User talk:HJMarseille

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Edits to Digitia (gens)
From your recent work on Scipio Africanus and Gaius Laelius, I see you have some interest in the Second Punic War. In Digitia (gens), you've changed the date of one event from 210 to 209, and added a note explaining why you think that the second Sextus Digitius is the same as the first, rather than his son, as described in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. I can see from several other articles that, while Scipio's invasion dated to 210, the Storming of Carthago Nova apparently took place in 209. That's a minor correction that doesn't really need a reference. But the assertion that the second Sextus Digitius wasn't the son of the first requires a reference; otherwise it appears to be your opinion, which would fall under the category of original research, and fall outside of the guidelines for facts stated in Wikipedia articles.

If you can find a source that states that these two men were probably the same (or simply assumes it in an unambiguous fashion), that would provide sufficient grounds for this edit. If you can't find any source that states or implies that they were the same, you can probably still place an explanatory note in the article, but given that a scholarly work considers them to be father and son, the main text would revert to what it had been, and the note would merely posit that they might have been the same man, instead. That would involve rewording the note. Technically there should still be a source, but in this case I think nobody would object to indicating possible doubts. But bear in mind, we don't know how old the first Digitius was, or whether he had children (or other relatives) who might well have been old enough to hold the praetorship by 194 BC. If the elder Digitius was in his upper thirties at the time of the battle of Carthago Nova, he might well have had a son between sixteen and twenty, who would have been old enough to serve as praetor fifteen years later. P Aculeius (talk) 12:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)