Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alians

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep Gnangarra 06:37, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alians

Sorry but this has been outstanding as unsourced for over 6 months now and is turning into little more than a vandal target for idiots who cannot spell. If this can be brought up to WP:A standards then by all means please help, otherwise we must delete. Burntsauce 21:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: Unless there is another page that would be appropriate to list this information on, it should go. WikiFishy 01:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
• comment there should be a chance for any of the potential projects that might be interested to see it first. DGG 04:21, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom unless verifiable sources can be provided over the next few days. I'm not seeing any. RFerreira 05:54, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep The interwiki'ed article bg:Алиани appears to be somewhat more substantial and to have some sort of refs. A request for translation would seem appropriate, with this article returned here if the translation does not occur within a month or two. Caerwine Caer’s whines 19:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep I made a request for translation and it has been answered. Definitely attributed now, albeit with Bulgarian references. Caerwine Caer’s whines 22:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep, of course. Vandalism and people's inability to spell is not a reason to delete, and references are easy. Notability is out of question. Todor→Bozhinov 22:12, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • It still is not clear to me what is referencing what. Did someone just append a list of "references" to the bottom without actually citing any of the article text? RFerreira 04:57, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Is it really necessary to have in-line citations merely to have the article pass AfD? I mean, we're not writing a featured stub, we're just saving the article :) References are OK as far as they prove the existence of the group and confirm the basics of the article (that the definition is correct). Todor→Bozhinov 09:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep per TodorBozhinov. 1ne 18:36, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• keep - I guess a big problem with the Wikipedia concept is, it's hard for English-speakers to create a good article on a Bulgarian Muslim group about whom most of the scholarship would be in Bulgarian. I'd be happy to see the article stay here, even if in the present form, because I like the idea of providing cross-cultural info like this. Someday an English-speaking Bulgarian with too much time on his hands can give you a beautiful article on the topic with inline refs and everything - let's keep this as a placeholder until then. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 01:13, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.