Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Basic Latin characters

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The result was redirect‎ to Basic Latin (Unicode block). Star Mississippi 01:45, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of Basic Latin characters

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I'm not sure there's a good reason for this article to exist. We already have Basic Latin (Unicode block) which has a more complete list. Given this encyclopedia is intended for English readers, we generally only put non-English names of things on the article about that thing. That's also where we put interwiki links to articles about that thing in different language. So normally I would have removed the German, French, Spanish, and Latin columns from the tables in this article, but that would leave it as 100% redundant to the other article. So perhaps it's better to delete or redirect there. -- Beland (talk) 00:42, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language and Computing. Beland (talk) 00:42, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Basic Latin (Unicode block) as a duplicate article. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 01:13, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:17, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Basic Latin (Unicode block). This article basically has full WP:OVERLAP with that one, except the unexplained blue highlighted rows, which are characters that aren't basic Latin. It's not entirely clear to me what the author intended by these lists or why the languages listed were chosen. Dylnuge ^{(Talk • Edits)} 20:23, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Move: The intent of this article is to present the common names and pronunciation of the printable Basic Latin characters in English and four other languages. The inclusion of Latin and the three other languages are there to illustrate the evolution of the "Latin characters". Basic Latin (Unicode block) does not include the common names and pronunciation. Perhaps this article needs a better name to emphasize the common names and pronunciation such as the List of common names and pronunciation of Basic Latin characters. Yours aye, Buaidh talk e-mail 23:01, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've added documentation to this article to explain the evolution of the Latin alphabet from Classical Latin through its integration into modern languages and its codification in the Basic Latin Unicode block. Yours aye, Buaidh talk e-mail 15:59, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

redirect I agree with the above statements. History person 2 (talk) 14:31, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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