Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kha with inverted breve

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 Kha (Cyrillic). Vanamonde93 (talk) 21:33, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kha with inverted breve

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Deprodded by Cyclopia. They wrote that they think that there is no notabiliny guideline for letters; I think WP:GNG applies, and I doubt that sigcov exists about this topic. Janhrach (talk) 15:07, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language and Alaska. Janhrach (talk) 15:07, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I can only find one-line mentions of this "letter" in Unicode documents. Nothing needing a whole article. Lack of sourcing, not showing notability. Oaktree b (talk) 15:27, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So there can be no exceptions to notability guidelines, but deletion policy can be ignored without a reason? Peter James (talk) 18:06, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Peter James: How exactly did I ignore the deletion policy? Janhrach (talk) 18:37, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Alternatives to deletion, the article could have been merged or redirected (or proposed for merging). It's mentioned in Aleut language#Orthography so could be redirected there, or merged to Kha (Cyrillic) where there is currently no mention. Peter James (talk) 18:44, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have added a mention into Kha (Cyrillic). The article is so short that I do not think it can be reasonably "merged". As for redirection, is it a problem to discuss it at AfD, especially when notability is in question and there is no single proposed redirect target? Janhrach (talk) 19:10, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Given that I see no specific guideline for alphabetical characters, one could fall back to WP:GNG; however it seems to me it would fail short of this peculiar subject. WP:5P1 states "Wikipedia combines many features of general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers." Considering alphabetical characters as notable per se seems to me consistent with this description. I have no qualms however with a merge to e.g.Kha (Cyrillic).--cyclopia ^speak! 15:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Kha (Cyrillic). The article is quite short and this letter does not seem to warrant its own article. I also can only find Wikipedia mirrors and Unicode documents mentioning anything about this character, but instead of deleting it, I think we could just merge it into Kha (Cyrillic) with a short summary of its existence in Aleut. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 16:40, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Could find no reliable and significant coverage in independent sources. 1)-Attempts to argue semantics, that there is no "notabiliny (sic) guideline for letters" is laughable as the verifiability covers content in articles like a blanket. The Wikipedia:Notability "policy" includes: Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable; if no reliable, independent sources can be found on a topic, then it should not have a separate article. Merging: I do not merge unsourced content. It degrades the target article and it might be hard to convince an Admin to merge unsourced content. There is no way to tell if original research is involved which could enter areas of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. I didn't look but it seems Cyrillic script would have important information included. -- Otr500 (talk) 21:32, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 06:30, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Kha (Cyrillic). Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 09:19, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Kha_(Cyrillic)#Aleut it's only documented use. Eluchil404 (talk) 02:31, 20 February 2025 (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.