441:. Clearly a valid topic and an excellent article start that just needs editing. It certainly does not look anything like an "essay" but is a more or less straightforward, chronologically ordered, descriptive account of the subject, exactly as one would expect in an encyclopaedia article. I don't understand what the nominator means by "technically unverifiable sources"; many of the sources require a knowledge of Romanian, but that is to be expected with a subject such as this one, and several other sources are in German or French, which make them verifiable to a large number of users around here. --
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332:- the article as it stands is clearly not ready for mainspace, and this is not a case where the editing process will help much — we need a complete revamp including citations with page numbers, language understandable by laymen, etc., and the only ones capable of providing that are the Rotea brothers, who have the sources at hand. I suggest userfying and having someone explain a little about Knowledge (XXG) policy to the authors. -
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264:-- Do we have anythign else similar? I would certainly prefer to see this broken up into articles on the various successive periods, but that is difficult when we only have a bibliography. I would suggest that this is a weak keep, but it certainly needs the attenion of an expert, if we can find one.
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