Talk:Vespasian

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Is this part of the new pan-inclusionism or does WT:CFI apply? DCDuring TALK 16:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Delete per nom, Mglovesfun (talk) 17:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I can scarcely imagine this meeting the CFI, but it should have its month on RFV.​—msh210℠ 22:13, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

There are modern people named Vespasian; e.g. one John Vespasian. I don't see why this can't be redefined and kept as an article about a surname with a link to Latin Vespasianus in etymology. --Vahagn Petrosyan 22:42, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

It could be kept as a name element in Latin, at the very least. I can't think offhand of any attributive use of the emperor's name. The only argument I could imagine for keeping it is if we decided to start keeping all the English "short forms" of ruler's names. However, I'm not happy with where that leads. There are only a very few names of specific people that I can see keeping (e.g. Napoleon). In that case because (1) there are several people in history by that name, but only one is usually meant, but more importantly (2) it is used as an attributive noun (e.g. "Napoleon age"). --EncycloPetey 04:25, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Kept as surname. DCDuring TALK 11:18, 16 January 2010 (UTC)