Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Multilingual list of Indian kin terms


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The result was   delete. There's clearly a consensus that the content doesn't belong here, but not much consensus as to where, if anywhere, it should go. Hence, I have userfied three of the articles to User:Black Kite/Multilingual list of Indian kin terms, User:Black Kite/Multilingual list of edible plants used in Indian cuisine and User:Black Kite/Multilingual list of Indian animals and birds if anyone wants to use them. I have deleted the fourth article as it has already been transwikied. Black Kite (t) (c) 22:26, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Multilingual list of Indian kin terms

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These four multilingual lists fail WP:NOTDICTIONARY. I don't know whether Wiktionary would take these, it is not clear to me if they take lists of translations. The four articles under discussion simply list the same word in a number of languages used in one country. They are not an encyclopedic treatment of language evolution or somesuch, but lists like you could expect in multilingual dictionaries.

Also nominated are Multilingual list of edible plants used in Indian cuisine, Multilingual list of Indian plants trees and flowers and Multilingual list of Indian animals and birds. Fram (talk) 14:14, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
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 * Transwiki all of them to Wiktionary. Interesting enough to preserve somewhere, but unless we have some kind of article on Kinship terms in India, etymological and comparative material probably belongs there rather than here.  Will probably want to break it up into  Indo-European / Dravidian / Tibeto-Burman categories as well. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:14, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - Wiktionary would probably accept this as an appendix, but all the terms would have to be given in their native alphabets rather than in romanization. Angr (talk) 16:51, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Support deletion of main "kin terms" article ONLY: I ran across this because I was searching for the English and Hindi terms for "Chembu" (turns out it was Taro/Ghuiyan) and found the multilingual list of edible plants used in Indian cuisine very useful. Because of our vast linguistic diversity, finding information like that is usually extremely hard. The "kin terms" article, on the other hand, did not seem to serve much purpose (I won't go looking for the marathi term for "maternal uncle" 'cause my maternal uncle speaks malayalam, same as me and I know how to say "maternal uncle" in malayalam. Serves no practical use, is my point.) But I may read a recipe written by a marathi and may not recognize what "alkudee" means (again, it's Taro) and might have to go searching for it. I suggest deletion (or move to wiktionary) of kin terms article, but recommend keeping the rest. Failing that, all these multilingual articles could be integrated into one, with redirects from the original terms.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiraj121 (talk • contribs) 12:43, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 *  Not sure if this should be here, or Wiktionary, or where: but as a Punjabi speaker, i find this of great interest! (And I should help fill in those terms at some point).  Not least because the 'canonicalization' of spelling of these terms over time as we use the English transliterations regularly will be quite interesting to me.
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 * Delete I sympathize with Smerdis of Tlön on the need to preserve, but I don't think any of the wiktionaries can add this as anything but an appendix anywhere and I just checked the Hindi and Tamil listings on en.wikt and they and they already have entries for the terms, Marathi is the only other language with native script and I didn't check that. If there's a ready recipient go ahead, else we're just dumping this on their shoulders. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  07:33, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete all as per WP:NOTDICTIONARY. Let's not lower our standards. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 12:46, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Transwiki all to Wiktionary encyclopedic lists of dictionary entriesCurb Chain (talk) 12:49, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Looks like a lot of work done & hence dosnt seem fair to delete. A tranfer to another of Wikis would be good. But isnt there any chance to maybe modify it or merge it with other article & thus make it something more than just a list? -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 13:01, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - If it's feasible, then a transwiki is possible. Does anyone have any ideas specifically to do so? Bearian (talk)
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