Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandarin as a Heritage Language in Toronto


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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:24, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Mandarin as a Heritage Language in Toronto

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Delete. As with Articles for deletion/Italian Heritage Language in Toronto, this is a poorly sourced WP:ESSAY with some POV undertones about a topic that doesn't warrant its own standalone article. There are just seven sources here, of which five are primary ones -- such as raw demographic stats, job listings on a jobs board and the self-published websites of community institutions -- which cannot assist notability at all, and the two citations that actually count as reliable sources are both about the Chinese Canadian community in general rather than having any content about anything specific to Toronto, so even the RSes here don't actually support the topic. I can find no other cases, besides the one I mentioned above that's already been deleted, where we have any "specific language in individual city" articles for any other combination of language and city. Bearcat (talk) 05:35, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Delete - a POV essay, sources are not about this topic specifically. Firkin Flying Fox (talk) 09:02, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:ESSAY. Blythwood (talk) 19:05, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as per WP:ESSAY. Worth noting that there are sources here that might develop the Chinese Canadians article. Sheepythemouse (talk) 19:29, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:02, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:02, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


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