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The result was delete. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:53, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alberto Alvarez de Cienfuegos Cobos[edit]

Alberto Alvarez de Cienfuegos Cobos (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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This is a machine translation (Google translate) of the Spanish Wikipedia article on the same subject [1]. This might be regarded as an WP:A2 case, since this is actually a Spanish language article, not an English language one. According to WP:TIE, "an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing". Vanjagenije (talk) 21:09, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Everymorning talk to me 21:15, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Spain-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:58, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:58, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete If this article were sourced (and the one in Spanish is not, either), I would be willing to fix the translation errors. However, not only is it not sourced but I can't even clearly establish the existence of this author. There is just one author with a similar name, Alberto Álvarez Cienfuegos who appears in VIAF as an entry from the National Library of Spain. However, his dates are listed there as 1856-1957 (101!) while the WP article says he was born in 1885. Other searches, e.g. G Scholar, don't turn up anything helpful. LaMona (talk) 23:17, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: per "machine translation is worse than nothing" rationale. Vrac (talk) 15:41, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, but that's an absurd rationale. the quote from TIE is hyperbola meant to discourage doing these without editing them--and will never be applicable as a deletion argument, since it refers to an unedited machine translation, & such translations can always be improved by editing. We delete articles that cannot be improved; we improve those that can. Therefore, the question is, rather, whether it is in this case worth the effort. I would usually defer to the judgment of other language WPs for cultural figures in their language area--and least for those no longer BLPs. Unfortunately, Worldcat shows no holdings except National Library of Spain, and that's not enough confirmation of importance. DGG ( talk ) 23:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome to edit it. Let us know when you are done, perhaps it will be worth saving. Vrac (talk) 23:28, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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