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Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 04:00, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Created by Therealscorp1an (talk). Self-nominated at 00:19, 22 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Greco-Australian dialect; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

  • The article was new enough and long enough at the time of the nomination. The hook is interesting, but it lacks a direct reference since it's only explicitly mentioned in the lede and is only implicitly stated in the rest of the article. I didn't find any close paraphrasing. The nominator does not appear to have any prior nominations so a QPQ is not required. The nomination can proceed once the sourcing issue is sorted out. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:20, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5: How does this reference look? - Therealscorp1an (talk) 07:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC): https://greekreporter.com/2016/08/19/to-booko-greek-australian-dictionary-of-the-greekish-dialect/[reply]
It should be added to the article. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5: It is.. - Therealscorp1an (talk) 08:52, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I mean the sentence in question needs a footnote. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:58, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5: Do you mean in the lead sentence where it is written? - Therealscorp1an (talk) 07:42, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:58, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5: Okay, I have added it, although, by my understanding, leads do not typically need references. Anyhow, would it be ready for DYK now? I submitted this quite a while ago, and looking back now, I think the ALT1 is a bit better than the first option now. - Therealscorp1an (talk) 08:01, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The article's fine now but I'm still thinking about what hook to recommend. While I can see the interest in ALT1, I do find ALT0 to be the more surprising hook. I'll have to think this over for a bit. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:28, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • After giving this some thought, I will leave it to the promoter to choose between ALT0 or ALT1. Regardless of hook I would suggest delinking all the other blue links as the other links don't seem to be needed for extra context and we'd want to promote viewership of the main subject. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:22, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Kalimniou, Dean (29 June 2020). "Tongues of Greek Australia: An Anglicised Hellenic language". Neos Kosmos. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  2. ^ Kalimniou, Dean (29 June 2020). "Tongues of Greek Australia: An Anglicised Hellenic language". Neos Kosmos. Retrieved 22 October 2023.

Greco-Australian "dialect"?

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The given sources seem to discuss the local variation of the Greek language in Australia, however, I'm not sure whether they can support the name "Greco-Australian dialect" which is used as the title of the article and I'm afraid is in fact WP:OR. That is because the Greek varieties of Australia are never mentioned as "Greco-Australian dialect" in any of the sources, and even the word "dialect" is barely used to describe them. Most importantly, while the sources included in the article (Greek reporter, Neos Kosmos) can be used to provide general information, unfortunately they cannot pass as WP:RS for matters of linguistics. Similarly, the writers themselves are not linguists, so as to support the existence or not of a new Greek "dialect". The sole exception is Anastasios Tamis who, while he studies the Greek variety in Australia, doesn't seem to go as fas as calling it a "dialect" in his paper. Generally, every language has some local varieties in different geographical locations, but not every variety is automatically classified as a "dialect". In order to speak of a dialect, a certain variety would, among others, need to be well-codified and most importantly have some general consensus among linguists that it can be classified as such. In this case, there is no indication that every Greek Australian actually speaks this specific variety of Greek, nor is this Greek really one specific dialect, but more like local non-standard corruptions of Greek under the influence of English, which [English] for many Greek Australians is their first language. Something like "Greek in Australia" would be a more appropriate and WP:NPOV title for this article. Piccco (talk) 11:48, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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