Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Judeo-Golpaygani

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The result was merge‎ to Judeo-Iranian languages. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:36, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Judeo-Golpaygani

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Article has been tagged for accuracy since 2010. If Judeo-Golpaygani actually existed, it may in fact have been a dialect (see Talk). There seems to be very little out there that doesn't originate with our article. Some documents which may be useful can be found in the collection National Library of Israel (if we have an expert in the subject, their knowledge would be especially helpful here).
[NB: Article could also possibly be merged into Judeo-Iranian languages or Jewish languages.] Cl3phact0 (talk) 08:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language, Ethnic groups, History, Judaism, and Iran. Cl3phact0 (talk) 08:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Judeo-Iranian languages, unless new information comes to light suggesting it is a hoax. I originally voted keep, because The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History by Bernard Spolsky references the erstwhile existence of Judeo-Golpaygani (p. 241). It is ambiguous on the dialect v. language question, but that's a matter of article content, and not a question for AfD. Now, is it possible this book got its information from Wikipedia and that this is an elaborate hoax? The book was published in 2014, after the creation of this Wikipedia article, so we can't rule that out, but this is a pretty reputable source, published by Cambridge University Press. (Do you (or anyone) have any evidence for or against such a claim?) However, it is clear that even if the language variety really existed, precious little has ever been published about it in reliable sources, and not nearly enough to write a proper Wikipedia article. Therefore I think it warrants merging into Judeo-Iranian languages. Brusquedandelion (talk) 05:31, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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