Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ISO 639-1 language matrix

ISO 639-1 language matrix

This is useful, but not encyclopedic. Maybe a transwiki to b: or v:, or meta? — This, that, and the other 10:14, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment No context of why or what the table constitutes to a non initiate - or why or what it might mean - I would put the use to zilch without adequate lead paragraph and some refs at least SatuSuro 10:20, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- So non-linguists know, it's a grid of language names in different (ISO 639-1) languages. I agree, would need a real rejig to be any good. — This, that, and the other 11:03, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Wiktionary already does translations, of these and other words. See the "Translations" sections of "English" and "German", for just two of many examples. It is, after all, intended to be (amongst other things) a translating dictionary of all words from all languages. Wiktionary does better than this article, too. Notice how it translates different senses of a word differently. This matrix has nothing to do with what ISO 639-1 actually defines, since that standard defines codes for languages, not names. This is, essentially, a mini-dictionary providing (poor) translation of language names, merely using the ISO 639-1 codes as its row and column indices. Wiktionary already does that (c.f. wikt:de:Deutsch, wikt:de:German, wikt:en:Deutsch, and wikt:en:German), and does it better. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Uncle G (talk) 16:03, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Userfy or transwiki ? per comments above. Why didn't the nominator transwiki this without an unnecessary AfD? Ikip (talk) 16:18, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Because transwikification is not a back-door route to deletion. Uncle G (talk) 19:14, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]