Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ennodius
u|P Aculeius}} has an iron-clad point: as proconsul of Africa, he meets the bar of notability, no matter what more we can say about him. (This is a replay of every deletion argument about professional athletes who appear once in a major-league game, but we add nothing more to their permastub.  be damned.) Beyond this, I can supply another source that discusses his importance in genealogy: T.S. Mommaerts & D.H. Kelley, "The Anicii of Gaul and Rome", chapter 10 in ''Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?'', John Drinkwater & Hugh Elton (ed.), (Cambridge: University Press, 1992) discusses how Ennodius (aka Ennoius) possibly fits into the 3rd century House of the Anicii. All four men involved with this article are reliable sources about the subject. Mommaerts & Kelley propose a family tree where this Ennodius marries a hypothetical daughter of the usurper Magnus Maximus, which results with two children: Felix Ennodius, proconsul of Africa 408-420; & a hypothetical daughter who married Anicius Probinus & was the mother of Petronius Maximus, Emperor in 455. While I personally don't believe this proposed stemma accurately reflects history -- too many are too eager to map lineages that connect families of the 3rd & 4th centuries with those of the 5th & later -- it contains reasonable hypotheses worth mentioning in Wikipedia.{{pb}}But I want to salute the efforts {{u|Avilich}} is making to clean up the mess not only this now-banned editor has made, but others inadvertently have added to. There are many articles in this area that need work -- either rewriting or deletion -- but sometimes this clean up needs to be handled with care. I honestly wish we had another article we could merge this permastub with -- that is the best solution -- but I can't think of a good candidate. (If Anicia gens were in better shape, that would be a good choice.) There is no harm in keeping this permastub around for the time being until a satisfactory solution is found. --&nbsp
— User:Llywrch, 22:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:OTHERSTUFFEXITS (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)