Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of states of Greater Iran
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The result was delete. ✗plicit 00:02, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
List of states of Greater Iran
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There is only one source in this article. It mentions only three of the listed states and barely supports that these were located in the loosely-defined "Greater Iran". (The source refers to
]- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Geography, Lists, Central Asia, Middle East, and Iran. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:38, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. Sources don't verify the material. Appears to be largely WP:OR. Fad Ariff (talk) 12:22, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Delete per norm. --HistoryofIran (talk) 16:59, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- Delete: There are no sources for NLIST. I've tried to think of a way this could be reworked to meet WP:AOAL,but couldn't get past the POV OR everything but the kitchen sink criteria. If there is something that meets AOAL in this, it needs TNT to give it a fresh start. I'm not seeing anything that meet NLIST, so it needs to be an AOAL list. I suppose there could be some creative spliting and merging, but I don't see how this would benefit the targets, still unsourced, and be more work than a fresh start. // Timothy :: talk 18:08, 28 March 2023 (UTC)]
- Weak keep -- This is a harmless list. As such it does not need sources. it might be called List of former states including Iran. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:37, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails WP:AOAL being workable here. Shawn Teller (he/her) (talk) 04:05, 31 March 2023 (UTC)]
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