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The result was keep. Also stubbed. Should not be re-expanded except with human-written content.
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c) buidhe 18:17, 30 September 2020 (UTC)reply
On reviewing this article, I note that the text is a lightly-obfuscated raw machine translation of
the French-language version of the article. Wikipedia's longstanding view on machine translations is set out at
WP:MACHINETRANSLATION. Please will the community authorise the article's deletion? You should consider that this lady may well be notable, and that
WP:MACHINETRANSLATION applies despite her likely notability. —
S MarshallT/
C 12:00, 15 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep reliable French
sources exist (including some already in the article).
Trillfendi (
talk) 18:30, 15 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep as has reliable sources coverage. The nominator has a good standard of French according to his userbox so why not just fix it, imv
Atlantic306 (
talk) 21:27, 15 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Because dropping a raw machine translation into en.wiki takes seconds, but repairing a raw machine translation takes a long time to do right; and it's always easier to retranslate from scratch than to repair. That's why we have this longstanding rule that a raw machine translation is worse than a redlink.—
S MarshallT/
C 06:29, 16 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment/question. If there are concerns about machine translation, why not just stubbify as an ATD instead?
AleatoryPonderings (
talk) 17:58, 16 September 2020 (UTC)reply
The article's been re-created as a raw machine translation a few times now, and I think it's on someone's bucket list of Articles Wikipedia Should Have. I'm trying to force the next version to go through AFC for quality control, as I'm sure any stubbification would be reverted.—
S MarshallT/
C 19:35, 16 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Draftify or (failing that) userfy to my userspace per
WP:BLP. With reasonably high-profile public figures like this, we need to be sure we're getting things absolutely right, and it's not clear that the translation here is doing that. However, I think it's almost certain that the subject is notable, so if the concern is accuracy, why not send it to draft? That way, we can keep what is reasonable to keep and get rid of the bad machine-translated bits. And if S Marshall's concern is a lack of AfC quality control, draftifying seems a fair solution.
AleatoryPonderings (
talk) 21:52, 16 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 09:05, 23 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep there are reliable sources available and some already exist in the article but the major concern here is the translation. I will like to fix it but I'm handicapped here because I do not understand French.
Northern Escapee (
talk) 13:02, 28 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep but stubbify or (as an alternative) Draftify to allow clean-up. If notability isn't in question, deletion shouldn't be happen (in the majority of cases; there are of course exceptions such as TNT and copyvio). I agree machine translations shouldn't remain untouched, but I 1) don't see convincing evidence that a good stuffification won't stick, and 2) if not, draftifying to allow clean-up can occur. Also, where's the repeated recreation? Looking at the logs, it's only been re-created once, and there's also no evidence that one person has been repeatedly re-creating it against consensus. Of course, It's possible that I missed something, in which case I will reconsider my !vote. Best,
Eddie891TalkWork 12:09, 30 September 2020 (UTC)reply
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