Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greek influence


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The result was   speedy delete as blatant copyright violation. To confirm, I checked both the Pythagoras text and Hippocrates text myself. Both were word-for-word copyright violations of Encarta's entries for these, with some sentences re-ordered. Encarta is non-GFDL and copyrighted ("© 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved."). Copyright policy supercedes other considerations about neutrality and original research, and ends this discussion swiftly. Well spotted, JohnCD. Uncle G (talk) 00:45, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Greek influence

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Unreferenced, un-encyclopedic, WP:SOAPBOXy essay that does nothing but tout how great Greeks are. KuyaBriBri Talk 19:22, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions.  — KuyaBriBri Talk 19:24, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions.  — KuyaBriBri Talk 19:26, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete or at least rip up and re-write completely. I would suggest merging and redirecting to the appropriate articles on Greek history, math, philosophy, etc. if there is anything not already in those article that is sourced and neutral, but there doesn't seem to be much worth saving in the POV essay that this article is right now. Another option would be to make it into a disambiguation page for the various articles that discuss Greek history, culture, etc. The   Seeker 4   Talk  19:54, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Student essay and un-original research - for example the start of the music section is copied from Music of ancient Greece. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 20:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - every bit I have checked has been copied from elsewhere, much of it from within Wikipedia, e.g. Greek literature, Theatre of ancient Greece, Greek art, Music of ancient Greece, but also some from outside, e.g. Encarta (Pythagoras), www.perseus.tufts.edu (Aristarchus)... if the author served this up as an essay, he would get a Ph.D. in plagiarism. JohnCD (talk) 21:33, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete Wow, POV fork if I've ever seen one before, actually its not even a POV fork, it's just neutral content from several articles rearranged with weasel words. -Senseless!... says you, says me 23:58, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per all comments above. --Boston (talk) 23:59, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Hellenization: the title itself isn't that unreasonable. Nyttend (talk) 00:31, 9 April 2009 (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.