Talk:Igoumenitsa

The name issue

I have edited the formerly cham inhabited places with albnaian names in the lead, along with their greek form. The reason I edited them is WP:NCGN which states that "Relevant foreign language names (one used by at least 10% of sources in the English language or is used by a group of people which used to inhabit this geographical place) are permitted". The sources we have shows that there was a minority in the towns and villages, so there is "a group of people which used to inhabit this geographical place". It is the same reason that the names are used in Vlora, Berat, Durres, etc, were no greeks live, but there was a ancient greek colony in there. So we shopuld start a disccusion in order to find a solution, avoiding double standards. balkanian (talk) 12:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

The Cham presence is not sufficiently notable to include the Albanian toponyms here per WP:NCGN. The Chams were a minority in all these places, never a majority. Also the wording is very Albano-POV. If you say "The area was home to Cham Albanians that were expelled" 1) That creates that all the inhabitants were Cham, when in fact the Chams were a minority in all these places, and 2) it creates the imperssion that they are innocent victims, which is Albanian POV. If you are going to mention that the Chams were expelled, you HAVE to mention why they were expelled (collaborating with Nazis). Otherwise, you can't mention that they were "expelled". --Tsourkpk (talk) 13:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, firstly lets start a conversation about the name. The sentence about their presenced I agree that should be reworded, but lats discuss that later. About the name, in parapotamos, igoumenitsa, maragiriti and parga they were the majority, please see the reference of miranda vickers. But, even if they were a minority, WP:NCGN, does not state that they should be majority in order to add their name. Secondly, there still lives a population in Epirus (see Helsinki Report), which speak albanian (they call that shqip not arvanitika). so the name should be added.balkanian (talk) 13:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

[www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/reports/arvanites.html the greek helsinki committee raport]balkanian (talk) 13:28, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

The Miranda Vickers source doesn't help very much, it's basically a description of the modern dispute with little information of the past, it doesn't state any figures either apart from the 14.000 that live in Saranda, no evidence as to whether Chams were a historical majority in any place. Not much about the history of the region in general. Another thing is how much credibility we should give to an article that is published by a military college. The wiki articles of the cities and towns in Albania you are referring to have an extensive and properly sourced history section as Ioannina or Epirus (region). Anyway i can see that in Durres for example there is a same problem, the arguement for the deletion of the Greek name there is that it is not officially recognized by the state although its history is clearly documented. I see no reason not to add the names the Turkish and Jewish populations also used following the same wikipedia policies. As for the modern Albanian speaking element in Epirus in Cham Albanians there's a source that states that if they exist at all they are very hard to find. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zakronian (talk • contribs) 17:10, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

It is the same as Himara,Vlora, Berat etc. If you do not put the Albanian name, than we should take off the Greek names on the Albanian cities.--Taulant23 (talk) 21:34, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

The Greek names in those articles are mentioned in the history sections anyway. It's simple, provide reliable sources that there was a significant presence of Albanians, either in size or of historical importance in general, in the places in question and add the names. What don't you understand ??? I am repeating, Ioannina, Epirus (region) etc already contain the Albanian names, we can't just add them everywhere cause of your claims.--Zakronian (talk) 00:01, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

