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*:'''Delete'''. It is certainly a hoax. [[User:T8612|<span style="color:yellow;background-color:navy">T8612</span>]] [[User talk:T8612|(talk)]] 18:29, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
*:'''Delete'''. It is certainly a hoax. [[User:T8612|<span style="color:yellow;background-color:navy">T8612</span>]] [[User talk:T8612|(talk)]] 18:29, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
*:'''Delete''' This article describes someone prominent in the senate, a shaper of Roman legislation, etc, not the victor of the Second Macedonian War [[Titus Quinctius Flamininus]]. It is bizarre that we could describe someone as having "left an indelible mark on the Senate and the governance of the Roman Republic" without any direct evidence for their existence. Strikingly, apart from "Caius Titus (born 2nd century BCE)" we are given no names, dates, events, legislation, causes, family - no substance at all. The citation for him creating a proverb fails; that book does not include the proverb at all, not in the online search[https://books.openedition.org/pur/25916] or at the page[https://books.openedition.org/pur/25927] added by this article's creator to the citation at [[Verba volant, scripta manent]] 5 days ago[https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Verba_volant,_scripta_manent&diff=prev&oldid=1155252465] while creating this article. [[User:NebY|NebY]] ([[User talk:NebY|talk]]) 18:57, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
*:'''Delete''' This article describes someone prominent in the senate, a shaper of Roman legislation, etc, not the victor of the Second Macedonian War [[Titus Quinctius Flamininus]]. It is bizarre that we could describe someone as having "left an indelible mark on the Senate and the governance of the Roman Republic" without any direct evidence for their existence. Strikingly, apart from "Caius Titus (born 2nd century BCE)" we are given no names, dates, events, legislation, causes, family - no substance at all. The citation for him creating a proverb fails; that book does not include the proverb at all, not in the online search[https://books.openedition.org/pur/25916] or at the page[https://books.openedition.org/pur/25927] added by this article's creator to the citation at [[Verba volant, scripta manent]] 5 days ago[https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Verba_volant,_scripta_manent&diff=prev&oldid=1155252465] while creating this article. [[User:NebY|NebY]] ([[User talk:NebY|talk]]) 18:57, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
*'''Speedy delete''' The speedy tag should have been accepted.[[User:StarTrekker|★Trekker]] ([[User talk:StarTrekker|talk]]) 19:00, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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Some debate that this may be a hoax.[1] I cannot say it is certainly a hoax, as the name may be properly Gaius Titus, which may possibly refer to Titus Quinctius Flamininus based on a source I placed on the talk page. Yet, if it is about Flamininus then we have a much better article on him, and there is literally nothing here we can merge as it is all uncited. No good source links the Latin phrase to him either. Thus this should just be deleted. It is either a hoax or else it is an ill informed duplicate of an existing page. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 18:04, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]