Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baba (slavic word)

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The result was redirect to Crone. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:04, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Baba (slavic word)[edit]

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A regular Russian-language word without any noticeable presence in English language. The article is a dicdef. Wikipedia is not a dictionary - Altenmann >t 15:20, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Crone. Baba Yaga is already included at that article. For more evidence of folkloric notability of "Baba" in the sense of "crone", see Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend. 24.151.116.25 (talk) 15:56, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikipedia is not a dictionary. We don't redirect every chinche vieja to something English. And there is no "evidence" in the book you say about what you say. Not to say that the book in question actually claims that "crone" (hag) is "Yaga" in Russian, which kinda undermines the credentials of the book author. - Altenmann >t 15:26, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep "Baba" (in meaning "woman") is one of the key elements of Russian traditional culture.Vadim Kiev (talk) 19:46, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
References, please. - Altenmann >t 15:26, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:07, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to crone, as suggested by 24.151.116.25. Editors interested in this discussion may also be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baba (nickname). Cnilep (talk) 23:20, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Theta would be false and misleading. "Baba" is much not the same as "crone". There is no way to redirect a foreign word with many native meanings and no English meanings to a single English word - Altenmann >t 15:41, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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