Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polish mythology


 * 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.  Sandstein  13:28, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Polish mythology

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It has been suggested at Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_November_11 that:

The (moreover, messy and unsourced) article "Polish mythology" should be deleted, or at least radically changed/written anew. There is not such a thing like "Polish mythology". This notion may be used metaphorically, or in some (for example, neopagan) circles, but it is not a real scientific term. The current article "Polish mythology" is a stange mix of the (real, but porly known) Slavic mythology, medieval legends, folk customs and believes, and espescially medieval and modern forgeries. Henryk Tannhäuser (talk) 03:54, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Taken to AfD by me, Si Trew (talk) 23:16, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's a list article, really, and nothing more than that. I suppose it could be moved to List of Polish mythological articles or some such, but that really is what categories are for. Si Trew (talk) 10:26, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * No, per WP:CLN, "arguing that a category duplicates a list (or vice versa) at a deletion discussion is not a valid reason for deletion and should be avoided". Andrew D. (talk) 23:37, 17 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - since a long time ago, the very existence of the "Polish mythology" was questioned in the discussion of this article: . Unfortunately, the problem is much more complex and broad, a large number of articles about Polish folklore and Slavic mythology contain higly dubious informations... Henryk Tannhäuser (talk) 10:45, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:43, 15 November 2016 (UTC) Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poland-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:43, 15 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete, salt, and burn. This entry was started in November 2003 by User:152.163.252.37 from Kansas, as a misunderstood Wikipedia category. It consisted of nothing but internal links to relevant entries. A year later, in October 2004, User:217.10.246.155 from Gurkovo, Bulgaria, removed the content and redirected this entry to Slavic mythology. Three years later in March 2007 he was reverted by User:130.225.49.3 from Aalborg, Denmark. After two more years, with almost no participation from the community; in July 2009 I discovered this entry, and tried to make it into a real article by adding (+2,860)‎ of copytext with  and first ever inline citations to reliable sources including Norman Davies. The cannibalization of what I wrote began two months later by User:Seidr as well as User:79.182.133.63 (Kfar Saba, Israel), and User:79.184.231.131 (Kołobrzeg, Poland), and others, and continued uninterrupted through 2012, until February 2016‎. By this time, the actual article ceased to exist, and turned back into a misunderstood Wikipedia category with nothing but i-links.  Poeticbent  talk  14:52, 15 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep The topic is notable as sources are easy to find. For example, see Cultural mythology and leadership in Poland; Polish mythology or Polish Mythology and the Traps of Messianic Martyrdom. Andrew D. (talk) 23:37, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * , those are totally different things than the topic of the article and this is what I was meaning by the word "metaphorically". These books are about the so-called "cultural mythology", which is present in every culture, not about pagan gods and heroes. For example, Jeanne d'Arc forms a cultural myth of France, but we don't write about her in the article "French mythology". Henryk Tannhäuser (talk) 05:15, 18 November 2016 (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.