Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Translation relay

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 merge/redirect. Editors interest in this content should merge it as appropriate W.marsh 15:39, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Contested PROD deletion restored. But the original PROD reasoning still stands. Activity on a non-notable web community is not itself notable. No other evidence of notability is given. TexasAndroid 12:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep This is a game made out of a well know problem in computer science, regarding language translation. There has been a whole bundle of then which i've seen through stumble. scope_creep 14:51, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete no reliable sources, no article. NN online forum activity. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:26, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into telephone game (which some racist has renamed "Chinese whispers") or Babel fish or online translation. I've seen this before, usually as part of e-mails and bulletin boards. Short version is that if you translate a block of text from English to, say, Spanish, then back to English, back to Spanish, back to English, the eventual result is noticeably different. The article here proposes that the example would give some insight into the culture of Spanish speakers. Interesting, yes. And it does cite to two sources. It's own article? It's not much different than the spellcheck game that people played before there was Babel fish. Mandsford 01:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Caknuck 01:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to telephone game per Mandsford. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 03:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to telephone game. Doczilla 03:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• I'd prefer to keep it, but it seems that the article currently is pretty much concerned with ZBB relays only. There used to be a different and in my opinion better version of the article, but it appears to be gone. I wouldn't object against a merge either, under the condition that the operation is performed properly (i.e. not merely a mention of the phenomenon, to avoid valuable information getting lost). —IJzeren Jan _Uszkiełtu? 22:42, 6 November 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.