[WikiEN-l] Deletions - do we cut a bit of slack for the Third World

[Parker Peters]

We should probably have some form of researchability for items whose
predominant form of reference will be a non-English language.

Perhaps link to a Google Translate version of the page?

Parker

On 2/15/07, Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Please take a look at:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kathmandu_University_High_School_%28second_nomination%29#.5B.5BKathmandu_University_High_School.7CKathmandu_University_High_School_.28second_nomination.29.5D.5D
>
> Should we, as I suggest there, cut a bit of slack for artciles about
> something in the Third World, or do we just accept the "no reliable
> third party sources for notability" mantra. It is just a stub and the
> information seems well supported by the external link to the School
> site. Not perfect, I agree, but I do not suppose Kadmandu newspapers are
> searched by Google and that is not perfect either. I would welcome views
> in general on this sort of thing, without asking any of you to intervene
> in that discussion for deletion.
>
> Brian
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