Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Romance-speaking Europe

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 keep. Merge or renaming discussions can continue on the article's talk page. (Non-administrator closure.) Northamerica1000^(talk) 20:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Romance-speaking Europe[edit]

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there's no original content here, boils down to a dicdef, if that Lfdder (talk) 14:53, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article has the potential for expansion. For example, the history subsection could be expanded to explain why all these countries speak Romance languages. Regardless, I don't think it's current composition it unsatisfactory. Rob (talk | contribs) 16:32, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

i.e. something that is already covered/could be covered in Romance languages. History of Romance langs is covered in that article, as well as their geographic distribution. There is nothing more to say about Romance-speaking Europe other than what is said in the first sentence of the article. Nearly the whole of it is a hobbyist-made table that belongs in some kind of hobbyist-tailored compendium of various disconnected fact(oid)s about countries. — Lfdder (talk) 16:50, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you believe that Romance-speaking Europe should be deleted, then please also include Germanic-speaking Europe, Slavic World, and Celtic nations. Afro-Eurasian (talk) 17:12, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

repurpose, possible merge This is part of a series of articles covering romance language status in the world. It's too much to merge back into romance language; the problem I see, however, is that there is nothing about romance languages that motivates this grouping, and one could just as well hold all the same information for all languages spoken in Europe or anywhere else for that matter. Therefore I would propose changing this into something like "Lists of languages spoke in Europe" or some similar title and retaining essentially the same format. If there already is a similar series of list articles this should be merged into them. Mangoe (talk) 17:01, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Cnilep (talk) 23:28, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. Cnilep (talk) 23:32, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose - It is a very pertinent and encyclopedic article, and as such I don't understand this request. Would you remove Germanic-speaking Europe, Slavic World etc.? --Codrin.B (talk) 08:37, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose - This is an important article regarding Europe and European languages, and as such, it shouldn't be deleted, especially when other articles regarding Germanic, Slavic, and Celtic speaking Europe remain untouched. This is pure prejudice. Afro-Eurasian (talk) 17:10, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment most of the content here seems like it would fit comfortably at Romance langages so the need for a seperate article is not clear. On the other hand, the existence of parallel articles cited by Afro-Eurasian suggests that there may be a worthwhile topic here. Eluchil404 (talk) 21:36, 20 January 2014 (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.