Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salian Mythology

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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.

The result was no consensus to delete, default to keep (also taking into account the duplicate nomination at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salian Frankish Mythology). This discussion seems to be the result of a scholarly dispute. It should first be attempted to be resolved through discussion and merging, not through deletion. Sandstein 21:20, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Salian Mythology

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essay by Rokus01 (talk ยท contribs). no such term. Valid material belongs merged to Continental Germanic mythology. c.f. Find sources: Salian mythology โ€” news, books, scholar. dab (๐’ณ) 11:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete and merge any relevant material not already covered into Continental Germanic mythology. /Blaxthos 12:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete and merge per Blaxthos. NASCAR Fan24(radio me!) 12:32, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete and merge per above comments. STORMTRACKER 94 18:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. I don't think there is much information to allow us to really distinguish the various Frankish peoples from each other, much less their mythologies. If information on Frankish mythology belongs anywhere, it is at an article of that title, but I trust the other editors when they say that all this speculation is adequately covered already elsewhere. Srnec 04:32, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. The article ishttp://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_sig.png

Your signature with timestamp properly sourced and pretends nothing more than an assessment to the pre-christian believes of an important Germanic tribe, that has the bad luck of being sparsely documented. However, their history has been discussed by experts and their believes are partly reconstructed. Not any quote has been given to sustain the claim of some bunch of "students" that there is no such thing as a Salian identity or background. Their arguments are of an hypercritical nature, of the kind that could be employed to deny or delete anything. Still, the assessment is of academic level and all sourced. I suspect some bad faith and kind of sockpuppets (none of the two I am talking of have an very impressive and diverse Wikipedia history, and opera singer Almira [1] presents herself suddenly as an expert in Frankish history) that have the intention to invalidate the credibility of Salian existence. Really, I am astonished by this display of apparent hostility. Rokus01 22:01, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep, trim, and source. Much of this does belong in Continental Germanic mythology; some of it appears to be OR (for example: Gregory was not confused, he was using interpretatio Romana.) But Continental Germanic mythology is not much better than this, and this does contain material not there. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 01:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep This is the sort of topic where articles are needed, and there are sources sufficient for an improved one to be written. WP should have balanced coverage. DGG (talk) 13:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and merge with ContGerMyth. See my statements at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salian Frankish Mythology--Victor falk 16:39, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. It has no reliable sources, can not be made verifiable and it has not a Neutral Point of View since it is constituted on one student's work that ignores all major scholars. The originall author (Rokus01) tries to belittle people for being an operasinger (see his reaction above) and otherwise tells wikipedians who do not agree with him to keep their "senseles waffle" johanthon 19:44, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, and trim, source and merge with Continental Germanic mythology, if that can be done without speculations being presented as indisputable facts. -Almirena 12:59, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
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.