Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archytas of Mytilene

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The result was keep. Invalid nomination. From the nominator's user page: "I used to work on nominating articles for deletion, but due to my misunderstanding of the deletion policy, I was forced to quit that role and now work on expanding stub articles". Geschichte (talk) 07:28, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Archytas of Mytilene

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Is not very detailed. Fails WP:GNG JTZegers (talk) 19:30, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:32, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. "Not very detailed" is not a criteria for deletion. As to GNG, clicking on just the "books" link above shows mentions in several different books. Station1 (talk) 21:04, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. He also gets a couple of paragraphs in Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King. pp. 26-27. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. No good reason for deletion. See WP:STUB. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:20, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It's been argued that anyone whose name survives from antiquity is notable; I'm not sure I'd go that far, but this is someone widely known in antiquity, even if relatively little is written about him. Diogenes Laertius, cited by this article (which is simply a transcription of the brief article in DGRBM), has an anecdote about him ("my instrument speaks for me"); Athenaeus of Naucratis mentions an essay on flutes, apparently considering him the same as Archytas the disciple of Pythagoras, whom he says was a flute player, like many Pythagoreans (but it's possible that Athenaeus is confusing two people, one a musician and one a mathematician). Pauly-Wissowa has a brief notice (Archytas, No. 4), which mentions erotic poetry, and cites something else to Athenaeus (I think; Google Translate's German is credible, but it can't always identify oblique or scholarly references). It may well be that the musician, be he the same or different from the mathematician, is mentioned in other works; but either way, the fact that we don't know a lot about him doesn't make him non-notable. P Aculeius (talk) 14:29, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep is not detailed? WP:STUB's are such articles. MistyGraceWhite (talk) 17:01, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per P Aculeius. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 17:17, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. "It's been argued that anyone whose name survives from antiquity is notable; I'm not sure I'd go that far" <= I would in fact go that far. :) Ford MF (talk) 02:03, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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