Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basic German

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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 of the debate was Delete Redwolf24 (talk) Attention Washingtonians! 01:28, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Basic German

I confess to being mildly torn on this one. Can there be an encyclopedic article about the "basics" of a language? My initial instinct is "Yes." But how is "basic" defined? How is that definition verified with outside sources? Can the article ever be more than an attempt at a language instructional course, and should language instructional courses be something Wikipedia should include? In any case, the specific article in question is poorly formatted and possesses minimal information about the subject, so even if the answers to the above questions are positive, the current article doesn't qualify. → Ξxtreme Unction {yakłblah} 13:09, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

  • Before anyone suggests the obvious, take a look at b:German. —Cryptic (talk) 13:15, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Mo value. Herostratus 13:48, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to German (language). Possible someone could be trying to look up German (language) German language by searching for "Basic German." —Cleared as filed. 14:11, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, nothing worth merging or redirecting anywhere, vastly inferior to b:German. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 15:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to German language. Quite possible as search term. - Mgm|(talk) 15:55, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Confusing - looks encyclopaedic-ish, except that its got "Headline Text" instead of headings, but then the bit at the end with his e-mail address suggests this is merely vanity, so Delete 203.122.218.47 16:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. I checked into this to see whether it could be called the equivalent of basic English. It isn't. My somewhat rusty German used to be fluent. This article is just a random, hasty, and incomplete rehashing of concepts from an introductory German language course. There's nothing here to salvage. Durova 17:09, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Useless.--Sean|Black 07:17, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Soft redirect to the WikiBook. Far more helpful to readers than a deleted page, and saves us having to maintain an article on our a borderline topic. Pcb21| Pete 18:07, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, this looks like a thinly disguised attempt at spam, as it is really nothing more than a cursory inclusion of filler text around someone's e-mail address. — JIP | Talk 19:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, OR, advertising. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:17, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I would say delete as advertisement because of that email address at the end, but I can't see how a redirect to the WikiBook could hurt. It may even help, against recreation. Jacqui ★ 00:45, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
    • A redirect would be inappropriate. At best, a Transwiki. User:Zoe|(talk) 03:18, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom, Durova, etc.... Dottore So 14:22, 14 November 2005 (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.