Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French e contraction

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. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 11:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] French e contraction

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Original research, by the looks of it. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French accent, which concerned another text just like this one. Sandstein 05:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Not being a French speaker, I can't vouch for the article's accuracy or OR status. However, this article is a how-to, and rewriting to eliminate how-to content would just duplicate existing articles on the subject. szyslak (t, c) 10:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• Well, there are some statements that are dubious from a linguistic point of view, like "French is difficult and there is [sic] many difficult rules". But native speakers seem to handle the language's "difficult rules" just fine. Besides, not all people from English-language communities think French is really that hard. The "difficulty" of French is not an encyclopedic fact, and surely stems from the author's personal POV. So this article definitely contains OR; my previous statement that I "couldn't vouch for" OR status was only about claims regarding facts about French per se. szyslak (t, c) 10:34, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Redundant to much better articles like French phonology and French orthography. - Smerdis of Tlön 15:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete--Rudjek 19:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
• S'pprimer per nom and Szyslak; WP:NOT for how-tos, reeks of fr:Wikipédia:Travaux inédits. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: A strange mix of several concepts in French grammar, none of which are correctedly termed 'contraction'. Peter Grey 22:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
• Moi-j'veux qu'on la j'te à la poubelle (Delete)....I understand the article's topic and its inconsistent explanation, but I don't think it merits its own article, especially in its current state. Ihcoyc is right with their assertion that we have much better articles that cover the same topic. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 21:20, 14 January 2007 (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.