Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Names of God in Old English poetry


 * 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   keep. Aside from a transwiki argument, nobody but the nominator is arguing for deletion. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:13, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Names of God in Old English poetry

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This article appears to be OR and doesn't have any real notability. It ought to be deleted or included in something other than a independent article. Sadads (talk) 13:56, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, provisionally, pending some kind of input as to what to do with this. This is a list of kennings similar metaphors used to name God in Old English poetry.  It's largely self-referencing, since the poems in which they appear are cited for each entry, and doesn't really contain enough synthesis or analysis to qualify as "original research".  It seems to be a worthy subject, and besides, &lt;wink&gt;it's interesting and I like it&lt;/wink&gt;.  Do we, or any other project, have lists of kennings in the old Germanic languages to which this could be appended? - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 14:25, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - we do have List of kennings. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:40, 11 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep - It doesn't seem to qualify as OR, but the lack of independent sourcing is a problem. I'd suggest tagging the article as unreferenced and allowing time for improvement. Davnor (talk) 14:31, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - It could be added as a See Also to Old English literature - which, for some reason doesn't have a section on kennings, but should. An interesting list and it would be a shame to lose it. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 14:37, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Iff we get some independent sources, then keep. DS (talk) 14:39, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * A very quick search shows the translation of dryhten to Lord in Cædmon's hymn. I agree it should have an refimprove tag. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 15:09, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:48, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, definitely fixable. bd2412  T 02:39, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wiktionary seems like appendix material. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 04:46, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * keep of course. It can be improved to be less list-like, but the topic makes a perfectly valid to both Names of God and Old English poetry. What should be done here is, Old English poetry should be made a standalone article, with a section on kennings, and this material then may or may not be merged there. But the material is also relevant to Anglo-Saxon Christianity. More active encyclopedic editing, less sterile housekeeping, please. --dab (𒁳) 07:18, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep line refs could be added, but otherwise the works are very well known, and citation of specific editions not really needed. As it is, it might be better renamed to "List of ...", or expanded. Johnbod (talk) 15:01, 15 May 2010 (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.