Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sweere-arse (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. slakr \ talk / 02:09, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Sweere-arse
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This is a procedural re-opening of an old AFD. The article was nominated by User:Adam9007 on the grounds that "Doesn't appear to be notable. The article's source is the only one I can find (in fact, the article seems to have been copied almost straight from it)." That discussion was truncated by some copyright confusion, so relisting to hear the original grounds. (See the article's talk page.) Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:34, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTDICTIONARY. No evidence this term was widely used or has any particular significance. Fails WP:GNG. J bh  Talk  20:18, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment I cannot believe the publication date was overlooked! I found a couple of other sources, but both of them attribute it to or have copied it from the same source, so this is not a copyvio. However, I still can't find any evidence of notability. Adam9007 (talk) 20:33, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep It was certainly a game, which ought to be notable provided there are reliable sources. One is given in the article; another is The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, London: Henry Frowde; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, page 874, which states "a game", describing it as "A sport among ... children, in which two of them are seated on the ground, and, holding a stick between them, endeavour each of them to draw the other up from the sitting posture. The heaviest in the posterior wins the game. MACKAY. Ant. Get up, some o' you twa, an' feed the kye [cows]. You wud think you wur drawin' sweererce, Ballymena Obs. (1892)". This is certainly a reliable source, as are the sources it cites; the game exists and is of encyclopaedic interest. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:50, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Good find of an additional source however all of the references I have found, including the one you cite above, have exactly the same definition. The one you quote above and the initial citation seem to trace back to this earlier book.


 * Quoted in The Dictionary of Scots Language. The three references are not independent two being authored by Charles MacKay and the third, later, source reproducing his text exactly. I would think if the game were notable something else would have been said about it in the last 133 years. J bh  Talk  22:12, 7 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - fails GNG as none of the sources represent significant coverage - would be suitable for a dictionary entry, which is what is cited - but wikipedia isn't a dictionary. -- ℕ  ℱ  22:03, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:24, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:24, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. Google finds little but references to jamieson and wikipedia mirrors. I checked British Newspaer Archives for this and the synonyms mentioned to no avail.Derek Andrews (talk) 13:39, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete There is no doubt that it isn't a real game, but I do question the notability of it. At least to the point where it merits its own Wikipedia article. The WP:SIGCOV does not appear to be there to justify the article. Mkdw talk
 * Delete - Not notable and a quick search on Google finds little to nothing besides brief mentions. MrWooHoo (talk) 22:12, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


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