Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Levantine Arabic / Sawdesh List


 * 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 Delete - since it is copied from Egyptian Arabic/Swadesh list and the changes unreferenced (or openly stated as needing checking) I won't put it on the transwiki list, but if anybody wants it copied to their userspace to transwiki it themselves just ask. Yomangani talk 02:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Levantine Arabic / Sawdesh List
Half of the list is basically a rip off of Egyptian Arabic/Swadesh list, which makes the article largely inaccurate, and the rest is a sort of vague attempt at a pan-Levantine idiom that doesn't account for some significant differences between the Levantine dialects. Unencyclopedic. The Swadesh list series are already being nominated for a transwiki, but this one should simply be deleted. &mdash; [ zɪʔɾɪdəʰ ]   &middot;   t  09:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Hamada2 19:30, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 *  AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.  Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Krakatoa  Katie  01:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Transwiki and delete - that debate now forms a precedent. MER-C 02:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, and at any rate WP:WINAD. Transwiki if anyone is so inclined. Sandstein 07:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Transwiki and delete as Dmcdevit put it, this list'll be happier in Wiktionary. Kavadi carrier 09:13, 5 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment: I'm still concerned about accuracy issues if the list were to be transwikied. The list looks like it was copied from Egyptian Arabic/Swadesh list then a few modifications here and there were made. You can see at the end of the article that it still has the Hinds & Badawi Egyptian Arabic dictionary as a reference, even though the article is about Levantine Arabic. Also, Levantine is too diverse to have just one list for. &mdash; [ zɪʔɾɪdəʰ ]   &middot;   ☥  18:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
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