Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Republic of Kosovo

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 already redirected, pending completion of discussion at Talk:Kosovo.Not really an afd matter, not yet at least. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grutness (talk • contribs)

[edit] Republic of Kosovo

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Right now, there are two almost identical articles about Kosovo, i.e. Kosovo and Republic of Kosovo, the latter was created recently with material from Kosovo in an attempt to split the article about Kosovo. There seems to be only little support for the split of the Kosovo article (see: Talk:Kosovo#Split.3F). I'd therefore suggest that Republic of Kosovo be piped and merged (no need as it is identical) with Kosovo and accordingly be deleted. --Camptown (talk) 08:56, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

• Delete (merge and redirect), as per nom. --Camptown (talk) 08:56, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• delete per nom Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 09:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete - absolutely silly. Will ^(talk) 11:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• sigh, redirect pending the split discussion at Talk:Kosovo. Not a valid Afd, recommend speedy closure. Submitting user is also trolling the {{split}} discussion on Talk:Kosovo. dab (𒁳) 12:47, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• redirect Gugganij (talk) 13:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect Húsönd 13:15, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect, reasonable search term, no reason to delete. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 13:26, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect per dab. This AfD is just a ridiculous move intended to push a POV. The nominator has made his bias clear in the talk page on Kosovo. A split needs to happen, preferably with Kosovo being a disambiguation page leading to an article on Kosovo as a region and as a nation, but the person who did split the article did so inappropriately.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 18:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• Keep the new state doesn't automatically own the English word "Kosovo", that can only be established by years of usage that we don't have any evidence of yet. See China vs. People's Republic of China or Ireland vs. Republic of Ireland. Kosovo should redirect to Kosovo (disambiguation) until such time as it becomes standard practice in the English language to shorthand Republic of Kosovo to Kosovo (and not Kosava which I imagine the new Albanian-speaking government with start to push). Keep in mind the new state isn't the only entity ever called Kosovo (e.g. Republic of Kosova (1990–2000), Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (1946-1974), or Kosovo Province, Ottoman Empire. Can we really be so bold as to assume everyone typing in Kosovo wants to know about a state only a month old and not the other 1000 years of history of that region? Kevlar67 (talk) 18:47, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• Comment The page has been redirected to Kosovo. Discussion should be closed.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 20:26, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
  • this is an ongoing discussion, on Talk:Kosovo. No need to drag it to AfD. dab (𒁳) 20:36, 3 March 2008 (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.