Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurds of European ancestry


 * 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 __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  05:51, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Kurds of European ancestry

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Initially, this page included a handful of references, but when I started checking each to verify the information they were placed after, I was confused to find that all I viewed until now failed verification, most of which discussed nothing relevant to the article’s topic. Earlier signs of this problem are also evident in one of the edits of the creator, where they altered sourced information (the table below), while adding another reference (that also failed verification). Another example is Headbomb’s check, where they couldn’t find any such source listed in the article. This is a very clear instance of WP:CUCKOO. Seemingly random page numbers and sometimes random titles, random sources.

Now, with the cuckoo content removed, the article is not coherent anymore and much of the remaining unchecked content will also probably fail verification. I thought of how the article could be improved. The only relevant information regarding who "Kurds of European ancestry" might be is the table, but we already have the page Chechen Kurds, which refers to Kurdified Caucasian immigrants. The original version of the article discussed Balkan immigrants to Kurdistan, but I was unable to find any sources on that. Even if there were such sources, this article wouldn’t be appropriate, since it had to be renamed as something like "Balkan immigrants in Kurdistan" or with any term popular among the sources. "Kurds of European ancestry" in itself is not appropriate since none of the sources include this term and is thus a WP:OR/WP:SYNTH grouping. The research papers on genetics are placed after very general statements and are more appropriate in a page or section about the genetics of Kurds. Overall, I can’t think of how this article can be improved. Aintabli (talk) 05:24, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Ethnic groups and Europe.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 09:25, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. A content fork. Not even worth a redirect because there are just a couple of thousand of these people and nobody will ever search for them. Desertarun (talk) 12:05, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Semsûrî (talk) 22:55, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree that is this not really worthy of a separate encyclopedia entry. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:21, 20 April 2023 (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.