Talk:Drač County

DYK nomination

County

• The title is a made-up term of Antidiskriminator.
• Knjiga o Kosovu isn't RS:
• by Jasna Dragović)
• Despite its relative backwardness and isolation, Kosovo’s status as a focus for Serbian nationalism and flash point for armed conflict has generated a large literature describing the region’s history. The Kosovo problem is evoked from a Serbian perspective in Dimitrije Bogdanović, Knijga o Kosovu.
• author of a very influential study called Knjiga o Kosovu, which was published among the numerous revisionist writings of 1985 was Dimitrije Bogdanovic
• Bogdan Popovic was a conservative politician and essayist of the interbellum period in Serbia i.e not RS.
• Milosevic's propaganda newspaper isn't RS. Btw the article constantly explains to the reader the national rights of Serbia.
• As no part of that area was ever ceded to Serbia there is no territorial succession.

--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 20:49, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

• The title of the artcle is defined according to "Wikipedia:Naming conventions. "An otherwise notable topic has not yet received much attention in the English-speaking world... If this happens, follow the conventions of the language in which this entity is most often talked about".
• Will you please provide link to the RSN which defined Knjiga o Kosovu as non-rs. Btw, the links you provided talk about authors opinion about Kosovo, not Durres or Durres County.
• Will you please provide a link to the policy which support your claim that conservative politicians and esseyists of the interbellum period in Serbia are not RS? Or to RSN which support such claim?
• The text written by contemporary historian Čedomir Antić is published in Večernje novosti in 2010, four years after Milošević died and ten years after he lost all his power.
• The word "ceded" is not used in the article. On the contrary, it is clearly emphasized that this county was established " on the part of the territory of Albania occupied from Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War."

Taking above mentioned in consideration, there are no POV issues proven or disputes, so please remove tags you added to this article. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:34, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

This is not a subject that hasn't received much attention, but nobody has ever even documented it as an event. Even in Yugoslav works the Slavic translation appears only once in Knjiga o Kosovu. Please stick to RS and NPOV i.e you can't write an article about the activities of the Serbian army and use only Serbian dubious sources by authors, which are labeled as nationalists/revisionists etc. by everyone else. Btw you have only one sources mentioning the phrase, however, as there's no documentation in English you shouldn't translate Okrug to match the English translation of the modern county.--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 21:50, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

I still can conclude that I was right when I wrote that there are no POV issues proven or any disputes of factual accuracy. Please remove tags you added to this article.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 23:03, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

In order to remove the tags I'll have to remove most of the article's content. That being said the topic exists only in wikipedia and isn't documented at all anywhere else. At the very most there's a sentence in the partisan work Knjiga o Kosovu about this okrug. Btw the infobox will go too, because there was no intermediate rule between Ottoman Empire and independent Albania.--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 23:26, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Since the name had to be made up by Antid, it's clear that there is no such thing as a Serbian Durres County. As far as I can tell, Durres was just part of an occupied zone, much like northern Iraq was occupied by the Americans where they set up their own governors (Jay Garner) and the Americans claimed that Iraqis were celebrating their occupation by a foreign country. The parallels aren't absolute but it would be ridiculous to claim that northern Iraq is/was the 51st American state.--Gaius Claudius Nero (talk) 15:31, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Full protection

Per Antidiskriminator's request, I have fully protected the article for 5 days in the state it was in prior to the request (i.e., not giving Antidiskriminator the "last move advantage"). This is, of course, the WP:WRONGVERSION (as would the version Antidiskrimator prefers). Please work it out here on talk. Furthermore, please note that this article falls under the general sanctions imposed by the Arbitration committee on all articles related to the Balkans (see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia#Final decision) as such, administrators may impose, at their own discretion, sanctions on any editor working on pages broadly related to the Balkans if the editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. Qwyrxian (talk) 12:40, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Members of the administration of the Durres within Serbia's county

Besides already presented source, I listed below some additional sources which support information added to the article:

• Dinić, Dragoljub M. (1922), Prvi put kroz Albaniju sa Šumadijskim albanskim odredom 1912 : Prizren--Drač (First time with Šumadija-Albania division in 1912: Prizen — Durres (in Serbo-Croatian), Kragujevac: Šumadija, p. 84, OCLC 555240022, За председника општине Драча: Петра Ђурашковића из Драча. За чланове одбора: Христос Спиру, Имама Хусеин Ефендију и Филипа Серића.... As mayor of the city of Durres: Petar Đurašković from Durres. For city council members: Hristos Spiro, Imam Husein Efendi and Filip Serić. {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp=, |month=, and |chapterurl= (help)
• Lazarević, Milutin D. (1934) [1929], Naši ratovi za oslobođenje i ujedinjenje: Srpsko-turski rat 1912 godine (Our wars for liberation and unification: Serbian-Turkish war of 1912 (in Serbian), Belgrade: Štamparija "Zlatibor", p. 187, OCLC 65691219, а 16. стигао је у Драч, где је био одушевљено дочекан од стране тамошњег хришћанског становништва (On 16th [29th by the modern calendar] he arrived in Durres where he was enthusiastically welcomed by the local Christian population {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
• Korsika, Bojan, Srbija i Albanci : pregled politike Srbije prema Albancima (Serbia and Albanians : survey of policy of Serbia toward Albanians, OCLC 603117412, Posle osvajanja Albanije ona pod naslovom "Drački okrug" ponosno objavljuje: "Vrhovna komanda je već obrazovala srpsku oblast, koja nosi naziv Drački okrug... Arnauti će dobiti sve slobode, i u toj pravoj državnoj slobodi će se oplemeniti.... After Albania is captured it was proudly announced under title "Durres County": Supreme command already established serbian district which name is "Durres County"...Albanians will have all rights and they will be refined in such real free country {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |doi-inactive-date=, |nopp=, |laysummary=, |chapterurl=, |month=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)
• Petrović, Dragoljub S. (1990), Heterogenost stanovništva determinanta složenosti rešenja političkog statusa albanskog prostora (Heterogeneity of the population as determinant of the complexity of solving the political status of the Albania) (in Serbian), pp. 237–271, OCLC 439985244, Potom, 29. novembra 1912. formiran je Drački okrug u okviru kojeg su srezovi - Drač, Tirana, Elbasan i Lješ. ... On November 29, 1912 the Durres County was established and in it there were established the follwing districts - Durres, Tirana, Elbasan and Lezhe {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |doi-inactive-date=, |nopp=, |laysummary=, |chapterurl=, |month=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)

--Antidiskriminator (talk) 17:42, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Corruption of some army officers and lost initial enthusiasm of Christian population

There are a lot of useful information about the situation in the Durres County of Kingdom of Serbia presented in this source:

Korsika, Bojan, Srbija i Albanci : pregled politike Srbije prema Albancima (Serbia and Albanians : survey of policy of Serbia toward Albanians, OCLC 603117412 {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |doi-inactive-date=, |nopp=, |laysummary=, |chapterurl=, |month=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)

Here are some short notes about it:

1. Corruption of some army officers and robbing of local population which rebelled. The above mentioned source explained that there was serious corruption of some army officers led by the commander of Albanian division in Durres. Army was in charge for taxes collection and he organized some of his officers to collect taxes (and often rob the local population) and kept part of those taxes for themselves. When supreme command realised what was happening that commander was forcibly retired but in the meantime there were cases of robbed and mistreated local population which sometimes rebelled because of that.
2. Initial enthusiasm of local Christian population soon was gone. Christian population of part of Albania annexed by Serbia was very happy after "liberation" from Ottoman Empire. They even organized some manifestation in honour of the "liberators". But soon their enthusiasm was gone because:
   1. they realised that all taxes are kept by army instead to be used to finance needs of the local population
   2. that wealthy local Ottoman beys managed to keep their old privileges like there is no change of the system from feudalism to capitalism. Therefore local Muslim beys were very loyal to the new authorities who protected their position and propriety.

