Talk:Voiceless velar-bilabial affricate

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@Buidhe: Here. You should've read through the source on JSTOR, it's just 18 pages long. That too is a part of verifying claims of existence of a phone (the article is not about a phoneme but a specific sound). Sol505000 (talk) 06:07, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Now that you provide the correct page number, I see you are deriving the entire article from this sentence: "There is an alternation between P before front vowels and w before back vowels, both in the full consonant (e.g., c?2 'it is finished', wa' 'Juan') and in the labial element of the aspirated labial velar (e.g., kIa? 'file', k'"a' 'will happen')." That is not enough. To have a stand-alone article, the topic must have significant coverage not just be mentioned somewhere. See WP:GNG. (t · c) buidhe 06:16, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Buidhe: You could say that about many other articles about phonetic sounds (see the navbox, {{IPA navigation}}). Which is not to say that this article shouldn't be deleted, but that the others perhaps also should be. Nardog (talk) 06:28, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nardog, Thanks for your input. In this case there seems to be an easy solution of redirecting to the one language the source says it exists in, which I did. I would agree that there's potential to merge some other articles on rare or obscure phones. (t · c) buidhe 06:54, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]