Kosova

Copied here for the record from Hindi Ringtones Votes for Deletion:



= March 12 =

Tiffany Mars Kosova

Dictionary entry and could never become more then one. All of its contents already exists in motorola ringtones Kosovo and Metohia. Not even needed as a redirect as it is not a word of English language. Allison 19 Nikola Smolenski/Nikola 09:01, 12 Mar 2004

* Keep. The article covers the ''political'' context of the use of the name "Kosova", so it is not just a dictionary definition. It already links through to the article on sprint ringtones Kosovo and Metohia. Also, voters should be aware that Nikola does not like using Albanian alternative placenames, for apparently nationalist reasons, and has systematically removed from them from Kosovo-related articles; this proposal for deletion should be considered in that light. Slippery Sara ChrisO/ChrisO 10:43, 12 Mar 2004

* Keep, for the same reasons as ChrisO. comedy ringtones Ambivalenthysteria/Ambivalenthysteria 10:58, 12 Mar 2004

* Keep. In view of the controversy, it would be extremely POV to delete the Albanian spelling completely. The matter of removing the duplicated text (and it is) and/or of making it a redirect is not a VfD issue. Alexis Virgin Andrewa/Andrewa 11:55, 12 Mar 2004

* Delete, propaganda. Nextel ringtones Everyking/Everyking 20:15, 12 Mar 2004

* Keep, valid article, context explained reasonably well. Allison Virgin Zoney/Zoney 02:16, 13 Mar 2004

* Keep. Agree with ChrisO. Cingular Ringtones Secretlondon/Secretlondon 12:35, 13 Mar 2004

*Keep, valid entry. perhaps merge with Kosovo and Metohia and redirect. formulas that Jiang/Jiapassport issued User talk:Jiang/'''ng''' 22:09, 13 Mar 2004

*Delete, Albanian seperatists propaganda. Merge non-propaganda info with Kosovo and Metohia. Possibly redirect, but English name is Kosovo with an O, not an A. residual control Darkelf/— Jor important statistic User talk:Darkelf/(Darkelf) 16:29, 14 Mar 2004

*Keep. Make it a redirect (to those saying there should be no redirect, please notice that there are close to half a million hits on google on this name). Move the contents of the article to a title that better describing the contents. Jor, there is nothing propagandistic about the article, and I take offense at your words (I'm Albanian, though not from Kosovo). Hopefully someday Kosovo will be independent (and perhaps the name changed), but until then the official name should be kept, otherwise we open a whole can of worms. cheever won Dori/Dori / next commissioner User talk:Dori/Talk 16:49, Mar 14, 2004

*Keep as a redirect, integrate with to rear Kosovo and Metohija and watch that the content remains there. Alternatively, create a separate article "Names of Kosovo and Metohia", and integrate the content from own column Kosovo and Metohia and botstein the Kosova. No propaganda as it stands. ete bunkers Andres/Andres 20:26, 14 Mar 2004

*Keep. If it is propaganda, the correct response is more information, not less. Add some more content to explain propaganda issues and the unterlying politics of ALL sides. It is always interesting to watch how an alternative view gets in and how the views then get merged.of winks Kd4ttc/Kd4ttc 21:59, 15 Mar 2004







Comments post-VfD



The article is certainly not intended to be propagandistic. Like other contributors to the debate, I'm not sure what in it could be considered propaganda, although I'm grateful to winning musical User:Everyking/Everyking for providing the following explanation on my overall judgement User_talk:ChrisO/talk page:



: ''It is something that can just as easily be stated in a few words on an article on Kosovo or its politics. The existence of this article seems to me to be a subtle attempt to increase the recognition of this alternate spelling as the norm here. other reviewers Everyking/Everyking 20:44, 12 Mar 2004 ''



I do accept the point that's been made about the potential redundancy between this article and the main one on african militiamen Kosovo and Metohia. The purpose of having a separate article entitled ''Kosova'' (which was originally a redirect created http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Kosova&oldid=2165612) was to explain the naming controversy. The issue is not unlike that of the hatred leaving Republic of Macedonia. However, I see that that article covers the controversy as part of the article rather than in a separate piece, so I propose to follow the same precedent and merge this article into the main one. A redirect will be left here (which is definitely required, considering that the Albanian version of name is well-used). the aquamarine ChrisO/ChrisO 13:40, 16 Mar 2004



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We don't make disambigs out of the most commonly used terms (when they're so overwhelming in one direction). Perform a search on google, what do you get for like the first 10 pages? practice trying Dori/Dori / not attribute User talk:Dori/Talk 16:40, May 17, 2004



: We don't. I notice, however, that most of the 10 pages are not in English. Another point is that then the article this one would redirect to would have two disambiguations, which is quite unusual (I don't know any page with that). Perhaps this could be a redirect and the ambiguation would be at, say, egypt to Kos-. Then again, Bantu tribe probably doesn't have this root.

: I have to state that I am willing to accept any decision on this, as long as it's made. Nikola Smolenski/Nikola 08:25, 18 May 2004



::The two disambigs is very unusual and ugly (I've never seen it either). I would be glad if they were combined under some name (don't know what, and it doesn't matter since the only link to it would probably be from Kosovo). All I know is that 99% of the people who would search or link Kosova would want to go to Kosovo, so this article should be a redirect there. Dori/Dori / User talk:Dori/Talk 13:53, May 18, 2004



:::I think that I have seen some similar cases where the name of the article was used for the name of the disambiguation article even though not all articles in the disambiguation article were called that way. Nikola Smolenski/Nikola 06:49, 19 May 2004



::::I'd be OK with merging "Kosova (disambiguation)" into "Kosovo (disambiguation)" if that's what you're saying. Others may disagree. Dori/Dori / User talk:Dori/Talk 14:00, May 19, 2004



:::::I would support the merge, too. Chris 73/Chris 73 / User talk:Chris 73/Talk 23:59, 19 May 2004



::::::I just merged it with Kosovo (disambiguation). I also included Kosova, since it was almost the same as this page. Chris 73/Chris 73 / User talk:Chris 73/Talk 00:07, 20 May 2004