But the final consequence was that other local population (lower and middle class) was unhappy with new authorities and after the army of Serbia retreated some of the members of former administraion were even killed, like mayor of Kavaja whose name was Leonida Mineo. Besides him, several Albanians and Greks were killed under new adminitration from the same reason. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:41, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

This administrative unit existed

There are numerous sources presented on this talk page and the article (many of them during the period when this article was protected) which confirm existence of this administrative unit. Users who claim that it did not exist have not presented any source which support their claim. That means that tags for disputed accuracy and neutrality are not supported with sources.

Taking that in consideration I conclude:

• this administrative unit existed and this article should have appropriate infobox
• there is no reason to keep this article marked for accuracy and neutrality because no sources are presented which support adding such tags

--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:01, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

At this point, I recommend that anyone who still believes that this is a POVFORK take it to AfD. Qwyrxian (talk) 01:36, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

The title Durrës County shouldn't be used because we don't have any English-language sources about the subject, but few Serbian-language ones using the term Okrug, which has many possible translations i.e the title should represent the sources, not the user's perception of the proper translation of the title. Infoboxes are used for entities that formally existed as part of a state structure, however, the territory that the Serbian army was in control of for about half a year was never annexed by Serbia i.e there's no Ottoman Empire>Kingdom of Serbia>Albania administrative transition, because until the London Conference of 1913 all of the territories of the Ottoman Empire in Europe were parts of the empire, while after the treaty these provinces of the empire were included in Albania.--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 13:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

1. "The title Durrës County shouldn't be used because we don't have any English-language sources about the subject" - Can you please provide a link to the wikipedia policy which forbid article titles translated to English language?
2. "the territory that the Serbian army was in control of for about half a year was never annexed by Serbia" - That is totally incorrect. All territories Serbian army captured in the First Balkan War were annexed by Serbia. Some of them are still part of Serbia, almost hundred years after the First Balkan War started.
3. "while after the treaty these provinces of the empire were included in Albania" That is also totally incorrect. Even after the treaty of London, almost all Ottoman provinces occupied by the army of the Kingdom of Serbia remained in Serbia. Will you please be so kind and read Wikipedia:Competence is required.
4. "until the London Conference of 1913 all of the territories of the Ottoman Empire in Europe were parts of the empire" - Good. In that case please be so kind to add the same information you added to this article ("an unrecognized entity") to the article about Provisional Government of Albania? --Antidiskriminator (talk) 14:18, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Translating a term, which has multiple definitions and insisting on using your translation, while there's an article for the term okrug is WP:OR. Antid. Serbia never annexed any of the areas mentioned in this article. The term okrug is also translated as district as in the case of the Federal districts of Russia. However, this subject hasn't been covered by English-language sources making it wrong to pick one of the possible translations and using it as if it represents the proper translation of the term. Whenever such a decision can't be made the term should be used without any translation and that's not uncommon at all (Central Administrative Okrug etc.)--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 14:36, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 14:25, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

And the point of the article is?

Practically not a single English source even for the (pompous) name and a clear WP:FORK of Serbia in the Balkan Wars. Also is way to far in WP:OR territory. Aigest (talk) 20:54, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

You maybe did not notice the recommendation left by uninvolved editor who is also administrator. I will repeat it to you: "At this point, I recommend that anyone who still believes that this is a POVFORK take it to AfD." Therefore I will remove tags you added into this article without presenting any source which dispute any information presented in this article. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:21, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

I have mentioned in the previous section too many times that the title is your translation, which is nowhere to be found in English-language sources so could you please reply without WP:IDHT to my comment?--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 21:23, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

This was reply to Aigest's comment. If you believe that this article should be renamed, there is a procedure for that.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:32, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Are you saying that you're even going to reply to my comment about you using a translation about the subject that exists only on-wiki?--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 21:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

The existence of the subject of this article is supported by numerous sources I presented. I did reply to your comment. Let me paraphrase it if it was not understandable: If you think my translation is wrong and if you believe there is better translation and if you believe that this article should be renamed you are free to follow the procedure for renaming the article.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Only warning, Antidiskriminator: you're being tendentious and failing to actually engage in the dispute. Rather than address the concern that your particular translation is OR, you're ignoring the issue and placing the burden unfairly on others. If you continue to game the discussion rather than actually justifying your actions (for example, why you chose the translation you did), I will block you under the WP:ARBMAC). Qwyrxian (talk) 22:05, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

And I should clarify my earlier comment: when I recommended taking this to AfD, I didn't mean to say that that was the only option now available to editors who disagree with the article. I made that statement because 7 days had passed with no discussion. If editors are willing to discuss the issue here, then they should do so. There will not be edit warring over the tags. I still believe that an AfD may be the appropriate choice, but it's not the only one, as it depends on the exact complaint. ZjarriRrethues, are you suggesting that the article simply needs to be renamed, or are you, like Argeist, suggesting this is an unsavable POVFORK/OR? Qwyrxian (talk) 22:11, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

I thought that it was obvious that I translated the subject of the article the best I could.

The name of this administrative unit on Serbian language is Drački Okrug. There are two words. Drač and okrug. Drač is name of Durres on Serbian language. Okrug means county on english language. I think that I did not make mistake when I translated it to county because if you go to google translate it gives two alternative translations of serbian word okrug to english language: district and county. Therefore the translation of name on serbian language Drački okrug is County of Durres or District of Durres.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

I followed the practise of another article about administrative divisions in Serbia. Subdivisions of Nedić's Serbia. It clearly says: The country was divided into counties (Serbian: okrug) and districts (Serbian: srez). I could not use district as name because this administrative unit already had four districts (srez). Therefore I used county as name.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:26, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

(unindent)The article should firstly be moved to Durrës okrug and then we can step-by-step deal with the rest. The meanings of the work okrug vary from district to department and as there's not any English-language source about it, use the term okrug as many other articles do. Btw while you're translating srez as district, Google Translate translates it as county etc. The infobox, which was added by Antid., removed by Majuru and finally reverted by Antid. when you fully protected the article uses the 2004-2010 Coat of Arms of the Republic of Serbia as the coat of arms of a ..1912 entity. Even if it resembles the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Serbia it'd still be wrong to use it. That being said the Coat of Arms was probably that of the royal family[1], but obviously they didn't use it as the CoA of every single province of their state.--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 22:31, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Let us focus on the translation issue in this section.