In Berat and Vlore the greek names are in the lead. In Durres page there is a name section, and thats why there is no name in the lead, neither the Albanian one. In Thesprotia region and in norther part of Preveza prefecture, there were at least 1/3 muslim chams, and we do not know what was the number of orthodox albanians. Please see the study of a greek historian, Γ. Κτιστάκης. He states that there were about 20.000 muslimm chams, in a region that had a population of 70.000. and that there is no official number of orthodox albanians, exept the italian occupation cnesus. "Το 1923 στην Τσαμουριά ζούσαν 20.319 μουσουλμάνοι που είχαν τα αλβανικά ως μητρική γλώσσα19. Το 1925 η αλβανική κυβέρνηση έδωσε τον αριθμό των 25.000 μουσουλμάνων20. Από την απογραφή του 1928 προέκυψε ότι στην Ήπειρο ζούσαν 17.008 μουσουλμάνοι αλβανικής γλώσσας21. Το 1938 αναφέρθηκαν από την Γενική Διοίκηση Ηπείρου 17.311 αλβανομουσουλμάνοι στην περιοχή22. Η επεξεργασία των αποτελεσμάτων του 1940 δεν ολοκληρώθηκε ποτέ αλλά σύμφωνα με μία πηγή οι μουσουλμάνοι της περιοχής ανέρχονταν σε 16.66123. Σύμφωνα με μία άλλη -πιο αξιόπιστη- πηγή, οι μουσουλμάνοι ανέρχονταν σε 21.000 έως 22.00024. Τέλος, οι ιταλοί υπολόγισαν το 1941, κατά τρόπο όμως υπερβολικό, ότι στην περιοχή κατοικούσαν 26.000 χριστιανοί Αλβανοί Τσάμηδες, 28.000 μουσουλμάνοι Αλβανοί Τσάμηδες έναντι μόνο 20.000 Ελλήνων25". Even if there were only 25%, which is the lowest number, there surely was a large minority.balkanian (talk) 11:11, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I didn't make my self clear, in those articles even if the Greek names weren't in the lead they are mentioned in the history section cause they are a known part of those places' history. Even if someone removes them a passing-by editor might re-add them while reading the history section. Now the articles in question are very limited in general, anyway, in your quoting there is no mentioning of Igoumenitsa, Parga, Parapotamos etc, no specific mentioning of these places, how do we know where they were concetrated ??? From what publication is the Ktistakis figures ? --Zakronian (talk) 19:18, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

We are talking about a certain region. Thesprotia and Preveza, which consist Chameria. The auther explains that they lived in the all region, and most of all he is anti-cham. You can find the hole work here. they were minority in some towns, and majority in some others, but the fact is that they were, they existed and according to WP:NCGN their name should be in the lead.balkanian (talk) 19:34, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

You still don't get the point about wikipedia's name policies, "can be used" or "permitted" is different from "should be used". This is determined by editors. You said it, Thesprotia and Preveza are (large scale) regions, modern prefectures of Greece, Igoumenitsa, Parga, Paramithia etc are cities and towns. There is no conclusion from the sources that their presence was notable in these historical centers. Most of the Cham historiography thing is pushed by Cham organizations the past 15 years or so. Not much to work with, much to be suspicious of. The last website you presented uses the names of these towns to denote the whole geographical zones that Cameria consisted of. There is also a mention of an undetermined number of civic estates, if there were 10 houses in Igoumenitsa that belonged to Chams for example, is this enough reason to add an Albanian name in the city's article ? What we know is that there was a Cham minority spread in Epirus and especially in western Epirus, we also know they mostly occupied themselfs with agriculture, the articles that represent these areas are Epirus, Thesprotia, Preveza Prefecture etc. For more specific places you have to provide more specific sources and numbers.--Zakronian (talk) 23:37, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

[blog.aacl.com/document-of-the-committee-of-cham-albanians this] is the document of Cham Anti-fascist Committee, conducted in 1946, when they were expelled. You can read there were they were majority, or big minority.217.24.247.227 (talk) 12:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Please also read this: "Στην διάρκεια του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου η περιοχή υπέφερε από τα στρατεύματα κατοχής τα οποία κατέστρεψαν εντελώς την Ηγουμενίτσα και συνεργάζονταν με ντόπιους Αλβανοτσάμηδες. Η εκδίωξη τους μετά την απελευθέρωση έφερε ανακατατάξεις και νέους πληθυσμούς από τα ορεινά της Θεσπρωτίας και άλλα μέρη της Ελλάδας, οι οποίοι πύκνωσαν τον πληθυσμό της Ηγουμενίτσας." It is from Igoumenitsa`s official page, igoumenitsa.gr. It says that when chams were expelled there was a riconfiguring of population.balkanian (talk) 12:53, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

