Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Virgin Islands Creole phrases


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The result was delete. Pegasus &laquo;C&brvbar;T&raquo; 03:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Virgin Islands Creole phrases

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Per WP:NOT and WP:V, this article is an unsourced indiscriminate list of phrases from Virgin Islands Creole; there is no criterion for exclusion as long as the phrase belongs to that language. Furthermore, as the article's creator says in this edit summary and my talk page, there may not be any resources that can verify lists of phrases for Virgin Islands Creole. Also, while there are pages like list of French phrases and list of Latin phrases, Virgin Islands Creole is not notable enough to have its own page of phrases Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]  19:57, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. To quote directly from WP:NOT, "Wikipedia is not a dictionary, usage or jargon guide"... "Descriptive articles about languages, dialects or types of slang (such as Klingon language, Cockney or Leet) are desirable. Prescriptive guides for prospective speakers of such languages are not."--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 20:16, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean "Virgin Islands Creole is not notable enough to have its own page of phrases"? Who determines what is notable? Why the bias? Also, this is not a prescriptive guide for "prospective speakers of such languages." Anglophone Caribbean creoles are usually only spoken by the native people of such Caribbean islands and can never be learned from reading a prescriptive guide. Vgmaster 22 November 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vgmaster (talk • contribs) 19:12, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That there is little scholarly research on the subject, especially compared to languages like French or Russian, can serve as a more objective judgement of its notability. Æµ§œš¹  [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]  22:10, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,


 * Delete: This is an easy one. The direct quote from guideline above is all that needs to be said here. - Rjd0060 (talk) 01:40, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per HisSpaceResearch. (Couldn't quote it better) Malinaccier (talk • contribs) 02:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Geh from here Delete man - Some fodee made some of that article here tinking it was kriss, but I's tink it was buck. ;) As per above (Especially the quote from the WP:NOT). Delete. Spawn Man (talk) 03:39, 27 November 2007 (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.