Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Overhead line pylon

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The result of the debate was redirect. The clear majority of voters said "delete" but I find no offensive or invalid content in the history and therefore no compelling reason why this article must be purged from history. I am going to exercise my discretion and override the majority this time because redirects are cheap. Rossami (talk) 03:10, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Overhead_line_pylon

Much longer article exists already (pylon). This version (with a heavy German bias) appears to be a machine translation from German, with some words untranslated). I propose deletion. AdamW 15:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. See also Hybrid pylon, and Rail current pylon by the same IP address, User:85.74.23.45. They look like copies of the (linked) German wikipedia articles, and thus candidates for speedy deletion. Can someone who actually knows German check me on this? FreplySpang 16:18, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • That's not a speedy criterion; it's encouraged since not everyone speaks all languages. --SPUI (talk) 20:13, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • It's described as a speedy criterion on Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English: "If the article is a mere copy of (all or part of) an article in a foreign-language Wikipedia, it can just get added to Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion: we want to discourage people who cut articles from one Wikipedia and paste to another without translating." FreplySpang 20:54, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • Oh, hey, look at that. Right at the end of the sentence I quoted where it says "without translating." *blush* Er, never mind. Although I'm still not impressed by machine translation. FreplySpang 20:56, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• I came across a user creating pylon articles a while back and made a note on my user page under "Current tasks". Just merge anything useful into pylon and delete. Mgm|^(talk) 17:42, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
• merege anything useful that is missing from pylon and delete. No redirect is necessary. Thryduulf 19:12, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect in case someone else German tries to translate more stuff. --SPUI (talk) 20:13, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Merge if anything useful, then delete. If attribution for this stuff is already in de:, then we don't need to preserve it here. You don't get credit for machine translation. Chris 20:15, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  Incidentally, reads a lot like it's specific to teh electrificationo of railway lines. Chris 20:21, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Merge anything useful to Pylon. Megan1967 06:33, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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