Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chronology of the repression of the Catalan language

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The article is a list which constitutes original research and has an inherently biased point of view which is impossible to contextualise as a list-type article.

It is a partial translation of [https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronologia_de_la_repressió_del_català this] article in the Catalan Wikipedia, which has only been translated until 1939. The article is essentially a list of events relating to the Catalan language which editors of the Catalan wikipedia feel constitute "repression", ordered chronologically. The list takes an inherently Catalan nationalist perspective, as it begins from the premise that Catalan should be the dominant language of the regions of Catalonia, Valencia, Northern Catalonia, Franja de Aragón, the Balearic Islands and El Carxe. This leaves no room for discussion of other perspectives and creates an article with an inbuilt POV.

The list is also WP:OR, as it synthesises many sources which (usually but not always) relate to language policy in Spain and France, and assemble the events described into a chronology which is present in none of them. This is particularly evident in the post-war sections of the text, which have yet to be translated, but is still a problem in the text as found here.

An article which discusses the history of state action to minoritise Catalan would be welcome, but it needs to be presented in a neutral way and be discursive, rather than presented as a chronological list of selective facts. Boynamedsue (talk) 12:39, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language, Politics, and Spain. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:16, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:16, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

• Delete, per nom. This topic is covered more neutrally and with more context in Anti-Catalan sentiment. Perhaps there could be a standalone article for language-specific oppression but a list-based timeline would not be the best way to convey the topic either way imo. Zzz plant (talk) 12:25, 16 April 2025 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:POVFORK. Catalan is not only still alive, its third place and small font at all the signs in Catalonia. Bearian (talk) 03:06, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
• :{{small|At Barcelona airport when I was there in 2017, the signs were Catalan / English / Castilian! —Tamfang (talk) 01:02, 22 April 2025 (UTC)}}

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