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Agʿazi People

Agʿazi People (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:GNG .There is hardly any sources on who or what the "Ag'azi People" even were, there is not enough source material for a separate article. As a result, most of the article is original research or just completely fabricated, with most of the sections being entirely unsourced (there's a few places where the editor cites a source, but doesn't it corroborate with the text). There is already a separate article called Agʿazi, so this is also arguably a WP:BADFORK. Socialwave597 (talk) 05:33, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 February 1. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 05:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Ethnic groups, History, and Ethiopia. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:14, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Delete. I searched all the digital sources for the term "Agʿazi", and couldn't find it in any of them. Maybe some of the non-digital sources have more information, but the majority of sources on a topic not mentioning the topic doesn't give me confidence. Cortador (talk) 07:57, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Redirect to Agʿazi as a content fork: It really seems to be the same topic, even if the current lede of the target article refers to geography. The content here is mostly WP:OR and should not be merged with the target article. I do find some results with "Agazian" from Google Books, but nothing really useful. The emergence of this article might be indirectly related to a recent Agazian movement, See discussion at https://www.iwgia.org/en/eritrea/4216-iw-2021-eritrea.html Jähmefyysikko (talk) 12:46, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Delete or possibly Redirect to Agʿazi (I agree there's effectively nothing to merge, in any case). Presumably the inhabitants of Agʿazi were "Agʿazian people" but, as @Socialwave597 pointed out, this is a bad fork. Heretofore, Wikipedia described Agʿazi as an area of the Aksumite Empire, not an ethnicity therein nor as a predecessor to it. In addition to the sourcing problems that Socialwave597 specified, this also had an orphaned (& since fixed) ((sfn)) citation (leading me to think the article was cobbled together via unattributed WP:COPYPASTE), and another citation to a WP:SPS. Those concerns were met with no response when I brought them up; the other concerns were met with WP:IDHT. I might have thought this could be WP:DRAFTified, but there are other issues regarding the article's creator. Those are outside the scope of this AfD, of course, but it makes me skeptical that said draft would reach a suitable state. @Jähmefyysikko: I read about the Agazian movement at the link you provided. I am not at all sure whether that explains the creator's motivations (or whether the creator is even aware of it; I'll WP:AGF for now), but the subject matter suggests some perceived "ultra-Habesha" subset of Habesha peoples, which (FWIW) is another article (now indef. protected per WP:HORN) with a history of WP:NOR, but toward the opposite of that Agazian concept. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  they did exist, but i only have ss's proving their existence, and i dont think i can send screen shots on wikipedia. KallebTigray (talk) 03:49, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wolaita Sodo Agricultural College

Wolaita Sodo Agricultural College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This subject (not the same as Wolaita Sodo University) fails GNG and NCORP. The citations provided are ROUTINE and my BEFORE search (in English) only found content about the university, not this college. I can't speak to what else might be in Amharic. Chris Troutman (talk) 14:36, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Schools and Ethiopia. Chris Troutman (talk) 14:37, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 14:59, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 16:06, 3 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]