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

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, so keep. -Splash talk 21:36, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

List of wizarding terms in translations of Harry Potter
I am a huge Harry Potter fan, but this is cruft that has gone way too far. This is the English Wikipedia, and this article's contents amount to useless trivia that has no academic value at all. List of Harry Potter chapter titles in other languages was deleted a few days ago with overwhelming consensus to delete. Coffee 05:33, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per precedent of previous VfD. Megapixie 07:59, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Rather pointless. If someone really wants to see this information, they should just include it in the articles for each term. Cyclone49 09:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * That way interested users would only have to click on 50 different links to see them. Kappa 10:33, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, on English Wikipedia articles need to be in English. I've seen a site listing this stuff a long way back before I knew Wikipedia. We could just trace the thing and put in an external link. - Mgm|(talk) 11:22, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Deletecruft. Tonywalton | Talk 11:31, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, but hopefully the poster will put the list (which I daresay is orginial research) on some other website that perhaps we can link to in one of the less crufty articles. --Jacqui M Schedler 15:50, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Weak keep. Interesting stuff. I have saved the page locally so won't bother too much even if deleted. Tintin 16:34, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep because I'm a language geek and I found it fascinating. --Fang Aili 19:10, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. 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 20:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Chapter titles and actual translations of words are a bit different, IMO. I think it's uesful enough. Sam Vimes 21:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Collecting together information is not original research. I'm not sure the actual chapter titles are very important in english, never mind in translation. The books do not contain a list of their own chapters. On the other hand, a lot of HP names contain jokes one way or another, so interesting to compare them.Sandpiper 21:55, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft. --Carnildo 22:14, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This should go to wikicities. --Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho 23:52, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Sandpiper. Kappa 00:18, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT a dictionary, nor a dictionary of foreign translations. Sabine's Sunbird 01:15, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Valid. and informative. (Contributed by Kiwidude 20:42, 10 September 2005)
 * Delete. Pottercruft. / Peter Isotalo 16:56, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Prosfilaes and Sandpiper's comments --Presnell 01:44, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. As a would-be translator, I find this article both interesting and useful.  --Murgatroyd 04:43, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Information is interesting, and one of WP's strengths is collating information that it's hard to find in one place.  Article could possibly be more attractively formatted (tables?)  —Blotwell 05:58, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
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