"Parapotamos was inhabited by Muslim Turk-Albanians until 1944 who were driven off by the rebels (who it is known that they had joined the conquerors)." the official site of the municipality, www.parapotamos.grbalkanian (talk) 12:59, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Official site of sagiada, sagiada.gr:"Από το 1950 με πυρήνα λίγα σπίτια που φτιάχτηκαν από το κράτος , δημιουργήθηκε το καινούριο χωριό κοντά στη θάλασσα και τον κάμπο που από τα χέρια των Αλβανοτσάμηδων πέρασε σ’ αυτούς και άλλους πρόσφυγες από την Ήπειρο. "balkanian (talk) 13:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

e-sivota.gr:"Το 1850 κατοικούνταν από 40 τουρκοτσιάμικες οικογένειες. Παράγει λάδι, βελανίδια και ψάρια. Ονομαζόταν Μούρτος από το όνομα κάποιου προκρίτου ο οποίος φορολογούσε και λαφυραγωγούσε τα διερχόμενα εμπορικά πλοία επί τουρκοκρατίας. Σήμερα κατοικείται από Έλληνες που ροβόλησαν από τα ορεινά χωριά της Ηπείρου."balkanian (talk) 13:09, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

You see the problem here i guess, only Albanian or Greek sources so far. Nothing neutral and reliable. I will only bother with the latter, one by one:

in igoumenitsa.gr only Graikohori village is specifically mentioned to have a decreased population due to the leave of Chams. In the demographics archive it is clearly stated that Igoumenitsa's population increased while the whole of Thesprotia saw a decrease by 31%, all these from 1913 till 1951. Note that the decrease is not and cannot be attributed only to Chams, many leftists left for bigger cities to avoid persecution and discrimination after the civil war.

in sagiada.gr before the paragraph you copy-pasted here it says : "Το 1943 οι Γερμανοί μαζί με τους Αλβανοτσάμηδες του γειτονικού μουσουλμανικού χωριού Λιόψη, έκαψαν το χωριό και οι κάτοικοί του σκορπίστηκαν στα χωριά προς τα βόρεια ενώ όταν τέλειωσε ο πόλεμος οδηγήθηκαν από το στρατό στην Κέρκυρα για την περίοδο του εμφύλιου. Γύρισαν λίγο πριν τη λήξη τους αλλά δεν τους επέτρεψαν να κατοικήσουν στο παλιό χωριό αλλά σε καλύβες στην παραλία."

From the two paragraphs we understand that the old village was destroyed by the Germans in collaboration with the Chams that inhabited the nearby village of Liopsi. The new village was created near the sea and a part of the land used was fields owned by Chams. So no Cham village existed in the new location, only plains, and we know that because of their religion they had the biggest and best pieces of land from the Ottoman period although they were an overall minority, a part of their land was confiscated before WW2 but anyway, i just mentioned it as a hint.

in parapotamos.gr : we can conclude that the village was inhabited by Chams, and they probably were a majority.

There is no article for Sivota, the site states that in 1850 it was a small Cham village. Should we link Sivota with some other place ?

To my understanding only Parapotamos should have an Albanian name in the lead, funny, it's the only name that's completely different, all the other are clear transliterations or are closely connected with the Greek ones. I refrain from any further changes to the names for now, if you find any serious book about the issue please mention it here. I don't think the name additions you propose will stand for long. --Zakronian (talk) 01:24, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

