Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ah Lian

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 no consensus. Mackensen (talk) 17:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ah Lian

Ah lian was nominated for deletion on 2005-11-30. The result of the discussion was "no consensus". For the prior discussion, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ah lian.

Ah Lian (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This is a Chinese street dictionary article. It describes what Ah Lian is, and then it lists external links. No notability. It's just a dictionary definition. Diez2 03:46, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep A premise of this afd has an error. "Ah Lian" is commonly used in english language text. (Google 64k hits [1]) It originates as a romanization of Chinese. --Vsion 06:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keep The artices does have OR, POV, and accuracy issues. Recreating it later may be another option. --Vsion 03:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

• Weak delete I stumbled across this one earlier when looking through the articles tagged as WP:OR. The term is notable within a fairly large area but that really doesn't change the fact that it is just a slang term. Wikipedia contains many such slang terms so that in itself is not reason enough. However the article is not sourced good enough and if you remove the obvious original research really there isn't enough left to warrant an article on its own. Delete and make a new article summing up these terms without spreading it across several articles. Also keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Just because a word is notable does not mean it belongs in the English Wikipedia. But as I stated it is only a weak delete mainly based on the considerable number of Google hits for this. MartinDK 08:08, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete OR slang dictionary definition. -- IslaySolomon | talk 08:14, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as unsourced dictdef. Kimchi.sg 14:52, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Move to Wiktionary. Mallanox 19:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki or Keep, existence established at previous nomination. This appears to be largely linguistic for now, but may be expandible. Septentrionalis 22:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Move or Transwiki per what's already been said. --Wizardman 18:17, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Conditional delete--only if Ah Beng is deleted too. 38.100.34.2 01:02, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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.