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The result was delete. Tone 14:43, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Line of succession to the former Greek throne[edit]

Line of succession to the former Greek throne (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)
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This throne has been defunct since 1973. WP:DEL-REASON 6: Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources, including neologisms, original theories and conclusions, and articles that are themselves hoaxes (but not articles describing notable hoaxes). It is impossible to attribute the current line of succession to this throne to WP:RELIABLE sources, because there is no current line of succession, because the monarchy doesn't exist anymore. See also WP:NOTGENEALOGY. There are also WP:BLP concerns about the people who are listed here, including two minors.

So basically, the same reasons as the previous 32 lines of succession to defunct thrones that have been deleted recently (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32). TompaDompa (talk) 13:53, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. TompaDompa (talk) 13:53, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. TompaDompa (talk) 13:53, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. TompaDompa (talk) 13:53, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The current line of succession is defined by the current legal framework of the nation in question. Were that to change (such as when the UK changed from male-preference primogeniture to strict primogeniture) then the succession order changes, and the order the day before the change is superseded, just as is the case when there is a royal birth or death. As such, lines of succession are more 'dynamic lists' than noteworthy topics representing historical events that are NOTTEMP. Pre-change status becomes obsolete and no longer noteworthy, or else we would need to produce a separate line of succession for every time point in history where there was a change in law, a birth, death, abdication, etc. The list representing the current line of succession after abolition of the monarchy would be: nobody - a null list and we don't do that. A list of what the succession now would be had the change not occurred is alternative history - the change did occur. Agricolae (talk) 21:58, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Most of the article Succession to the British throne discusses the rules for succession, their development over time and controversies they have caused. This would still be encyclopedic information even if the UK abolished the monarchy tomorrow, so the article would continue to exist. This one isn't as well developed but there is still some content about the succession rules which isn't covered anywhere else. We are supposed to consider alternatives for preserving that content instead of deleting it. Hut 8.5 06:33, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The changes in rules are encyclopedic. The precise order of succession at any given time (beyond the immediate heir) is not. These pages are worse, though. They present an order of succession that was never operative under any contemporary legal framework. Sure, bits here and there might be shifted to other articles, but there is not necessarily a single target nor is the core aspect of the article, the supposed 'current' line of succession, appropriate anywhere. Agricolae (talk) 17:06, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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.