Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colour names in Sinhala and English
- 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 delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:24, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, textbook, or scientific journal TheChampionMan1234 04:49, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete: clearly not in line with policy stated above. —Zujine|talk 06:33, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Wikipedia is not a dictionary. The rest of the content, about which Sinhala words sound like English words, is trivia and doesn't really belong here either (if the resemblances are due to loan-words or common ancestry, then wiktionary allows etymology to be included). --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:48, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per Colapeninsula. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 12:57, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 17:27, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 17:27, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as wikipedia is not a dictionary. Vcessayist (talk) 02:15, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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