Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tentative Italian colonization of the Americas

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:51, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tentative Italian colonization of the Americas

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POV fork of Thornton expedition by banned sockpuppet. Brutal Deluxe (talk) 18:54, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete because the material is already covered in other article.Borock (talk) 21:45, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Clearly a hoax --Anna O'Leary (talk) 18:09, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
MAINTAIN We cancel this article ONLY because done by a supposed sockpuppet? We should only look at the article in wikipedia, and not to "brutal hate" against italian achievements....and even note that the article Thornton expedition is a POV fork of this article, a fork done with "antiitalian" brutality by Brutaldeluxe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.64.140.61 (talk) 00:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:22, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Merge with Thornton expedition, which covers exactly the same material, though more briefly. If kept, it should be renamed "Tentative Tuscan colonisation ..." as there is no indication of involvement by any other Italian state. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:53, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Material was already in Thornton expedition and edited out as inappropriate, undue weight, etc. That is when the new page was created - the very definition of a POV fork. Little likelihood that the existing namespace will be used as search term, so no sense in keeping it as a redirect, particularly when inaccurate, as it was never a colonization and there was no Italy at the time. All that and it was created by a sock puppet of a banned user. Agricolae (talk) 03:04, 19 January 2011 (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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.