Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Distributed Language: Difference between revisions

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:As I said, I'd be willing to change my vote if someone produced a reasonable stub. I do not know anything about the subject and do not feel qualified to do it myself. If you feel that you can do this yourself, please go ahead. [[User:Nsk92|Nsk92]] ([[User talk:Nsk92|talk]]) 12:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm the person who posted Distributed Language, and I did that because I believe it a very important concept. Of course, I'm an iexperienced wiki-user, and from the discussion I see that the article ought to be rewritten. I'd like to leave a stub, but don't know how to do it. Could someone advise on that, please? <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Sashakr|Sashakr]] ([[User talk:Sashakr|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sashakr|contribs]]) 23:17, 16 May 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->{{spa<small>— [[User:Sashakr|Sashakr}}]] ([[User talk:Sashakr|talk]]&#32;• [[Special:Contributions/Sashakr|contribs]]) has made [[Wikipedia:Single-purpose account|few or no other edits]] outside this topic. </small>

Hi! As a linguist, I find the distributed approach to be a very important development in linguistics. Surely, there are as always the usual pros and cons, but the number of papers, articles, conferences (and even a special issue of Language Sciences, Sep. 2007) clearly indicate that this is an important topic in linguistics, and therefore there is no doubt that this article should not be deleted. Whether it is written in a Wiki format or not, well, perhaps it isn't. On the other hand, there are some valuable information in the present version that might make it easier for another contributor to re-write the article. So perhaps it could be left as it is now for a while, giving other contributors some time to re-write it thouroughly?I've used Wikipedia for a couple of years now, but I haven't engaged in writing or discussing articles before, so I'm not sure about the usual procedures etc. in this situation. [[User:SunWork|SunWork]] ([[User talk:SunWork|talk]]) 20:47, 18 May 2008 (UTC){{spa<small>— [[User:SunWork|SunWork}}]] ([[User talk:SunWork|talk]]&#32;• [[Special:Contributions/SunWork|contribs]]) has made [[Wikipedia:Single-purpose account|few or no other edits]] outside this topic. </small>

*'''Keep''' As noted by others above, the concept seems to be [[WP:NOTABILITY|notable]] enough to warrant an article. The only issue seems to be one of style and content, which (IMO) can both be tackled without deleting. I'll leave my thoughts on how to improve the article on Sashakr's [[User talk:Sashakr|talk page]] to keep the discussion here from going off topic. [[User:Cosmo0|Cosmo0]] ([[User talk:Cosmo0|talk]]) 20:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)