Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gelus


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The result was   keep. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 15:02, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Gelus

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To my research, there was no such god. It is unthinkable that some Greek god be unknown, yet there is no hits in Google Books or Scholar for it. There are some webpages, but they look like cross-copies with extra speculations and without solid references, i.e., pure "internet phenomenon". I did some diligence and looked up the metioned Apuleius. As he is Latin writer, I readily found the equivalent, Deus Risus, is indeed searchable, in Metamorphoses, and reasonably translated as "God of Laughter". However knowing the Apuleus to be a good jester, there is not at all clear whether there was such god and it is quite dubious that this god's name was Γέλως or Rhisus, both words simply meaning "laughter". Kaligelos (talk) 23:15, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. The god's name may be transliterated as "Gelus", but (edit) was historically more commonly given as "Gelos". Google Books finds multiple references to Gelos - here is a list of books that mention Apuleius and Gelos together . I can add a hatnote to our article on Gelos (a French commune) redirecting editors looking for the god to Gelus, if there's consensus for this, or if preferred we can move this article to Gelos (Greek god). --NellieBly (talk) 23:42, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the catch. I was looking (Γέλως), but not seeing, despite being a "good gelos" (but not "god gelos") myself :-). Anyway, one of the refs says: "According to PG Welsh this festival is probably an invention made by Apuleius and not to be connected with Gelos in Sparta". Whatever this "Geolos in Sparta" may be, the current article is obviously misleading, and I still stay behind my vote to get rid of it, since I fail to see how Gelus may be transliteration of Gelos (unless via Latin, but, in Latin language the word actually means "cold" and as I say, books do not mention "Gelus" as god, neither cold one, nor funny. Kaligelos (talk) 00:09, 30 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment In many English-language accents (including mine), "gelus" and "gelos" are pronounced identically. It's hard to see how the mistake could be avoided. --NellieBly (talk) 00:25, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Typos and ignoranse are not the reasuns for new articels. The best way to avoid mistakes is to read  wikipedia written without propagation of mistakes. :-) Kaligelos (talk) 14:59, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


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 * Keep and rewrite to show the possible confusion.    DGG ( talk ) 05:12, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Per Nellie. Qrsdogg (talk) 19:54, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
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