304:? Shouldn't they get to keep their own article also? The modern Greeks of Macedonia had no "Macedonian Greek" identity before the acquisition of Greek Macedonia, as many modern Greeks with Macedonian regional identity were Vlach, Albanian, or Pontic Greeks. In fact, if you consider population growth, non-indigenous peoples make up over 50% of the modern population in Greek Macedonia. I can provide data stating the Macedonians of the middle ages were speaking Slavic, not Greek and I can show data providing from the 1600s-today referring of Macedonians being the ancestors of the modern ethnic Macedonians (ie: Macedonians were referenced on an ethnic level). Even the Greek government wrote a book called "the Greek ANTI-Macedonian campaign" and "The contributions of the Slavic-like Macedonian on the Greek language" And Pavlos was stating their was a Macedonian language in the region of Macedonia. This is clearly a POV FORK, yesterday Greeks were arguing that Aegean Macedonians should not have their own article, today they turn into hypocrites.
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420:, as a temporary measure until at least after the forthcoming Macedonia arbitration to avoid drama. The article as it is now does not conform to NPOV. However, this does not mean that the subject is not notable, since we're referring to approximately 4 million people (including the Macedonian diaspora with its associations, which incidentally are not called "Greek" but "Macedonian", meaning that the regional identity is especially strong). In any case, the article title should be in either
455:. Sure it must be enriched with a serious re-edit. There is no reason to delete the article solely for being of poor quality or because of timing concerns. We can make it an article about the obvious truths and put the redirect in a see also section. This will encourage other Knowledge users to enrich it. Since the subject of the article
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