I already explained that I did not make mistake when translating to English language and I explained what was the practice with administrative units of Serbia from that period. Will you please why do you think we should rename this article to Durres okrug? --Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:40, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

The editors, who wrote Subdivisions of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia may also think that their translation district is the right one but Antid. I've been asking for English language sources that say that this entity in Durrës was called a county and instead of providing that source you're not even trying to find it.--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 22:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

I already explained that I did not use sources on English language, but translated the name to English language the best I could, having in mind the current practice. I don't have any source on English language for the translation of name of this administrative unit to English language. Not for the County of Durres, nor District of Durres nor Durres Okrug or any other name on English.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:52, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Don't you think that we should stick to the sources and not translate them as we see best? Many articles in wikipedia are titled X Okrug.--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 22:55, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't agree. I already explained why I did use that translation and what is the current practice with administrative units of Serbia from those days. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 23:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Regarding the correct translation of okrug, if, in fact there is "one" translation, and therefore the title of this article, either a Requested Move or an Request for comment are probably the best way to go. Things you'll want to account for are the name we use for current and historical administrative subdivisions of Serbia (see Districts of Serbia and Subdivisions of Nedić's Serbia), other information about Okrug, and our policies on WP:Article titles and verifiability. However, ZjarriRreuthues, if you eventually plan to argue that the article should be deleted, you may simply want to ignore this and move to a deletion discussion (no reason to have a big discussion about the article title if the underlying article isn't going to survive). Note that I have absolutely no opinion about the name, translation, or suitability of the article itself. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:36, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

During the Balkan wars, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia conquered many Ottoman territories. In every single village occupied usually there were journal reports of crowds cheering, welcoming etc (big deal!). Up to the moment where political borders were decided by London Treaty the regions occupied were under military rule, as usual. And this situation lasted only for a couple of months, while occupying troops retreated to their respective countries. Now imagine articles for every single small region shortly and very temporarily occupied in every war. That makes nonsense since usually A. it doesn't fulfill notability issues and B. the content is usually content fork of other articles, (in this case Albania during the Balkan Wars and Serbia in the Balkan Wars) C. it leads to POV issues and disputes and we can add a D. in this case being an WP:OR. If you find any interesting info on that issue just merge it to the above mentioned articles. Aigest (talk) 08:53, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

A, the article about this administrative unit fulfills the notability issues because there are numerous sources about it. B, the article about this administrative unit is article about administrative unit which existed and is not fork because there are no other articles about this administrative unit C I don't agree that the article about this administrative unit necessarily lead to POV issues and disputes. D This article is not OR because every information presented in this article is supported with referenced sources. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 09:44, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Let me see:A Wikipedia:Notability "Significant coverage" means that sources address the subject directly in detail, so no original research is needed to extract the content. Practically every single sentence in the article points to different references varying from 1922 to 2010 magazines and newspapers and this constitutes WP:SYNTH and WP:OR. Now which peer reviewed source address the subject Durres county(?!) directly in detail? Apparently there is none. Moreover you get no google hits on that topic except wiki source. B As itself is not notable (you have no story to tell Antid) the article is clearly a fork content of Albania during the Balkan Wars and Serbia in the Balkan Wars. If you think that such generic sentences as "the Serbian troops were welcomed" "they appointed local governors and "they retreated" deserve to be in another article separated from Albania during the Balkan Wars and Serbia in the Balkan Wars than you have no idea of what fork content is for. As for C POV issues we have 1922 Serbian newspapers variant vs International Committee investigations (see Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars) and that is just one point. D is explained above. Aigest (talk) 10:57, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

This administrative unit existed and deserves its article. I presented numerous sources which directly mention this county which prove it existed. I already provided numerous sources and quotations and explained on this talk page that there are sources covering the subject in details. This is an article about administrative unit. There are no other articles about this administrative unit in wikipedia.

Qwyrxian, will you please be so kind to explain me what should I do now in order to avoid being blocked? --Antidiskriminator (talk) 11:23, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Right now you're fine, Antidiskrimnator; I appreciate you answering the questions addressed here. Of course, there's still disagreement. Aigest, if you think the article should be deleted, you're going to have to nominate it for deletion on the grounds you listed. The issue is clearly contentious enough to need an WP:AfD; if you don't know how to set that up, let me know and I will assist. If you don't wish to pursue that, and want to pursue a merge or something else, there are processes for that, too. If you don't want to pursue those options, but just want to change the article text, perhaps an RfC is in order (if you can specifically frame what needs to be changed). Once you indicate whether or not you want to AfD, then we can reconsider the naming issue that ZjarriRrethues raised. Qwyrxian (talk) 14:47, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

CoA in the infobox

Infobox former subdivision is used in this article and one user expressed his concern that I used wrong CoA in this infobox. This administrative unit was subdivision of the Kingdom of Serbia and it had the same as coat of arms of modern Republic of Serbia. I added that coa because because as far as I know the counties of the Kingdom of Serbia did not have their own coa but they used coa of the Kingdom of Serbia.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:47, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: rename. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:18, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

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Drač County (Kingdom of Serbia) → Drač County – To the extent that this is a real county at all, rather than a pov-fork of a military campaign, it should be at Drač County; parenthetical disambiguation is not needed because there is no other similarly-named county. bobrayner (talk) 18:42, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

• Oppose. The entity was a property of the kingdom so the overlord is appropriate. --Здраво свијете! (talk) 18:50, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Perhaps you could log back into your main account. bobrayner (talk) 18:56, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

• Support per nomination. 23 editor (talk) 19:04, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support No need for the bit in brackets, we're not disambiguating anything. IJA (talk) 16:52, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Lack of resistance

I removed some content claiming that the local population was thrilled by the arrival of Serbian troops. The two sources are not academic (one newspaper and one essayist of the early 1900s). Other sources, reliable ones, are needed. Oikonomopoulos might have sth of value, but I can not read it. Ktrimi991 (talk) 11:25, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

The removal was unjustified. The source is not newspaper, but the historian Čedomir Antić. Newspaper only published his text. The other source is carefully attributed. I will restore text.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 19:27, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

@Antidiskriminator: Albanians are committing genocide against Serbs, Albanians wanted to be under Serbian rule etc. All of these coming from you sourced only to Serbian sources of the great conflicts era. Either find some RS or move on and make other improvements to the article. Ktrimi991 (talk) 19:32, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Furthermore, Oikonomopoulos Petros-Emmanouil says that due to Jakob's intervention to the Serbian authorities several Albanian guerrilla units were saved and avoided execution. Why were there guerrilla units without having resistance? Ktrimi991 (talk) 19:43, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

This is thousandths time that you dispute reliability of the sources based on the wrong (Serb) ethnicity of their authors. I will repeat: go to RSN and reach consensus that sources authored by authors of the wrong (Serb) ethnicity are not reliable. Local population resisted after people who governed them misused their position to get rich mostly trough corruption and criminal activities. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 19:58, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Instead of repeating the never-ending POV, respond to my question after reading this. Ktrimi991 (talk) 20:40, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

OK, here we go on another Balkans battlefield episode. For start, it would be really good if editors could leave their nowadays biases apart and understand that in different historical periods people were in diffeerent moods. I am not going into edit-war and reverting because of one reason: I hope this will make us all expand this article much more.

Now, Albanian editors, I understand your problems, but they are created because of your understanding of the historical events from the nowadays perspective and feelings. You are in believe that something like Serbian authorities being well received in Durres is impossible, because, you witness nowadays hateriot. Well, I will remind you that the Serbian-Albanian conflict is something quite recent having in mind history. Have you heard of any conflict between the two in Middle Ages? Did you know that there was an Albanian contingent fighting under the command of king Lazar in the Kosovo Battle against Turks? Did you know most Albanian nobility were in synchrony with Serbian one and active on Serbian court? Did you know that Albania was probably the most peacefull region (best accepting Serbian rule) during Serbian expansion of Czar Dushan? Actually, can anyone date the first conflict between Albanians and Serbs? I read quite a lot of history and I don´t remind any conflict of such before early 20th century. I also remind reading in several instances how the problems with Albanians during Balkan Wars were centered in Kosovo where Albanians stood on Turkish side, while in Albania itself, Serbs found no resistance and were receved well by local Christian population.

