Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xudun

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 03:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Xudun

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I found this while working on another AFD nomination on a Somali topic. The page's creator has been blocked twice, but still refuses to edit in English.

I'm not sure what or who or where Xudun is, but based on Google it looks like it's a town or settlement in the Somali state of Nugaal. A search at the Somali Wikipedia shows the word 'xudun' in only one page, which is titled 'Gadabursi traditional history' – I don't know what the page says, but it's there. It was listed at WP:PNT for three weeks, but apparently there's no one here who speaks Somali.

I bring it here per procedure at WP:PNT. I don't think it's going to get translated. KrakatoaKatie 12:16, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete unless in the very unlikely event of someone being able to translate it. They're too busy with perpetual civil war and extreme poverty there for translating things on Wikipedia, I guess... although someone of Somalian background resident in another country might know. It's not much information anyway.--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 13:05, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: I have seen a number of edits from Somali ISPs, FWIW. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:39, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

• Obvious Delete Incomprehensible. Colonel Warden 13:28, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, in lieu of an English translation, and apparent lack of an article at Somali Wikipedia. Comment: There are plenty of Somali editors on English Wikipedia (check edit history of the articles in Category:Somali clans). This author has only edited in the Somali language, despite warnings against doing so, and in spite of having directions to the Somali Wikipedia. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:33, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Transwiki to the somali wikipedia. That being said I can't even say for sure that what is on that page is a real language. Bobby1011 17:55, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Apparently a real place; our article on the Sool district of Somalia mentions it, along with a spelling variant Hudun. Likely a real language, too; at least there seems to be a consistent orthography and some repeated words and evidence of grammar, and the article, as predicted, mentions Sool. But in the absence of someone able to interpret this and turn it into a valid stub, there's no point in retaining this text on the English Wikipedia. - Smerdis of Tlön 23:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete This is the English wikipedia. Nick mallory 23:31, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Agreed with user above. I don't think I'd be looking for articles in other languages in the ENGLISH wikipedia. degmo means community no clue what everything else means Heights^{(Want to talk?)} 01:06, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Nick mallory. Do not transwiki this article unless a Somali-speaking editor confirms that it is worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. For all we (non-Somali-speakers) know, the article could be advertising or a conflict of interest or otherwise inappropriate for the Somali Wikipedia. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:30, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Nick mallory. --AliceJMarkham 02:06, 6 November 2007 (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.