Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of common or similar words in English and Persian


 * 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. ✗ plicit  00:03, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

List of common or similar words in English and Persian
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I've been meaning to nominate this page for deletion for a while and never got to it. Earlier today, tried to nominate it for deletion but did not do the nomination properly so I'm re-nominating it for deletion. IAmNitpicking's original rationale is given below and my own two cents is given below theirs. Pichpich (talk) 23:10, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language and Iran. Pichpich (talk) 23:10, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Rationale by IAmNitpicking (in italics):
 * I am nominating this article for deletion for two reasons:
 * 1)It lacks notability. I question whether anyone has a use for this specific list outside the very narrow field of comparative linguistics, and in that case a more scholarly venue would be appropriate. In fact ...
 * 2)It is not encyclopedic in nature. This topic is too specialized to fit a general encyclopedia, as mentioned above. IAmNitpicking (talk) 20:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete There are multiple problems with this article but the main one is that it's original research. There's quite a bit of wiggle room with a word as fuzzy as "similar" so most of the entries are probably due to chance. The article fails to distinguish between words that are similar because they possibly have a common origin (which is of some interest) and those that just happen to be similar (which is of no interest whatsoever). The article fails to demonstrate that this is a notable topic that's been the subject of rigorous study so there are WP:GNG concerns as well. Pichpich (talk) 23:20, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Pichpich. IAmNitpicking (talk) 00:03, 2 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:54, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I’m lost by all the poorly formatted comments above but this seems like an obvious case of “Wikipedia is not a speculative etymology work” Dronebogus (talk) 20:56, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. English and Persian are both Indo-European, so of course they'll have a large number of cognates. But this list doesn't stop there, it indiscriminately includes common borrowings (say, from Arabic or Greek) as well as purely coincidental similarities. Even if the list got pared down to some rigorous subset of these and sources were added, it would still not be encyclopedic. – Uanfala (talk) 11:40, 3 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete for the reasons @Pichpich quoted above. IAmNitpicking (talk) 18:18, 3 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete. A scholarly list based on etymology and genuine cognates (like dokhtar/daughter) might be useful in a linguistics article, but this is just a mishmash of cognates, parallel borrowings, and words that "look similar" to the author.  Athel cb (talk) 12:33, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and above.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 03:24, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Sources haven't indicated how these words are exactly "common" or "similar". Yoonadue (talk) 06:33, 8 May 2022 (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.