Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish colloquial terms

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 nomination was delete. Sango123 17:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish colloquial terms

Delete - Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Mais oui! 04:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

• Merge to Scottish English after an edit and tidy up DavidHumphreys ^{SPEAK TO ME}ABOUT _{THE THINGS I MESSED UP} 05:10, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - as nom. Also, this list is terrible. It's a strange combination of authentic Scots words, modern regional slang and common english language words written phonetically so as to be spoken in a Scottish accent. --IslaySolomon 05:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• I can't see any notice of this "discussion" on the original creator of the article's talkpage. Common courtesy would seem to demand it, particularly when one notes that this article has a/ existed for quite a while without anyone's feeling the need to burn it and b/ been worked on a fair bit. I think you could argue that this stuff would be difficult to source, but there's no reason we couldn't have a discussion of Scottish dialect terms and their variance from English under this title. Merging it with Scottish English is likely only to bloat that article. So keep but urge cleanup and more careful sourcing.Grace Note 05:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Apologies for uncivil sounding "this list is terrible" comment, however I stand by my opinion that this list is far too inconsistant to be edited or merged into anything usefull. As for it being "worked on a fair bit", that's simply not true. The body of the article has not been substantially altered since it was created[1] (Fuhghettaboutit and 84.135.201.172 only alter spelling and 82.40.236.98 adds one word). During it's half-year life span this list has increased in length by precisely one item. --IslaySolomon 05:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete This is wiktionary material. Entries should be moved there. Scottish English would not be a good home for it because some of the entries are Scots language, some are Glaswegian slang and some are just phonetically spelled English. -- Derek Ross | User:Derek Ross 06:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Comment I agree with Derek Ross that not all of the entries should be there, which is why I said it needed editing before being merged DavidHumphreys ^{SPEAK TO ME}ABOUT _{WHAT I MESSED UP} 06:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Comment I'll concede that there is room for a few choice examples from the list to be used in the (rather inaccessible) Scottish English article. But only after some utterly brutual editing. --IslaySolomon 06:48, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom, WP:NOT a dictionary, and not for indiscriminate lists per Derek Ross, and WP:NOR (Hen is used of women ? Well not in The Broons and not anywhere I lived). Also because completely redundant as the DSL does this so much better. Lastly, if you wanted to learn to speak 'Weegian, Stanley Baxter's Parliamo Glesca would be much more useful, and funnier too. Angus McLellan (Talk) 08:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• delete, it's a pile of mince... But come on Angus, where you living - you no ken that a hen's an auld quine? /wangi 09:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Yup, hen <- henny <- hinny <- honey <- sweet <- sweetheart. Nothing to do with poultry. -- Derek Ross | Talk 15:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. There's an awful lot of "Scots" on Wikipedia which is either made up by the people who write it, or is used by very small sub-groups of people and is not what this Scot, for one, considers Scots. Embarassing. Ding it doon. – Kieran T ^{(talk | contribs)} 09:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and do not merge, not good content. SM247^{My Talk} 23:24, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a dictionary, fails WP:NOR. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 23:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Coredesat, Scottish English already covers anything in this article that falls under WP's scope. HumbleGod 23:41, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: not enough sourced material to include in other articles, and lacks explanation or other structured encyclopaedic material. Stephen B Streater 21:39, 6 July 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.