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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 19:19, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of Presidents of Iceland by languages spoken[edit]

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I cannot figure out the encyclopedic value of this list. It seems little more than a curiosity, a random amalgamation of information available elsewhere. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 05:40, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:02, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment - This is similar to the List of multilingual presidents of the United States. That article was listed for deletion in 2011 an the results were keep, see the discussion here -- Dammit_steve (talk) 12:37, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. To me, the question is whether there are reliable sources which address the topic of the comparative linguistic skills of the presidents of Iceland -- not just mentioning the languages spoken by a particular president. For comparison, see http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004699.html which begins by talking about the foreign language skills of various presidents of the United States (and then discusses the foreign language skills of the then-presidential candidates). For Wikipedia to analyze the linguistic skills of the Icelandic presidents without any other source having done so first looks like original research to me. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 15:17, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with President of Iceland. Learning Danish and English is mandatory now in Iceland, althrough I do not know for how long that has been the case. However, information on other spoken languages should still be present by merging the article.--Snaevar (talk) 20:37, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Not a substantive or defining basis for a list. For the reasons listed above, every president is always going to have Icelandic, Danish and English, and any other language besides those three is just WP:TRIVIA, not a thing we need to maintain content about. Bearcat (talk) 20:44, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There doesn't really seem to be much to merge (unless the proficiency of the three most detailed Presidents isn't listed in their own articles, in which case it possibly should be), and what's left is trivia at best. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 22:55, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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