Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia


 * 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 keep. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 19:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia
I originally created this page believing that the Albanian minority in Macedonia was exceptional, or unique, or notable, but since then I have found I was incorrect. They are a small percentage of the population and do not face second class citizen status. I highly doubt that they ever did. The information on this page comes from, almost exclusively, the badly written, highly dubious UNPO website. Every obscure ethnicity in a particular country does not deserve its own page. freestylefrappe 17:52, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.Gateman1997 18:31, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but edit Get rid of any incorrect sections. The conflict between the Govt and ethnic Albanians in 2001 looked like it would break into a major war. Ended up with a NATO peacekeeping force there. See the BBC profile of FYR Macedonia Ben Fredlund 18:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge useful information into Republic of Macedonia, then delete the article. The ethnic tension within the country was notable enough to require the presence of an international peacekeeping force. B.Wind 20:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: In order to preserve author attribution per the GFDL, "merge and delete" is not a viable vote. Merges are converted to redirects when possible.  howch e  ng   {chat} 23:21, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep There are loads of articles about ethnic groups in countries in wikipedia. Golfcam 03:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * freestylefrappe wrote me to say there aren't any but he can't have looked because there are loads, such as African-American and Italian-American (and loads of others in the U.S.) and History of the Jews in China and Chinese Australian (and about 20 more about Chinese people in foreign countries) and British Afro-Caribbean community and so on and so on. Golfcam 03:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if someone is willing to maintain it. If there are problems with vandals the article should get protected - - a very underused feature on Wikipedia, unfortunately. Pavel Vozenilek 03:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This is supposed to be the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Golfcam 03:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately it also attracts hordes of vandals, warriors and spamers. Wikipedia's aim is to be valid and useful encyclopedia, not free-for-all fighting ground. Pavel Vozenilek 22:59, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep and improve. Albanians in Macedonia are hardly obscure. Describing their percentage of the Macedonia's population as anything less than "substantial" is simply wrong. Their parties have been members of ruling coalitions in the country for years, and there was once an abortive armed uprising which was highly publicised in international media. Zocky 17:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --dcabrilo 17:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - The article is important, but as a Macedonian, I am very reluctant to change it, as it would be promptly tagged as POV. I would like to see some Mac. Albanians contributing there, if possible--Cigor 22:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - The article might be interesting, especially if somebody expand it with detailed information about area of the Republic of Macedonia inhabited by ethnic Albanians (to specify all municipalities and settlements in which Albanians are majority if possible). PANONIAN   (talk)  16:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Albanians in Macedonia are a significant % of the population (higher than African-Americans in the USA or Jews in any country except Israel), have had separatist violence committed in their name and may or may not have been repressed by the Yugoslav and subsequent Macedonian regimes. Carlossuarez46 22:25, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve Aldux 15:22, 31 December 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.