@Resnjari: and others, aren´t you a bit too excited on deleting content here? Because at your edit-summary Resnjari, you seem to have missunderstood completelly things. Nobody is saying Serbian actions are justified. That sentence is just saying the justifications Serbian governament gave for its actions. Something usefull actually and totally neutral, even, lets say, more on your side, cause it says the action of taking Durres is irredentist (and may be not). FkpCascais (talk) 21:16, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

@FkpCascais:, you misunderstood the edit. First its unsourced content, second its written in a POV way to say the least and third the whole sentence was original research giving a Serbian perspective based upon...????? In regards to Serb actions during the Balkan Wars, as long as material is sourced from reputable scholarship i have no issue with it. Below is a discussion on exactly that matter. Best.Resnjari (talk) 10:22, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Did not you say some days ago that Serbian/Albanian sources are not generally reliable to make claims regarding the two nations' history when not supported by other RS? Make up you mind. Ktrimi991 (talk) 21:21, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Did I edited or reverted? What I am saying is that that issue is not controversial so there was really no need for you to remove. But I agree that the article needs proper expansion, so I don´t really care how the article stays for some hours/days, old versions are always there stored anyway. FkpCascais (talk) 22:12, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

PS: Don´t ever edit my comments. I have no problems reporting if I noetce this again. FkpCascais (talk) 22:15, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Re FkpCascais : imo, some of the text may have been useful, and I will take a look at this in a bit when time permits. Nonetheless, the impression that there was (a) a lack of resistance among Albanians to Serbian conquest and (b) this meant that they supported Serbian rule (?!!) is obviously not NPOV. Regarding different national scholarships, you're correct in that they boht have issues, but they are not equivalent. In this case, Stojanovic[2]] does allude to some of the issues present on the Serbian side -- and the interesting fact that during the communist period, Serbian authors did admit that the Serbian occupation produced Albanian resistance and rebellion".

Now re Middle Ages, this is offtopic but interesting, and you're correct, Serbo-Albanian relations were much more positive then. One factor was common foes (Byzantines, later Ottomans -- though Albanians were always divided into pro-Byzantine and anti-Byzantine factions). Another factor was that Serbian rulers allowed Albanian local nobles wide autonomy. Albania was more prosperous then but I wouldn't say "peaceful", given constant warring between all the tiny Albanian fiefdoms ruled by Dukagjinis, Dushmanis, Zaharias, Bua Spatas, Muzakas, Zenebishis, Arianitis, Gropas et cetera. Alas, on the other hand, if we are to trust fuzzy Medieval sources, Serb rulers might have also done quite some damage to Serbian-Albanian relations by turning Catholics (probably the majority among Albanians at the time) into a persecuted class . Hence one episode where we have a quite passionate Dominican monk writing about how "Latins and Albanians" were waiting for a "French prince" so they could liberate themselves from rulers who were "odious Slavs" (lol) [[3]]. But anyhow.--Calthinus (talk) 22:36, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Oh my God, the link to the text you provided is so full of biases. To start with, if it was easy for Albanians ot conquer Rascia, why didn´t they even tried it for centuries? Nor it was "easy" neither Albanians had any strenght or political organisation at the time even capable of thinking of that. Next, " I have never seen a palace or home there made of stone or of brick except in the coastal towns of the Latins." You really believe this? By 1332 there were already: Golubac Fortress, Prizren Fortress, Kovin Fortress, Jeleč, Jerinin Grad, Grabovac, Jerina's town, Brangović, Gradište (Binačko), Diana Fortress, Kurvingrad.... just take a look at List of fortifications in Serbia and those are from Serbia, not including the ones from territories of Montenegro and Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina old Serbian kingdom was located in. Than says it is inhabited by only two people, Albanians and Latins... Come on, why you bring me such a biased garbage? I don´t even hope you really believe in it. FkpCascais (talk) 23:12, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Re FKPc: Of course I don't really believe that. It represents what Dominican priests were saying about Albania and "Rascia" in 1332. Texts from the Middle Ages are always obscenely biased (see also Anna Comnena for the Orthodox equivalent to this). Some aspects of it are probably true. Dushan and other Serbian rulers were concerned about the spread of Catholicism within the Western and Southern parts of their realm and did repress Catholics at points. Here is a more modern take [[4]]. --Calthinus (talk) 23:23, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes, it was alegedly a Dominican priest at that time that wrote it, but it is clear that writing is just an personal opinion full of missconceptions and unknolledge Sufflay, a well known anti-Serb obsessed Croat either found o made up himself.

The thing is that Catholics were repressed, but all Catholics were. It was a religous repression, not at all an ethnic one.

Returning to the point here. We have to see things from the perspective of people from the time we are dealing here. By 1913 there were hardly any historial of wars between Serbs and Albanians. So Christian population in Albania seemed not to have seen Serbs as enemies, and given the fact that Ottomans favoured Muslim-converted population, I see why did them see Serbs as better option. FkpCascais (talk) 00:02, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I did not "change" your comment. Someone should indent them. You have deleted Albanian sources and added Serbian sources to make controversial claims repeteadly. No further warning should be made:Never treat Serbian and Albanian sources in different ways. Sources provided by Calthinus enforce what sources given by me say. It is pointless to continue arguing over sth simple to understand. Ktrimi991 (talk) 06:25, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

@FkpCascais, on indentation, @Ktrimi has done nothing wrong as no text was altered. See (WP:INDENT). Anyway on your comment about Christians in Albania and relations with Serbs, though i don't doubt that parts of those populations in certain areas held such views, credible scholarship is needed. Otherwise this thread is just an interesting discussion about "perspectives" but not much else about additions or addressing issues with the article.Resnjari (talk) 10:47, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Ok, if you guys insist on that unsourced sentence being in, the word "justified" has got to go because its (wp:weasel). I made tweaks and added a citation needed tag.Resnjari (talk) 14:42, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Have you heard the expression "Don´t teach the gospel to the priest"? How long are you here on Wiki? Well, I am over a decade. I´ve been trough Mediations, ANI´s, all sort of situations. If I added my comment that way without indentation, I certanly did it delibeately for a reason, so touching senior editors comments without their permission is a no-no. Clear? If you have an issue, ask me. FkpCascais (talk) 20:18, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

About the issue here, and that is what matters, I cannot access some sources I remember some years earlier were available. I will bring here all I find on the matter. FkpCascais (talk) 20:58, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

• Comment - No reliable sources are presented to support POV that Serbian forces met resistance of local population of Durres when they liberated it. There is consensus of reliable sources that they were received friendly by Christians and even predominantly Muslim local authorities instructed the population to wait Serbian armies as friends. ("Interim government called on the country's cities to wait Serbian armies as friends, as their rights could be resolved only between the two respective governments." European Scientific Journal, "Elbasan, the political life during the period November 1912-March 1914, Lira Gjevori, Msc “Aleksander Xhuvani” University, Elbasan, Albania.) The same source explains that "Serb forces began to encourage hatred and conflicts between Orthodox and Muslim citizens in the city of Elbasan" and list places where in December 1912 began resistance. "Durresi governed by Esat Toptani", is not on the list. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 06:54, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

POV that Serbian forces met resistance when they liberated Albania Serbia liberated Albania (later you changed it to Durres)? Hey, where do you take these ideas from, frankly? Sources are provided above, read them. Your source refers to Elbasan. We are concerned about Durres. Ktrimi991 (talk) 07:09, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

