Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/بیوانفورماتیک


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Wizardman 21:46, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

بیوانفورماتیک

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Speedy declined by SoWhy two times, its time that English Wikipedia isn't a foreign language article. ApprenticeFan talk  contribs 14:03, 2 May 2009 (UTC) 
 * Keep for three weeks and see if someone will translate it. Seems to be an article on some sort of biological subject. After it's translated, we can decide if we want the article or not. I see no good reason to delete it before it can be translated. I posted a machine translation on the talk page. — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  14:56, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: I declined speedy deletion because while an article exists at fa:بیوانفورماتیک, I could not determine whether it's a copy from there or just about the same subject. I posted it at Pages needing translation into English, hopefully someone speaking Farsi will be able to compare them. Regards  So Why  15:03, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. The Farsi article linked by SoWhy has an interwiki link back to the English article Bioinformatics. The machine translation is consistent with the idea that this article is about Bioinformatics. We already have an article about Bioinformatics, so we don't need another one written in the wrong language. Since the Farsi Wikipedia has its own article on this topic, no transwiki is needed. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:42, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Obviously not English. Colonel Warden (talk) 10:14, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete We already have Bioinformatics covered. - Mgm|(talk) 12:07, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete; this is the Wikipedia english version. Clearly not English. PMK1 (talk) 13:05, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Provisional Keep, lets wait until someone who can read Farsi has a look at us to tell us whether any content can be salvaged either into our article or the article at fa.wikipedia. Lankiveil (speak to me) 10:27, 4 May 2009 (UTC).
 * Speedy delete (A2) per above. Already in the Farsi Wikipedia. MuZemike 17:07, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:20, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Relisting comment. The arguments that deletion should wait until the article is translated makes some sense. It now has another 7 days. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep I agree with the arguments that this be kept until we know what the article is about.  This could be a very important, wikiworthy topic.  But until it is translated, we can only speculate until it is wikiworthy or not. Give it a reasonable amount of time to be translated, based on how many Farsi speakers we have.  If not translated by then, or if translated and it has serious issues, delete.  Postcard Cathy (talk) 03:08, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Ah, this is an obvious  Strong Delete . —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johndowning (talk • contribs) 03:19, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Speaking as someone who actually contributes to Wikiproject Translate, I find the idea that "any content not in English should be deleted" is very irritating and annoying (as well as contrary to the usual Wikipedia practice, to the relevant guidelines, and to common sense). There are reasons we don't speedily delete material just because it's not written in English. Wait for a Farsi-speaker to translate it properly, and then check it against what we have at Bioinformatics, please.— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  07:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Bioinformatics per Redirect and add R from alternative language to the page. The history should be kept behind the redirect, so that there is no time limit for the arrival of a Farsi-speaker. Cunard (talk) 08:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 *  Keep until it is translated Rirunmot (talk) 10:45, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete translation can come from Persian Wikipedia page. Hekerui (talk) 16:57, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete This is the English-language Wikipedia. Nick-D (talk) 23:12, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Is there anything wrong with redirecting this article to Bioinformatics? Cunard (talk) 23:49, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems unlikely that anyone will search for 'بیوانفورماتیک' in the English Wikipedia; interwiki links would be more appropriate if they're not already in place. Nick-D (talk) 01:03, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've proposed the redirecting of this article because even though it's an unlikely search term, it's not improbable since "بیوانفورماتیک" probably means Bioinformatics in Farsi. There is strong precedent to redirecting non-English titles to their subject topics: see Category:Redirects from alternative languages. Cunard (talk) 01:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The category is misleading. There is some precedent (but not policy) for roman character sets redirecting to their articles, and some non-roman character set languages redirect too, but in each case I found they were proper names that redirected, not the common names for generic topics. As a policy matter, there is tremendous potential for abuse in creating a swath of redirects that only a tiny subset of the user base can understand, not to mention a correspondingly small benefit. Shadowjams (talk) 20:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Why are people advocating "keep until we know whats its about/its translated"?. We know what its about and we already have a detailed article about the subject. Why should we waste time translating something if its duplicated better elsewhere-- Jac 16888 Talk 19:24, 10 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - This is english wikipedia, there's strong evidence we have a topic on the same thing, and "wait for it to be translated" is not a good argument, particularly when you have 2 weeks in which to do it. How long do you propose we wait? Foreign language articles don't get a pass; if this were written badly in english it would have been gone now. Shadowjams (talk) 20:10, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.