Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greeks in Ireland


 * 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 was   Delete. Yannismarou (talk) 00:10, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Greeks in Ireland

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The article fails to meet WP:NOTABILITY PMK1 (talk) 02:44, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions.  cab (talk) 03:41, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions.  cab (talk) 03:41, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions.  cab (talk) 03:41, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No opinion from me yet. There was a paper in Science in 1962 about ancient Greeks in Ireland, trying to prove some materials taken from oral history, but it seems to have been quite short. cab (talk) 03:41, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete after several days of searching, I can't find anything concrete and substantial. Pytheas may have circumnavigated Britain, but ancient Greek settlement in Ireland appears to have been minimal or even non-existent, and even modern settlement has not been large enough to attract attention from non-trivial, reliable sources. cab (talk) 23:54, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Oh dear. I sincerely hope this doesn't kick off another 30k articles about [Nationality X] in [Country Y]. We're having enough trouble with the bilateral relations articles. Stifle (talk) 08:35, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Fortunately, there's no equivalent to Groubani in this topic area. Occasionally, a nationalist will come along and create articles about his own people in every rich/nearby country. But not every country on earth, and not any nationality but his own. So at worst, there's only a few dozen such articles at a time needing cleanup/deletion, not thousands. cab (talk) 10:06, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:24, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It's much simpler to have 20,000 articles like that. You don't actually have to create them, you just create templates for them, and the redlinks will become articles through the work of many hands.  Much more efficient that way. Drawn Some (talk) 01:12, 4 May 2009 (UTC)


 * DeleteWikipedia is not a directory listing articles with every bilateral combination of persons from country X who live in country Y. A few incidentals in newspapers does not establish that such article are encyclopedic, and the references do not satisfy WP:N. Edison (talk) 03:05, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Closing administrator please note that editor has copy and pasted this argument in 4 AfDs. As I have copy and pasted this notice also. Ikip (talk) 02:29, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable, not likely to be found so. Wikipedia is not a directory. -- Blue Squadron  Raven  15:55, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - well-sourced, useful to college students. Bearian (talk) 21:21, 6 May 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.