Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gezelligheid

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The result was Delete. Walton^talk 12:19, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gezelligheid[edit]

The article doesn't cite any sources. I don't believe a word should have it's own page on the assumption that it's untranslatable. If it's an important part of Dutch culture, it should be merged. Calamarain 12:30, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Dutch culture if sources can be found. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, no matter how hard people may try to make it so. --Nonstopdrivel 13:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per above - not a dictionary Corpx 15:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete That link to the Dallas nightclub perfectly illustrates the Wikipedia:Spam event horizon. This article causes more trouble than it's worth. :) Yechiel Man 16:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. A cultural phenomenon, not a "word" has its own article here. Of course the article must be improved, first and foremost by giving a definition in the opening paragraph. <K F> 17:35, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Reading the article, it is a specific concept. As the article says, there are cognate concepts in other cultures, and I'm trying to think of a common name to bring them together. DGG 03:02, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. There is too a page on the German word Gemütlichkeit which is similar. I am Dutch and I know that many Dutch believe that this word is untranslatable into English. I do not know if they are right because I do not know enough English for that. I think that this page can be kept if more is said about it than now. There is a longer explanation of the word in the sci.lang archive on page http://groups.google.com/group/comp.std.internat/browse_frm/thread/5509ef54ad4c49f7/0217de8d8a190018#0217de8d8a190018. :wimdw: 17:15, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
- Delete I'm also from Holland and I'm also familiar with the fact/myth that the word is intranslatable. I've never seen this supported by any evidence or source. That's why I originally requested sources for the article. Many (most?) of the words of any language don't have a simple one-on-one translation, it's nothing special and certainly nothing worth of an article of his own. Calamarain 12:02, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Article is mostly OR, and is essentially a dictionary definition anyway. --Akhilleus (talk) 06:25, 28 June 2007 (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.