Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salang people

Salang people was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was

I loved it so much! But must go. Mikkalai 06:58, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. vanity most likely rhyax 07:03, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Keep and improve - this was VfD'd only 5 minutes after creation. Why can't cleanup and expansion steps be used first? Also, the "Google test" has its limits and is not the sole verifiability method in existence, though there are several hits for the word "Salang". This could turn into a useable page. -- Netoholic @ 07:10, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • "Several hits"? You meant several thousand hits? First of all, the term should be heavily disambiguated, to weed out the bullshit part. Mikkalai 07:46, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Welcome to new Salang page! Mikkalai 07:58, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete original page, keep Mikkalai's diambig. Ambi 08:33, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Comment: what actually is wrong with this page? Why should it not be cleaned up like a regular article? I note that whilst Mikkalai has placed a {{disputed}} tag on the article, there is no accompanying explanation (as promised by the tag itself) on the talk page. --Phil | Talk 11:29, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete now I have discovered what the problem is. --Phil | Talk 06:54, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete original. It was/is genealogy to ethnobabble. The last paragraph seems to indicate that these famous "people" are just folks with that last name, wherever they may be and however their names were formed by local languages. So, why not let it get cleaned up? Well, because it's BS. There is no cleaning of this article, because helping it means makinig it a genealogy page, which Wikipedia Is Not or writing the history of an entirely otherwise unattested "tribe" of people by that last name. To suggest it is either exceptionally mistaken or such a desire to make a point as to be willing (again) to pass off misinformation. A disambiguation to every single place with that in its name is, well, a nice, long project. Geogre 12:31, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• This is nonsnense. Delete. Just because there are lots of Google hits for the word doesn't mean that there are a people who live in both Scandinavia and Indochina and are the same people. RickK 18:28, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • I highly recommend that we keep this article for some time. It certainly needs cleanup and verification. This may be a good faith edit by a new user, and we shouldn't bite them. -- Netoholic @ 19:24, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. A tall tale based on accidental coincidences of names from different languages (Norway, Russia, Afghanistan,etc.) Mikkalai 19:36, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Nonsense theory of ethnicity based on coincidental similarities between surnames. — Gwalla | Talk 04:08, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Yah, delete. Lacrimosus 08:45, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 19:48, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete as Original research. --Ianb 20:23, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• If it is a real theory, then keep, and document it as a theory. Mark Richards 19:59, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • comment: "Salang people" (with quotes) gets only one ghit: the VfD page. Without quotes gets plenty of ghits, but none of them relevant. This appears to be a theory original to the original author. — Gwalla | Talk 20:00, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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