Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aleturkish

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. SushiGeek 08:47, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aleturkish

Recreated after being deleted under PROD, so essentially an ex post facto contested PROD. I don't deny the truthfulness of some of the things asserted in this article. I live in Berlin and hear people code-switching between German and Turkish all the time. However, I can find no evidence that this phenomenon is known as Aleturkish or Aletürkisch. I can find no evidence that any of the books listed under "sources" actually exist. I would fully support a verifiable article citing reputable sources (that I can actually find on the Internet or in the library) on the topic of German/Turkish code-switching, but this article isn't that. Delete. Angr (talk • contribs) 22:29, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. It makes too much sense to be a hoax, except that it must be a hoax. I searched long and hard, and in spite of my diligence, like nominator could not find a shred of evidence that any of the listed sources or even their authors exist. "Özyargılı" should be "Önyargılı" ("prejudiced") and presumably be part of the title; its appearance after a semicolon as a kind of afterthought (what does it refer to?) is strange. Bulut Yayınları is an existing publisher. I could not find the book using the search function on their web site, although that does not mean much because I could not find some books that I know for certain they published either. But these did turn up in Google search. "Deutschen Verlag" is somewhat suspicious; it should be "Deutscher Verlag", and as far as I know that name was only in use during the Nazi period. Or is it "Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften"? I don't know what happened to this VEB after the unification. Or "Deutsche Verlag-Anstalt"? For a book in a major language that is even a second edition, and as recent as this, and for a relatively sexy topic, it is really really strange nothing on it can be found on the Web. The search term "McCornigal" has 0 hits. "McConigal" has some, but "George McConigal" again zilch. Ugh. Lambiam^Talk 23:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I also looked in the online catalog of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin for any of these books or their authors and came up empty. The basic premise is not a hoax, but the details in this article are one. Angr (talk • contribs) 00:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, per above. --Snargle 00:02, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, case of getting wiki to deseminate a new idea. -- Agathoclea 06:53, 22 April 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.