Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quotative evidental mood

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. Two votes for delete, three for merge, three for keep = a clear consensus to keep the information, just not a consensus on where to put it. Merge if you like. I am, however, moving it to the correct name. Golbez 18:19, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Quotative evidental mood
Made up and the name is mispelled. Atomiktoaster 00:35, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Bad joke (but not BJAODN bad). -- BD2412 talk 00:46, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Changing to no vote, per those who know more than I about grammar. -- BD2412 talk 14:41, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * I've heard that I want to vote for Deletion. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 02:08, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: The article describes (very briefly) a real grammatical category in many languages - e.g., . Not sure if quotative and hearsay markers should get their own article or just be redirected to Evidentiality.--Chris Johnson 04:31, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with evidentiality. It's real but it's better discussed at that page. --Angr/undefined 07:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge&Redirect per Chris and Angr. Blackcats 09:51, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, maybe merge into Grammatical mood. The creator's other contributions (made at the same time) make a joke rather unlikely. To me as a layman it looks like the work of a specialist. Also note: Check out Category:Grammatical moods. Most of the articles in that category were written by the same user who created this one, and they should probably all be treated like this one. Rl 11:31, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh keep. Dunno how this one got itself listed. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 12:32, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. This kind of analysis of modality and mood does occur in linguistics. Looking at mailing list archives, I see a close fit to the mood described here given among others in a review of Palmer, Frank R. (2001) Mood and Modality, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, hardback ISBN 0-521-80035-8, xxi+236pp, $64. 95, Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (1st ed. 1986; paperback ISBN 0-521-80479-5).  --Tony Sidaway|Talk 15:37, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but move to correct spelling. These pages, while likely to be stubby, are convenient to link to from grammar descriptions in language articles. - Mustafaa 17:56, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Grammatical mood, redirect from the correct spelling. Thanks to Chris J and Tony S for reference links.  Barno 18:55, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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