381:. Let's cut to the chase here and get to the real reason why this was nominated for deletion, which is pretty obviously, from looking at her or his contributions, that the nominator is one of a group of extremist Greek nationalists who try to eradicate any content that we have about southern Albania because of a belief that that region should belong to Greece, even when the content is about geographical features that existed way before Greeks or Albanians did. The same problems are evident in articles relating to the country that nearly everyone in the world calls Macedonia, Northern Cyprus and many other such targets of hatred. Why do we pussyfoot around such issues rather than dealing with such disruption by POV-pushers? Wasn't there an arbcom case that was supposed to stop this happening with articles about the Balkan region?
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