Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unas language

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, no content worth merging. GlassCobra 17:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unas language

I am an SG-1 fan, but this fictional topic is nonnotable since even the Unas (Stargate) aren't that notable, it's completely unsourced, dictionary-like, and it basically contains nothing that I could use for a merge. The article somehow never got a {{stargateproject}} banner for its talkpage despite its 2.5 years of existance, and it was/is not included in any Stargate category (I just found this article by accident). I expect the result to be rather obvious, but I think the age of this article requires AFD rather than a PROD. – sgeureka ^t•c 16:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Huh? It is a dictionary and better suited to a Geocities page. I mean really, this isn't SG-Wictionary. I can see a little info that may be pulled into the species' article, but not a listing of words. I would imagine that this is one a webpage somewhere and that would make a great External Link from the other page. VigilancePrime (talk) 16:49, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - Most of the "dictionary" looks like OR (not everything is translated on the show, I'm guessing most of the dictionary is guessed based on context), but the rest of the article could probably be merged into the main Unas article. --Tango (talk) 17:20, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is not so much to filter out the OR, but to know what is OR so that it can be removed. There are no sources, so for all I know (and my fan knowledge doesn't help in this particular case), almost all of it is made up, and I am reluctant to transwiki and link there because there is still a significant amount of OR in there. It's better to start new (on wikia, not wikipedia) and properly source then. – sgeureka ^t•c 18:32, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would completely delete the dictionary part, as you say, it's not reliable enough to transwiki it. --Tango (talk) 19:35, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Absolutely no place for this on Wikipedia. Doctorfluffy (talk) 18:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
delete Ratman9999 (talk) 19:32, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm not even sure this would belong in a Stargate-specific eneyclopedia, and certainly not a general-interest one. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge non-OR content into the Unas article, and perhaps the Unas article should be merged into Goa'uld, depending on what that would do to the length. If it would make the resulting article too long, the Unas article is reasonable as a fork (though I suppose that's not the discussion here). LaMenta3 (talk) 00:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion of un-Goa'ulded Unas would be out of place in the Goa'uld article. I think Unas should remain a separate article, there is quite a lot to say about them. --Tango (talk) 01:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. I don't know anything about either Unas or Stargate, but based on what I read above I suppose it might be an idea to create an article Languages of Stargate or something instead of having articles about individual languages. —IJzeren Jan _Uszkiełtu? 00:41, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would sound like a good idea if it wasn't that basically everyone in the Stargate universe speaks English. :-) But I was completely into the written Stargate languages some years ago (I was the pitiful individual who accidently discovered the Ancient Alphabet after all[1]), and I can guarantee that an article like that could never establish notability as needed per WP:FICT. – sgeureka ^t•c 00:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Stargate is an odd one when it comes to languages. While everyone speaks English, linguistics is a major topic on the show. One of the main characters (Jackson) is a skilled linguist and many plots revolve (at least partially) around him translating things. I think it would be possible to do an article on the languages in the show, however I think it would be better to have each language discussed in the article about the people that speak it. --Tango (talk) 01:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm not voting but agree in principle that this doesn't seem to belong here in its current form—but it's cool and I don't want to see it just trashed, either. Assuming there are no copyright issues, etc.; I think this might be a good candidate for a small dictionary in Fiction Wikia. CoyneT ^talk 02:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or transwiki if possible if its listing is not a copyright violation. Collectonian (talk) 07:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. —Collectonian (talk) 07:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: WikiProject Stargate has been informed of this ongoing discussion. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 13:27, 14 January 2008 (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.