Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spanish words of Italic origin (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 10:47, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of Spanish words of Italic origin

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This article was traswiki'd to Wiktionary in March 2010 after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spanish words of Italic origin reached no consensus. The transwiki'd content has since been developed into wikt:Appendix:Spanish words of Italic origin. The content is therefore duplicated, making this page redundant.

I am also nominating 'List of Spanish words of Italian origin', which was split from 'List of Spanish words of Italic origin' following the earlier AfD.

Cnilep (talk) 06:54, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. —Cnilep (talk) 07:10, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Spain-related deletion discussions. —Cnilep (talk) 07:10, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Unmaintainable as a WP article as language boundaries between Spanish and Occitan etc are too fluid, this kind of thing comes under the scope of wiktionary anyway. Bienfuxia (talk) 08:01, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all articles of this type WP is actually supposed to be an encyclopedia, not the sum of all information about every topic. If we have a policy "not a dictionary" how much less should WP be a data base of all words of all languages? Kitfoxxe (talk) 08:12, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There is scope for these sort of articles here, for example List of English words of Chinese origin, but not with languages this closely related - unless people from the Spanish language wikipedia would like to develop it into a higher quality list of course. Bienfuxia (talk) 09:12, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree totally that WP "is not paper" so there is room for anything. However that kind of thing is really more like a data base than an encyclopedia, however interesting it is to browse. Kitfoxxe (talk) 13:23, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Since all Romance languages are Italic languages by definition, doing this list correctly will necessarily include the entire core vocabulary of Spanish. Such a list would necessarily be unwieldy and unhelpful. Other articles of this type may be more manageable and informative, however. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:34, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Should we have articles on Korean words of Aztec origin or Finnish words of Arabic origin or the many thousands of other combinations? Kitfoxxe (talk) 18:11, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone want to discuss Icelandic exonyms etc again? —Tamfang (talk) 19:42, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not really because "I like it" and "It's important to me" trumps "WP is an encyclopedia" almost every time. However I will drag myself to nominate the list of Chinese words in English. Watch for the AfD soon. Kitfoxxe (talk) 15:03, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

'Transwiki and delete, Wikipedia Is Not A Dictionary. >Radiant< 15:41, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - one putative (uncited and probably wrong no less) example does not make a list. Bearian (talk) 18:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.