Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Supernatural beings in Slavic religion


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The result was keep. The consensus is to keep and WP:CLEANUP. (non-admin closure) Szzuk (talk) 19:01, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Supernatural beings in Slavic religion

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Poor article, but replacing it with a redirect is apparently contentious. I don't disagree with redirecting, and suggest WP:NOTESSAY might apply. Lithopsian (talk) 18:47, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 03:25, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
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 * Keep -  I agree that there are parts of this essay where revision is needed, but I would have thought the place to discuss this was on the talk page of the article. This article does include references and "Further reading", suggesting the article does have citations. Vorbee (talk) 19:44, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * , the article does not have citations (it has a list of sources which it does not use). There are just two citations and I bet that the source actually does not reflect the article's content, like I verified in large sections of "Rusalka". I am personally a deletionist and so I think that disastrous articles like this (and many others pertaining to Slavic mythology and folklore) should be trashed waiting for someone willing to re-write them completely in an accurate way.--Eckhardt Etheling (talk) 18:29, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - If there are articles about supernatural beings in other religions and mythologies (such as the Lakota), there should also be an article for the various supernatural beings in the religion, folklore, and mythology of the Slavs. Perhaps the article should be reorganised to make it more like a proper Wikipedia article, or that the beings in Slavic folklore should be listed in a separate article from the beings in Slavic religion that are not deities. PulauKakatua19 (talk) 15:27, 20 April 2018


 * Keep - notability is easy to evidence, both from the bottom of the article, but even a rapid google books sweep brings up plenty for it to be fine as a standalone. WP:NOTESSAY wouldn't seem to apply - I assume point 3, personal essay/particular feelings was the most likely grounds for that? In any case, none of the mooted grounds seem to apply - or at least nowhere near a level of confidence I would need to warrant deletion under it. Nosebagbear (talk) 14:41, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - I merged this article into Deities of Slavic religion back in Summer 2017, but recently some users from Russia insist for it to be kept as an independent article, together with a number of articles about dialectal variations of the name of single entities (cf. Nav (Slavic folklore), Mavka). The article is totally devoid of sources, poorly written, and many of the entities listed are just dialectal name variations and folklorisations of beings already listed in Deities of Slavic religion.--Eckhardt Etheling (talk) 17:46, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep as an editorial opinion over a merge to Deities of Slavic religion; the term tutelary deities is somewhat confusing compared to "supernatural beings". Cleanup is certainly needed. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 02:42, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


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