Talk:Pleistinus

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Replace with a redirect?

@TableSalt43: It seems that Pleistinus is only known as a brother of Faustulus who died in the same battle. No other details of his biography exist. In this case, it would be logical to replace this article with a WP:redirect to Faustulus, where all these details are already contained in the lead.. Викидим (talk) 19:13, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pleistinus is referenced a few times in various source, apart from just being Faustulus's brother, but your right in that many of his details are on Faustulus's page TableSalt43 (talk) 19:16, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not find any source where Pleistinus would be mentioned on his own, without characterization like "brother of Faustulus", "together with Faustulus", etc. Therefore, it seems that WP:INVALIDBIO applies. Викидим (talk) 19:23, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your interpretation of the guideline. Ifly6 (talk) 06:55, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Appalling sourcing

Also this article was written with extremely poor sourcing. I mean, just go read the bibliography. Plutarch is said to have written in 2015, some 1900 years after he died and some 300 years after the death of the translator (Dryden), you have an article from the self-published "World History Encyclopedia" which is incorrectly listed as being published by "Pen and Sword History", and you have a Marc Hyden renamed to Britanny. All the sources are unreliable... Plutarch is a known liar; the WHE is self-published; Hyden isn't peer reviewed. Ifly6 (talk) 07:05, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Due to the lack of information on Pleistinus himself and the problems with sourcing discovered by you, I have decoded to do a bold merge. However, it turned out that there was nothing to actually merge, so I have simply replaced the article with a redirect. Викидим (talk) 08:00, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]