Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ancient Greeks in Macedonia


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:50, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

List of ancient Greeks in Macedonia

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This article is nothing but an exhaustive list of two hundred names (cities and individuals), with no references and sources, and it's rather confusing: does it include people of mainland (southern) Greece who lived in Macedonia, does it refer to Greeks including Macedonians as opposed to other Macedonians tribes who were of Illyrian or Thracian origin, does it imply that the Greeks were foreigners to Macedonia and the Macedonians were not Greeks? This list is unsourced, bares no importance and actually drives readers to ambiguous conclusions. Note that the article was created under a different title (List of other Greeks in ancient Macedonia), which was changed later and gave a whole new meaning in the article. It cannot be merged with the List of ancient Macedonians, since it doesn't list native Macedonians. It could be split in several articles like "List of ancient Atheneans in Macedonia" or "List of ancient Epirotans in Macedonia", but they seem redundant too. - Sthenel (talk) 16:10, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * DeleteSince the two countries were right next to each other a person from one being in the other is not remarkable. You might as well have a list of New Yorkers in New Jersey. Steve Dufour (talk) 01:38, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: Note that we don't talk about the modern Republic of Macedonia, but Macedonia (ancient kingdom), part of the ancient Greek world. - Sthenel (talk) 02:07, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment the ancient Greeks themselves didn't think Macedons were Greek... 76.66.200.95 (talk) 05:05, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Wrong, see here. A Macedonian (talk) 10:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It has Macedons claiming to be Greek, and Romans calling Macedons Greek, not Greek contemporaries of Philip or earlier calling Macedons Greek. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 05:27, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm, not good enough for you? Ok, see here then. And please let's stop this here, this is not a forum. A Macedonian (talk) 06:30, 18 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per Sthenel. The title is misleading, see Steve Dufour's above comment for instance. Or at least rename it to the first title (List of other Greeks in ancient Macedonia). A Macedonian (talk) 06:54, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Aside from its ambiguity, what is the point of this list? What possible encyclopedic purpose does it serve? Constantine  ✍  15:42, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
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