Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taal language

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 redirect can of course be created if anyone is interested. W.marsh 01:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taal language

Was tagged for speedy as hoax/nonsense, but does not really satsfy WP:CSD. An incoming link from Taal was added by someone other than this page's author, so I'm looking for more input. Entry justifying speedy tag from article talk page follows. Kusma (討論) 02:20, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete this nonsense, "die taal" is simply Afrikaans for "the language", typically used to mean the Afrikaans language. This "latest stage in Afrikaans" stuff with influence from German etc is invented nonsense. Possibly some crank idealogue's idea of what they would like Afrikaans to be. Kuratowski's Ghost 00:25, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment, you will find Taal or The Taal listed in English dictionaries as another name for Afrikaans, this word belongs in the same bin as gramophone, bioscope, perambulator though :P Kuratowski's Ghost 11:26, 20 June 2006 (UTC) - by which I mean its an early 20th century term, not used anymore in English, within Afrikaans itself "Die Taal" is a sort of poetic name for Afrikaans. Kuratowski's Ghost 22:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, not quite patent nonsense, but fails WP:HOAX. --Coredesat 07:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: from the links to other wikipedia pages, it looks like references to Taal were added there long ago. However, I can't find a reference to it on the South African Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia or the Dutch Wikipedia (the three most likely places to have such an article or reference). I suppose the references to Taal are a confusion between the name of the language (Afrikaans) and the reference to "the language" (Die Taal). Fram 08:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - for WP:BJAODN - it's good enough for there. --Sunholm(talk) 11:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete This is pure nonsense: as a South African I can assert that "die taal" is a colloquial term sometimes used in reference to Afrikaans, but nothing more than that. StuartF 14:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - I don't get how that makes it nonsense. If it is a colloquialism, shouldn't it me made a redirect, instead of deleted? Aguerriero (talk) 20:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Taal is a disambiguation page as the word has several meanings, a nonagenerian wikipedia user genuinely oblivious to the fact that Afrikaans is called Afrikaans and has been called this for about a century will always be able to find this disambiguation page if they search for Taal. There is also an entry for Taal on wiktionary. Its extrememly unlikely that people will be looking for "Taal language". Kuratowski's Ghost 22:49, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete and redirect Redirects are cheap and useful. All inbound links have already been fixed, excluding only a User Talk page and the AFD pages. GRBerry 01:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Afrikaans because redirects are cheap. If someone wrote a hoax/misunderstanding here, it's conceiveable someone could search it. Grandmasterka 20:25, 22 June 2006 (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.