Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yola language/archive1
I am nominating Yola language because I found it fascinating and I learned a lot from it. In all my linguistic studies I had never heard of such a thing, so I guess you could say I really learned something about this "other" branch of Middle English that missed out on the Great Vowel shift! I feel this is some of the best of wikipedia; hence my nomination. Codex Sinaiticus 02:17, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose for now. Every FA has a list of references at the end; while sometimes I don't see why it's necessary, this is not one of them. This is crying out for a bibliography. It's a great start, but I'd work on it some more and put it through peer review before I came back here. Daniel Case 03:09, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
- Object
1) Cite your sources in a References section.2) There is no lead section.3) The article needs a map showing where the language is used. 4) The Yola song section, that appears to be only song lyrics, is longer than the rest of the prose. Compare this to other featured articles about languages such as Laal language, Nafaanra language or Gbe languages. slambo 15:06, July 23, 2005 (UTC)- Okay, we've got a lead section now, but with so little else in the article, it does not appear to be comprehensive enough compared to other featured articles about languages. slambo 17:25, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
- Object Three paragraphs of prose does not make a featured article. Whilst probably the literature on the language is limited, we can surely do better than this. Morwen - Talk 20:19, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
- Comment. There is a language template that has been successfully applied to most of the recent language FAs. It's not entirely applicable to extinct languages, but most of it is. Besides being way too short, the following (full-blown) sections need to be added before we can even think of renominating it:
- History
- Classification
- Grammar
- Sounds
- Geographic distribution (or something like it)
- Vocabulary