Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metsovo (mountain range)


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The result was   merge to Pindus. j⚛e deckertalk 01:03, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Metsovo (mountain range)

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The whole point of this article is to prove that Metsovo is the same mountain as Pindus, but in that case we don't need two articles on the same subject. Vanjagenije (talk) 19:06, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albania-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:39, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:39, 16 June 2014 (UTC)


 * "We can't be sure, but..." delete per WP:FORK and WP:SYNTH.  Ethnic soapboxing? Bearian (talk) 18:42, 18 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge to Pindus (or keep if there is sourceable argument about the identification). The nominator's argument is not one for deletion but, in the presence of reliable sources and the absence of information from the other article on the subject, one at most for merger. And the reliable sources do seem to be there - though the fact that the article is a direct translation from Greek Wikipedia, complete with the original mostly Greek sources but without the original article's Wikification, somewhat obscures this. And the "we can't be sure" quoted by the other contributor here so far is applied specifically in reference to whether John Tzetzes made the identification in the twelfth century - we can be as sure as we can be of anything found on GBooks that John Cam Hobhouse wrote, "the latter mountains, now known by the name of Metzovo, can be no other than Pindus itself" (the version currently in the article is presumably a retranslation from a Greek translation - I'll replace and cite it properly). The information that a mountain range at least approximating to the Pindus was formerly known as Metsovo should be in Pindus, and probably also in Metsovo, with citations. PWilkinson (talk) 12:50, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
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