Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spanish words of Iranian origin (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:39, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

List of Spanish words of Iranian origin
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Spanish hasn't to my knowledge ever been in direct contact with an Iranian language. With the possible exception of the modern-day loan ayatolá, and leaving aside conceivable ancient borrowings from the Alans, all the words in the list have come to Spanish indirectly: most via Arabic, some out of the general pool of international words, or via Greek and Latin. The list is not etymologically coherent (unlike similar ones for Arabic or Nahuatl), and the fact that the individual words can ultimately be traced to an Iranian language is an interesting curiosity, it can make good material for a popular listicle on buzzfeed, but has no place in an encyclopedia. – Uanfala (talk) 19:50, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 21:12, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Spain-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 21:12, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:57, 26 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - Agree with the nominator's thoughts. Should a number of editors feel there is any reason to keep this list, I will add that it is unsourced, incomplete and wrong so in that case draftify would make sense. It is clearly not ready for mainspace even if it has value. However I think it lacks any encyclopaedic value so deletion is better. In the first nomination for deletion, arguments for retention were WP:OTHER which is not a reason to keep. -- Sirfurboy (talk) 10:09, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete or draft, The subject is good but the article does not show how each word traces to what word in Persian . So either delete it or give it a chance to complete it. Alex-h (talk) 15:03, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - right now this is sourced from a single source, which is de facto original research. I would not oppose userfication. Bearian (talk) 21:08, 30 January 2020 (UTC)


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