On syvota, see e-syvota.gr and see the history section. On the other hand, on Igoumenitsa, there is a reference too. It says that there were albanians in Igoumenitsa (who collaborated with nazi). About Sagiada, the village was rebuilt nearby, but it is not a new village, it is a rebuilt village. On Parapotamos, we can conculde that the village was entirely albanian, by the way. This are official greek sources, but I agree with you that they are not reliable. But, they would not increase the number of chams, they would decrease it, so they may be referenced in here. I don`t know if I made my point clear?balkanian (talk) 12:13, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

lol, i was wrong both for Parapotamos and Syvota, the articles are for the modern municipalities, not the villages from which they took their names, have you heard of the recent "Kapodistrias plan" ? where e.g. 10 villages are "united" in one municipality for practical reasons. Syvota municipality has another village as its administrative center, Plataria. Now for Igoumenitsa, no, the only positive conclusion about notable Cham presence is in Graikohori village which is not part of the town. From your quoting there is nothing to conclude, it speaks about the area not the town, which btw was an insignificant group of settlements untill the end of the first half of the 20th century, besides this there are NO figures connected with the phrase you claim as proof. As for Sagiada yes it is a rebuilt village, neither the new village nor the old one is linked with important Cham presence, the only thing it says is that there was a nearby Cham village named Liopsi, from which the Germans got help, and that some Cham owned land was used after Chams had left, not Cham houses, just fields. So you're free from me to make new articles about Graikohori, Parapotamos, Syvota and Liopsi villages and add any Albanian names you have. If you still can't accept the fact, then ask help from an administrator. I believe i am fair with the intepretations, ofcourse the ideal thing would be to have sources that don't need any intepretation, hard to understand when you have passed the OR limit. --Zakronian (talk) 13:41, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

About Parapotamos, the official site of the municipality states that, so if you do not want to add the albanian name in wiki, ask the municipality to get rid of the sentence (joke). More references: In the town of Igoumenitsa, Albanian language is still spoken, by a minority of population. by miranda vickers and james pettifer. [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arditbido (talk • contribs) 15:18, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

About Filiates: The muslim albanian town of Filiates. Badlands - Borderlands: A History of Northern Epirus/Southern Albania - Page 120, Tom Winnifirth, ISBN 0715632019, 9780715632017 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arditbido (talk • contribs) 15:30, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

"The market towns of Filiates and Paramythia were mainly Albanian in speech", and this is by your loved NGL Hammond, in his book "Epirus: The Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas", page 27balkanian (talk) 15:43, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Hammond is a worthy source, i will be able to verify it. For the rest about Parapotamos i can't explain better than i already have. What's the new arguement about Igoumenitsa ? That a sizeable minority lives there now ? or that a mentioning of a modern Albanian speaking group is proof of a notable Cham presence in the past ? You can't derive any of the two. --Zakronian (talk) 04:05, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok, so we agreed about Filiates and Paramythia, sourced with Hammond, don`t we? About Parapotamos, I got your point, but the official site of the municipality in its history section, says about the chams. This site, contains history about the municipality, not just the village, or town. So, cham albanians are mentioned in municipality level, and the name is relevant. About Igoumenitsa, we have tow reasons to add the name. FIrstly, that there was an albanian minority (the chams), for whom we do not have a source about the number. and secondly, there is still an albanian-speaking (maybe having a greek seld identification), so the name should be added as local variant of the town.217.24.247.227 (talk) 15:07, 31 August 2008 (UTC) The above one is me.balkanian (talk) 16:36, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes i believe we can use it as source, it would be helpfull if you quoted whatever text you think is relevant in the page the phrase above is mentioned, as i said i will be able to check it myself in the near future, be sure you mention the right page number in the reference. For Parapotamos it would not be accurate to add an Albanian name to a modern municipality that wasn't created from a single village, if you knew about the "Kapodistrias plan" you could understand better, my village in Ioannina for example belongs to a new municipality which took its name from an ancient city, the area it existed is more than 15 kilometers from my village, more or less the same distance seperates it from other villages of the same municipality. You can enrich the article and add it while mentioning Parapotamos village. Lastly, in Igoumenitsa i know for certain that if it really exists the Albanian speaking group is limited, probably some elderly people from the area's villages, you can't in any way connect this mentioning with a current or past notability without speculation. You can always request a third opinion on these matters. --Zakronian (talk) 01:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I know about "Kapodistria plan", but this is not my point. My point is that if a official website of a municipality states that "Parapotamos was inhabited by cham albanians", then "Parapotamos" would refer to the municipality, not only to the village, because it is the historical section of the municipalities website. about Igoumenitsa, the source states that there is still albanian speaking minority. We cannot assume that this is small or big minority, but we can assume that there is a minority. If there is a minority according to WP:NCGN, we should mention the name.balkanian (talk) 10:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry but i can't follow you anymore, how can it talk about a municipality when there wasn't any municipality, it is tiring to argue about every tiny margin you find to make speculations. Same goes for Igoumenitsa. You'll have to ask for help from an administrator who is interested or something, if you insist. I have nothing else to add for these sources.--Zakronian (talk) 11:28, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

