Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Chiyao

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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: No consensus to delete. — xaosflux  Talk 15:32, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Chiyao

 * (Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) North America1000 08:10, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * (Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) North America1000 08:10, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

It's not entirely clear but it seems from Yao language that the Yao language is another word for chiYao. This doesn't even seem like a dialect or something. Ricky81682 (talk) 21:29, 12 July 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 08:10, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. No reason to delete.  Worthy small topic to draft.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:50, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It's worth creating another draft of something that's already in mainspace? It hasn't been edited since December 2014 and the project clearly died two years ago. It's a single unsourced sentence. Why in the world would we actually want to encourage someone to work on that when we can instead encourage them to do something more useful like expand the mainspace page? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:33, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It is more than a single unsourced sentence. It is an identification of a subtopic missing from mainspace, and as such should not be callously deleted. When coverage is added to mainspace, it can be redirected. Only when determined that it is inappropriate to ever be in mainspace should it be deleted. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:42, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * What topic? The single sentence is "Chiyao is a Bantu language (chi- being the class prefix for "language"), with an estimated 1,000,000 speakers in Malawi, 495,000 in Mozambique, and 492,000 in Tanzania." At the same time, Yao language is a Bantu language ... which "has also gone by several other names in English, including chiYao or ciYao (the prefixed form)...." Same as Bantu_languages. It's literally the same language. What is missing? Another article on a different name for the exact same language? Are you propose new articles on the dozen other names for the exact same language? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:54, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The drafting ideas are good if the information could be incorporated in an article. A draft doesn't have to be on a topic that will warrant a stand alone article. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:13, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * What information? The unsourced guesses on language uses? Do you think there should be standalone article on various alternative spellings of a language name? Or separate sections within one article? What exactly are you proposing? The mainspace article actually has a cited figure so again, why keep this? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:05, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep per Smokey. Better to expand this draft into a new topic than delete. Malarky snarky (talk) 19:04, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment struck as account is subject to a CheckUser block. —  Scott  •  talk  19:53, 1 August 2016 (UTC)


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