Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Egyptians (ethnic group)

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 of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 07:26, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Egyptians (ethnic group)

POV,OR --Trovatore 05:40, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Our Roma article states that the term "Gypsy" is derived from Egyptian based on mistaken belief that the Roma come from that country. Useless as redirect as people are unlikely to search from that name. We do not currently have an article on Egyptian referring to the people of Egypt by the way. Capitalistroadster 06:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• delete I'm not convinced that this term was/is used as described, and moreover doubt that is was widespread in use both among the community and over time. Either way, at most this does not at all warrant it's own article. If it turns out it is notable, and not a one-off localized phrase, than the Roma article could mention it.Dxco 06:18, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, the whole article seems to be written as an insult. — JIP | Talk 07:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, mention this in the Roma article. —Brim 07:35, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• this page is fully justified*. If you are aware of the situation in the balkans, then you would know why it is important that there is a page on this, for egsample there are plenty of Roma peoples in Kosovo that are calling themselves "Egyptians", as to avoid discrimination by the ethnic albanians, and serbs. if you knew anything, then you would know that there are no Egyptians (arab peoples) of the country Egypt in the balkans, but "Egyptians" are coming up on the cenuses of Kosovo and Montenegro. If you look on the wiki page of the republic of montengro, you will see in the demographics "Roma" & "Egyptians" in the same category, as some roma people prefer to call themselves as Egyptians in the hope of not being discriminated against. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro. In the Balkans, this is very known. Do your research on this before you are so quick to ask for this page to be deleted. (preceding unsigned comment by 202.7.166.163 (talk • contribs) in multiple edits; the last was at 08:46, 28 October 2005)
• Delete and Mention in the Roma article Prashanthns 09:59, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Appeal to emotion, biased point of view, and apparently very recent development (FAD). At most, one sentence at Roma should suffice. Just because something is true doesn't mean it is encyclopaedic; what if we listed all 6.3 billion people alive on the planet?Ryoung122 21:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and Mention in the Roma article (and in a proper article on Egyptians, should one be written) it would be much more relevant to have this topic actually lead to information about past and present inhabitants of Egypt. Also, I would actually be very surprised if zero ethnic Arabs resided in the Balkans. CarbonCopy 20:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Worth one sentence in Roma. MCB 01:32, 29 October 2005 (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.