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The result was delete. If anyone wants the content to translate into English, I will userfy. W.marsh 16:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Topoliana[edit]

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Listed on Pages Needing Translation for more than two weeks, so per guidelines there, sending to AfD. Essayic piece about a really small village. I'd asked a greek-speaker on Wikipedia to review it, and he said, "the article you aked me to translate refers to a tiny tiny village in central Greece. I don't know wether it deserves its place in the (current sized) wikipedia either. Check for example the size of the article about Karpenisi which is the capital of the whole prefecture the village belongs to." Given that, I hardly think that this is notable enough to keep, so besides listing it here, I'm advocating delete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akradecki (talk • contribs)

• Delete - agree with akradecki. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 17:10, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - agree with akradecki.  Andreas  ^(T) 20:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC) Addendum: I am mainly concerned about the essay-like style of the article. It is not ready to be translated. At most, it should first be transwikied into el:Τοπόλιανα and made into a proper article before appearing here.  Andreas  ^(T) 13:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• weak keep - Villages are notable regardless of their size, so, the second half of the deletion reason presented should be discounted. It wouldn't take long to find several US towns which are of the same population as this village; and countering WP:BIAS should always be on our minds. Unfortunately, none of the article is in English. There are google hits that verify that it is a place, though. Neier 01:54, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - "Villages are notable regardless of their size" - can you point me to the guideline that says this? Wikipedia:Notability makes no mention of this criteria. Also, are you willing to translate the article? AKRadecki 02:09, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Cities_and_shops is not a guideline, but, I don't remember any AFD for a city/town being successful based on its lack of size. Neier 02:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete given that it is all in Greek. Would support retention of an English language stub or translation of the article (assuming that it is worth translating). Capitalistroadster 02:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This is one of the places where I think an arbitrary guideline of "all" is appropriate, and this has been repeatedly said at AfD and always upheld. Otherwise where exactly would the cutoff go? DGG 01:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete or Translate and keep, if someone were to translate it. -Yupik 10:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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