Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phonostatistical distances between Basque and other languages


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The result was Delete. --MelanieN (talk) 01:29, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Phonostatistical distances between Basque and other languages

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non notable topic Gaijin42 (talk) 18:08, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Essentially, this is the data from a single conference paper. The paper almost-but-not-quite implies a relationship between Basque and the Turkic language family. But unless that hypothesis gets more traction in the literature, that's simply too minor a viewpoint to even warrant inclusion at Basque language. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 20:25, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - Well, that's certainly a very specific topic. In any event, we can't have Wikipedia pages for every minor study that gets published. Maybe if this theory really took off, sure, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Cosmic Sans (talk) 21:47, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions.  Human 3015   TALK    00:13, 14 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't know - It seems like we don't even have an article for phonostatistics. What about the possibility to create such an article and to merge? There are also many other studies avaible in Russian and English language. I tried to add this into the article Basque language before, but it was denied, because the study is regarded as "pseudo-scientific".--Talgatovthe2nd (talk) 13:46, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Why not create the phonostatistics article? I could see this study being cited in phonostatistics, if such an article existed. But the phonostatistics article would have to contain its own sources, independent of this study. Cosmic Sans (talk) 14:15, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * To create the phonostatistics article would be the better solution, yes. But it will take much time. Is it possible to transfer this study to a sandbox page?--Talgatovthe2nd (talk) 18:50, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, absolutely. I made a copy here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cosmic_Sans/Sandbox/Phonostatistics_Study Feel free to use that, or make your own sandbox page if you want. Cosmic Sans (talk) 22:34, 14 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete This is essentially a restatement of original research of an exceedingly specific variety, and falls under the WP:ORIGINAL guideline.--69.204.153.39 (talk) 02:52, 19 October 2015 (UTC)


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