Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anatolian peoples

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snowball keep, then withdrawn by nominator. There was a fundamental misunderstanding here (playing out across multiple pages), about the difference between an ethnolinguistics classification and a human geography one. Not the same topic, just similarly named. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 19:40, 3 July 2018 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply

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Anatolian peoples

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WP:CSD#G8 as redirect — IVORK _Discuss 01:36, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply

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Nomination has now been withdrawn (see below). Either delete or merge with
Izzat Kutebar (talk) 14:17, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply
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Keep. Anatolian peoples, as shown in the article, have have been addressed directly and in detail in reliable secondary sources, and thus passes
WP:GNG. The defining characteristic of the Anatolian peoples is the fact that they spoke Anatolian languages, not that they at one point lived in Anatolia. Merging them into List of ancient peoples of Anatolia does therefore not make sense. Anatolian languages are part of the Indo-European languages. Below is a list of Indo-European languages and the corresponding ethnolinguistic groups
/ethnic groups:

Armenian languages - Armenians

Illyrian languages - Illyrians

Indo-Aryan languages - Indo-Aryan peoples
Iranian languages - Iranian peoples
Italic languages - Italic peoples
Phrygian language - Phrygians
Thracian languages - Thracians

Tocharian languages - Tocharians

There is no reason to assume that every Indo-European language is connected to an ethnolinguistic group except the Anatolian peoples. Scholars certainly do not assume such an exception, so why should Wikipedia? Krakkos (talk) 14:39, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment.
Izzat Kutebar (talk) 15:23, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply
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Keep "Peoples of Anatolia" and "Anatolian peoples" are two different topics. The ancient Phrygians and the modern Turks are peoples of Anatolia, but Phrygian is not an Anatolian language, and neither is Turkish, so they belong under "Peoples of Anatolia" but not under "Anatolian peoples". In the same way, Estonians are a people of the Baltic, but they are not Balts, because Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language, not a Baltic language. Baltic languages are Indo-European. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 17:24, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I find the argument that this fits the established convention of such articles on Wikipedia compelling. It is well covered in RS so notability is not really an issue either. SpinningSpark 18:27, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per the reasons listed by Krakkos. Dimadick (talk) 11:12, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nomination withdrawn. Given the work now being done to both the articles discussed here, I think I should withdraw my nomination. Thanks to a transfer of information by
Izzat Kutebar (talk) 14:52, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply
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