Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hamsaya
Many words which are not used in the English language are nevertheless notable and are covered by multiple reliable sources. The criteria for inclusion in enwiki is //, not being "a part of regular English lexicon"; "not an English word" is ''not'' a deletion criterion. The question here is not whether this is a local dialect word or a widely-accepted term (and even if it were just a local dialect word, the best solution would be to ''redirect'' it to the widely accept it term); the question is whether this is notable and verifiable
— User:CaliforniaAliBaba, 00:08, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:V||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)