Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Phonetic Alphabet/Tables


 * 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 move to International Phonetic Alphabet chart. (non-admin closure) Nardog (talk) 12:32, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

International Phonetic Alphabet/Tables

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WP:DEL13: A subpage in the main namespace. Nardog (talk) 16:22, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:15, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * WP:DEL13 is simply another shortcut to WP:ATD, "Alternatives to deletion." Did you mean something else? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:13, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * No I didn't. WP:DEL13 is not another shortcut to WP:ATD. In fact it's astonishing one could think that when WP:ATD has got nothing to do with the number 13. Nardog (talk) 13:21, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Click on it. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:42, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Are you being serious? It's a shortcut to reasons for deletion #13: "Any other use of the article, template, project, or user namespace that is contrary to the established separate policy for that namespace". Nardog (talk) 19:01, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * It only looks like it is pointing to WP:ATD--it is actually points to the 13th list element in the section above that. It is a weird redirect, so it is an easy mistake to make. --Mark viking (talk) 06:58, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I was hoping to create a list article for IPA charts, to make it easier to grab symbols without having to scroll through a long article. I apologize if using a subpage wasn't the correct way to do this.  Can the article be moved somewhere where it would be acceptable?    20:41, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You could create a subpage of your userpage, for example User:Sweyn78/IPA Tables or User:Sweyn78/Tables/IPA. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 21:03, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * True, but then it wouldn't be of much help to others. I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds Wikipedia's IPA charts to be among the most convenient methods of interacting with the notation, nor the only person who would desire an IPA list article akin to List of grammatical cases.    21:38, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * There could be a room for an independent article that consists solely of a comprehensive list of IPA tables (in which case I for one think there needs to be prior discussion at Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet), but WP:TITLE directs us not to create a subpage in the main namespace and to give encyclopedic articles "recognizable, concise, natural, precise, and consistent" titles (for reference, look at the titles of the pages under Category:International Phonetic Alphabet). So we could alternatively move the present page to a more descriptive title without leaving a redirect, but I just think it contains so little content that there's no need for its page history to be preserved. Nardog (talk) 13:21, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Apologies again for misunderstanding the way things are done here. I think that sounds reasonable;  I've created a discussion at Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet regarding this, and I've copied the article's contents to User:Sweyn78/IPA charts.    23:19, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Move to a better page title. Article is perfectly useful but is in a strange location. &Alpha; Guy into Books &trade;  &sect; ( Message ) -  13:03, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  J 947(c) (m) 03:33, 13 September 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Support moving the article. How about to International Phonetic Alphabet (Charts), or something in that vein?  Also, I've improved the article a fair bit.    07:00, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I would be against using a parenthetical title because it is not disambiguation (the International Phonetic Alphabet part of this article's title refers to the same alphabet as the article International Phonetic Alphabet). It should be International Phonetic Alphabet chart or something to that effect (cf. International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects). Nardog (talk) 14:25, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * International Phonetic Alphabet tables is the obvious move, or International Phonetic Alphabet charts. The article is an WP:Orphan so presumably you will want to add a link to it from the International Phonetic Alphabet article. wbm1058 (talk) 20:15, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * International Phonetic Alphabet chart matches the conventions of articles like International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects, so I think it's the better pick. And we should probably wait until after the move to add a link to International Phonetic Alphabet.    21:29, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 01:01, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Move to International Phonetic Alphabet chart as a reasonable destination for this list-class article. --Mark viking (talk) 06:53, 20 September 2017 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.