Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common Ancestry of Jatt Names

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 was delete. Singularity 02:00, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Common Ancestry of Jatt Names

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This article makes unproven claims that there is some connection between Jat surnames and those of Nordic and Germanic peoples based solely on surface similarities in sound - there is no valid linguistic or scientific basis for its claims and it seems to be promoting some kind of racist agenda John Hill 01:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete unless article can be re-calibrated in a more neutral tone along the lines of Ancestry theories of Jatt names or something similar. I am not an expert in DNA ancestry nor the evolution of surnames throughout population migration however that does not seem to be the issue. The article is prima facie OR and the editors should have responded to the neutrality tag by the addition of solid 3rd party sources - offering both sides of the debate - and a seismic shift in the article's tone. Without that it's not a useful resource. As a comment, the discussion in the article's Talk page is barely civil and as a result is damaging to the credibility of article's main proponent Dick G 03:16, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - if this Jatt/Jute idea had been reported anywhere reliable, fine. But this is just a combination of unreliable sources (non peer reviewed online essays) and WP:SYNTH (cross-fertilising the former with some paper from PubMed). The whole idea reeks of folk etymology based on false cognates, like thinking Henry Gandy (a historical mayor in Devon) has some link with Mahatma Gandhi. Gordonofcartoon 17:04, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - Names can sound the same, but without showing that they mean the same, they cannot be related. Speciate 22:37, 17 August 2007 (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.