Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lexical differences in Kenyan English

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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. Balloonman (talk) 01:13, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lexical differences in Kenyan English

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I tagged this with unencyclopaedic on the 8th, and left a note for the author. Hasn't been updated since, so I thought I'd bring it here instead. As I wrote on the talk page, this article might fail WP:NOT#DICTIONARY, specifically section 2. However, most of this appears to be original research with no reliable sources to back it up. ARendedWinter 21:11, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete. Per nom, unencyclopedic and original research. -- Julius Sahara (talk) 21:32, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unencyclopedic Ctjf83 22:30, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Transwiki to Somewhere more appropriate, seems article doesn't belong at Wikipedia, but it might fit at one of the sister projects. VivioFateFan (Talk, Sandbox) 23:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment We also have to consider WP:BIAS when evaluating an article about another culture. However, it looks like about 90 percent of the words are not unique to Kenya. The vast majority of these are the "English English" that is spoken in Britain (chips, flat, lift, etc.). Lists of this type are less of a dictionary, and more of an insight into the culture of another nation (such as "thorn in my eye" being a euphemism for an ugly person)). I don't see that anyone would look up words here. Most people who would read this article would probably be unaware of words like "matatu" or "kamuti" beforehand. Mandsford (talk) 02:31, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


As the authour of the article, I am following the format found on some other 'lexical differences' pages on wikipedia and just added the Kenyan variants with some originals included as well. Some of these words are likely to be unlknown beforehand simply because Kenya is a relatively small country and as such only people from Kenya or with an interest in Kenya will be looking at the materials. What if anything should I change to comply with the Wiki standards? Wairimu (talk) 18:30, 19 November 2007 (UTC)Wakuria

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