Talk:Basic words

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This is not an encyclopedic topic. Possibly the information could be merged to Swadesh list. Dbenbenn 16:50, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• It might be an encyclopedic topic, but it's certainly not written encyclopedicly. Cleanup—Trevor Caira 21:10, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• I expect the topic this editor is trying to cover is already mentioned in linguistics. No vote here. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 21:28, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
• Gently delete. Already covered in detail at Historical linguistics. --Korath^会話 23:08, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. The material in this article is covered elsewhere. Tomato 23:35, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Cleanup, no reason to delete. Read Wikipedia:Deletion policy. Dan100 09:48, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)
• move to Swadesh list (which is at present a redirect), rewrite. dab (ᛏ) 09:52, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I did a quick writeup of Swadesh list, and made this article a redirect (not working, because of the VfD template). Note that I think that Swadesh list does deserve an article separarte from glottochronology, because glottochronology is in principle more broad a concept, although often used interchangeably. dab (ᛏ) 10:06, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Delete with extreme prejudice, this ain't scholarly or helpful. Wyss 22:53, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep redirect - David Gerard 23:11, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep The information is not present elsewhere. Otherwise move the information to the swadesh list. Antifinnugor 11:13, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• There is an entry de:Basiswortschatz. Would it correspond to Basic words? If yes: Keep - Roland2 17:04, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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