Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murzyn
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
— User:Dominus, 09:41, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NAD (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)