Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tagalog Batangas

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 without prejudice to any merge proposals. WjBscribe 22:27, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tagalog Batangas (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

A dialect of the Tagalog language. This article mostly consists of dictionary definitions of common phrases. The relevant material can be merged into the original Tagalog article, which has a section on dialects, and the phrasebook should be deleted. Hence my vote is Merge and Redirect. Prod removed by User:Paxse who left a somewhat unconvincing rationale on the talk page. JuJube 18:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There is a lot of good information in here although the article still needs work. The original author seems to make many productive edits related to Batangas and this new article seems to be a topic that she/he knows well. Merging with Tagalog language might not be welcome, as that page has already been split once to Tagalog grammar and is still at 41k. The information is certainly not duplicated between the two articles. I'd rather see separate articles on each of the four main Tagalog dialect types - than lose the first one. Jujube, thanks for letting me know about the AFD listing. Paxse 18:55, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • What about the glossary? That definitely cannot stay. JuJube 19:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Perhaps it could be edited down - but I'd discuss that on the talk page. I think some of it needs to be there, as in Tagalog language and Tagalog grammar. In an article about a dialect, concrete examples and discussion/explanation show the difference between the source language and the dialect. Paxse 14:45, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - It is irrelevant to note that changes may not be welcome - The original author does not own the article - Tiswas^(t) 08:42, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge - The article is full of listcruft dicdefs. The only real content is the opening paragraph, which does not (yet) warrant an article in its own right. An article should not just be that there is is a dialect, but that we should care that there is a dialect - The article should answer the question of what makes it worth an article? - Tiswas^(t) 08:42, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletions. --   ⇒ bsnowball  09:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - But has to be cleaned, the article is too extensive to be merged with the Tagalog language. --Scorpion prinz ^{(Talk | contribs)} 11:23, 7 May 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.