Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vestfoldsk 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 delete. Daniel (talk) 11:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Vestfoldsk language

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This is not a language. It's an unsourced puff piece about a dialect of Vestfold, totally failing WP:OR. The list of words is rubbish, with nearly all of them found in one or more of the counties Telemark, Buskerud, Østfold or East Oslo. Geschichte (talk) 17:03, 8 December 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Previously nominated via WP:PROD, ineligible for soft deletion. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:57, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:24, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Norway-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:24, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems like a made up language. This article has no sources to provide proof this language is and this article is poorly written. HelpingWorld (talk) 04:57, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't know if it a real language or not. If there were citations, then keep.Yousef Raz (talk) 01:53, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment, there is a matching article, with sources, on the Norsk Wikipedia: no:Vestfoldmål. SailingInABathTub (talk) 23:43, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep As noted above, there is a matching article about this language, on the Norway Encyclopedia, which has RS. Also ....I'm going to assume that Norwegians themselves would know if a Norwegian language was made up!Deathlibrarian (talk) 05:59, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete OK, I have changed my vote, based on user Such-change47 argument that its only a minor dialect, and given the number of them in the world, it doesn't warrant its own article. Deathlibrarian (talk) 00:53, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm Norwegian, otherwise I wouldn't have nominated it. Also, how do you surmise that the sources on the Norwegian Wikipedia are RS? None of them are academic or linguistic. Also, please note that even the sources on the Norwegian Wikipedia describe this as a dialect ("dialekt", ref 1, 4, 5). It is not a language. Geschichte (talk) 10:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * You may well be, but from my viewpoint, I'm sure you would understand, it would seem unlikely there would be a longstanding page on a country's wikipedia about a made up hoax dialect/language that didn't exist... unless no one reads/vandal patrols Norwegian Wikipedia? I think it would make sense for you to speak to the Norwegian editors and have the wikipedia.no page deleted first, then we can simply follow along with the decision made there, if they decide to delete it. Deathlibrarian (talk) 13:00, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 00:07, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - This article has no notability, is poorly written and would need WP:TNT to even come close to being suitable even if it were notable. There are 160 dialects of English alone, and I certainly would not be voting to keep all of them around. This Norwegian dialect does not warrant its own article, few dialects would. With 7000 languages in the world, most of them having dialects that might be spoken only by a handful of the population, I do not think this article has encyclopaedic value. No independent sources are included and there appears to be few sources at all on Google, even fewer in English. Such-change47 (talk) 08:51, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, article is improperly sourced and doesn't meet notability. JonnyDKeen (talk) 11:08, 24 December 2021 (UTC)


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