Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/French tongue twisters


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. BD2412 T 22:20, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

French tongue twisters
This article was prod because "No sourced quotes," and the tag was removed without providing reliable sources. Including non-English tongue twisters in the English Wikiquote is a dubious proposition, even with sources, because the essence of what might arguably make them quotable in the original language is lost in translation.— Ningauble 16:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 17:00, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble 16:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not properly sourced. BD2412 T 17:46, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete As I said about Czech tongue-twisters, these don't belong on English WQ, especially as they are probably not tongue-twisters when translated.--Collingwood 12:17, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep The article what Wikiquote is states: Where possible, we try to cite sources: preferably those in which the quotation first appears. From this I'm concluding a source is not always required, and for the case of tongue twisters, it's likely the original source will be difficult to identify. As far as translation, and the meaning being lost - I've read all of the French twisters alongside their English translation and the meaning is not lost.  In some cases (and not all), the intent is lost in that the translation doesn't produce a tongue twister.  With more time it might be interesting to determine if the two languages share common twisters. Mwmason 15:24, 3 January 2012 (UTC)