No, the source I provided refers to all "country's cities".--Antidiskriminator (talk) 07:17, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Nope, read the quote you provided. It refers to whay the int. gov. did, not to what local people did. Ktrimi991 (talk) 07:21, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Well i had a read of the source [5] @Antidiskriminator provided. @Ktrimi is right about it being about Elbasan, so additions here are wp:synthesis. The section reads the following (pp. 18-19). "Interim government called on the country's cities to wait Serbian armies as friends, as their rights could be resolved only between the two respective governments. Despite this, the Serb forces captured the Elbasan on 29 November 1912, with the promise that came amicably and temporarily, but their commitment they will not hold. National flag removed from official buildings, and Serb forces began to encourage hatred and conflicts between Orthodox and Muslim citizens in the city of Elbasan." There is a preceding paragraph that talks about why the interim government urged people in Elbasan to do this due to the war situation. Now Anti since you like this source but its about Elbasan i'm guessing there are no objections to additions from it to the Elbasan article to provide information and context. Yes/No ?Resnjari (talk) 10:47, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I don't know the precise borders of this region. If Elbasan was part of this "county" then this part is ok to part of this articly, if not then I have to agree with Resnjari.Alexikoua (talk) 13:52, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Parameters for this article are needed in terms of what is it really trying to cover. Few if any source refer to a "Drac county". A reader or editor is left wondering is this article about the Serb period of administration/(or occupation -depending on point of view)" in Albania during the Balkans Wars or is it about this geographic entity of which scant information exists? If its the 2nd then it is a small article, if its about the Serb period of administration/(or occupation -depending on point of view)" in Albania, maybe the article should be renamed to better accommodate scope and scholarship. Otherwise it becomes a free for all.Resnjari (talk) 14:13, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Just to clarify: The quote I presented does not point to county's cities, but to "country's cities". The text I presented treats Albania as country even before it was proclaimed as such.

Nevertheless, if anybody here is able to point to reliable sources about battle of Durres in which brave Albanian patriots resisted Serbian liberation of Durres I volunteer to write that article and bring it to GA leve at least. If nobody presents reliable source which contradicts that Serbian capture of Durres without any resistance within reasonable period of time I will restore the cited text which says so.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 20:02, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I can't find something about a battle there, Kondis offers some info about the Serbian advance [[6]]: p. 85: The main Serbian force won a great victory at Prilep, north of Monastir, then turned northwards and occupied Prizren, Djakova, and Ipek and then by a rapid march over Mirdita pushed on towards the Adriatic which the Serbs reached on November 15 at Alessio. There they met with a Montenegrin army and jointly occupied Durazzo (November 30) and laid siege to Scutari. and about the Albanian opposition (p. 88): "Kemal from Bucharest went to Vienna, where on November 10 he vis­ited the English ambassador and informed him that he was soon going to Va-lona to attend a meeting of the Albanian chiefs, who intended to draw up a memorial of their wiches to be sent to the Great Powers. He further told him that the Albanians were determined to maintain the integrity of their country, and they would fight to the bitter end rather than allow the country to be dis­membered. If Serbia, he continued, was allowed to absorb a large position of Northern Albania it would be followed by a continual state of unrest and in­ surrection until Austria and Italy were forced to intervene." p. 91: "On November 27, the threat of the Serbian army forced the delegates who were in Valona to convene the following day a na-tional convention before the arrival of all the delegates." There is info about Albanian resistance but from September 1913.Alexikoua (talk) 21:47, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

All that is presented above is synthesis as the article is titled "Drač County" and the sources don't mention a "Drač County". To make this a article about the wider area when Serbs militarily entered the area, it would be good if the article got renamed to something like Serb occupation of north and central Albania (1912-1913) -the title would be in line with other such titles on Albania like German occupation of Albania etc. No country outside Serbia recognised the existence of a "Drač County", not at the London conferences etc. It would make sense for it to be cited within a section of larger article about the Serb military presence in north and central Albania. Otherwise if this article exists sources that only refer to the entity should be used, absent that all this other stuff is not relevant. @Alexikoua:, @Antidiskriminator:, on the resistance matter in general, the Luma district of northern Albanian offered heavy resistance to incoming Serb forces and they in turn where involved in razing the region and killing many civilians. See Mark Levine, 2013 pp. 107-108. ([7]) on a book about genocide published by Oxford.11:43, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

This article is not about the occupation of northern half of Albania, but about the administratiive unit Serbs set there. You are rying to change the scope by focusing on Albanian reaction or resistance. FkpCascais (talk) 14:37, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

What administration? Did this "unit" even govern its territory? Alas, isn't Luma part of said territory?--Calthinus (talk) 23:04, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

The one that ruled unopposed Drac all way until Aistrians didnt send an ultimatum. Unfortunatelly you were still not born to fight against it... FkpCascais (talk) 00:13, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

FkpCascais whew, spicy. But for your information, if I was born then, I would not be in Albania or any former Ottoman province for that matter (none of which do I have any connection to), but rather within the boundaries of a country that happened to be allied to Serbia...--Calthinus (talk) 04:00, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

I remind the participants in this discussion that this section is dispute re the following text:"The Royal Serbian Army captured Durazzo (Albanian: Durrës) on 29 November 1912 without any resistance". Please avoid writting huge walls of text, especially if it is not related to this dispute. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 23:24, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Classic WP:IDHT strikes yet again. "Without any resistance" has been refuted. --Calthinus (talk) 23:41, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

"Occupation of S. & C. Albania" would be a wrong title, Albania's borders were delinated in January 1914. As such, such geographic definitions are anachronistic, not to mention that this provisional administrative region possibly included parts of Kosovo.Alexikoua (talk) 23:42, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

@Calthinus: So far "the Serbian army advanced and entered Durazzo".Alexikoua (talk) 00:10, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

I am still wondering -- what were the boundaries of this "county"? Surely they included more than the city of Durres.--Calthinus (talk) 04:00, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

No one recognised this entity called "Drac county" apart from Serbia. This entity was an occurrence in a wider part of events related to the Serb occupation of north and central Albania (1912-1913) and changing the pagename would be in line with other articles on Albania like the German occupation of Albania. It would allow wide coverage for this wp:stub article. @FkpCascais: on Albanian resistance, the events in Luma more than disprove the notion that resistance never occurred (see: Levine, 2013 pp. 107-108. [8])Resnjari (talk) 07:36, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

About the recognition, it is countriesw that need recognition, not internal administrative units such as counties (Serbia was internally divided by counties). Also, international recognition is irrelevant for having an article or not, many unrecognised countries have articles.

About resistance, no one is saying Albanians offeerd no resistance. Only that in Durres, there wasn´t resistance. FkpCascais (talk) 14:54, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

But there is an issue there. Sources in this article claim that a "Drac county" encompassed 4 districts of Durrës, Lezhë, Elbasan and Tirana. We have no map to know how big they were and in which one of those Luma fell in. See that's the problem with this article is parameters are not defined. There are to many this or thats. Its a stub article that has has been around for many years and lacked growth apart from those Serbian academic sources. There is an article Serbia in the Balkan Wars that can easily incorporate data if people don't want to rename this article.Resnjari (talk) 15:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Re the name, I did a GB search and I see that none of English sources uses "Drač county". Serb occupation of north and central Albania (1912-1913) would be a good descriptive name. Can Antidiskriminator provide English sources that use the current name of the article so we all have a clearer picture of the situation? Ktrimi991 (talk) 07:47, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

The topic of this article is a county of Serbia which is notable topic and deserves its own article. Serbian 1912 occupation of Balkan ottoman territories is separate topic and includes much bigger area. I am opposed to renaming this article about notable topic to Serbian occupation of portion of Ottoman territories. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 14:38, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

