Talk:Gaius Julius Bassus

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I have my doubts about this article: the subject may not exist, or at the very least much of what is contained in it is suspect.

It is a fact that Pliny the Younger defended a Julius Bassus, ex-proconsul of Bithynia & Pontus between 101 & 103, against a charge of corruption levied by the Bithynians; Pliny provides this evidence in Epistula IV.9. However, I have seen no evidence for the genealogical claims in this article; I don't know if any evidence exist about his parents, wife & children. Further, this article was created by a banned contributor whose content has often proven sketchy, if not fictitious; I have compiled a list of several dozen of these articles that need to be checked & either rewritten or nominated for deletion as hoaxes. However, I don't have the time at the moment to sift thru Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae & other prosopographical sources to check the validity of this article. (I've been busy looking for something to help add some material to an article I've spent most of the day on.) But until I have the time to do so, I'm leaving this warning to all others not to trust the material here without careful & thorough vetting first. -- llywrch (talk) 20:47, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]