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[edit] Move
I moved the list, which was getting quite long, to List of Greek Americans. --JW1805 (Talk) 18:57, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Greek Town
Just wanted to let folks know I wrote an article about Greek Town in South Omaha, Nebraska where a mob burnt down the Greek district in 1909. - Freechild 07:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Greek-American organized crime
Please take a look at Greek-American organized crime. The problem with the title is that it is ambiguous, it appears to link Greek Americans with the notion of "organized crime" implying guilt by association. A better heading may be Greek Americans and organized crime or some other more neutral heading you may wish to suggest. I have tried to do the same with Jewish-American organized crime by changing it to American Jews and organized crime but I was reverted, see Talk:Jewish-American organized crime#Recent page move. Only three articles in Category:Organized crime groups have this kind of "title": African-American organized crime; Greek-American organized crime and Jewish-American organized crime. So will there be 134 articles in the future about "Foo organized crime" for all 134 categories in Category:American people by ethnic or national origin and indeed for every class of human on Earth without hypocrisy??? Note how there is no article for Italian American organized crime as it's simply and correctly called Mafia. African Americans and Jewish Americans are not connected with organized crime as "representatives" or "symbols" of their race or religion. Every group has its criminals. So what else is new. Sure there are "gangs" just as there are Category:Mafia gangs in Category:Mafia groups (and by the way, if there are such African American or Jewish American gangs or groups then name them, but let's not leave it as if "guilt" is being laid at the door of all Greek Americans, African Americans or Jewish Americans etc), but the titles Greek-American organized crime or Jewish-American organized crime makes it sound, way, way bigger than it is in reality, and could easily slip into racism and antisemitism if not handled in a scrupulously WP:NPOV manner 100% of the time! The job of Wikipedia should not be to magnify the problem which is called POV editing, but to depict things accurately as they are. Please add your views. Thank you, IZAK 00:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Photos
With regard to the photos posted of famous Greek-Americans: Erm...Electra Nachios isn't real. Really, she isn't. She's a comic-book charachter. How about a picture of a real person? 83.67.215.251 21:13, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
(From User:Gisvlasta). Lets be serious please! It is an article for a REAL group consisting of REAL people. I think that an image of Marvel comics superhero Electra Nachios has nothing to do with this article. It is a fictional character with a Greek name. That is all. Fictional Characters do not belong to Real People sets ! (Simple set mathematics). This is the reason I removed the picture 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Elektra_3.jpg' from the article. Whoever thinks that this picture has something to do with 'Greek' I suggest him/her to create an article for Comic Superhero Characters with Greek names.
Also, I think we should only be including people that self-identify as Greek-Americans and not Americans of " X, Y, Greek and Z" descent. I guess even the latter could be included if at the very least there is some connection with Greece and/or Greek culture and/or Greek language (e.g. borderline case Tommy Lee). Causantin (talk) 15:36, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
