Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gotta

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:10, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gotta

Not really notable in an encyclopedia (as opposed to a dictionary), and is only as long as it is because the author thinks the word is computer slang (huh!?) - IMSoP 20:45, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete. The topic would actually make for a beautiful linguistc article on non-standard English grammar, "eye dialect", and grammaticalization (my academic specialty, I can't help it :-) but the alleged link to computer and instant-messenger language is unverifiable original research, unsourced, and incidentally, happens to be quite wrong. Sorry. "Gotta" is much older than instant messengers. As it stands, there isn't much there that could be used for a reworked article, if anybody ever wants to write one. Lukas 21:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
    • The place for discussing grammaticalization is grammaticalization, of course. This would be an inappropriate title for such an article. Anyone wanting to write about this word specifically is welcome to improve gotta, of course. Wiktionary will take all that you have and ask for more. Uncle G 06:04, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as dictdef Segv11 (talk/contribs) 21:22, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Gotta is much much older than the Internet. --Revolución (talk) 01:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as incorrect dicdef article. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-17 05:50Z
  • 'Delete as unencyclopedic. Stifle 11:41, 17 January 2006 (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.