Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tawals

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The result of the debate was keep. 6 delete / 5 keep (no consensus) -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:17, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tawals

This was improperly and not completely posted to VfD. I'm finishing the process. No vote. —Mar·ka·ci:2005-02-13 15:00 Z

• Delete - there's no such thing as Polish mythology and there is no info anywhere in my books nor on the web on such a deity in Western Slavic Mythology either. It seems like some recent new-age invention, though I can't tell where did the author take the name for this article from. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 13:09, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete - more nonsense Brookie 17:53, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep — the claim that there's no such thing as Polish mythology is bizarre, and I immediately found references on the web (e.g., 1 and 2. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:54, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per above evidence Kappa 22:18, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, dictionary definition. Megan1967 00:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, may be Slavic, it's not Polish. Wyss 01:46, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • So the references on the Web are irrelevant? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:09, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • This is not "Polish mythology" for starters. Wyss 19:06, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      • But it's no good just stating that as if no reason or explanation is needed. Aside from the links that I posted (which everyone but Kappa seems to ignore), try this. Is there something I'm missing here, some reason that Halibutt and you reject the notion of Polish mythology? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:17, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - valid, if quite minor, topic, supported by web and print references. The phrase "Polish mythology" may be inaccurate and inelegant, but nominating all articles that use the phrase for deletion without so much as Googling them is a very bad idea. -Sean Curtin 02:19, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as Mel Etitis said. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:57, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
• The hell? I found a bunch of references to Tawals as a minor agricultural deity in pre-Christian Poland - all of which pre-date this entry by at least a year - right quick. Keep. DS 22:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, utter nonsense, no such thing as "Polish" mythology. JamesBurns 07:43, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Can someone explain this peculiar insistence on the part of some Users that Poland is unique in having no muthology? Is there some religious or other belief behind it? I've come across irrationality in other discussions, but this repeated blank repetition of a nonsensical claim is new to me (outside articles attracting fundemntalist religion and racist politics). What;s going on? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:15, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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