Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mataal

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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 03:25, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mataal

Deprodded. This article is a dictionary definition. As Lambiam points out, the additional text doesn't make it an encyclopedia article, just a glorified dicdef. The fact that tone (and of course context) carry additional information is a universal of spoken language; noting that here does not add to the article. What's more, the fact that the creator's single-purpose account is the same name makes us both suspicious, though neither of us has evidence to suggest the definition is incorrect. In any case, it does fail WP:V, which provides a nice way out of guessing at the creator's motives.--Chaser T 20:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. As a bn-N speaker myself, I can confirm that the definition is correct, or at least on the right track. Still, it belongs in wikt:bn:মাতাল, and you can't well transwiki an english def there. — Kaustuv Chaudhuri 01:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as dicdef. --Lambiam^Talk 19:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Kaustuv Chaudhuri. - Tapir Terrific 18:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki to en.wiktionary (which accepts words in all languages). Spacepotato 07:50, 15 July 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.