Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SMS language


 * 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. Non-admin closure.  N F 24 (radio me!Editor review) 22:00, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

SMS language

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There is no reason to have this Wiki when it is a smaller version of List of Internet slang phrases Tabor 17:24, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll disagree; the general subject of SMS/ Texting is not the same as a list of phrases that are used in SMS. That said, the SMS article--if retained--needs someone who knows more about it than I do to add more content.  For example, what about SMS/ Texting in other languages; is there really any grammatical difference between standard English (French, Tagalog...) and Texted English (etc.); social effects (such as children using texting in the school essays, see refs at end of article now); is there dialectal variation in texting within speakers of a given language (e.g. between the US and Australia, or speakers of Indic English); what happens in languages with non-Roman scripts (do they text in Roman scripts or in their own script?); computational linguistic approaches to texting (like, etc.  I suspect there's a lot more that is known about this topic, but it's not my area. Mcswell 17:35, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, 68 hits on Google Scholar. Punkmorten 19:03, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge the intro to SMS, or keep but delete the "txt devices" section as a violation of Wikipedia articles are not slang guides. Crazysuit 20:06, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per Mcswell ExtraDry 22:56, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Referenced lots in national media in the UK especially so IMO noteworthy, so definatly keep Carpo1982 00:29, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep notable, referenced and SMS is a medium distinct from chat.--victor falk 10:11, 26 October 2007 (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.