Talk:Oklahoma dialect

Merge suggestions?
The admin who closed the AfD discussion for this article wrote, "The result was keep, with a merge discussion highly encouraged on the article's talk page."

Possible merge targets discussed at AfD include Southern American English, which was explicitly suggested by two discussants, and Midland American English, which was also mentioned but not really argued for.

Are there other possible targets for merger? Or on the other hand, are there strong arguments against merging? Cnilep (talk) 20:34, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * My personal suggestion would be to merge to Southern American English, specifically the section "Midland and Highland". Oklahoma speech is frequently discussed as "South Midland", which is the name of a current sub-section ("South Midland or Highland Southern") where Oklahoma is mentioned. Cnilep (talk) 20:34, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I would favor a redirect to Southern American English. Since this article has no content supported by reliable, academic sources, however, there's nothing to merge there. +Angr 20:49, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Merge revisited
With reference to this discussion, the article has demonstrated that it has support for a stand-alone article. The merge suggestion above was not fully discussed. The merge and redirect has been reversed as it does not reflect the consensus of the AfD. Moorsmur (talk) 18:09, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * While it is unfortunate that not everyone involved in the AfD chose to discuss the merger here, the people who did discuss it clearly agreed it should be merged. Combining both the AfD discussion and the merge discussion, it's clear there is consensus that this should not be a stand-alone article. —Angr (talk) 20:39, 22 August 2010 (UTC)