About Igoumenitsa see also this, this and a lot of others.balkanian (talk) 11:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

The book's topic is not closely related to the matter but i think Rodogno is a reliable source, the statement is clear and i might be able to check his primary sources also. No problem with adding the reference from me. As for the other link, well, what should i say about it ? --Zakronian (talk) 19:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Having read the discussion, I am still not convinced that the Albanian name should be included per WP:NCGN. I have yet to see a source that says that the Cham presence in the city of Igoumenitsa is notable. While there were Cham villages in the area, Igoumenitsa to my knowledge has always been a Greek city. For those villages where Chams used to be a majority, we can include the Albanian name. Otherwise, if the Cham presence was minor, as is the case here, it should be removed. --Tsourkpk (talk) 16:47, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

We have tow references. The first states that there was a large albanian minority in Igoumenitsa, and the second that the albanian language is still used in the town. For every one of this reasons the name should be included as per WP:NCGNbalkanian (talk) 16:54, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

These two [2], [3]? You must be joking. The first is a book that is completely off-topic, and the second is a total joke. You will need better sources than that to prove there are indigenous Albanian speakers in town. Sources need to be reliable, and verifiable. A cursory search of "albanians igoumenitsa" on google books is not a reliable sourcing. --Tsourkpk (talk) 17:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Nope, its not them. It is this, which is a study about albanians in Greece, by James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers, and the first you mentioned, which is not out of topic, but a historical book.balkanian (talk) 17:04, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

I see. Vickers and Pettifer are acceptable. --Tsourkpk (talk) 17:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

POV pushing

There is an attempt for POV pushing by User:Factuarius, with sources like ELSME, which for sure is not a RS. He delets secondary RS, replacing them with ELSME, in order to make the article in compliance with Greek nationalistic POV.Balkanian`s word (talk) 15:31, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

In my edits I deleted not one source I left every source I found, I just added four new. Then Balk. delete them all, together with the added txt and replaced them with his txt in both four articles. One of the sources was indeed from ELSME which is not "a kind of a magazine" as he is thinking but the Hellenic Institute of Strategic Studies (HEL.I.S.S.) [4], a very prestigious body of studies with serious members. One of them is the ex-Deputy Chief of the Anti-Terrorist Service, Lt. General P. Laggaris who has write a report on the problem of Chams, with dates numbers and the like. Then he told me that "ELME is not considered a reliable source in wiki and cannot be added in any page" and delete it again with all the other references and all the txt, sending me a message starting with the words "Take it easy man." That is the story and everybody can confirm it from the postings. --Factuarius (talk) 16:04, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

ELSME is an NGO, and the article has no single source. Thats why it is unreliable. There are plenty of sources that you deleted, like Mark Mazower, Georgia Kresti, etc etc, living an article from a NGO, without any source in it. And thats because, it just concludes on your point of view.Balkanian`s word (talk) 16:09, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I deleted no sources I added four new. You deleted all four mentioning always only the ELSME's source (believing that was from a magazine). What about the other three you deleted? You put the sources you mention AFTER you deleted the four mine. This is not a way to examine an issue. Deleting everything you don't like and then sending ironic messages goes to nowhere. --Factuarius (talk) 16:47, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Which four? ELSME is an NGO and publishes a magazine, called PROVLIMATISMI, from which you took that reference. You do not even know where your source was written, what can I say?Balkanian`s word (talk) 16:49, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

The other source is Eleytheria Manta, which is in Cham Albanians and Miranda Vickers, which is accused by your fellow editors as an albanian nationalist lol. So, a summary of Cham Albanians in here, is just the best we can do, if we want to avoid POV. But, you dont.Balkanian`s word (talk) 16:53, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Gentlemen, please calm down and stop reverting each other. As Fut. Perf. says, this will get you nowhere except the exit from WP. May I propose this as a basis for a neutral wording?