It ain't notable, only a handful of (Serb) sources mention that it ever existed and even then its only a sentence or two that they devote to this entity. Since this article was created, more or less that is the amount of data it contains for many years now and meets the definition of a wp:stub. Since you mention Serb occupation of Ottoman territories during the Balkan wars maybe a article could be created on that with date being place there or alternatively data from here can go into the existing Serbia in the Balkan Wars articles and this being a redirect.Resnjari (talk) 15:13, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Obviously there was no "north & central Albania" because Albania's borders were delinated in January 1914, not to mention that this Drac County obviously included parts of modern Kosovo. This was Ottoman territory occupied by the advacing Serbian forces. A correct term will be something like "Adriatic front (Balkan Wars)".Alexikoua (talk) 10:04, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

@Alexikoua:, if where going to take that line of reasoning then there was also no "Drač County" as well. Occupational Serb authorities in the area set up an entity that no country recognised (is there evidence that it was given international recognition?). I also fail to see a source claiming that this 'county' included parts of northern Kosovo (which parts, where?). As i said earlier with this example German occupation of Albania though a world war two statelet of a Kingdom of Albania was created by Axis powers, the wikpedia article page name does not posses that name. It simply refers to WW2 occupation of Albania as that statelet was unrecognised in the international world system and a creation of occupational forces. Serbia's tenure over this region between 1912-1913 was unrecognised internationally. Albanian independence was recognised in 1913 treaties as being from the Ottoman Empire, not Serb occupational forces who were made to withdraw.Resnjari (talk) 11:25, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

@Alexikoua:, ive given it some thought and Adriatic front (Balkan Wars) maybe be a way out of the impasse. What do other think ?Resnjari (talk) 13:10, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Personally I'd go further Resnjari. Good idea Alexikoua. I'd support Adriatic Front -- but I'd also raise that this could be confused with analogous Greek and Montenegrin ops, so perhaps Serbian Adriatic Front would be best. It makes no sense to divide pages based on modern political boundaries. Additionally, if it is not clear that this operationally separate, a merger with Serbia in the Balkan Wars may be in order.--Calthinus (talk) 14:20, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Though i'm still open to the Adriatic Front proposal, Calthinus actually that's a better suggestion as the article has been a wp:stub for many years and basically with few sources ever citing this entity which in outside Serb sources is non-existent. A transfer of data to the Serbia in the Balkan Wars makes sense for this wp:fork article.Resnjari (talk) 15:18, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Editors who believe that this article should be deleted are welcome to initiate AfD process. Until then any other form of deletion of this article will be reverted.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 15:55, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

No one is saying it should be deleted. Merging its content with another article i.e Serbia in the Balkan Wars is a possibility as its been a wp:stub for years with very few sources (Serb only) ever mentioning it in a sentence or two.Resnjari (talk) 16:31, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

As far I can understand the article deals with the military advance, the presence and the withdrawal of the Serbian authorities during the Balkan Wars. @Calthinus: The Greek BW operations are known as Epirus front.Alexikoua (talk) 16:25, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

As you refer to a military advance @Alexikoua which article are you referring to, this or the Serbia in the Balkan Wars one (as i can't see anything about a military advance here)?Resnjari (talk) 16:31, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Fair point Alexi. I also think this article should be about the military operation. That is something concrete, rather than this "county" that no one seems to be able to properly define. But we are not the only ones. bobrayner seems to have made that point, with the apparent agreement of IJA, four years ago...--Calthinus (talk) 16:43, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Please stop removing text. Wikipedia rules say all points of view should be included. I changed the text so now it is clear that Serbian sources claim that. If you find contradicting sources, we can see what to do (remind that Serbian sources refer there was no resiistance in Durres, they are not saying there was no resistance somewhere else, so bringing sources speaking of resistance in other places is invalid). FkpCascais (talk) 16:36, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

FkpCascais, can you explain how the city of Durres by default equals "Drac county"? Those Serb sources talk about the city not this 'county'. Additions are synthesis. At the very least sources should refer to "Drac county". If you want to make those additions there is a page which fits the bill: Serbia in the Balkan Wars.Resnjari (talk) 16:39, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

All points of view should be included, but not when they violate other policies -- in this case, WP:SYNTH. --Calthinus (talk) 16:43, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

(ec) Resnjari, besides being irrelevant because the text clearly refers to Durres city (capital of the established country), you must check your eyes, because you seem to fail to see "Drački okrug" (Drač county) written in the sources. Please look better. FkpCascais (talk) 16:44, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Calthinus, can you plese explain how they violate SYNTH? FkpCascais (talk) 16:46, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, i see Drac i.e Durres, not Dracki okrug. Those sources refer to the city, not a okrug.Resnjari (talk) 17:12, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

So, if the article is Albania we cannot add nothing about entrance of Mussolini troops in its capital Tirana, because... why actually? Durres was the capital of Drač County, so the establishment of the county was done there. Things are obviously tightly related. FkpCascais (talk) 17:21, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

These are the sources used: First says U Draču je osnovan okrug (In Durres, a county was formed). FkpCascais (talk) 17:27, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

Well yeah, otherwise anything goes. When i add content to a article i try to make sure that that it incorporates something about that term otherwise its wp:synthesis.Resnjari (talk) 17:27, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

It is directly related to the issue. What more then "In Durres sa county was establisheed" and then talking the entire text about it you need? FkpCascais (talk) 17:39, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

This is blatant WP:IDHT. Yes, the sources and the text of the article refer to the city. The county was established after Serbian army liberated Durres. Serbia had to first liberate Durres and then to establish county. Please revert yourself and restore cited text.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 17:22, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Please Anti spare the "liberate" talk. Also its not WP:IDHT. Other sources you have presented refer to Drac, not Dracki Okrug. Heck ifs that the standard where using anything can go here. Is this article about a county with such a name or about the Serbian military presence in Albania or the city of Durres itself?Resnjari (talk) 17:27, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Incorrect. The source clearly says "In Durres a county was formed". Also, your argumentation is simply making disruption in order to get the info removed, but the argument that events in Durred are not related to the Durres county are ridiculous. The sources talk about the establishment of the couny in Durres. This issue is just a hair distant from being reported. FkpCascais (talk) 17:36, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Enlighten me. Where in the quotes given for this section [9] which some editors want, where does it say okrug, opstina, oblast or anything of that nature or the terms Dracki Okrug ? I see Drac and thats about it.Resnjari (talk) 17:52, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

7th paragraph near the middle of the text you have a sentence saying "U Draču je osnovan okrug, a u Tirani, Elbasanu i Lješu srezovi." (In Durres, a county was formed, while in Tirana, Elbasan and Ljes, srez´s were formed.") Srez iz a lower administrative unit. FkpCascais (talk) 18:32, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

My reply is below in the new Novosti section.Resnjari (talk) 19:50, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

"The Serbian army entered the city without facing resistance"

Is this above statement sourced or not? Another issue is that even if Durres was taken without resistance this doesn't mean that there wasn't any opposition at all. For example German forces occupied Paris "unopposed" on 14 June, 1940, however major battles took place in the surrounding area.Alexikoua (talk) 16:13, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

This statement is possible however at least one source saying so is problematic. In theory if we have an array of sources saying so this is not a problem to state -- what is a problem is sources published in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the interwar period, saying falsified and obviously ridiculous things ("Northern Albania 25% Slavic", look at that flock of pigs migrating south for the winter), extrapolating this for their opinions that either the Christian or the entire Albanian population "welcomed" the Serbian army which was doing a campaign of violence and intimidation against Muslim and Catholic Albanians and Bulgarians, all of this having been recorded by Carnegie (which theis source likely falsified). --Calthinus (talk) 18:53, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

