Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in translations of Harry Potter

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, so keep. -Splash talk 21:37, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

List of characters in translations of Harry Potter
Again, useless trivia with zero academic value. List of Harry Potter chapter titles in other languages was deleted a few days ago with overwhelming consensus to delete. Coffee 05:43, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I should have combined this entry with the one above. :/ Coffee 00:23, 10 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. Precedent of the previous VfD. Amusingly Otaku. Megapixie 07:56, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Rather pointless. If people really want this information include it, they should just put it in the articles of the actual characters. Cyclone49 09:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * We don't have a list with translations for the word tiger. This particular Wikipedia should be in English. Translating is a job for Wiktionary or interwiki links. - Mgm|(talk) 11:23, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * More Deletecruft. Tonywalton | Talk 11:32, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Again, original research, and plus it's just not a proper encyclopedic article. And again, I would like to see this information somewhere else on the Internet so we can link to it, because it is good research. --Jacqui M Schedler 15:52, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. I find it interesting. Tintin 16:31, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: WP:NOR, plus relatively self-evident and not presented with any context, any significance. Geogre 18:41, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep because I'm a language geek and I found it fascinating. --Fang Aili 19:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. Same as for the other list; they could be merged together. Repeated from the other VfD: I have some trouble justifying this; but we do have other collections of information (Presidents sorted by Height), and from a linguistic standpoint this can be very interesting. For my viewpoint as a student of translation theory, Harry Potter provides some complex issues in the terminology used, and this page shows some of that. --Prosfilaes 20:37, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I can not fathom why this is original research. It is based on primary sources - the translated books themselves - not something that someone thought up on the spur of the moment. Reasonably useful list, per Prosfilaes. Sam Vimes 21:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It is not original research, evidently, since it is a list of facts. More precisely to the point, it is information required by anyone wanting to research the 'who is R.A.B.' puzzle set in HP book 6. Arguably it is cheating to look up which foreign characters have appropriately translated names, but this is the collected information necessary to do it. Sandpiper 21:25, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, though it certainly needs to be reformatted -maybe even with a TOC listing the characters for easy reference? It's interesting, but a bit unwieldy. Don't you dare call me a Poufsouffle. Peeper 21:54, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pottercruft. --Carnildo 22:14, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. non-enciclopedic --Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho 23:53, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * keep, interesting, part of the sum of human knowledge, and wiktionary wouldn't take it. Kappa 00:17, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Human knowledge, yes. Encyclopedic, no. Coffee 00:23, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * So you are voting against the promise to provide me with the sum of human knowledge? Kappa 05:10, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Factual, verifiable information, with references, on an appropriately named page. -- Creidieki 02:43, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pottercruft. / Peter Isotalo 16:59, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Creidieki --Presnell 00:46, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think it must be interesting for any HP fan knowing more than one language. The article quality is very low, though. Azazell0 17:24, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per preceding article. If you wanted an example of how fictional words/names/concepts were professionally translated into 20 different languages, where else would you look?  —Blotwell 06:00, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Unencyclopedic and useless. Wikipedia is not a translation service. This isn't even an article, just a list. --Urbane legend 23:43, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This is helping out in some researching for me and my family. I have even told friends about this and they enjoy reading about Harry Potter and all that fun stuff.  Anonymous 19:50, 13 Septermber 2005 (USA)
 * Keep Intriguing look at how translations deal (or don't deal) with names that depend on wordplay. An interesting reference. Could probably use some editing. --sfg 01:02, 16 Septermber 2005 (USA)
 * Keep I do think that that this can be reorganized but still, pretty neat. If i dont understand something in a book i just go here and i can see it and a easy to understand text!  --Anonymous 02:30, 16 September 2005 (USA)
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