Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greece of Melouna


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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 15:47, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Greece of Melouna

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WP:POV WP:COATRACK; the expression exists, but the article does not analyze it, nor does it give a proper context. Melouna has nothing to do with the Arta-Volos line, it is a derogatory expression that emerged as a result of the failure of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also known as the "War of Melouna". The references here are either misleading (i.e, the content does not support the statement here) or taken from fringe nationalist websites/blogs; it is telling for the reliability of the author that he does not speak Greek, but has used exclusively Greek sources. I am long past WP:AGF with this author, and ready to wager that he took the brief mention of a "Greece of Melouna" in the article on the Meluna pass in the Bulgarian WP, Googled the Greek term, and simply 'wrote' the article with the top results as bogus references. The POV intent is clear when one notices what the little content there is in the article is about, and how it is phrased: rather than deal with the topic at hand, the author prefers to dwell on Greece's inability to expand its territory ("the Greeks abandon shamefully the fortress", "only the ultimatum of the great powers saved the 19th-century Greek state"). Constantine  ✍  15:28, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. CptViraj (📧) 16:08, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. CptViraj (📧) 16:08, 2 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom as POV fork and coatrack. Place Clichy (talk) 18:24, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and per Place Clichy. Dr.   K.  22:14, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom as POV fork and coatrack.Greco22 (talk) 15:01, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.--Catlemur (talk) 09:32, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Without English translations of sources to verify the facts, wondering whether it's a fork or not is not even wrong. Bearian (talk)


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