Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mavra Matia


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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Mavra Matia
Can find no external sources for this, single author removed unsourced tags pgk( talk ) 13:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. See also Andy Petridis and Andy Anesti Petridis, two duplicate articles which are the only ones linking to this. &mdash;  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( TALK )  14:06, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. "Mavra" is Greek for "black"; "Matia" i dunno. To me the failure to translate suggests, as does the ambiguous "NOC", an inside joke, with the emphasis perhaps on "joke", which is consistent with the bad faith of removing tags. Descending into hunches, my suspicions are heightened by
 * _ _ the strong degree of rhyming with Harry Potter's "Avra Kedavra" spell;
 * _ _ Kedavra/cadaver paralleling matia/"-mate" in checkmate (which derives from "shah-maht" meaning "the king is dead"), and
 * _ _ the somewhat similar Romance-language root "mort-" ("Morte d'Arthur", "mortal", "mortician", "mortified", "mortgage") meaning death and perhaps a cognate with -mate if not matia.
 * FWIW. --Jerzy•t 16:29, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete unless more information can be provided to make it verifiable. *Dan T.* 05:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable. Stifle 11:53, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


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