Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taiwan can the area


 * 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   delete. Nja 247 09:07, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Taiwan can the area

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Doesn't seem to be rescue-able, article doesn't make much sense. Oscarthecat (talk) 17:58, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. As best I can tell, this is an attempt to describe the economy of Taiwan, which would make it a fork of Economy of Taiwan.  Whatever the article actually is about, it would have to be re-written completely to make sense; there's nothing salvageable here, nothing to merge.  Baileypalblue (talk) 20:38, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Author's English is better than my Chinese, but this cannot be fixed into a readable form by most editors. Maybe someone will shout out "What an excellent article!" as with the recently-kept embarrassment "Traditional Chinese star names", but this one can't stand as is.  Perhaps someone can e-mail the author and assist in phrasing this in colloquial English.  What this says, essentially, is that the island of Taiwan can be considered to be divided into seven areas (Taibei, "Peach Garden Area" (Taoyuan), Hsinchu, Taichung, Jiayi, Tainan, and Gaoxiong), and attempts to describe these.  Can we phrase this better?  Yes.  Can we have an accurate article after drawing our inferences about what the author meant?  Not necessarily. Mandsford (talk) 21:33, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment that's an unreasonable characterization of the star name article, since that one is written in proper English and is tabular/list in nature. 76.66.196.218 (talk) 06:29, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete looks like its machine translated. If so, then might be a copyright violation. 76.66.196.218 (talk) 06:29, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This appears to be a really bad translation of zh:台灣都會區, which would not be a copyright problem, but is a problem in terms of being coherent. Ironically, a machine translation through Google Translate would be of much higher quality than this version. Google Translate indicates that the original Chinese article should be translated as "Metropolitan area in Taiwan" and generally renders the article into better English than this version. For example, a sentence that appears here as "This area present to be at the development fast condition" is translated by Google as "The region is currently in a state of rapid development". --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:24, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as unsalvageable - Whpq (talk) 16:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Engrish, or clean up. Bearian (talk) 20:14, 30 April 2009 (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.