Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Language Purification


 * 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    Redirected to linguistic purism, and therefore closing this AfD as moot; also per WP:SNOW. The content of the page has been preserved at the originating editor's user page, at User talk:Iwanjka/Language purification. The content appeared to be an essay about editing Wiktionary and Wikipedia, and as such should be somewhere other than article space. On the other hand, I saw nothing in it that would appear to require erasing the history. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Language Purification

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Unencyclopedic, incoherent, rambling essay: some sort of online collaborative WP:OR involving an external site. VerticalDrop (talk) 13:30, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete an incoherent rant is what this article wishes it could be when it grows up. Note that there are a small but significant number of Google hits for "language purification", but none of them seem to be what the article is talking about.  In any case, none of the current content is salvagable. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  13:57, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Breaks almost every single rule we have Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 14:32, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Userfy? This seems to be somebody's essay about editing Wiktionary and Wikipedia, not an encyclopedia article.  I'd be happy to put it on a user page.  Suggest that the instant title be made a disambig page between linguistic purism and linguistic prescription. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:34, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and created that subpage and copied the text to it. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:12, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete if left in its current form (note--at time of typing there's a notice on the article saying it's undergoing a major revision). In its current form it fails WP:BOLLOCKS and WP:SNOW, hence the speedy.-- S Marshall   Talk / Cont  14:42, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Someone has had an insight on how to improve communication, and written an essay.  The article has convinced me, although I'm not sure of what.  Mandsford (talk) 19:24, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete now that it's userfied. There's no need for a disambiguation page unless the term "language purification" is actually used with several different meanings.  A simple redirect to linguistic purism would be fine, however. --Amble (talk) 21:41, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - Subject is real and I've warned the multiple contributors that the tone and content are unsuitable to WP. It's not userfied as of this writing, but it could be a good idea - Skysmith (talk) 06:33, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I placed a copy of the then current contents of the article at User talk:Iwanjka/Language purification, a subpage of the originator's user page. I do not know if the mainspace article has been edited since doing this. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 13:15, 10 September 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.