Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lake Dialect

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. Little debate, but it was a recreation (non-verbatim) of Lake dialect. -Splash^talk 22:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lake Dialect

An article about this entirely unverifiable "dialect" was already deleted in February. The current incarnation is no more verifiable than the previous one was. The edit summary of the first edit even says "this information was passed to me by word of mouth", making it original research. Delete. Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 14:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete: per {{deleteagain}} speedy delete tag. Solarusdude 19:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - per --Danleone 15:08, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Having grown up in "The Lake", I am very aware of a very distinct set of words used exclusively there. Whether this qualifies as a "language", a "dialect", an "ideolect" or just an interesting vocabulary is not for me to decide. I can only say that this might be linguistically interesting. I have found only few brief references online so far refering to it. For now, I vote to keep it.

The question is not whether the dialect/accent exists or whether it is linguistically interesting. The question is whether the information is verifiable from published sources. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 16:48, 6 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.