the usual attributees). Delete as redundant and misleading. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 10:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nice Gaius finish last. --Ubiquity 13:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Ubiquity. BD2412 T 14:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete based on Jeff Q's thorough research. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 16:09, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 07:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott 15:23, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Meticulously argued, Jeff!--Poetlister 17:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Now if I could only learn to be succinct… ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:08, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't worry. You write it, we'll skim-read it. :-) --Cato 16:36, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Cato 16:36, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Just in time!--Yehudi 09:45, 13 December 2007 (UTC)