Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of German exonyms for places in Latvia


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The result was no consensus, defaulting to keep. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 05:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

List of German exonyms for places in Latvia
Wikipedia is not a dictionary, nor a thesaurus, much less a language translator. Crabapplecove 02:20, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep This is an extremely useful list, no where else except WP are you likely to find such a thing. -- Librarianofages 02:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - please share with us, then, to what extremely useful use you would put this list? BlueValour 03:20, 29 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep per Librarianofages. The stength of wikipedia is the diversity of topics it covers. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 03:19, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Interesting, but not remotely encyclopedic.  Probably belongs on the German Wikipedia or some sort of language conversion wikia Resolute 03:30, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I don't even know if the Germans will take it, but good of you to offer it to them, Resolute. -- MrDolomite | Talk 03:56, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge i Think its interesting. maybe should put the said exonyms for the places in the 'places' article itself. --Ageo020 04:47, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Works fine where we have articles, but our coverage of Latvian geography is still spotty. up+land 04:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. The German names of places in Latvia (like Libau, Mitau, Jakobstadt, Kircholm) are often used in older publications, not only in German. Anyone who has read anything on Northern European history is likely to be aware of this. They are found in the traditional names of battles such as the Battle of Kircholm. A conversion table like this is quite useful. I could imagine having this transwiki'ed to an as-yet non-existent onomastic Wikimedia project eventually, but for the time being I think it should stay. up+land 04:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Find it a better home Useful information within scope of Wikimedia umbrella, but not in the right place or format as an en.wikipedia article. Keeping for the time being per Uppland is a reasonable idea.  Phr (talk) 14:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, transwiki to Wikibooks? -- that would give tons of scope for expansion. Look at the talk page of Gdansk to see how messy this city-renaming problem gets.  Phr (talk) 14:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per MrDolomite. Cannot see how this is encyclopedic. Alternatively, transwiki to Wikibooks or a more appropriate location. Stifle (talk) 22:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep T h e St ev e  01:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP is not a Latvian-German dictionary. BlueValour 03:22, 29 July 2006 (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.