Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Serbs in Botswana


 * 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. Liz Read! Talk! 21:36, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Serbs in Botswana

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Topic doesn't appear to have been the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:31, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Ethnic groups, Africa,  and Serbia. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:31, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete- couldn't find any relevant sources, failing WP:GNG. ReadItAlready (talk) 02:22, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete there are approx 1000 Serbs in Botswana according to Reddit, of whom 600 odd are in a Facebook group. The sr.wiki article says they number 350 and the sources supporting that article don’t look sufficient for en.wiki. Mccapra (talk) 06:55, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete on quality grounds rather than notability. A Serbian Orthodox Church apparently exists in Botswana (1) and might be evidenced in reliable sources. It is possible that there may be sources in Serbian? At the moment, there is nothing worthwhile to retain here beyond some rather questionable claims. —Brigade Piron (talk) 17:09, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It seems there are several such sources. A few that I found:
 * Србија, Африка и православље: Како је изграђенa друга српска православна црква у Африци
 * Срби граде школу у Боцвани
 * Kako je Milivoje iz Loznice postao KRALJ SMRTI u Bocvani
 * Африка и Србија на вези: Срби у Боцвани
 * I don't know whether the article is worth saving, and I don't know what these sources say except what machine translation tells me. But they do exist. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 23:14, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The RTS source appears to be about an episode of a documentary series, focusing on Serbs living in Botswana. The BBC source is also a bit human-interest in focus for my liking. My sense is that while these are reliable sources, they don't necessarily amount to significant coverage of Serbs in Botswana as a group. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:37, 5 January 2023 (UTC)


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