Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Linguistic boundary of Moselle

: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 keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. I see consensus here that sources exist, even if only offline and in French. If that's the case, there is no deadline to improve the article, and no valid reason to delete it. Considering how long it has been tagged, there seems to be no point in draftifying or userfying it. Owen× ☎ 00:09, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

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A basic Google search gives no sources other than Wikipedia mirrors. Some books can be found, but they only seem to give passing mentions, and seem to mostly cover the larger French-German linguistic boundary. Would not be opposed to an expansion of the scope of this article to encompass such. 🐔 Chicdat ^{Bawk to me!} 12:36, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language and France. 🐔 Chicdat ^{Bawk to me!} 12:36, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Keep: The correspondingh article in French at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fronti%C3%A8re_linguistique_mosellane has lots of references. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 13:43, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Keep: The FR wiki has many links to books that aren't online, I'm assuming they exist in a library somewhere. It's too many to be BS, I'd give this a !keep simply based on the numerous sources in the FR article. Oaktree b (talk) 15:24, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Userfy, assuming someone wants to take responsibility for the article. This article as written doesn't have enough content to be understandable. As the corresponding article in French does have such content, I assume that this article can be improved, but at this point there's not enough here to keep. (Also, it's not like this is a new article in progress; it was started in 2012 and had not been edited for over a year before this AfD.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:30, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
To elaborate further: This article is dominated by a single map, :File:Les_dialectes_mosellans.jpg. However, the map does not indicate where the linguistic boundary is, nor where the France-Germany border is. There are some boundary lines marked "op/af", "dat/das", and "Appel/Apfel", but those are German dialectical boundaries, if I understand correctly, and do not appear to relate to the French-German (Romance-Germanic) boundary that this article is supposed to be about. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:07, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:12, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Comment: I'm not saying draftifying it is a bad idea, but it's been tagged for over a decade and not much has happened. I've tried translating things from French wiki into the English one and the machine translation tools given here are a headache to work with. Not saying that's why it was never done properly, but the process is cumbersome. If we !keep, I'd just leave the translation tag on it and move on. Oaktree b (talk) 20:59, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
If nobody wants to take over this article to rescue it, I would be fine with deletion. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:01, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

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