By reading Oikonomopoulos he states that the Serbian Army entered the city "without resistance". Nevertheless this doesn't mean that the local population was friendly & no wonder in the next paragraphs he describes the initiative of the local Orthodox bishop to save members of the Albanian opposition.Alexikoua (talk) 11:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes Alexikoua that is a good way to state things, and largely in line with Ktrimi991's version of the page. --Calthinus (talk) 17:11, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

It's sad that Ktrimi has changed his mind though an explanation is welcome.Alexikoua (talk) 14:50, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

It is sad to see that you misunderstood the situation. The article has to give the full context of the situation (the reason of the lack of resistance etc). Ktrimi991 (talk) 14:54, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm curious @Alexikoua. Does Oikonomopoulos mention a "Drac county" in his work or just refer to Durres and the Serb military presence? Because if there it no mention of a "Drac country" then your addition is wp:synthesis here and better suited for the Serbia in the Balkan Wars article.Resnjari (talk) 14:55, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Oikonomopoulos states that the Serbian units entered the city "without opposition". If there is additional information to be added sure, go on. But this part of the story is cited.Alexikoua (talk) 14:58, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Your quote just added "Δυρράχιο". Where does it say like Δυρράχιο eparchia or something like that. Remember the article is about a "Drac county" not Durres the city. It appears your edit is wp:synthesis.Resnjari (talk) 15:07, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Can someone provide a full quote so we can work out a solution? Ktrimi991 (talk) 15:09, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

That day the Serbian army captured the specific city, the same information stated by Oikonomopoulos. I fail to see any mention about the "County" in this part of the article.Alexikoua (talk) 15:14, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

So wait hold on, the source refers to a specific city, ok fine, but Anti created this page with the pagename of "Drač County". So wouldn't it make sense to have sources that yeah talk about the city but also refer the county as well so there is no issues of wp:synthesis or even wp:OR. Within the talkpage there were ideas about changing the article name to expand the scope. Anti refused to consider the idea. Work it out with here if the pagename can be renamed so it an encompass more material otherwise you already have an existing article that is suited for your edit > Serbia in the Balkan Wars.

The article states that "The Royal Serbian Army captured Durazzo (Albanian: Durrës) on 29 November 1912" however Ikonomopoulos states that "The Serbian Army captured Durrës on 29 November 1912, without resistance.". I'm afraid that's simple IDONTLIKEIT, or simply saying you don't like the last two words of this part. I'm not against additional material but unfortunately for you Durres was taken without opposition and this needs to be stated per ACADEMIC and SECONDARY.Alexikoua (talk) 15:47, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Your comment has not addressed the above question. Where does it say "Drac county" or Dirakho Eparkhia in Oikonomopoulos? Your source only refers to the city of Durres. As i said previously the edit is fine for the Serbia in the Balkan Wars article, but here it is wp:synthesis. Otherwise anything goes about the time. At the very least it should mention the county. Or initiate a pagemove that expands the scope of the article.Resnjari (talk) 16:01, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

This part of the article The Royal Serbian Army captured Durazzo (Albanian: Durrës) on 29 November 1912.. ("without opposition" the part you don't like) doesn't say a word about Drac County. I'm afraid that without the last two words the source is misrepresented. Yes there is SYNTHESIS and POV when a source isn't fully presented as in this case.Alexikoua (talk) 16:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Im looking at all your comments and still cannot see where the Oikonomopoulos source refers to a "Drac county" or even Dirakhio eparchia for it to qualify it being in this article? I am yet to see comments that answers this.Resnjari (talk) 16:22, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm looking at this part of the article. No wonder there is no "Drac County". The problem is that you don't like the last two words from this part of thee source.Alexikoua (talk) 16:27, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Can someone provide a full quote of the source? After that we can work out a solution that satisfies everyone. Ktrimi991 (talk) 16:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Yep it's fully accessible. By saying full quote I assume you mean the entire paragraph.Alexikoua (talk) 16:34, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Just so we are clear its not the article, but the source Oikonomopoulos itself that you have based your sentence on. Does it mention "Drac county" or just the city of Durres?Resnjari (talk) 16:38, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

@Resnjari: The specific sentence says Durres (city), exactly as the correspondent part of the article.Alexikoua (talk) 17:04, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Ok, i just read Oikonomopoulos, not just page 80 but page 79 before it and page 81 after it so in case i didn't miss anything. It only refers to the city and there is no word/s indicating or referring an administrative unit going by the name Drac okrug or Dirahkio eparkhia or using other words in Greek for an administrative unit. Your edit is ok for Serbia in the Balkan Wars. In here its wp:synthesis. If you want it for this article, have a pagemove and get a title that allows for wider scope.Resnjari (talk) 17:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Of course, one reason Oikonomopoulos might not have referred to any such Drac county is because it ... didn't exist. It was surely an intended administrative unit, but was such an administrative government actually set up during a war when Serbia had only tenuous hold on the territory included (the boundaries of which are still... mysterious)? Still waiting for any corroboration of this... because if such evidence is not forthcoming, this entire page belongs on Serbia in the Balkan Wars--Calthinus (talk) 18:06, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

I can not access that source, otherwise I would not demand from you to provide a full quote of the relevant paragraph, not the entire page. Anyhow, I am going to act like you were able to provide a quote and I read it. The article is about a county (which, as Calthinus said very well, perhaps did not exist). Regarding Durres itself, read the following link that describes how the Serbian army faced with resistance in all over Albanian populated territories it attacked, Durres being among them. The discussion whether the Serbian army faced with resistance or not is in the context of political debates involving Serbian nationalism [10]. Ktrimi991 (talk) 18:35, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

But we can't even add that source because the pagename is "Drac county" and that source does not mention a county. Either this article gets a pagename move to allow for more scope or this is as far as the article grows being a stub and including only those sources that cite a "county".Resnjari (talk) 19:42, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

This article is about the county which was formed by Serbian authorities in Durres during 1912 and 1913. The source speaks about the moment Serbian troops entered town. It is directly related. If you continue insisting playing dumb and dont getting it, it will be considered disruption and POV editing on your behalve by manipulating in order to get an infomation you don´t like excluded. Enough is enough. FkpCascais (talk) 01:43, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

FkPCascais Do not threaten other editors in a content dispute. It is a gross breach of WP:Civility. @Resnjari If we consider the events of Durres to be appropriate for this article, there still is a need to clarify why Oikonomopoulos firstly writes that the Serbian army captured the city without facing opposition and then writes that due to Jakob's intervention, many guerrilla units were not executed. Furthermore, the two sources I provided in my previous comment elaborate on the matter: how there was strong resistance in Durres and how the discussion has a political nature being related with Serbian nationalism. Ktrimi991 (talk) 09:51, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Having that source is synthesis as it does not mention a Drac county not even in its Greek language form (if there was one). The source mentions nothing about the county, only the city. If were making decisions that sources don't need to mention the county, then anything gets added. Heck we don't even really know how big this entity was or where its eastern borders lay so what info can be included and what can't be included is up in the air about a a particular area. If i was add to this article the bit about Albanian resistance and the resulting massacres/scorch earth actions that the Serb army engaged in Luma, will editors be ok with that or say oh its not part of the article because there is nothing about a Drac county. The problem with this article is that the pagnename itself does not allow for wider scope. Its defined basically on a county with vague boundaries.Resnjari (talk) 13:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

