Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Multilingual People


 * 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. Sr13 03:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

List of Multilingual People

 * – (View AfD) (View log)

The page is basically a dupe of List of polyglots. The main difference is that List of Multilingual People has such a wide scope that it will include 95% of all Dutch, Scandinavians, waiters in Chinese restaurants, tour guides and so on and probably more than 50% of the world's population. Considering that the number of potential entries of the list easily surpasses one billion, it is a non notable list. Mlewan 22:12, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete, not a good idea for a list, it'd get way outta hand really fast. Heck, even I'm bilingual (English and Spanish). And I don't see "User:TenPoundHammer" anywhere on there... Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 22:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete Sheesh. This list will never be complete, and even if it were 10% complete it would come to hundreds of printed pages. Blueboy96 22:26, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yeah... This list would be more scary than a music genre list. Delete, once again, per WP:NOT and WP:NOT. The lists are starting to get out of hand. I'm going to go create Actors with male pattern baldness now. Trusilver 22:27, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete this list will never be completed and would take up a ton of space that could be used for something better. Oysterguitarist 00:02, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as duplicate article. VanTucky  (talk) 00:18, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I guess that we will never have the full list of notable multilingual people.--JForget 00:31, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete per Mlewan. As he or she points out, we never consider that most foreign leaders (and for that matter, most immigrants) tend to know more languages than you or I.  We Americans have this view that we're special if we condescend to learn a language other than English, yet we look down on nearly any "foreigner" who doesn't speak our language perfectly.  In that sense, a list like this is unintended bigotry.  Mandsford 01:53, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is an uncompleteable list. --Haemo 02:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, not useful since being multilingual is not special in any way. Punkmorten 08:09, 14 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey, I should be on that list! Delete Sigh &mdash; another pointless list. Axl 09:13, 14 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete - this would be a list of a whole lot of Canadians, Belgians, Swiss... and if you consider Chinese to be a macrolanguages with sublanguages, just about every HK celeb, every Roman Catholic priest, most moslem clerics, every jewish rabbi, many Indians, every non-ethnic Russian Russian, every non-ethnic Russian former Soviet citizen, etc ad inifitum. 70.55.88.166 21:54, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom and above talk. Bearian 23:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. Heck, I'd be on there! I'm not notable! I agree, this could surpass 1 billion or even two billion, considering the number pf people and number of languages in the world. If this is not deleted, it could get very out of hand, very quickly!  Neranei  T / C  02:26, 18 July 2007 (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.