Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tetrarchus

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 22:54, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tetrarchus

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I can find no evidence that this guy ever existed. Google searches for <tetrarchus -wikipedia> produce a ton of hits for someone called "Solomon Tetrarchus" (apparently from Warhammer Fantasy), and a search for <tetrarchus -wikipedia -solomon> finds nothing relevant either. Go to JSTOR and run a simple search for <tetrarchus> and you get exactly one hit: this article, a German-language music journal in which "tetrarchus" appears in the middle of a list of music terms. How would a real emperor get absolutely no hits in JSTOR and absolutely nothing Wikipedia-related in the top several pages of a Google search? If any real emperor bore this name, he's been lost to history; there's no evidence that such a person ever ruled an empire. The only chance of this not being a hoax is if someone misunderstood a discussion of the Tetrarchy and thought that one of the tetrarchs was a man named "Tetrarch" or "Tetrarchus". In that case, it's probably a reference to someone like Constantius Chlorus, who was tetrarch of the region including Germany, Gaul, and Spain, but as a badly mistaken understanding of the source, it's not at all a reasonable search target and shouldn't be converted into a redirect. Nyttend (talk) 20:39, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, seems to be made up. Jinkinson talk to me 20:49, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, the overwhelming evidence from the Google searches seems to point to a speedy under WP:G3. It's clearly a hoax. RomeEonBmbo (Talk) 20:56, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:55, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete unreferenced stub. I notified the editor in question about this deletion. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:16, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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