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Igor, all I am saying is mention the source. I am not defending the current stats. You say the source is official, then just go ahead an mention it -- what's the problem??? Dori 00:46, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Dori I did, before you erased it...

http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Albanians&diff=0&oldid=1286838

Regards

Igor

I meant an external link. You didn't memorize the data did you? You must have looked it up somewhere. I could make up a source like that too, but I'd rather not. Dori 00:59, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I suggest you both have a quick read of Misplaced Pages:NPOV. If one source says 500,000 and another says 150,000, you don't have an edit war where each editor asserts a single figure, you write "one source says 500,000 and another says 150,000", then you both agree that that's a pretty accurate assessment and do some sort of virtual handshake, and then get on with doing more useful things. That's what NPOV is all about. -- Tim Starling 03:44, Aug 19, 2003 (UTC)

I'm fine with that. Dori 12:26, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)

P.S., please don't be intimidated: Dori and Igor are clearly the two experts on Albania here, not me. Edit what I've just done mercilessly, just try to write from a neutral point of view. -- Tim Starling

There are two articles about Albanians: "Ethnic Albanian" and "Albanians". This article is about ethnic Albanians inside and outside of Albania. The article Ethnic Albanian seems to suggest that there are ethnic Albanians only outside of Albania. I think this is wrong. The term "Albanians" is ambiguous between citizens of Albania (who may happen to be, e.g., ethnic Greeks) and ethnic Albanians, and this is the reason why "ethnic" is added. My proposal is merging the two articles. Andres 07:24, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

OK, I think I added that page before I knew about this one (when I first discovered wikipedia). Merging the two is not a bad idea, and it might avoid some confusion. --Dori 22:03, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Dori, the census results I am using is from the official Yugoslav census data, I have it all on one CD, I will try and find it on the net in the meantime, you can check any book which mentions the 1981 and 1991 censa, the data are the same all over.

Well finally you mention the magical source. Why are you opposed to citing it in the articles? Dori 22:01, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

PS, the preliminary 2001 Albania census results mention 3,087,159 people in the whole of Albania, that, naturally includes minorities as well, I rounded it off at about 3 million Albanians although depending on the source (CIA world factbook or Bethany) the percentage of ethnic Albanians is anywhere between 92 and 95% Albanian so that means anywhere between 2,830,000 and 2,930,000 ethnic Albanians in Albania although some Greeks would put at an even lower figure... Igor, 22:50, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

So why don't you explaing the reasoning. You can say that this is the estimate from this census based off of the estimated percentage of minorities. As I've said, if we are to use numbers at random, I'd rather use mine. Dori 22:01, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I found a recent Russian encyclopedic data

http://dic.academic.ru/misc/enc1p.nsf/ByID/NT0000102E

citing numbers we don't have in this article. The number of ethnic Albanians is stated to be 115,000 in the United States, 5,000 in Canada and 15,000 in Turkey. The year and the source are not mentioned. Andres 23:25, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I think this article could contain a survey of the ethnological groups of the Albanians. I mean G(h)egs and Tosks, and the "old" emigrants. And if this information is available, about tribes. (Just a desideratum.) Andres 08:17, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Albanians in Greece

This issue seems to be sparking an edit war. I wish to ask the involved editors (User:Theathenae, User:Albanau, and User:Bogdangiusca) to disuss the matter here instead of continually reverting the article. I am protecting the aritcle now while this discussion follows. Bratsche 15:50, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Bratsche, for some common sense. I'll be happy to participate if that's alright with you Chronographos 16:27, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

I think it's a wonderful idea, Bratsche.--Theathenae 16:36, 18 July 2005 (UTC)