Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of English words for sounds


 * 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 no consensus. Mailer Diablo 01:45, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

List of English words for sounds
This article is quite... interesting. It doesn't really provide any encyclopedic value and it is clearly original research. I was contemplating a redirect / merge into onomatopœia, but the article isn't exactly about onomatopœia. --  tariq abjotu  (joturner) 00:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - I think this falls under the apple pie clause of WP:OR (for example you wouldn't say 'the crash of steam' and 'the hiss of steam' is easily verifiable). Because of that I'm not sure how useful it is to an english speaker, but I can't see any immediate failures of policy.Yomangani 00:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep the information per Yomangani, but maybe a new title is needed using a more technical term for this type of word. SliceNYC 01:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Useful for non-native speakers as a point of reference, but may need a different category of classification. Mabuse 01:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this belongs in a dictionary. -- Koffieyahoo 02:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * SMASH! BOOM! BANG! WHIZZ! KEEP! BoojiBoy 04:02, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak keep C56C 07:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak keep or consider reworking and merging into List_of_Onomatopoeias. Sort of. Tonywalton | Talk 11:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, utterly lacking in encyclopedic relevance. User:Angr 20:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - breaches WP:OR - unsourced it can be nothing other than OR. BlueValour 04:22, 5 August 2006 (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.