Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murzyn
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
— User:Novickas, 16:00, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)