Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old Frankish language


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep.

Seems like rubbish, or at least not notable. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:12, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, quite notable. Needs lot of work though. --fvw* 04:47, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)
 * Keep and list on RfE. I can't believe the linguistic folks and medievalists have allowed this to be in this state.  (I can't help, unfortunately.)  Geogre 06:03, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Strong keep, article already has a cleanup tag. [[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 06:05, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Needs cleanup and expansion, not deletion. jni 09:20, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: There already is a redirect from frankish to an article at franks. Maybe move this to frankish (language)? Or even to frankish? Anyway, I've put in some wikilinks. No vote as yet. Andrewa 09:25, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: I went looking through to try to find this. I thought this was a bad duplicate, since obviously we'd have an article at Frankish.  Well, Frankish redir to Franks, where there is a line saying there is the language Frankish language which goes to a disambig. to....  Old Frankish language.  Four steps to get at what should naturally be at Frankish.Geogre 14:01, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: Isn't is Wikipedia standard to add the word "language" to all language article titles? Spanish language, English language, etc.  RickK 00:23, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: You're right, but the inconsistency is in academics. Where "Spanish" could be the adjective, "Frankish" is kind of rarely used that way.  At any rate, it's rare enough that we ought to at least be able to cut down one step in the redirect train.  "Frankish" ought to be a disambiguation to the language or the people (as there is no country to which it could refer). Geogre 03:21, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Move to Frankish sounds good. Dr Zen 10:07, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP There seems to be a dislike of rare languages on Wikipedia. If there is space for the Klingon Language then there should be room here for real languages. -Ms. Greenberg 14:21, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, definitely. FWIW, Frankish language is a disambig.  Most knowledge of Old Frankish comes from reconstructions; there aren't any extended texts AFAIK and few inscriptions.  Smerdis of Tlön 15:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Really interesting topic, too, and I wish I knew enough about it to fill out this article (hope someone else does). Antandrus 03:27, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep but do not move. While "Frankish" is rarely used as an adjective, it is sometimes used that way.  (Fairly frequently in the current links that show up in "what links here" to the Frankish redirect page.)  The way to shorten the redirect train is to go back and pipe the links to the correct destination.  (forgot to sign my vote earlier.  sorry) Rossami (talk)

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