Talk:John the Armenian

Reliability?
I thought John the Armenian was one of the commanders in Battle of Tricamarum and died shortly after that in 533 or 534 because of hunting accident. (see: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: A. D. 527-641, page 635–636 and Ian Hughes: Belisarius: The last Roman general ISBN 978-1-59416-085-1, page 259) Or is this article about different person? The article says that he was killed in ambush near Ravenna in 535, but I thought there was no Byzantine troops in Italy in 535 as Belisarius invaded in 536? --Barosaurus Lentus (talk) 11:34, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The article is indeed problematic: first, there were several people named John that acted as commanders in Belisarius' wars. I checked the PLRE vols 2 and 3, but was not able to find a person of this name who participated both in Nika and in the campaigns and who died at Ravenna. Given that the article is based on an early 19th-century work, this "John the Armenian" is most probably a mix of various people. I would suggest bringing this up for deletion. Constantine  ✍  11:59, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I have found a couple of references that corroborates the first couple of sentences in the article. I have also added a relevant "See also". I suggest that there is enough background on "John the Armenian" General who served Belisarius to keep the article. Although more references need to be added to corroborate all the content.  Nipson anomhmata   (Talk) 14:10, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I cleaned up, thanks to Nipson's provision of Procopius for sourcing: this was one of Belisarius' aides who was killed in Africa in 533, Ioannes 14 in the PLRE III. The rest is probably as I suspected, confusion with other Johns. Constantine  ✍  15:11, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

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