Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Decline of the West/German
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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was - deleted - SimonP 21:43, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
The Decline of the West/German[edit]
Comments moved from Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English:
- I'm not sure what the function of this page is, but I suppose it should best be listed here. Martg76 14:18, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC) ["here" in that remark meaning Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English]
- Looks like a partial table of contents, or a table from somewhere in the book. Would someone with good German, and more familiar with the topic, let us know if there is anything worth keeping here, or if this should just be VFD'd? -- Jmabel | Talk 20:49, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
- Although it is tagged as "inhaltlich aus dem Buch zitiert", this timetable and possible table of contents (and it seems just to be a part of something larger, as it hops between Old Egypt, Mesopotamy and others), smells very much of copyvio, although I think one won't find anything by googling; I'll have a look into our library, but t´his may take a day or two..Lectonar 06:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I found it in the German Wikepedia (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), the Decline of the West, which is already around here; the german article is slightly larger, including the part above, taken from the synopsis. I think the english article is just fine, and there is already a redirect from Der Untergang des Abendlandes. Perhaps this one here is just a temp article from someone trying to translate it. Lectonar 06:19, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Although it is tagged as "inhaltlich aus dem Buch zitiert", this timetable and possible table of contents (and it seems just to be a part of something larger, as it hops between Old Egypt, Mesopotamy and others), smells very much of copyvio, although I think one won't find anything by googling; I'll have a look into our library, but t´his may take a day or two..Lectonar 06:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I've had a sniff round Thames' user page, and from his (I think "his") predilections and the edit summaries in the history of the German Decline page it would appear that he is using this German material to enrich the English article. Probably we should leave it alone, unless Thames appears to leave it adrift. Dave1898 14:39, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the deference Dave1898. Lectonar is right that i used the this temp page for translation purposes. But my translation is retardedly bad, even when aided by google language tools. So I put in a request over at translation to english. Hopefully they can do a better job than I could. I guess you guys can delete it if you want--I'm not done the translation, and machine translators won't translate that far down the German article. So if you delete it, I'll have to rely entirely on the wikipedians over at german-to-english. I do admit, I've been in quite a lull recently. But if you all feel the deletion is urgently needed, go for it. —thames 08:41, 7 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. This page doesn't add anything which isn't accessible at DE wikipedia [1]. Physchim62 12:12, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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- Delete, redundant to DE wikipedia, someone can always translate this some time without us keeping this redundant page around. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:36, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
- This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.