Talk:Samnites

Sannites
Why does Sannites redirect to this article, but the term "Sannites" is mentioned nowhere in the article? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 08:48, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Likely "Sannites" may be a common misspelling for "Samnites", influenced by the Italian term "Sanniti".--3knolls (talk) 14:28, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Merge Proposal
I propose merging Samnium into Samnites. The article Samnium contains information which is already presented in the article Samnites, except the article Samnites has more information about every subject presented in both articles. With the exception of a geography section. Since both articles are essentially the same, but with Samnium being a less developed version of Samnites, I suggest merging Samnium into Samnites. Ewf9h-bg (talk) 22:38, 9 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose for now. Most regions of Italy during Roman times have their own articles, and readers would expect there to be one on Samnium, which was fairly large and important, although its borders (like many regions and countries) varied over time.  To the extent that there's considerable overlap between the two articles, it may be worth moving some material from "Samnites" here.  The fact that a better-developed article mostly overlaps a lesser-developed one is sometimes a reason for merger, but not when the topics really do deserve separate articles; if all of the material were thoroughly covered in "Samnites" and there were no article on Samnium, it would be a good candidate for splitting in order to create this, so merging them together doesn't seem like the optimal solution.  P Aculeius (talk) 13:47, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now, per P Aculeius. Samnium contains some information, if not much, on later periods too. Johnbod (talk) 18:13, 10 January 2022 (UTC)