Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Italian and Romanian common words

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 DELETE. postdlf (talk) 02:49, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Italian and Romanian common words

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No indication of importance. I can find no other such articles on Wikipedia. Provides no references. Appears to be completely WP:OR. OlYeller^Talktome 23:22, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:19, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:19, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Wikipedia is not for potentially infinite word lists like this one. As modern forms of Latin, Italian and Romanian are so closely related that unlike in List of Latin words with English derivatives (which is already a borderline case), we would have to list about half of those two languages' vocabularies. This is not Wiktionary. We just can't handle this kind of information in our present format, and there is nothing surprising about it anyway. Hans Adler 16:40, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Hans. This list would include tens of thousands of run of the mill words, which is not appropriate for any list. I happen to disagree on the List of Latin words with English derivatives, because that is a limited and finite list, many of which are legal terms or are otherwise notable, such as pro se. Bearian (talk) 16:57, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I concur with Hans Adler above. This would open up the floodgates for all sorts of linguistics essays. Wikipedia is not the place for such fare, with all due respect. Carrite (talk) 18:04, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. this way can be easier to learn Romanian for Italian people and vice versa — so why put it in English WP? —Tamfang (talk) 19:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Because someone have made vandalism with my ip in the italian wikipedia.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.170.64.115 (talk) 18:33, 30 March 2011.

Indeed. Someone with your IP created the article it:Parole turche e italiane di mutua intelligibilità (mutually intelligible words of Turkish and Italian), commented in the AfD in which its deletion was decided [1], vandalised an admin's page (repeatedly) to complain about unrelated article deletions [2] and got blocked. Hans Adler 19:41, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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