Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phonetics departments at universities


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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 08:56, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Phonetics departments at universities

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I explained briefly on the Talk page of this article why the article in its present form should be deleted. Its title implies that it lists universities with a Phonetics Department, but the universities on the list do not have departments with the name 'Department of Phonetics', though they do do teaching and research in phonetics. There are very few Departments of Phonetics left in the world, most having been absorbed into larger academic units. If the article were to be changed to list all places where phonetics is taught, researched and studied, it would be useful, but this article is so far short of being comprehensive that I believe it to be very misleading. RoachPeter (talk) 15:06, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Procedural Note This is a failed AfD nomination that has been sitting in limbo for months. The time of this comment is the approximate time it first appeared in a daily AfD Log. Monty  845  01:10, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Unclear. Besides what the nomination says it is quite possible that the word "phonetics" means different things in different languages, at least as it relates to a topic of study. Borock (talk) 02:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 07:44, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.--Rpclod (talk) 12:11, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
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