Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of linguistic prescription in English

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 speedy keep‎. Withdrawn by nominator. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:56, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

History of linguistic prescription in English[edit]

[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Might be original research Chidgk1 (talk) 18:38, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:38, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by nominator - thanks for improving @Folly Mox: Chidgk1 (talk) 10:41, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:13, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Chidgk1, and thanks for withdrawing the nomination. Improvement is always a better outcome than deletion. Many articles like this are pretty easily sourceable by importing references from adjacent articles. I got the first seven citations in only an hour, but if I had just copypasted them it could have gone even quicklier. Then I got sleepy and stuck on a particular sentence I probably should have just rephrased.

There might be some OR in the article, but for that it's usually best to find a source that supports a weaker variant of the claim in question and change the prose accordingly. I think the WP:BEFORE for this nom was not really thorough. Do you have Wikipedia Library access? They have really great access to a lot of major academic publishers. Folly Mox (talk) 11:10, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.