"Until the Second World War, the town and the wider area had a mixed population of Greeks and Cham Albanians. During the Axis Occupation of Greece (1941-1944), some local Chams actively collaborated with the occupation forces, forming the Këshilla organization and participating in anti-partisan sweeps and reprisals. Others however joined the Greek Resistance, fighting in the ranks of the leftist Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), while the majority remained uninvolved. Nevertheless, in 1944, as the Germans withdrew from Greece, the right-wing EDES guerrillas accused the entire Muslim Cham population of collaborationism, and consequently expelled them to Albania as a collective punishment."

What do you think? Constantine ✍ 17:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Agree, by adding that "and consequently expelled them to Albania as a collective punishment, killing about 2 thousand Chams in the process."Balkanian`s word (talk) 17:10, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, amended to "...as a collective punishment. Over 2,000 Chams died during this exodus." Let's see what Factuarius thinks. Constantine ✍ 17:17, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I am ok with that.Balkanian`s word (talk) 17:18, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Guys, there is a much simpler solution to all this. This article is about Igoumenitsa, not the Cham Albanians. We do not need to turn the articles on igoumenitsa, margarity, parga, etc.. into content forks of Cham Albanians. If something, like a massacre of Greeks or Chams occured specifically in Igoumenitsa, then it can be entered here. Otherwise, if a passage concerns the Chams in general, it really belongs in Cham Albanians. In this article, we discuss Igoumenitsa. Thus it is sufficient to mention that a Cham minority lived in Igoumenitsa and was expelled by EDES at the end of WW II. Particularly tendentious, however, is what the Albanian editors are doing by cutting and pasting the same text in Igoumenitsa, Paramythia, Margariti. This is ridiculous and must stop. These articles are about specific towns, so we only include something that specifically occured in those towns. --Athenean (talk) 17:29, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Just a notice on "...is what the Albanian editors are doing by cutting and pasting...", that was a Greek editor doing that, and I just simplified it. So, copy pasting withoutn national charachter.Balkanian`s word (talk) 17:33, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

As for the notable people, the solution is even simpler. Per WP:NOTABLE, verifiable English-language sources must be used to establish notability (this is the English wikipedia, yes?). The Vlora source is simply not going to cut it. I'm sure these signatories to the decl. of independence are ultra-notable hero-figures to our Albanian editors, but this is not the Albanian wikipedia. To the remaining 6.6 billion people on the planet, this means nothing unless sources are used. --Athenean (talk) 17:38, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree that the article is primarily about the city, but a) this topic has now come up, and it must be dealt with and b) since it is relevant to the history of these sites, we can't simply solve it by deleting this. Personally, I would have no problem with retaining a trimmed-down version stating that they lived there and were expelled (with the proper links for anyone wishing to learn details), but the reason is important, as the present dispute illustrates. As for notability, personally, anyone can add anything who has done something notable enough to keep his/her article from being deleted for lack of notability. There are lists on countless Greek location articles with local painters, MPs, etc who don't even have an article. I know that the OTHERSTUFF policy applies, but still. Constantine ✍ 17:44, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

There were murders, disappeareansies rapes kidnappings burned villages and lootings here. There where 2,109 official convictions for all that. I am not ready to forget everything I know for being just good boy. These are official documented facts. Saying nothing about is madness. The Greeks lived with them for decades without killing them, rape them or looting them, they started to kill, rape and looting. Is what you proposed all the story? Anyway I do insist for the Thesprotia towns to include these official numbers and the phrase "after the liberation they (the 2,109 officially convicted) succeeded to evade prosecution for collaboration and atrocities by fleeing the country" who can denied it?. For Paramithia also nobody can denied that "Due to the persecutions the Greek state honored the city including it in the list of the four martyr and heroic cities of Greece (together with Kalavryta, Distomo and Kommeno)" that's a fact go to the ministry and ask, go to the official towns site and see who deny it? Why to hide something that nobody can deny? --Factuarius (talk) 17:45, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

