Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foreign language internet
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- 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 was redirect to Languages used on the Internet. After reviewing the article, I don't see any useful content that can be merged over as proposed (since April 2013). If someone wants to go back and possibly merge something they feel can be useful, feel free to do so. (non-admin closure) Dusti*Let's talk!* 06:00, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Violates WP:NPOV/WP:BIAS and WP:SYN. Anglophone users may be very prevalent on the internet, but it isn't inherently English. To Russians, we're foreign language internet users. References that use the phrase do so from an English-language point of view; it's meaningless on its own. --BDD (talk) 23:54, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 23:55, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 23:55, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, or alternatively redirect to Languages used on the Internet. There's a merge proposal to that page, but I don't think there's quite anything to merge. In any case, the article is hopelessly biased and not worth saving at all. Ansh666 01:20, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Languages used on the Internet. I agree with the nom - the first thought I had on seeing the article was "whose foreign language?" I don't think it would be possible to write a neutral article with this title, or with a paraphrased title, so I think redirection or deletion is the way to go. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 13:00, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect, seems to be the most sensible option to also preserve page history for possible future educational usage. — Cirt (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete unless someone wants to save the sources and merge more coherent English into Languages used on the Internet or Website localization. This article is less than useful, since it has major glaring errors, such as confusing the Internet with the World Wide Web for starters. Another oddity is that it lower-cases those terms, just when I am in the middle of fixing hundreds of articles that use Upper Case Letters All the Time Perhaps to Make things Sound More Important? Although this one uses "web pages" the other issue in many of these is "web site" (which seems proper English) vs the Germanic-style "website" which alas seems common usage. W Nowicki (talk) 18:20, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- For what it's worth, our article is called website, and we have a whole article on Capitalization of "Internet". --BDD (talk) 18:22, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- 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.