Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lama (name)


 * 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   keep. (non-admin closure) Michaelzeng7 (talk) 00:55, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Lama (name)

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Anything in this article is already in Lama (disambiguation), and this article isn't really expandable. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 11:48, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:21, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran ( t  •  c ) 00:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Nominator claims that the article about an Arabic female name "really isn't expandable". For expansion possibities, how about a book called Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provençal Lyrics which talks about "drinking in the lama, the dusky brown colour of the lips which he describes as 'sweet like honey, fresh and pure'." How about A World of Baby Names, which says "Derived from the Arabic lamia (having beautiful, dark lips)". Or, how about Tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literature, which says: "The color name lama, referring to the red belonging to dark lips, when morphologically changed to lamya' means the dark green of a tree's shadow." Or this delightful quotation from  a book published by New York University just last year: Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology, which says, "Ah God! What a river! It flows in the valley, a watering place lovelier than a girl's crimson lips." (emphasis added). Don't such sources both establish notability and allow for expansion?  Cullen 328   Let's discuss it  05:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - per Cullen328. ö   Brambleberry   of   RiverClan  15:30, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per the sources provided above by Cullen328. At least meets WP:N (I wasn't able to preview the A World of Baby Names source, per having reached limits per previewing or preview unavailability on Google Books). It's also likely that other reliable sources are available. Northamerica1000(talk) 23:30, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:BEFORE (a more complicated search syntax would find sources) and WP:OUTCOMES (we have kept most of the most popular baby names). Bearian (talk) 18:51, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
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