Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stercus accidit

An article about the correct translation of "shit happens" into Latin. Since Latin speakers seem to have used no equivalent phrase, this article is little more than possible BJAODN material. Livajo 00:03, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC) Merge into List of Latin phrases and redirect, but only if the phrase is what native Latin speakers would have used as an equivalent expression to "shit happens." --Ardonik.talk 16:25, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment. 697 Google hits for "stercus accidit," from a wide variety of sources, virtually all asserting it to be Latin for "shit happens." So I think the expression actually has a real existence as a joke or a legend. During the 1970s and 1980s I frequently saw little signs (samizdat-photocopied) in offices or on desks saying "Illegitimati non carborundum est," put there in hopes that someone would ask what it meant, so that the sign's owner could say that it is "Latin for 'don't let the bastards grind you down.'" The current article seems to be an incoherent account of the origin of the phrase. It seems to me that the phrase is in wide enough use to warrant a good article on its origins. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:16, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: The Romans said "sic transit gloria mundi," which had the same general meaning but without the silly scatology. Geogre 02:28, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep for the benefit of our 10 year old readership. Yes, I'm serious. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:35, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you meant "keep and clean up????" It needs cleanup and I don't think I'm interested in doing it; are you? The "I" of the article at least needs to be identified, and needs to be checked to make sure it isn't a copyvio... [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 10:58, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not opposed to having it fixed up, otherwise I'm pretty sure I would have said "and protect eternally" or something. I'm not volunteering to work on it, but then again I'm not volunteering to work on most articles. Wile E. Heresiarch 14:03, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * It may be an accurate Latin translation (I highly doubt this--the article's reasoning looks quite dubious to me), but in any case, it does not deserve its own article.  See List of Latin phrases, which is one of the articles I proudly show around to people who doubt the usefulness of the Wikipedia.  (Does your precious Encyclopedia Britannica have that?)
 * Delete; will never be aught but a foreign language definition. I prefer stercus evenit myself; the root sense of evenio is "to come out," which strikes me as more apropos, and Cicero and Livy frequently say things like pax evenit or forte evenit ut. . .  Smerdis of Tlön 16:32, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, no one who ever used Latin regualarly would have ever used this phrase. By the way, the only instance I can think of where a Roman used the word "shit" is "puto concacavi me," which are Claudius' last words, according to Seneca ("I think I shit myself"). Adam Bishop 18:43, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh, by the way, this is a copyvio from here. Adam Bishop 18:49, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ambi 09:05, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Regardless of copyright problems, delete hoax. This is a (bad) attempt at transliteration of an English idiom.  No Latin speaker would ever have used this phrase.  It is not a common enough hoax to deserve mention.  Rossami 03:40, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, then create a new article called List of modern phrases written in Latin. Given the google hits on "stercus accidit", and what Dpbsmith said about "Illegitimati non carborundum est", I think there is probably an article here somewhere, (for someone who took Latin and can actually remember some of it). func(talk) 01:31, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)