Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Αθανάσιος

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The result of the debate was Delete as a hoax in Greek. Kusma (討論) 02:20, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Αθανάσιος

Orphaned AfD. AfD'ed by 132.205.44.134 (talk • contribs) with the comment, "This is all Greek to me."

Needs translation. Best I can figure out it's a stub about a Cypriot Orthodox bishop named Athanasios who is now the Metropolitan of Lemesou and became (will become?) archbishop of Cyprus this summer. There's also something about him defeating evil at Kykkos. Fan1967 03:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

• Comment May be some crystal ballism and NPOV going on. Some googling shows they haven't picked the new archbishop yet. One of the other candidates (the evil one?) is the archbishop of Kykkos. Fan1967 03:56, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. The user also said "The language of this article is Greek. machine transbarfed version seems to indicate this is nonsense--132.205.44.134 23:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)" in Pages needing translations. (Also note that anons can't list things for AfD because they can't create this subpage) --Rory096 20:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment v2. He's left a note on the talk page, btw. --Rory096 20:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: Is the bishop holding an ice cream cone? Can't sleep, clown will eat me 23:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. I thought it was a dildo, but that's more probable. --Rory096 23:24, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Answer It is an aspergillum. Here's a better picture of one: [1]. It's basically a handle with a hollow metal ball with holes in it. You dip it in holy water, and then shake it around to sprinkle the holy water on people or things being blessed. It's used by Catholics and Episcopalians in addition to Orthodox. Fan1967 00:19, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
      • Comment. I was close... --Rory096 05:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Comment: I'm a native speaker of Greek and I inform you that this article, while on a valid topic, Metropolitan Athanasius [2], is a hoax. It translates as:

Athanasius was the Metropolitan/Diosean Bishop of Limassol and is the Archbishop of Cyprus since 2006 (since he expelled the forces of evil from Kykko). As he himself said, "in satan they are different..." Now he enjoys the throne of Cyprus.

Athanasius is indeed the Bishop of Limassol, but according to the website of the Chruch of Cyprus [3] and the Wikipedia list List of Archbishops of Cyprus, he is not Archbishop. This article is a hoax (I don't know if he ever will be Archbishop). What Wikipedia does need is a biography of the present archbishop. His bio here [4] should be translated. Edwy ^(talk) 23:45, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

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