Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common (language)


 * 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 redirect. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 04:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Common (language)

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This article appears to be an in-universe plot repetition without any referencing or notability. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 22:57, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, more for being completely unsourced, than for anything else. It's not much of a topic, a passing reference to a plot device that allows people to travel to new worlds and instantly talk to the people there, not much different than Star Trek's "universal translator".  Kind of sad, isn't it?  The common languages are called "common", "common", "common", "common", "standard", "basic" and (Tolkien gave it some thought) "Westron".  Mandsford (talk) 23:50, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Redirect to lingua franca Will (talk) 00:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep this is a nomination as "inuniverse plot repetion" for an article without one word of plot in it. It rather servesas a term for a common feature of many notable fictions. But at present it's basically a disam page, and really needs a considerable expansion. DGG (talk) 01:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Will; an article might be made about this but the current one isn't even close. JJL (talk) 01:31, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I know, "redirects are cheap" and all that, but the title of the article is not "Common language", but about 'Common', a name of a fictional language. It's possible that there's some link to this is in the article about, say Dungeons and Dragons, or Star Wars (I highly doubt it), but redirecting from D & D to a serious article about lingua franca would probably lead someone to create a trivia section about "linguas franca in popular culture"; and as trivia, this ain't that interesting.  Mandsford (talk) 17:37, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect It would make this place a lot more easier.--Pookeo9 (talk) 21:00, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect then, if it would make for a more easier place. Seems like the most easiest solution. Mandsford (talk) 22:03, 1 February 2008 (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.