Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nottinghamshire words

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The result was redirect to East Midlands English. Mark Arsten (talk) 12:55, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nottinghamshire words

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A list of words suggested by Radio Nottingham listeners, according to the cited source. Non-notable and unencyclopedic. DoctorKubla (talk) 08:22, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As it stands, not encyclopedic: too close to a dictionary. Dialect of Nottinghamshire might be a notable topic[1][2][3] (refs are indicative not proof of notability), but this article isn't about dialect, it's just a list of words. Is there a copyright issue since the list is largely copied off the BBC website? --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:19, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Well, the list as currently presented is dreadful, largely uncited, and the rest is largely a list from a single phone-in radio type source. So it certainly needs rewriting. Two questions, therefore: 1) are there other sources? - yes, there are popular ones like Our Nottinghamshire; and there are academic ones which discuss in minute detail tiny subtopics in the comparison of Notts and other dialects, e.g. Heselwood and Upton. There is also discussion in introductory accounts such as Barbara Fuller's Great Britain, and examples of folk songs which have Notts variants Traditional Children's Games. 2) Is this a notable topic for an article? - It might be, I'll follow the discussion with interest. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:26, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
We already have East Midlands English, so this is redundant. Very few of the terms here are actually limited to Nottinghamshire, isoglosses not generally being fans of county boundaries. Morwen - Talk 12:52, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to East Midlands English in that case. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:06, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:22, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:22, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to East Midlands English as suggested above. References are extremely weak, and removing the words that aren't purely Notts ones would leave almost nothing. And the whole basis of the article seems weak, as per User:Morwen.--A bit iffy (talk) 19:15, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.