Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Kannada support

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was:  redirect to Help:Multilingual support (Indic). Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:17, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Kannada support


Unfinished page that is supposed to be "a comprehensive document to help you through enabling Kannada"; however it doesn't do this. The page only discuss unicode, who should be reading the page and list a lot of external links. I suggest this page gets deleted and replaced with a link to Help:Multilingual support (Indic) which performs the task this page is supposed to do. Trialpears (talk) 12:23, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Help:Multilingual_support_(Indic). Allow a merge from the history. No valid reason to delete. Did not need to come to mfd. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:13, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Question - Has all of the information in the document to be deleted been included in the target page? What is important is to be sure that all of the analysis is included in the target page.  At this time, I see no reason to Delete, and I don't want any useful information hidden via a redirect.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:08, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I have looked through the page and concluded that there was no content to be merged. The lead just inform you of the intent of the page, the section "Who should read this?" Says that this is the page you should visit if you can't read or edit Kannada text and sharing a broken external link to a support forum. The "Unicode" section briefly tells readers what unicode is and then talks about why wikipedia use unicode which is off topic for a how-to page. The last section is extrnal links which is not useful either. All the "Forums" links are broken or have a new destination, ISIS is already mentioned on the other page, in the "Kannada" section all tools are already mentioned on the other site or broken links. From the general section the sampada link gives a help page that if you choose an operating system lead to error pages, a indlinux link which is another page linked to from the other article and "Taming the dragon" a page on indlinux with no text. In conclusion: Nothing of value can be merged into the target page.
 * I also want to specifically note that this how-to page on how to enable Kannada do not give you directions how to enable Kannada. Having this page only serve to annoy people looking for the information this page was intended to provide and redirecting to a page that actually gives this information would be a lot more convenient for the readers. Trialpears (talk) 17:20, 30 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Provisional Weak Keep - As discussed above, no good reason given to delete. Analysis is needed.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:08, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per analysis. On second reading, the nominated paragraph is completely useless, because it doesn't even say what installations do and do not support Kannada without an add-on.  It appears that all of the common versions of systems except some of the older Apples support Kannada, but it doesn't say that.  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:46, 31 May 2019 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.