Deletion of Murzyn

Comment: and salt: I can't see any possible reason to have an article in English WP about a racial slur in Polish or any foreign language, especially when a corresponding article under that heading does not even exist on Polish WP. Sometimes, a foreign language slur may become familiar to English language speakers, like the Japanese "Gaijin", but this clearly hasn't happened with "murzyn". Not by a long shot. The subject of the article is Polish-language-specific at best and totally lacks any global relevance or significance whatsoever for English language readers (except those that also know Polish, and then exclusively because they know Polish). Most of the sources are of dubious relevance and reliability, trivial or tangential; a Christian on-line newsletter, passing references in newspaper articles on completely unrelated topics, a dictionary entry for a cake with a similar name and the like. The only reliable sources that discuss the term in any detail are all entries in Polish language dictionaries. Delete per , doubly so because the term is practically never used in English except perhaps among Polish speakers. As for the argument that the word is notable because of the the "controversy" that surrounds it in Poland, that's simply balderdash. I've been living in Poland for nine years, speak Polish, read the Polish press and am rather conversant with what is controversial and what is not in Poland. The "controversy" surrounding the word is not particularly notable even in Poland (again, as the lack of an article on Polish WP demonstrates). Not notable enough, by any means, to warrant mention in English WP. The fact that this word has been discussed by Polish scholars doesn't mean much as much the same can be said for thousands of words in the Polish language. That discussion also has very little global relevance outside of Poland
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:NAD)

Comment: The threshold for inclusion on WP is whether multiple reliable sources have discussed the topic in depth. (otability: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article or stand-alone list.") Here are some instances. http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?09PLAAAA067618 is a 10-page journal paper entitled “THE 'MOOR (NEGRO)' HAS DONE HIS JOB, MUST THE 'MOOR (NEGRO)' GO? THE HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORD 'MURZYN' IN POLISH” and its abstract includes the sentence “There is a repetitive question coming up in publicist sources, how to replace 'Murzyn', if Polish is to follow western languages, in which the word Negro has come out of usage.” Another source is entitled “A NEGRO DID WHAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO...'. A STUDY OF SOME ETHNIC METAPHORS’ http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?07PLAAAA02505203 – its abstract states “The article reports on research whose goal is to analyze the image of black people in the Polish press after 1989. The aim of this work is a presentation of 'ethnic metaphors' with the lexemes 'Murzyn' (Negro), 'czarny' (a black man), 'Kali' (the name of a black hero in the novel 'W pustyni i w puszczy' by Henryk Sienkiewicz), 'Olisadebe' (the surname of a popular African football player, a member of the Polish national team) and others.”  Those two articles are pay-to-view, but their abstracts speak to the in-depth coverage point. There is a derogatory form, ‘’murzyny’” as mentioned in the book ‘’Slavic gender linguistics’’  http://books.google.com/books?id=kIWY0BxeVJ0C&pg=PA210&dq=murzyny&hl=en&ei=kyeLTpijD5OdgQf9m_2lAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=murzyny&f=false. This article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7464/is_200705/ai_n32229345/ about a Polish explorer, Sygurd Wisniowski, says: “In nineteenth-century Polish, "murzyn" functioned as a semantically neutral designation for "one belonging to a black race. African or American negroes"; its general application was possibly consistent with nineteenth-century anthropologists' attempts to create a terminology to categorise human races-"negro" being one such term. By contrast, Wisniowski's references to Maori employ a more varied, semantically structured set of terms, in which "Murzyn" features only once. Its use in "...parlament, w ktrym zaden Murzyn nie zasiada" the parliament in which not one Negro serves is significant in that it highlights both the absence, and the improbability, of any non-European serving in the New Zealand Parliament. As such, it functions as a statement of the inherent inequalities in the system of colonial government and of the author's perception of the European colonists' treatment of any indigenous population simply as another dark-skinned (and therefore unequal) people. In that context, "Murzyn" appears to issue from the mouths of the settlers, and thus could justifiably be translated as "nigger." Put together with the Polish MP’s statement and other material already in the WP article, this strikes me as meeting the notability standard
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)