Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Circle of commas


 * 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. Barely any content to merge but everyone is free to add a useful mention to Bi-directional text. I'll redirect in case people do actually look for this term. —Wknight94 (talk) 13:24, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Circle of commas

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No evidence (as far as I can tell) exists that this bizarre curio is notable. The circle of commas ( &#1161; is its HTML escape) serves to reverse the direction of text that occurs after it (see Bi-directional text). You can see it in work here (it took me a while to figure out what a gnaborretni was, although I've heard of an interrobang), and also here.

While a neat (and very annoying) trick, I doubt that it is a notable topic, and the article itself borders on violating the notion that Wikipedia is not a directory of the internet. Grace notes T § 00:47, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge & Redirect to Bi-directional text, it's the character that makes it possible after all. Burzmali 01:21, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't see what beyond the name is worth merging to bi-directional text, and the name is unreferenced — according to the links provided, the proper name is COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN. My incorrect guess from the title was that it had something to do with comma (music) and circle of fifths... —David Eppstein 02:48, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * A bit of background on the article's title: I had moved the page from its old title (which was the character itself) to Circle of commas, because that was the name bolded in the article's lead, and it is more in line with the naming conventions regarding punctuation. "Circle of commas" could be the common name for the combining Cyrillic millions sign (just as "left guillemet" is the common name for the left-pointing double angle quotation mark), but this fact is unreferenced, and it only returns 5 google hits. Grace notes T § 03:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:N. There is probably an article in the Combining Cyrillic Millions sign (although Cyrillic numbers is as yet not very helpful), but this isn't it. For starters, it's incorrect, as the character itself is not responsible for reversing text (it's the control codes that are often cut-and-pasted alongside it that do that). Secondarily, it shouldn't be about this trivial aspect, but about the sign itself, why it was once used, and why it is today obscure. --Dhartung | Talk 03:32, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. My first response was, "Uh, what?"" I'm amazed it has an HTML escape code, but it just doesn't make much sense. I think WP:SNOW applies here. Realkyhick 05:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * ‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉ Keep and expand. This is really weird and I think people might want to know more about it. --Metropolitan90 05:17, 1 September 2007 (UTC)‬‬‬‬‬
 * Actually, I admit that WP:ILIKEIT is not a good reason to keep. Merge and redirect to Bi-directional text instead. --Metropolitan90 05:21, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless significant coverage from reliable, independent sources are found Corpx 04:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Disambiguate - I have taken the liberty of writing my proposed version, at the page. I have also fixed the edit view of this AFD. --Random832 04:53, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. I think this article may be a joke. Delete it. • Lawrence Cohen  13:32, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 10:30, 8 September 2007 (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.