Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Germanic-speaking Europe


 * 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   keep. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:31, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Germanic-speaking Europe

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I suggest to delete this article because of content forking. We already have an article for this topic (Germanic languages). Fakirbakir (talk) 15:05, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:25, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:25, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


 * oppose, trivially, as in e.g. Bantu peoples is not a content fork of Bantu languages, Greater Persia is not a content fork of Persian language (etc. etc.). The WP:UCN title for this is "Germanic Europe" (9,000 google books hits), "Germanic-speaking Europe" (46 google books hits) was imposed on this by people who do not understand neutrality or naming policy.  --dab (𒁳) 09:22, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose provided there is sufficient material to break out of parent article., the 2 articles do not cover the same topic. One is about Germanic languages worldwide (which seem to include English) and one is about where German (or dialects thereof) are spoken in Europe, albeit needs fleshing out. And it may need changing to "German-speaking Europe". --Bermicourt (talk) 14:03, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * No, it's not about "where German (or dialects thereof) are spoken". — Lfdder (talk) 14:14, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * , under those terms, there would be three articles under discussion. :-)    We have an article called German_language_in_Europe which covers German-and-dialects-thereof.  Germanic is a supercategory, used by linguists, which *does* most definitely include English.  Therefore, the topic of this AfD, Germanic-speaking Europe (aka Germanic Europe per DBachmann), is a "parent" article of German_language_in_Europe.  The "grandparent" article is Germanic languages, which talks about Germanic-speaking (English/German/Danish/etc) practice worldwide.  Fakirbakir is suggesting that the parent-article-content of Germanic-speaking Europe be fully merged into appropriate subsection of the grandparent article which is Germanic languages (they already share a map).  HTH 74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:52, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, I get that and have amended my comments above. But Germanic languages is a already very long article. I therefore still oppose deletion to give an opportunity to flesh this out into a decent sub-article that can be referred to from its parent. --Bermicourt (talk) 08:56, 9 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose, Germanic languages and the area in Europe dominated by Germanic culture are not the same topic. Krakkos (talk) 11:35, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
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