In that case, we could add a "Background" section elaborating on the general resistance by Albanians, the reasons why the conflict happened etc. Ktrimi991 (talk) 16:51, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

FkPCascais is correct. This can't be more than clear that the entrance of the Serbian army in the city didn't face opposition. In fact that's a good information for Durres article too. Not to mention that Calthinus agreed here [[11]].Alexikoua (talk) 20:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

I read the Oikonomopoulos source and it talks about entrance to Durres the city and nothing about a Drac county . This article is about the county. Its a clear case of wp:synthesis.Resnjari (talk) 20:04, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

According to your rationale one article named Country of Drac shouldn't include info about the capture of the biggest city of this County (Drac/Durres). Quite relevant information, actually is a must have piece of the story.Alexikoua (talk) 20:37, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

The source says nothing about a "Drac county" only the city of Durres and does not refer to that city being in some county. The scope of this article is so vague its comic, but it still alludes to a county, not the city. I personally would like to add the part about Albanian resistance in Luma and the massacres perpetrated by the Serb army but see it does not mention anything about a Drac county. I advised you earlier your edit fits well at this article Serbia in the Balkan Wars that explains the wider context of the time.Resnjari (talk) 21:05, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Besides that, Vecernje novosti article clearly says in 7th paragraph "A county was formed in Durres" and they still insist in not getting it. WP:IDHT is disruption.It was told them several times already and they still insist tha they din´t read it! FkpCascais (talk) 20:47, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Ja razumen srpski (I understand Serbian). Your still standing by the Novosti source, one that has no footnotes and makes claims like a quarter of Albania's population is Slavic! Ayayaya !Resnjari (talk) 21:05, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

FkpCascais Instead of making pointless comments about perceived disruption, read what I wrote in my previous comment and give your opinion on that idea. Ktrimi991 (talk) 20:03, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Pardon me, but I took the opportunity to add this small part cited by Ikonomopoulos after above discussion with Calthinus. I'm not against further additions about Albanian resistance which occurred in the wider region (Lume etc.). See for example the capture of Paris in 1940, the city was captured unopposed but this doesn't mean that the local population was friendly to the new authorities.Alexikoua (talk) 08:33, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

I would suggest if someone still disagrees with the initial version (which included the "no resistance" part [[12]]) to fill a wp:rfc case.Alexikoua (talk) 08:36, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Novosti source

The first is an article by Novosti. Now within the article sure it mention that an okrug in Drac was founded. Of concern apart from it not being an acedmic article or that it does not have footnotes it has sentences like (i have placed translations as well):

• Odmazda je bila oštra, ali štetna po sliku Srbije. Londonski "Tajms" pisao je na osnovu glasina o spaljivanju čitavih sela, a u Austrougarskoj su štampane novine ("Albanische Korrespondenz"), koje su srpsku vojsku optuživale za masakre više hiljada Arbanasa i muslimana u Sandžaku, Makedoniji, na Kosovu i u Albaniji. Međutim, kasnije objavljen izveštaj međunarodne komisije o uzrocima i vođenju balkanskih ratova Karnegijeve fondacije za mir uglavnom nije potvrdio ove optužbe. [The retaliation was sharp, but harmful to the image of Serbia. The London Times wrote on rumors about the burning of entire villages, and newspapers ("Albanische Korrespondenz") were printed in Austro-Hungary, accusing the Serbian army of the massacres of thousands of Arbanas and Muslims in Sandzak, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. However, a later report by the International Commission on the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars of the Carnegie Foundation for Peace has largely failed to confirm this allegation.]

The Carnegie Foundation in its report did find insistences of massacres against Albanians in the Balkans and in relation to Albania events in i.e Luma etc. So first cause for concern with this source.

• Povlačenje srpske vojske iz Albanije imalo je značajne posledice. U to vreme nešto više od četvrtine stanovništva severne Albanije bilo je slovenskog porekla. [The withdrawal of the Serbian army from Albania had significant consequences. At that time, more than a quarter of the population of northern Albania was of Slavic origin].

Now what's this based on and i hope its not a recycling of the discredited Arnautaš theory, because the only Serb/Montenegrin cluster that became part of Albania in 1912-1913 was in the Vraka area and some people living in Shkoder. There was no 'one quarter of the population' being Slavic in areas coming under Serb rule. And even if Vraka did come under Serb control in that time the area contained only a few villages surrounded by Muslim and a dense Catholic Albanian population. Another thing during this time the Vraka area came under Montnegrin control, so Serbia was not even in control of the Vraka cluster, so apart from the few villages of what became the Albanian Gora area and the Bosniaks in two villages of the Shijak area, the rest was Muslim and Catholic Albanian and no Slavic people. Second cause for concern.

FkpCascais question: Lets say an editor used Albanian sources similar to the Serb one citing unsourced material and containing some questionable content, do you think it would be right for use in wikipedia?Resnjari (talk) 19:44, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

I fixed the edit, I added that it is Serbian sources saying that. Yes, I am allways OK to add local sources when said it is them claiming something. You can add everywhere "Albanian sources say X has done Y" what I am not OK is to add "X has done Y" just using local sources when is something controversial. FkpCascais (talk) 03:23, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

FkpCascais, this Novosti source lacks footnotes. Already there are two parts that are questionable based on unsourced material. If we add one part then other editors in future will use other parts of the Novosti source recycling fringe claims like the area of Albania that Serbia came to control in the Balkan wars had a population that was one quarter Slavic! I'm all for local sources provided they are credible and in cases like this where events are contested, academic sources are best to avoid POV issues. Otherwise a Pandora's box gets opened.Resnjari (talk) 13:23, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

I support Resnjari in this, lacking footnotes is a serious problem and working with fringe claims makes it even more dubious in terms of POV. Vargmali (talk) 16:09, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Not even the wildest Serbian irredentists would claim that 25% of Northern Albania was Slavic. And frankly, its account of the Carnegie report smells of falsification when the report said the opposite (and is cited on wiki!). This source is deeply suspicious, if it reports "facts" like these how can we trust it on anything?--Calthinus (talk) 16:35, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Whatever you say does´t make untruth that Serbian sources claim that. Restore the edit saying Serbian sources claim that, that is a fact. You cannot deny readers to know what Serbian sources say about the subject. FkpCascais (talk) 18:42, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Eh, actually, it is generally prudent to "deny" readers the pain of having to read material from clearly sub-par and trashy sources. Which seems to describe this one. Also, I'd rather not represent all Serbian sources with this travesty. --Calthinus (talk) 03:01, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

The sources speak about the Serbian occupation of Albania, the establishment of a county in Durres, and the events that happened there. So what travestry are you with? Also, please refrain from making perjurative descriptions, if you cannot express yourself in a civilized way, they end up describing more yourself than the things you refer to them that way. Večernje novosti is one of the main Serbian daily´s, you are nobody to label it as "trashy". If you have a problem take it to reliable sources noticeboard. FkpCascais (talk) 01:34, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

There lots of Albanian news outlets who publish pieces about Albs and Serb history. I am guessing you would be ok with that for use all over Wikipedia. Come on, realistically this novosti source does not even include footnotes and recycles claims of the population being a quarter Serbian. Disproven in credible scholarship long ago.Resnjari (talk) 14:02, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

As long as you say it is Serbian or Albanian sources saying it, yes, I am OK. FkpCascais (talk) 20:42, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Careful what you wish for. My issue with the Novisti article is it makes two claims which are problematic (as i outlined above) and the whole thing has no footnotes. What is the whole thing based upon?Resnjari (talk) 21:07, 6 November 2018 (UTC)