Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by Kurdish-speaking population


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The result was Keep. Non-admin closing. Darkspots (talk) 00:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

List of countries by Kurdish-speaking population

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Unlike List of countries by English-speaking population, the used sources focus on people of Kurdish ethnicity. I checked the web a bit and could not come up with any such source. Kurdish ethnic distribution is already covered in Kurdish people. So this article suffers from 100% original research. -- Cat chi? 12:32, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep The article seems to be adequately sourced. If the nominator is just making some nit-picking point about a supposed difference between Kurdish-speaking and Kurdish ethnicity then he can retitle the article accordingly without an AFD. Colonel Warden (talk) 21:49, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Kurdish people already has this content. Ethnicity and language are not the same thing. Consider List of countries by English-speaking population. -- Cat chi? 22:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Consider Demographics of the Kurdish people and its redirects. You don't need AFD to merge with that. Colonel Warden (talk) 22:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Then this can be closed early. Would you mind doing what you suggested. I have a COI on the matter so I avoid such articles as much as I can. -- Cat chi? 22:23, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep (or merge this information into some of the articles listed). The Kurdish people are in a unique situation, being a substantial minority in several adjacent nations, but lacking their own independent state.  Reliable figures (there has to be one table, rather than a construct from several sources) can be found and sourced. Mandsford (talk) 15:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The uniqueness of the Kurds is completely irrelevant, this is about a language not ethnicity. Lack of reliable sources on the speakers of the language is the problem of compliant. I looked around and could not find sources on the speakers of the language. I requested sources quite some time ago and there had been no progress since then. I would support any salvage operation though. -- Cat chi? 20:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep. Wanting to improve an article is not a reason for AfD. Bearian (talk) 20:17, 20 February 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.