Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Words without consonants (2nd nomination)


 * 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 no consensus. To delete, but editorial transwikiing or deletion of the non-English parts is still on the table.  Sandstein  17:45, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Words without consonants
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Unreferenced collection of multilanguage trivia. Nonencyclopedic Staszek Lem (talk) 02:59, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment I would feel more inclined to delete this if the transwiki to Wiktionary were completed. One notice says this will happen.  But the other notice takes that away and says the Transwiki bot failed. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 03:08, 17 December 2015 (UTC)  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 03:05, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, if nobody wants to do this manually, this is not the reason to keep it for may years. If somebody is willing to undertake the job, one may userfy the page. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:55, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:01, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, clpo13(talk) 07:53, 25 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete a lovely piece of work, but it does seem to be WP:OR, and not supported by reliable sources. There is a single entry for "ewe" as a consonantless word on page 37 in White's Every-day English: A Sequel to "Words and Their Uses" (1880). This article does not mention either Spanish or Hebrew which "Segmental and suprasegmental errors in Spanish learning cochlear implant users: Neurolinguistic interpretation", by Ignacio Moreno-Torres and Esther Moruno-López, indicates both have multisyllable consonantless words.  Perhaps  would enlighten us on what sources they (sing.) used in preparing the original article in January 2010‎. --Bejnar (talk) 11:24, 25 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete People have amassed a large list. But it is a list based on a trivial similarity. We could also assemble a list of words without phonemic vowels (drawing from Semitic and Slavic to begin with), but that would also be trivial. Maybe a small part of this be moved to a single paragraph under Vowel. Pete unseth (talk) 13:47, 26 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep until transwikied. BTW, we do have an article on words w/o vowels. — kwami (talk) 23:11, 26 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep until transwikied. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 23:49, 26 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep, Rename to List of English words without consonants, and remove the non-English sections. Given this is the English Wikipedia, we don't typically include other languages in lexicography-related lists. There are a few exceptions, but the word "consonant" doesn't even have a consistent meaning across languages. Wikipedia is not a dictionary and doesn't have indiscriminate collections of lexicographical trivia, but it does have encyclopedic lists of words. There are reliable sources which include such a list (making a case for WP:SALAT). &mdash; <span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;"> Rhododendrites <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk  \\ 03:45, 29 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep per User:Rhododendrites. --Sammy1339 (talk) 08:01, 1 January 2016 (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.