Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White Aethiopians


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The result was   no consensus. Modern sources have been linked to in the discussion.  Sandstein  07:21, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

White Aethiopians

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Seems to be nothing but a dictionary entry for a racial term used by Pliny. I can't find any modern sources that discuss this term or its synonym leucaethiopes in anything more than passing. If someone wants to write about this area then Historical race concepts is the place to do so (not a merge proposal). Fences &amp;  Windows  02:39, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethiopia-related deletion discussions.  —  Fences  &amp;  Windows  02:40, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions.  —  Fences  &amp;  Windows  02:40, 28 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. Dictionary definition. No sign that it could grow to include encyclopedic content.   Will Beback    talk    03:50, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to wiktionary under the title Leucaethiopes as a Latin dictionary definition. 65.95.13.213 (talk) 06:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep It's a dreadful article, I've just deleted some text that not only was not in the cited source but certainly to me looked clearly wrong. For journal articles from this century alone, see . An interesting 1960 article is here . Google books has quite a bit too. But 'Aethiopians' is just odd, since the sources almost all use "white Ethiopians". I'll also note that although some sources suggest they may have been Berbers, as the article asserts, others disagree, eg . Dougweller (talk) 13:39, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep It seems easy to find sources which discuss this in detail, such as Affairs of West Africa. Warden (talk) 18:00, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete The only sources provided are old, and there is no indication of notablity or adequate sources for an article. Should be covered under Ethiopia.  TFD (talk) 06:55, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it should be merged, but the link I gave has recent sources, and R Smith - Journal of World History, 2003 -"The Leukaethiopes, literally "white Ethiopians," or, since the term "Ethiopian" referred to skin color, the "white black men," were located by Ptolemy in the interior of southern Morocco. Ptolemy did not invent them since earlier Pliny had also mentioned them. " That's a 2003 article. Others can be found in Google books and scholar. Dougweller (talk) 11:22, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
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