The present excerpt is a proposal, it does not make any claim to being the TRUTH(TM)... And yes, all these things happened, but not on one side, unfortunately. The collaborationists' activities are covered under "reprisals". IMO, the numbers ought to go, as they are already more fully documented in the relevant articles. As for Paramythia, we can certainly add this, if there is a source. Constantine ✍ 17:50, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Factuarius you are one inch from breaking the 3RE rule, so let us discuss the matter and if you can provide us with english reliable sources then all changes will be accepted--Sarandioti (talk) 17:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

BTW, Sarandioti, one important note: the problem with Factuarius' sources is not that they are Greek, as you imply, but that they are not necessarily RS and verifiable. Bear that in mind, please. Constantine ✍ 17:55, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

So are we then going to cut and paste the same text in Igoumenitsa, Parga, Margariti, etc..? We are then turning these articles into content forks of each other and of Cham Albanians.--Athenean (talk) 17:56, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Not necessarily. Let's first agree on a common version which affects all articles, and then we can see about phrasing. Either way, content duplication appears to be inevitable. BTW, as far as ELESME is concerned, it is certainly a usable source as it is a credible organisation which represents the Greek POV. For numbers of victims etc however, more sources would be required. I am still awaiting more concrete proposals from Factuarius. Constantine ✍ 18:01, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

In that case, we should try to include as much town-specific information as possible. I just don't want the same text cut and pasted across multiple articles. As for notable people, I stand by my comment. Too bad for those articles on other Greek locales, they need cleanup as well. --Athenean (talk) 18:05, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Constantine what I am saying is that giving only the "2,000" Chams and not the numbers of the greek victims we are saying only the half of the truth is this OK? Sarandioti to discusse it with who? I thought it was a difference between us.--Factuarius (talk) 18:04, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

ELSME can be used only when we are talking about the Greek POV, Constantine. Should we use in here, Chameria Organization articles too? ELSME is a NGO and thus if it is the same as using articles from Chameria Organization. As for the numbers of the Greek victims, find RS and use them, nobody will stop you.Balkanian`s word (talk) 18:07, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

As for the notable people, can you please tell me where does WP:NOTABLE say that it should be an english source?Balkanian`s word (talk) 18:09, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

To Factuarius: I can't say I disagree. I pretty much expected that you would object on that account, that is why I initially left the numbers out. Now we have two choices: include numbers (which means that you'll have to get a couple of other sources backing up concrete figures) or leaving them out. My position is that the numbers are not really the point here, as Athenean noted. BTW, My note to Sarandioti was merely a reply to his stressing the "Greek"-ness of your sources as somehow disqualifying.

To Balkanian: ELSME is a think tank, and its members are chiefly retired officers or officials, so that their view could be seen as representative of the Greek government's, i.e. the "semi-official Greek view", which I think you'll agree it is. There is a difference between that and an advocacy organisation. Either way, I am not proposing it as a paragon of objectiveness ;) For the people, nowhere, which is just my point to Sarandioti. Anyway, what about these numbers? Do you really hold the 2,000 death toll that important in this context (i.e. city articles)? Constantine ✍ 18:16, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

The issues about Factuarius's sources are 2: a) they are from a greek organization, whose history shows clearly that it certainly is NOT NPOV, therefore it is NOT reliable by wikipedia standards b)this is merely a translation from a greek source. Factuarius, please find an ENGLISH source, and then we can discuss this. You said this is a "matter between us" This is not an albanian-greek issue, this is an ENCYCLOPEDIA which we all try to maintain NPOV. Bear that in mind.