Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chasing criminals in Poland in the Middle Ages


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:39, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Chasing criminals in Poland in the Middle Ages

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I do like historical articles, but this one seems basically too much of a mess to warrant anything but a WP:TNT. It seems a poor translation of pl:Ściganie przestępców w Polsce w okresie średniowiecza. I am not sure if the underlying topic is notable, and anyway in the current form it may be better to move it back to user sandbox, as the low quality of writing make it IMHO hardly helpful (I could only figure out what it is about after reading the original Polish article). To summarize: I am not sure if this topic is notable, and the text is so hard to understand it fails our prose quality requirements for mainspace. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:36, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Yeah. Seems like one of those helpless cases where purging and restarting from scratch is the best solution. Renata (talk) 11:19, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above, WP:TNT seems like the best way to go. The enthusiasm from an editor to translate the article into English is admirable but I too don't think the topic is notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Maybe merge into one of the History of Poland in the Middle Ages articles? Nicnote  •  ask me a question  •  contributions  10:29, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Comment An historical duty of commoners to pursue criminals can certainly be a notable topic. See, e.g., Hue and cry and Posse comitatus. Whether this article is a fair presentation of the Polish sources is beyond my linguistic ability and there may be a better term that could be used for the article's title. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 16:07, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I tried to cover a related topic in a more readable and properly sourced fashion at Fugitive peasants. Since the article we discuss here is not using inline (or online) citations, there is nothing I could rescue from it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:15, 25 May 2017 (UTC)


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