Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bakla

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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 11:33, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bakla

Actually, "Bakla" is the Tagalog translation for homosexual. And Wikipedia is not a Tagalog-English dictionary. TheCoffee 05:01, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • delete. Mikkalai 06:00, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • This is a separate concept from homosexuality; bakla refers to people who see themselves more as women trapped in men's bodies, rather than actual men. Whether the two concepts are distinct enough for two separate articles might need a specialist. If somebody actually writes a good article about this, keep it; otherwise, redirect to homosexuality. Meelar (talk) 06:57, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
    • Nah, I'm Filipino and the word "Bakla" is no more than a translation for "gay". Nothing more, nothing less. Doesn't even need a redirect, as that would lead to endless redirecting of foreign language words to English articles. TheCoffee 08:13, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete --Spinboy 08:07, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. The concept as outlined by Meelar appears to be well-covered in Homosexuality and transgender. If you want to delve even deeper, there is always List of transgender-related topics. Bakla is simply a non-English word to describe a transgender person (perhaps amongst other things), and should therefore be deleted with no redirect. HowardB 09:05, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete no redirect. Foreign dic def. Already covered elsewhere. Mgm|(talk) 09:06, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete,no RD, foreign dicdef is all. Wyss 21:11, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, dictionary definition. Megan1967 02:27, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, for reasons stated above. Kukuman 03:43, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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