Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ge'ba Alphabet

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The result was SPEEDY DELETE as hoax. postdlf (talk) 03:48, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ge'ba Alphabet[edit]

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Suspected WP:HOAX: unreferenced, zero mention of alphabet or language online, "Language Family: Afro-Asiatic Slavic Somalian Slavic" sounds highly improbable. Two other articles by creator previously speedied as hoaxes. Speedy db-g3 declined by admin. Shire Reeve (talk) 00:14, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. —Shire Reeve (talk) 00:15, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Somalia-related deletion discussions. —Shire Reeve (talk) 00:15, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as hoax. There seems to be a campaign to promote the existance of Chubby or Chubby Slavic languages but a Google search is revealing. AJHingston (talk) 00:25, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (speedy?) as a hoax. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chubebabe Language. Cnilep (talk) 00:50, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment About the language families — I got the impression that the author was saying that this alphabet was used by languages in those families. That by itself isn't implausible, since our alphabet is also used by Finno-Ugric languages, Vietnamese, and other unrelated types of languages. Nyttend (talk) 01:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- There is, however, no evidence that the Ge'ba alphabet exists. There are several warnings that this plausible-sounding page is indeed a hoax. First, similar pages (such as the above-mentioned Chubebabe) have recently been created, possibly by the same person or group. Second, I am aware of no such thing as ISO 685, and the ISO 639 (language code) has well-established 2- or 3-letter codes, but is only beginning to develop 4-letter codes; I know of no GEEB code (GEZ is Ge'ez and GBA is Gbaya). Also, those codes are for languages (or language families), not for alphabets. Third, and relatedly, the page confuses the concepts of language and alphabet.

Furthermore, some of the information on this page appears to be more or less plagiarized from this page or a mirror of it, discussing the Ge'ez language, which, unlike Ge'ba, I know does exist and is used in (Ethiopian, not Bulgarian) Orthodox churches. Cnilep (talk) 03:26, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Hoax or not, I can't find any evidence such a thing exists. 28bytes (talk) 03:11, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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