Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ǧ

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The result of the debate was keep. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 02:00, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ǧ

Single letter in little-used language. Doesn't display (but maybe that's my browser). Probably has at least seeming synonyms i.e. blank boxes. Maybe delete isn't right but how should this/these be handled? Dlyons493 20:47, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

• It shows up fine on my browser (Safari) as a capital G with a háček - a little upturned circumflex over it. On a quick random search for articles on single letters WP has articles on Z, ü, æ, ø and ç, so I vote Keep and hope that someone expands the stub. Tonywalton  | Talk 21:05, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Yes, it's OK on Safari. Seems to be %C7%A6 in Explorer, so probably there won't be synonyms after all. Maybe this more a browser than a wiki issue? Dlyons493 21:35, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
    • If you're looking for suggestions on how to handle these, I would start with adding an image that shows what the letter is supposed to look like regardless of what Internet Explorer does. -Aranel ("Sarah") 21:37, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
  • I wasn't sure whether your nomination was "odd character" (which by the way looks fine on Firefox and Mozilla too, though IE5:Mac won't deal with it at all) or "article about a single letter". If the latter I'd say 'keep', if the former, Arenel has a good point, but searching for the article would be a bit tedious if your browser wouldn't allow you to input the character. 81.153.185.255 21:50, 25 August 2005 (UTC) Tonywalton  | Talk 21:51, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
  • It's Unicode 01E6, UTF-8 C7 A6, so no aliases. It's a defined character. Tonywalton  | Talk
• Keep. Encyclopaedic topic. David | Talk 21:54, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as above and per numerous precedents such as ß. Martg76 23:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, per above. And use Firefox for viewing pleasure. feydey 23:07, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Why not? ~~ N (t/c) 23:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Seems to be concensus on notability of single letters - so Keep. Re viewability I'll think about Aranel's suggestion - easy enough to upload a graphic for a single one, but I don't see any way of discovering others systematically. Dlyons493 00:07, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - But can somebody upload a GIF of the letter to resolve the text display browser problem? Won't display using 64-bit MSIE 6.0, either. -PlainSight 04:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Done (PNG, at least). Tonywalton  | Talk 12:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, obviously. —RaD Man (talk) 06:31, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment there appear to be a few of these, going by [[Category:Latin_letters]] (which these aren't). P̌ has a cleanup-importance stub on it. "P̌" is 'p with a háček' for IE users. 192.18.1.9 15:08, 26 August 2005 (UTC) Tonywalton  | Talk 15:09, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I've expanded it a little, and I think it deserves to stay on analogy with other articles about letters with diacritics (like Ñ). After all, they're not hurting anyone and they satisfy the curiosities of linguistically inclined such as myself. If you're having troubles viewing it on your browser, I suggest you download the Gentium font, which contains just about every Latin and Greek character encoded in Unicode. — Ливай | Ⓣ 15:15, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Consistent with other letter articles. These are Latin letters, in the sense that Latin is a script that includes the letters used in Latin and all those added for languages that use basically that set plus a few. Nobody has come up with a better name.--Prosfilaes 20:55, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

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