Commons:Deletion requests/File:Albania minorities.png
It is totally biased, based on a clearly POV 19-th century pro-Greek map made by George Soteriadis Professor of History at the University of Athens, a 19-th century Greek historian.... I can make some thousands of images like this to show the Albanianess of Egypt... --Balkanian`s word (talk) 12:08, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think this merits a delete, for several reasons. We already have far more biased and outright ridiculous ethnographic maps, and this one appears (to me at least) to be reasonably accurate in depicting the areas where minorities have traditionally (this is the important part) lived in Albania. The map is not a rip-off of Soteriadis, there are several listed sources. If it is inaccurate, then the best thing is to provide a source that explains how and where it is inaccurate, and then correct it. Deletion only comes across as a denial (i.e. "there are no minorities in Albania"). Constantine ✍ 13:02, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose delete, as a clear case of WP:IDONTLIKEIT on the part of a rabid Albanian nationalist. This is nothing more than yet another tiresome attempt to deny the existence of ethnic minorities in Albania. The map is based on numerous reliable sources, and is very accurate. Athens2004 (talk) 17:35, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Keep The description label and the discussion page are made up to write even an essay on how it is right or how it is wrong the map showed. Deletion, in this case and in my personal opinion, it's just censorship.--Giorgiomonteforti (talk) 22:50, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
- Keep Keep, as per GiorgiomontefortiMegistias (talk) 05:07, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
""Delete"" As per Balkanian's word arguments.--I Pakapshem (talk) 17:36, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Delete propaganda map based on the map created by a Greek nationalist during WWI. Third source is totally irrelevant and doesn't even mention locations.--Kushtrim123 (talk) 20:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
- Keep: As per Cplakidas, deletion is an extreme approach. The traditional precense of ethnologiustic minorities (especially the Greek) is also cited in several books and journals: [[1]] p. 1617, and [[2]] (Monte Diplomatique). It's really sad to see blocked and spa-revert warriors from english wikipedia to be active here too.Alexikoua (talk) 10:17, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- Keep Commons has all sorts of propaganda and other material that many of us disagree with. This map could easily be used to illustrate the use of maps in propaganda. We even have a tag for exactly this purpose, {{Inaccurate-map-disputed}}, which should be added to it by someone more knowledgeable than me. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 12:15, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
- Comment, Jameslwoodward, it has already been discussed in En:Wiki it is not propaganda.Megistias (talk) 04:54, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Done. Tagged. Also entered a comment on the talk page. We should behave with maps and images as with articles. Please bring it to the talk page BW.Sulmues (talk) 13:04, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Kept. Image is in use, in scope and educational. The deletion reason by the nominator really isn't a reason to delete the image. Bidgee (talk) 06:17, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
A much more accurate map is already in wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AlbaniaTraditionalCommunitiesByLanguageAndReligion.png therefore "Albania_minorities.png" is unnecessary. AceDouble (talk) 23:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
- Keep: In use on 24 projects, thus not eligible for deletion. --Achim (talk) 19:17, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
- Keep: I doubt if the so-called alternative map above is more accurate, in fact its undergoing large-scale correction.Alexikoua (talk) 20:42, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
There you go: http://www.instat.gov.al/media/3214/1113.xls greeks make up 0.87% of the population. AceDouble (talk) 12:14, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
- You can't vote on a deletion request that you've nominated! (note, AceDouble removed the vote delete but also my comment) Bidgee (talk) 23:13, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- Keep Been over this before and nothing has changed with the argument for the deletion. Everyone's view points will be different, Commons doesn't take sides and this file is also in-use and even if it wasn't, it would still exist in a category and be in-scope. Bidgee (talk) 23:19, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Bidgee you've got a problem with that? This map doesn't even comply with the present time so it belongs to the past, that's one more reason to be deleted. AceDouble (talk) 21:43, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Kept: no valid reason for deletion. ~riley (talk) 00:56, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
