Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Animal sounds in foreign languages

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The result was speedy delete as copyvio. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 16:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Animal sounds in foreign languages

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Indiscriminate list of foreign words. No actual encyclopedic content. Only one link from another mainspace article and it's not particularly relevant there. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and Wikipedia is not a dictionary, certainly not one of other languages.. -Anþony (talk) 06:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. It should be moved to Animal sounds in languages other than English if it is kept. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 06:08, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it includes animal sounds in English as well. Perhaps Animal sounds around the world. -Emiellaiendiay 06:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. I think it has the potential to become an encyclopedic article. At the moment it's only a list, but certainly it can become an article; the linguistic and cultural significance can be discussed. I'll agree it needs work. However, the fact that the article does not yet include the aforemention information is no reason to delete it; instead, it's reason to discuss what the article needs in order to be an appropriate article for Wikipedia, and to work on including it. -Emiellaiendiay 06:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Emiellaiendiay (or Move, if title is not appropriate). Definitely useful information. Article may need work, but that's another issue. Wavy G 07:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Move and Improve - The name may not be alltogether incorrect as it is found on en.wikipedia.org, however a name change could be appropriate as per Emiellaiendiay. A grid rather than a list would be well suited. I'd hold off on a delete vote for the time being, with improvment this could be a worthy article. wtfunkymonkey 07:39, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki and delete. It possibly has a place in Wikitionary but it's a silly page for an encyclopedia. --Sugaar 08:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Not encyclopaedic. It's more spellings of animal sounds than the actual sounds anyway, but yes, definite delete here. CattleGirl ^{talk | e@ | review me!} 09:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete What's with all the keep votes? This is blatant unverifiable, originally researched listcruft, and these aren't even words, they're sounds like "chirp chirp" or "gnägg". Ultra-Loser ^{[ T ] [ C ]} 09:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep it is actually sourced (from a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University no less [1]), but all the info appears to be user-contributed over the Internet [2]. Suggested move to Animal sounds in human languages because "foreign" isn't appropriate (this is the Wikipedia in the English language, not the Wikipedia for citizens of English speaking countries only) and it includes English words anyway. Demiurge 10:50, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Wow, I did not see that. It appears most of the article is a blatent copy violation. See [3] and Animal sounds in foreign languages#Bee, where English is listed as "bzzz" even though I think most people would say "buzz". The page has a clear copyright notice: Copyright © 1996-2000 Catherine N. Ball. I will nominate for speedy delete. -Anþony (talk) 11:34, 26 November 2006 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.