Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AUI (language)

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. -Splash^talk 18:33, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] AUI (language)

Delete this nonnotable conlang imparted by an alien. Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 20:16, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

• Provisional keep, no evidence of non-notability. Kappa 22:13, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
  • I believe the burden of proof is on the author to provide evidence of notability, not on the AFD-initiator to provide evidence of nonnotability. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 05:30, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. Molotov (talk) 22:32, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
• Provisional keep? I like that. OK, provisional keep, because based on a reading of The "Language of Space", the article which this article references, it sounds like it might very well be an interesting and notable conlang. It's not the usual constructed-in-2003-by-a-grad-student-in-linguistics-and-spoken-by-his/her-small-circle-of-friends thing. On the other hand, I'm not too happy about the way Googling on "aUI Weilgart" seems to turn up mostly conlang sites and lists of conlangs. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:33, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I don't know much about this type of language, but I have to say that: 1) a book was written about it; 2) it has received considerable attention in the popular/scientific media, 3) there has been quite some discussion about the language (independent of its author); 4) definitely has an established notability inside (and probably also outside) the conlanger community; 5) the language has inspired other conlangs; 6) it takes the 66th place in Langmaker's Conlang Top-100 (2005; 31th in 2003); 7) the language definitely scores also in the field of uniqueness (which according to some can also contribute to notability). It's true that the number of Google hits is not impressive, but keep in mind that the language was created in 1950, long before the Internet ever existed (Weilgart himself died in 1981). All in all, the language surely is notable. If anyone votes for deleting, it should be for the stubby character of the article, not for the non-notability of the language. --IJzeren Jan 05:58, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
• Based on IJzeren Jan's comments, keep. Does anyone want to include this info in the article. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:35, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep per IJzeren Jan, but if kept it needs much expansion. If deleted there's not enough content to bother transwikiing to the Conlang Wikicity. --Jim Henry | Talk 02:13, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. It's only based on one source and hard to verify, and it's confused with the computer science language "Abstract User Interface" --Vsion 09:12, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, notable conlang. While the nominator might be excused for thinking this non-notable based on the poor references in the article, they should at least have tried a Google search. arj 20:01, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

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