Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jambo

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Delete. Cbrown1023 talk 00:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jambo

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del. This is English language encyclopedia. Shall we have articles about words in all languages of the world? Guten Tag, Konnichi wa, Privetik, Witam panstwo, Zdravstvuyte, Zdorovenki buly, Labas rytas, Terve, Bon giorno, Buna ziua,.... `'mikka 21:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Its not a question of language it's about What Wikipedia is not it is not a dictionary. The article may be appropriate for transwiki to Wikitionary. Jeepday 21:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, echoing Jeepday's comments above. To the nom, it's kind of a close call, but your comments almost sounds like I should point you to WP:BEANS. --Dennisthe2 21:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. This article has more content than a dictionary definition. Compare Hello. Spacepotato 01:07, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete they can have Jambo in the Swahili Wikipedia, not here. JuJube 01:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep See. Ciao, What's up, Ave - Latin, Shalom aleichem - Hebrew, Sat Sri Akaal - Hindi. Jambo currently contains non-dictionary information, such as information about the origin of the name of a notable elephant named Jumbo. Mayeb this article's not "quite there" yet, but given the number of foreign language greetings that HAVE evolved into nice articles leads me to vote for keeping it. Scarykitty 07:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
  • And the sentence about elephant must be deleted in the first place as unreferenced speculation. `'mikka 19:31, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Might want to take a look at WP:WAX. Two things to consider here. One, just because other similar cruft exists doesn't justify the existance of more cruft. Two, some of these articles may have justification for remaining. If anything, you've prompted a review for those articles. --Dennisthe2 18:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NOT a dictionary, and per lack of sources that indicate the term has such wide significance in English publications to be much more than a dicdef; the only source listed is an online Swahili dictionary. Note that Jambo (disambiguation) points to some legitimately (if thinly) sourced articles; I read this AfD because I play the Kosmos/Rio Grande boardgame. The disambiguation page should add a link to this article if it is kept. The elephant story is uncited and has "may have been" at its core. That speculation and some usage-guide material (WP:NOT a usage guide) are the only non-dicdef content. An article should not have the same title as the subject of a disambig page, so if this is kept, it needs to be moved to Jambo (Swahili) or somne such title. Barno 23:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Barno.--Aldux 16:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. WP:NOT a dictionary.--Pan Gerwazy 16:51, 15 March 2007 (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.