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This, as with many similar stub articles created by this user, is a blatant notability fail. The 'town' is just a name on the map - it is impossible to find any sources on it, if it even existed.
LegesRomanorum (
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13:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep obviously. The nominator is on a misguided crusade about notability. The nominator says "it is impossible to find any sources on it". There are numerous secondary sources to the town's existence: including
Pleiades and the sources cited in the article. A town still being written about over a thousand years later is clearly notable. In addition, Google Scholar has may articles about the excavations and other archaeology done there
[1]. Clearly the nominator hasn't read
WP:BEFORE and seems to ignore that being a gazetteer is the first of the
Five Pillars of Wikipedia. I'm not going to go through this effort for each of the nominations this user has made below as the effort is not worth keeping articles if the community doesn't want to but suffice to say that according to
WP:BEFORE these are the efforts the nominator should have gone through before nominating.
Carlossuarez46 (
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18:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. Useful for readers to be able to identify, distinguish, and locate ancient Greek and Roman towns and villages. There may not currently be a lot of information or sources in the article, but even as they stand they're helpful articles about geographic places that readers might run across in various sources (including epigraphic ones), and all of them have at least one reliable source (and some of them several). Many of them could be expanded with known, existing sources; all have the potential to be expanded in the future, but even as stubs they have value. There's also a discussion about a related series of proposed deletions at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome.
P Aculeius (
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22:56, 21 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment: I can't actually find anything on the village of "Archeion" in Thrace (outside of the two already referenced atlases), but searches are flooded by hits for something unrelated in Athens and the Greek word for "archive". There might be something out there, but I haven't found it yet. — MarkH21talk19:28, 27 May 2020 (UTC); parenthetical 02:10, 28 May 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
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
This, as with many similar stub articles created by this user, is a blatant notability fail. The 'town' is just a name on the map - it is impossible to find any sources on it, if it even existed.
LegesRomanorum (
talk)
13:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep obviously. The nominator is on a misguided crusade about notability. The nominator says "it is impossible to find any sources on it". There are numerous secondary sources to the town's existence: including
Pleiades and the sources cited in the article. A town still being written about over a thousand years later is clearly notable. In addition, Google Scholar has may articles about the excavations and other archaeology done there
[1]. Clearly the nominator hasn't read
WP:BEFORE and seems to ignore that being a gazetteer is the first of the
Five Pillars of Wikipedia. I'm not going to go through this effort for each of the nominations this user has made below as the effort is not worth keeping articles if the community doesn't want to but suffice to say that according to
WP:BEFORE these are the efforts the nominator should have gone through before nominating.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk)
18:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. Useful for readers to be able to identify, distinguish, and locate ancient Greek and Roman towns and villages. There may not currently be a lot of information or sources in the article, but even as they stand they're helpful articles about geographic places that readers might run across in various sources (including epigraphic ones), and all of them have at least one reliable source (and some of them several). Many of them could be expanded with known, existing sources; all have the potential to be expanded in the future, but even as stubs they have value. There's also a discussion about a related series of proposed deletions at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome.
P Aculeius (
talk)
22:56, 21 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment: I can't actually find anything on the village of "Archeion" in Thrace (outside of the two already referenced atlases), but searches are flooded by hits for something unrelated in Athens and the Greek word for "archive". There might be something out there, but I haven't found it yet. — MarkH21talk19:28, 27 May 2020 (UTC); parenthetical 02:10, 28 May 2020 (UTC)reply
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