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I'm concerned that the Alopekis may be another hoax dog breed, or at least extremely non-notable, like the Tamaskan Dog. The warning signs are all there; it's unrecognised by any kennel club, it's a 'rare' breed and it was once considered to be the same as another breed (which we don't have an article for). The article makes some grand claims regarding the history of the breed, but there are no reliable sources. There is no Alopekis club in Greece or any other country; compare this to the Norwegian Lundehund, another rare breed.

Google hits are initially encouraging [1], but most of the hits are for Greek streets with that name. Compensating gives a far weaker result: [2]. The bulk of the hits seem to be for advert-filled dog sites that allow anyone to submit content. The two external links are sites of this type. One, dogbreedinfo.com contains pictures of very varied looking dogs, all apparently examples of 'Alopekii'. --Nydas^(Talk) 12:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. MER-C 12:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Comment The dogs shown on dogbreedinfo are actually about as varied as one would expect from an unstandardized, pariah-type dog. They're all similar in type, if not coat texture, coat colour, and ear carriage. That being said, I'm very interested and knowledgeable on rare dog breeds, and I've never heard of this one in my life. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 12:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I don't think this is an intentional hoax, if indeed it is one. The two major contributors are dog fanciers from Canada (not commercial breeders) who've made a lot of contributions to dog articles. Any rate, I added an adw tag to their talk pages, hopefully they'll turn up and clarify some of the details about this breed.... oops, she beat me to it! I wonder what Alopekis means in Greek? Maybe "wild dog", "mutt", or "Beat it, pooch, stay out of the agora!"? If this is basically a feral or dingo type dog in its homeland, then that might explain the lack of "owner's clubs". Tubezone 13:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

It means fox-like, or something like that. Alopex is ancient Greek for fox, I believe.--Nydas^(Talk) 13:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Delete Your 2nd Google link convinces me it's not a hoax. Too many varied sites there, even in foreign langauges, if you go to goole page 10 or later. Akihabara 13:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Any in particular? Most of the hits seem to come from bare lists of dog breeds, without any deeper information.--Nydas^(Talk) 13:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, I think you're right. I looked closer at many more links. Everything is either a list probably originating from wikipedia or some other source, or snippets of the wikipedia text; nothing seems to be original or provide alternative information. I do now believe this is very likely a hoax. Akihabara 14:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Davidpdx