Deletion of List of languages by number of native speakers according to two websites

Comment: Why is a deletion discussion being allowed to continue when even the person who ''opened'' the AfD is not willing to say flatly that the article should be deleted? "Perhaps it may not warrant deletion, but boy does this one need help!" is what the opener said. This discussion should be closed immediately, with an unconditional Keep as the result; any renaming or other changes should be dealt with through procedures other than an AfD. If current procedures don't allow this, then they need to be changed so that they do.More generally, the AfD process needs to be limited severely, or even abolished entirely. Under present circumstances, article deletion - and the expenditure of effort to preserve articles from deletion - are seriously impairing the usefulness of Wikipedia. All too often, articles that I seek out for information turn out to be redlinked (sometimes even ed), or in the middle of a deletion debate (as here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Protection policy (WP:SALT)