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 of the debate was no consensus. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 00:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thakathi[edit]

Article about a word in an unidentified language (Google seems to suggest that it may be in the Zulu language); questionable for English Wikipedia. Mareklug ^talk 01:38, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Royboycrashfan 01:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per RoyBoy ConDem^Talk 03:00, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Wikipedia is not a translating page Leidiot 03:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete A2Kafir 03:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete not an encyclopedic article.--MONGO 04:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete nothing seems to come up when searched...it's unfinished though.--MONGO 04:37, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, it's a dictionary definition and Wikipedia is not a dictionary. — mark ✎ 07:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • If rewritten, then keep per Humansdorpie. — mark ✎ 17:25, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletions. -- Humansdorpie 22:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep and maybe move to Tagati. Tagati is a South African English (taken from Zulu) word of long standing that means A witch or wizard; a practitioner of evil magic; an evil-doer (Oxford Dictionary of South African English, 1996); the ODSAE's earliest reference is from 1836. Thakathi is the usual modern transliteration of the Zulu word. I cite the precedent of tikoloshe and inyanga - Zulu words which have entered the English language with a specific meaning. Humansdorpie 15:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per above explanation by Humansdorpie. Yes, I am the nominator, but I have not voted until now, pending such an explanation. -- Mareklug ^talk 15:25, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I've swayed a nominator! I've redirected the page to Tagati as I proposed - I'll try to expand it over the next couple of days. Humansdorpie 17:24, 31 March 2006 (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.