Articles that have been edited by Delirium are, as one would expect, adequate in content and references. Not everyone who translates an article is that careful.
On 10/18/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
David Goodman wrote:
The question is how much of an article is acceptable. A stub together with a bibliographic reference can be written for anyone who appears in a print reference book--if the position or accomplishment seems notable. deWP has many articles of this sort, but when they are translated into enWP, they are generally deleted very quickly.
I haven't had that problem myself; what sorts of articles are getting deleted? I've translated quite a few very short articles on obscure 19th-century Germans from the German Wikipedia to English and I'd be surprised if anyone proposed deleting any of them, even if many consist of a few sentences of a stub and a reference or two.
While I can't say I'd be surprised if somebody made a systematic effort to delete your work (without giving a damn what exists on other projects), I dispute the notion that a subject can possibly deserve an article in one language, but not in another. I thought the mythical goal state was for every "valid topic" to have a corresponding article in every language.
—C.W.
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