Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:26, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities

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Prodded and deleted for lack of any reliable sources to establish notability years ago. Recreated when an editor promised to add reliable sources. No reliable sources have been added. Comments made by that editor on a talk page suggest he is basing that claim largely on coverage in a publication called Word Ways, which the article on Dmitri Borgmann notes was founded by this exact same author. Covering himself in his own publication does not establish notability. In fact, there's no evidence that the author himself meets Wikipedia's standards for notability, so that article probably deserves to be deleted as well DreamGuy (talk) 00:13, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Even discounting the Word Ways articles, there's plenty of coverage in reliable, independent sources, including contemporary book reviews in Kirkus, Scientific American, and TIME   .  Material in several popular and academic books, themselves written by notable authors such as Rod L. Evans and Yakov Malkiel, attests to this book's popularity and historical significance.  Even the Word Ways sources are independent enough, having been written long after Borgmann's death, and anywhere from 17 to 37 years after he'd left the magazine. —Psychonaut (talk) 06:31, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I have just completely rewritten the article on the basis of all the reliable sources mentioned above. Will do the same for Dmitri Borgmann shortly. —Psychonaut (talk) 07:49, 22 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. It is a major work in this field. Wahrmund (talk) 18:24, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 02:39, 30 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep, The updates seem to bring it into line with expectations Jeepday (talk) 09:48, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per 's sources and improvements. --Arxiloxos (talk) 17:14, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Clearly notable after 's work on the article. 97198 (talk) 00:34, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 'Keep. Well done, Psychonaut. DS (talk) 12:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Definite keep. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 04:16, 5 November 2014 (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.