Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greater Malayan


 * 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. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:52, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Greater Malayan

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I am unable to find any external sources verifying the existence of this language. Google search for "Greater Malayan" brings up this article and some results about a deer. The three-letter language code does not exist in the ISO databases, and it's the same one that was used in a previous article, Asyiengarian language, which was written by the same author and which was deleted as a hoax (see Articles for deletion/Asyiengarian language).. ... disco spinster   talk  01:43, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I support to delete as the claim is not supported by any reliable sources. The terms used in Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu also did not exist and I never heared such name (in Malay). I suspect the author is using sock puppet to bloster his claims. Yosri (talk) 02:10, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete. I do not know nearly enough about the subject to tell if this is a hoax or perhaps original research. What I do know is that the cites provided are totally inadequate to validate anything said in it.  It could be the original editor is totally genuine, and this is a specialised subject with few sources available, but I'm afraid Wikipedia needs verifiablity for the article to remain. -- Escape Orbit  (Talk) 12:35, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. 16:22, 15 August 2012 (UTC)  • Gene93k (talk) 16:22, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete as unverifiable and probably MADEUP. Angr (talk) 17:27, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unquestionably a hoax.  None of the "principles" of this language have productive Google searches.  The "Karaka Principle" is an especially transparent hoax; the Malay language (an Austronesian language) is in no way "derived from Sanskrit" (an Indo-European language).  Furthermore, the list of ISO 639 codes shows that the wia code claimed for this language is in fact unassigned.  Furthermore, the content of this article, including these nonsense principles, has appeared in Wikipedia before at the hands of the same author, when he attempted to introduce a section on the equally fictional Asiangarian language into the Malay language article (see diff).  So far as I can determine, no contributions of this editor have been constructive or factual.  Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 19:58, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete as a blatant hoax. Regarding Sanskrit, Malay and some related languages do have Sanskrit loan words (Javanese in particular is swimming with them) but the languages are not "based" in Sanskrit. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:13, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Same nonsense as last time, and block editor if he does it again. (I'd already warned him about hoaxing, and this time added uw-hoax.) — kwami (talk) 08:52, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
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