Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Three-finger salute (Balkans)


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  07:22, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Three-finger salute (Balkans)

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Unsourced sub-stub, comparing two completely disconnected salutes from two unrelated historical periods (WW2 and 1990-today), which happen to be used by ideological opponents (Serbs and Ustashe). A textbook WP:SYNTH and WP:OR. It is true that the coincidence has been noted across "sources" such as Internet forums and readers's comments, but I fail to see why should Wikipeda have an article about it. No such user (talk) 14:55, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Croatia-related deletion discussions.  — frankie (talk) 16:46, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Serbia-related deletion discussions.  — frankie (talk) 16:46, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Clearly unreferenced synthesis. It looks like a content fork of Three-finger salute (Serbian), which in turn is a bunch of irrelevant synthesis itself, that could easily be merged into a single section of the article Serbs or similar. It's a constant struggle to find a way to handle all these superficial, talking-point articles... --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 17:18, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. It's a fork of Three-finger salute (Serbian) and I don't see how anything other than WP:SYNTH could expand the topic to make it a "Balkan" occurrence. The Serbian version probably merits some coverage but maybe it would be best to merge it into Serbdom or National symbols of Serbia. If there were reliable sources talking about the WW2 Croatian and modern Serbian usage in more detail it might merit standalone articles (compare Nazi salute and Bellamy salute), but I just don't see it happening.  Timbouctou ( talk ) 19:48, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Rcsprinter  (rap)  10:05, 21 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - WP:FORK as mentioned above. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:37, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
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