Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rinkeby Swedish


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) MacMedtalk stalk 04:06, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Rinkeby Swedish

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Seriously, this is not a notable subject. Do we really need an article about how 15 year old immigrants in a small suburb in Sweden talk? KzKrann (talk) 21:23, 18 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep This is, quite seriously, a notable subject. Ask Google Scholar about "Rinkeby Swedish" and you get just under 100 hits; "Rinkebysvenska" yields about 150 hits, and it's unlikely that most scholarly publications about Swedish linguistics would be found through G Scholar. This is a linguistic phenomenon that researchers in Scandinavian languages are pretty interested in; please note that the fact that the variety is named after a suburb of Stockholm does not mean that it's only spoken there. The unsourced list of terms which is not particularly interesting to English-speakers, and some other poorly sourced information, should be removed from the article but it should not be deleted. --bonadea contributions talk 17:50, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Is this a joke nomination or is it a way to express contempt for this language of low social status? From the Google translation of the first source (on the website of the Swedish Language Council): "Many Swedish young people who do not have Swedish as their mother tongue and have grown up in immigrant populations can speak a particular form of Swedish, which is characterized by many loan words from various immigrant languages ​​and also by a special intonation. It is known Rinkeby Swedish, Swedish Gårdsten, Rosengard Swedish or something else associated with specific locations. It is now so popular that even people with monolingual Swedish background sometimes try it." Then they recommend "[Swedish] multiethnic youth language" for scholarly use and "Shobresvenska" for common use. It's probably too early in the week to tell, but I have a feeling there might be snow in the air. Hans Adler 07:07, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - assume joke nomination.--BabbaQ (talk) 12:58, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. I found several sources just on a first sweep of Google Scholar, and added a couple. The article was badly under-referenced and still needs more refs., but it's obvious that there is substantial scholarly discussion, including work that is entirely about Rinkeby Swedish, and some of the sources refer to newspaper articles. So it is a demonstrably notable topic. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:03, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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