Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vorlin

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The result was Delete Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 17:42, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vorlin

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An international auxilary language that does not meet the notability guideline. All references in the article are self-published. Although the article attempts to assert notability by noting the author of the language was the editor of a journal, the journal is almost completely ignored by academics (3 ghits on the title among edu sites). [1]

The best reference to either the journal or the language that I could come up with is from the journal Language Problems & Language Planning, Volume 27, Number 2, 2003, pp. 155-192. Three lines in a 38-page paper describing scholarly resources in interlinguistics say:

From the newsletter published in 1991 on the project for a planned language called Vorlin by Richard Harrison (Orlando, USA), the Journal of Planned Languages was born. From 1992 to 1996 some 24 issues appeared.

This reference is not enough to pass WP:N. Delete Aagtbdfoua 14:34, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. A couple other comments. First, note that articles archived from the "Journal of Planned Languages" are archived at www.rickharrison.com, which emphasizes the self-published nature of these sources. Second, this article has been previously prodded and recreated. - Aagtbdfoua 14:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and salt. Nonnotable made up language. Lacks references showing it is of significance to other than the creator of it. Edison 17:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: AFD tag did not appear to have been placed on article itself; I have done this now. (Note: I am *not* the nominator). Fourohfour 18:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

• My mistake. Thanks for catching that. - Aagtbdfoua 19:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. No reliable sources. The whole project has the air of self-publication. This article was deleted by prod in January 2007 and then re-created. EdJohnston 20:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. No nontrivial mention in reliable third-party sources to establish notability. -- Schaefer (talk) 21:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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