User:BalkanFever/Balkan Fever

Here are some instances of Balkan Fever on Wikipedia:

FYROM?
Includes FYROMisation: This is when (Greek) editors, offended or surprised by the fact that Wikipedia refers to this country as the "Republic of Macedonia" instead of "FYROM" change the term -Republic of Macedonia- to -FYROM-. They use any or all of the following reasoning:


 * the UN and other international organisations call it "FYROM"
 * therefore it is the official name of the country
 * the UN and other international organisations call it "FYROM"
 * therefore it is the neutral way to refer to it


 * the country is trying to monopolise the name Macedonia


 * it offends Greeks
 * therefore Wikipedia is taking sides

Includes DeFYROMisation: This is when (Macedonian) editors, offended that Wikipedia uses FYROM to refer to their country in some contexts, change it to Republic of Macedonia or Macedonia.

African?
Argument over whether Greeks are related to sub-Saharan African populations (moreso than other European ethnic groups). Non-Greek editors trying to appropriate the relation, Greek editors trying to play down any relation. Includes a racist attitude towards Sub-Saharan Africans from both sides.

Bulgarian?
Includes many topics:


 * Whether ethnic Macedonians are/were Bulgarians or not.
 * Whether particular individuals, ranging from Tsar Samuil to Ljubčo Georgievski, are/were Macedonian or Bulgarian.


 * Whether the Macedonian language is a dialect of Bulgarian or not.

Minorities
Argument over the minorities in Greece:


 * Whether the Slavic-Speakers are ethnic Greeks who speak a completely different language to Greek, closely related to Macedonian and Bulgarian, or are ethnic Macedonians, or ethnic Bulgarians, who have been Hellenised, either by the Greek government or by themselves.


 * Whether Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian speakers are ethnic Greeks who speak completely different languages to Greek, closely related to Romanian, or are ethnic Aromanians and ethnic Megleno-Romanians (or even ethnic Romanians) who have been Hellenised, either by the Greek government or by themselves.
 * Whether Arvanitic speakers are ethnic Greeks who speak a completely different language to Greek, closely related to Albanian, or are ethnic Albanians who have been Hellenised, either by the Greek government or by themselves.

Serbo-Croatian
Whether Serbo-Croatian is one language with four standards or whether it was a failed experiment in unifying the Croatian and Serbian languages.

Border patrol

 * United Macedonia
 * Greater Albania
 * Greater Serbia
 * Greater Croatia
 * Greater Bulgaria
 * Greater Romania
 * Northern Epirus
 * Dobruja
 * Kosovo
 * Republika Srpska