Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Full translation of the Behistun Inscription

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The result was Transwikify to Wikisource.. Tone 14:03, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Full translation of the Behistun Inscription[edit]

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This is a really useful resource, but it ought to be on wikisource (which I don't think existed when the page was created), not on WP. Furius (talk) 10:43, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 11:03, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - a straight translation of a primary source is not an appropriate encyclopedia article. Anyhow, it looks like a direct copy of the translation linked in the source table at the bottom, making it a COPYVIO of that translation. Agricolae (talk) 12:26, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. Not a copyvio because the translation was published in 1907. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 14:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - ...and the translator, E. A. Wallis Budge, died in 1934, meaning it went out of copyright in 2004 (life of author + 70 years). One of the book authors, Reginald Campbell Thompson, did not die until 1941, so anything else in the book did not go out of copyright until 2011. SpinningSpark 12:49, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    - OK, not a COPYVIO, but still WP:NOT what Wikipedia is for. Agricolae (talk) 19:34, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      - Specifically, WP:NOTREPOSITORY: "Public domain or other source material such as . . . original historical documents, . . . Complete copies of primary sources may go into Wikisource, but not on Wikipedia." Agricolae (talk) 18:33, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The text itself is very useful and actually has many accompanying elements, especially many photographs with captions as well as explanatory titles, which do add encyclopedic value. I would also like to volunteer to add a few lines of explanations at the beginning of each paragraph. If anything else has to be done, I think we should just change the name of the article to make it more in line with Wikipedia usage, or merge with the Behistun inscription article. पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 15:41, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Transwikify to Wikisource, linking to oldwikisource:Behistun Inscription/Column I. Smmurphy^(Talk) 18:30, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above; this should not be buried on Wikisource; the pictures and captions add greatly to the article. RobDuch (talk) 06:45, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really understand why the images, which are all of the primary source, could not be included in the article if it were on Wikisource. Furius (talk) 07:41, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Transwikify to Wikisource, and provide a sister project link to it in Behistun Inscription. SpinningSpark 13:09, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Transwikify -- The inscription is an important historical source, so that the article on it should certainly be kept, but the translation belongs in Wikisource, not WP. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:07, 25 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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