Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spanish words of Iranian origin


 * 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 of the debate was keep. W.marsh 16:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

List of Spanish words of Iranian origin
Wikipedia is not (yet) an etymological dictionary. Does not appear that there's enough info to make a move to Wiktionary useful either. Hirudo 18:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC) Delete all of the above and 95% of articles that start with "List of" BigDT 23:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Not only is Wikipedia not an etymological dictionary, but this is the English version. If a real article can be made, then include this (or, more likely, a subset). Ted 20:02, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. This may be the English version, but it does not stop us from having articles on Italian grammar, Dutch conjugation, Vietnamese pronouns, German words and phrases, Hungarian phonology, and Korean proverbs. We also have List of French words of Arabic origin, List of Malay words of Sanskrit origin, List of Malay words of Tamil origin, List of Spanish words of African origin, List of Spanish words of Austronesian origin, List of Spanish words of Basque/Iberian origin, List of Spanish words of Celtic origin, List of Spanish words of Chinese origin, List of Spanish words of Etruscan origin, List of Spanish words of French origin, List of Spanish words of Germanic origin, List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin, List of Spanish words of Indo-Aryan origin, List of Spanish words of Italic origin, List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin, List of Spanish words of Semitic origin, and List of Spanish words of Turkic origin. There is no reason to single this one out for deletion. I for one find such information useful, and only hope these articles will be expanded and more of the kind will appear. --Lambiam Talk 23:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep I see no reason why we should lessen our coverage of languages, espesially a so widely spoken and important language like Spanish. -- E ivindt@c 00:42, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep It might be useful to some linguists and language researchers. ;)  --Starionwolf 04:25, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, I see no harm on having this. I don't know why Wikipedia can't be an etymological dictionary if it can be a detailed report on a World Cup. Mariano (t/c) 07:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is useful and appropriate, and we have many, many lists like this (Lambiam shares my views.) Grand  master  ka  08:08, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Appropriate and constructive list. No reason why this article should be deleted when existing ones pointed out by Lambiam are allowed.--Auger Martel 11:14, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all mentioned above. Needs to be stopped before more articles of the same kind are created for every language.  --Musicpvm 03:16, 19 June 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.