Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Italian Heritage Language in Toronto


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 07:22, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Italian Heritage Language in Toronto

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Article about use of the Italian language in Toronto, which is written much more like an essay than an encyclopedia article, has significant POV overtones ("The Italian language is considered to be quite pleasant sounding to many non-native speakers thus there are many people in Toronto who will seek out Italian language media, products or facilities regardless of whether they speak the language or not."), and is sourced mainly to the self-published primary source web pages of organizations mentioned in the text rather than to reliable source coverage about the topic: the only genuinely independent sources here are a raw table of demographic statistics, and articles about the use of Italian in Italy and the United States rather than in Toronto or even Canada (and one of those citations, further, fails to even specify the name of the publication that published it, thus making it entirely unverifiable.) A real, properly encyclopedic and properly sourced article about this topic might very well be be possible -- but this, as written and sourced, is not that article. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 18:40, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:05, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:05, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:05, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:06, 18 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - an essay, and an unfocussed essay at that, which is poorly sourced. If anyone thinks there is anything of value here, it can be merged to Italian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:43, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Strong delete - if there were an article for every combination of language and city... mamma mia. Korny O&#39;Near (talk) 18:15, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - This is not an 'article' for Wikipedia.Aust331 (talk) 01:07, 26 July 2016 (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.