Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Regional differences in the Chinese language
The suggestions for keep don't address any of it's flaws. First it's not about one "Chinese" language: there are two languages represented in the table, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. I know the WP policy is to be deliberately vague over whether they are languages or dialects but fact is they are mutually unintelligible varieties with mostly different words, far more than can be contained in an article. At the same time it is completely ignoring other Chinese languages. Second there is no single "China" vocabulary as the first column suggests; Cantonese, Mandarin and other Chinese languages are spoken and used in China. Third as per #Foreign terms "Foreign words should be used sparingly". An article that consists largely of a table of Chinese characters clearly does not satisfy this: even with phonetic translations there would be far too much Chinese text. See also MOS:CHINA which says "do ''not'' use characters or romanized forms excessively, such as for ''common words'', making this a kind of English–Chinese bilingual edition". And lastly #DICT
— User:JohnBlackburne, 21:06, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:MOS||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Manual of Style)