Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Byzantine ancestry of Greek Royal Family

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The result was delete. Normally a low-participation AFD like this would be relisted, but in this case I think it's safe to let silence speak consent. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:36, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Byzantine ancestry of Greek Royal Family[edit]

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Largely OR and SYNTH stuff, with no particular encyclopedic value. It is more an exercise in "proving" that the Greek Royal Family has some sort of legitimate right to the Greek throne, even though their claim never rested on this fact. Given the names present in the list, most European royals share in some Byzantine descent, and in no way is the Greek Royal Family any more "Byzantine-descended" than say, the British Royal Family... Cf. also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bulgarian ancestry of royals of Bulgaria & Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Byzantine ancestry of Norwegian Royal Family for similar cases. Constantine ✍ 13:02, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Agreed with all the arguments above. Just about all modern European royalty has Byzantine ancestry one way or another. This article is pointless and makes an implicit claim (that there is some special connection between the modern Greek royal family and the Byzantines) that is false. Not to mention that it is WP:OR and WP:SYNTH. --macrakis (talk) 13:32, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to some article about Byzantine ancestry of European royal families, if there's anything useful. Johnleemk | Talk 13:53, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. —Constantine ✍ 11:10, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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