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Yoruba Name Shortforms

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"Yoruba Name Shortforms" is not a term that exists. I find one source mentioning shortened names in Yoruba society, but this is clearly not a major topic. Article is full of unsupported material. Neither scholarly source cited actually exists, making me suspect LLM hallucination. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 21:04, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language, Africa, and Nigeria. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 21:04, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Yoruba name shortforms is a concept that exist and is well know, as you can see as you found a source. You can say shortened names, abbreviations etc, but it means a similar thing. Not being a main topic is a subject of opinion since that can be said about many topics on Wikipedia; in addition to African related topics still lagging. It is relevant, and I think its relevant enough for a Wikipedia page. I made some mistakes with the some of the sources I was trying to cite, got some things wrong, which I am currently fixing. This to me doesn't seem to be grounds for a deletion suggestion. Dolpina (talk) 21:38, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since they've been removed, those unreal references are:

Oyetade, S. (1995). Naming Practices in Yoruba Society. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 43(1), 35–46.
Ikotun, R. O. (2014). A Morphophonemic Analysis of Yoruba Personal Names. Lengua y Habla (Redalyc), 18. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 22:14, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete the creator definitely is focused on Yoruba and African topics, but this is clearly a junk article. Links to nothing and is barely sourced. The dead giveaway for LLM is the "Formation Patterns" section. Metallurgist (talk) 23:04, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Yoruba names have short forms and the concept of course exists, but who termed it “Yoruba name short forms”? This looks made up while also being an AI regurgitation. My main rationale for deletion is that the subject does not pass WP:GNG though. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:26, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- lacks SIGCOV on its own, a possible ATD is merge to Yoruba name if its citations can be improved.Lorraine Crane (talk) 16:32, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]