Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turkic vocabulary


 * 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   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:00, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Turkic vocabulary

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This page is not an article; it is a unsourced table of lexical comparisons between languages of the Turkic family. A notice on the talk page of WikiProject Languages since December 2011 has failed to solicit any improvements of substance. Fails WP:NOR, WP:NOTWEBHOST, WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Shrigley (talk) 20:26, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 18:23, 10 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment: The content of the page is similar to Swadesh list articles, several of which have been discussed at AfD over the past six years. Many of these discussions ended by transwiki-ing the content to Wiktionary, but the most recent discussion ended with no consensus and the page was kept in article space. None of this should necessarily prejudice the handling of this page, but should be considered by discussants and the closing admin.
 * Articles for deletion/Swadesh lists closed as "transwiki all", October 2006
 * Articles for deletion/Levantine Arabic / Sawdesh List closed as "delete", November 2006
 * Articles for deletion/Romanian Swadesh list closed as "delete", December 2006
 * Articles for deletion/Swadesh list of Tsezic languages closed as "delete" with a note on transwiki, April 2010
 * Articles for deletion/Swadesh list of Slavic languages closed as "no consensus", June 2012
 * Cnilep (talk) 03:06, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The table in this article is not a Swadesh list, which can be found in other sources, and which serves a useful academic purpose. Whereas a standard Swadesh list could expose the areas where Turkic languages significantly diverge in basic vocabulary, this list shows an hand-picked selection of cognates, essentially making the case (WP:NOTSOAPBOX) that the languages are more mutually intelligible than they really are. Shrigley (talk) 05:58, 12 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. As Shrigley says, this is not a Swadesh list as such. There are no sources cited and no explanation of why these words were chosen. It appears to be original research. I don't think the content meets Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion, so transwiki would not be appropriate. Cnilep (talk) 05:49, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete topic is inappropriate for a separate articleCurb Chain (talk) 06:53, 16 September 2012 (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.