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

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]