The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was speedy keep. Withdrawing nomination as I misunderstood the rationalle for nominating the article to begin with. If I had understood the IP's rationalle I wouldn't have gone through this procedure (per discussion below). (non-admin closure) Qwaiiplayer (talk) 22:46, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bankleitzahl[edit]

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Completing nomination on behalf of an IP. The issue is that this is just a definition for the German bank identifier code system which isn't enough for a stand alone article (fails WP:NOTDICT). If there's a good redirect target that could be a good WP:ATD. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 03:55, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Finance, Austria, and Germany. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 03:55, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The topic's notability, the availability of reliable sources, and the potential to create very substantial article is supported by the German version of the article at de:Bankleitzahl. (While that article discusses bank codes in general, more than half of it seems specific to the German and Austrian system.) —Psychonaut (talk) 08:47, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you. However, I haven't nominated the article because it only consists of a definition but because that definition is outright wrong. It claims that Austria and Germany share a bank code system and (less importantly) implies that "Bankleitzahl" is a proper noun. --2A02:810B:43C0:800:C886:234A:FE67:3D70 (talk) 16:45, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Welcome to Wikipedia! The proper way of dealing with factually incorrect information in an article is to edit the article, not to delete it. You can use the "Edit" link to change the article text. If you know the content is somehow incorrect but are not sure what the correct information is, then you could start a discussion on the article's talk page (by following the "Talk" link). –Psychonaut (talk) 10:24, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • I don't think you would have been happier if I had removed the incorrect sentence from this one-sentence article. --91.66.203.114 (talk) 17:44, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: In case anyone besides User:Qwaiiplayer feels the article should be redirected, please first check out the comments about (possibly) improper redirect targets at Talk:Bankleitzahl#Re-instatement. —Psychonaut (talk) 10:28, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Our articles for deletion instructions are quite clear about how IP editors, who can not start pages in the project namespace, should go about nominations:
  If you are unregistered, you should complete step I, note the justification for deletion on the article's talk page, then post a message at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion requesting that someone else complete the process.
  On Talk:Bankleitzahl, IP justified article deletion with:

  "Bankleitzahl" is merely the German word for a Bank Identifier Code -- it is not a system, Germany and Austria don't even share one system for account numbers (except IBAN).

  — Preceding text originally posted on Talk:Bankleitzahl (diff) by 91.66.203.114 (talk⋅contribs) 2022-10-05T20:38:37 (UTC)
  They followed up with posting on WT:AFD:

  Can someone complete the AfD process for Bankleitzahl please? The article claims it is a system for Bank Identifier Codes but it's merely the German word for them.

  — Preceding text originally posted on Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion (diff) by 91.66.203.114 (talk⋅contribs) 2022-10-05T20:40:28 (UTC)
  For unknown reasons, User:Qwaiiplayer has not posted IP's deletion rationale here, rather their own interpretation of IP's deletion rationale. IP has followed up above stating that I haven't nominated the article because it only consists of a definition but because that definition is outright wrong. And that the article implies that "Bankleitzahl" is a proper noun.
  A fundamental rule in our deletion policy is that
  If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page.
  As we have had an article since 2004 at de:Bankleitzahl, I have added an ((expand language)) tag to our article, and I am surprised that IP insists on starting an AfD discussion regardless. I have now expanded the lead with a translation from German Wikipedia.
  Deletion policy is also quite clear about what constitutes reasons for deletion. None of IP's reasons do. Least of all the amended implies that "Bankleitzahl" is a proper noun as that is a mere MOS matter, and ought to elicit a smile on the face of editors mildly aware of German orthography. Sam Sailor 22:08, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.