Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zess

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 merge to Initial Teaching Alphabet. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 16:55, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Zess

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Letters of the Latin alphabet, due to its widespread use, are notable. Letters from the Initial Teaching Alphabet? I don't think so. None of the other letters of the ITA have their own articles, and the article does not appear to assert any notability. Pokajanje|Talk 23:35, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:11, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:12, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge any content to Initial Teaching Alphabet, and delete this article. Do not replace with a redirect, because there are other potential targets for "zess", and it should eventually become a disambig page. —Quiddity (talk) 00:58, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Initial Teaching Alphabet. I can't imagine there's much to say about a single letter; currently the article doesn't say much. Cnilep (talk) 06:51, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep building blocks. Wakari07 (talk) 17:52, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please clarify. "Building blocks" is not a valid argument. Pokajanje|Talk 22:39, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Delete argument is basically OTHERSTUFFDOESNTEXIST; I would say this is a reasonably notable subject, and the fact that there are not yet articles on any other ITA letters is perhaps a commentary more on our incompleteness than on their notability. ZX95 (talk) 04:53, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not entirely sure why there should be a separate article on this, but in fact there's more to say about zess than there would be about most other letters of the I.T.A. I definitely don't think there should be 45 separate articles on all 45 I.T.A. letters... AnonMoos (talk) 09:10, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- ...Especially since a good number of them are simply Latin letters. Pokajanje|Talk 15:33, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- AnonMoos (or anyone else who can answer), I would be interested to know what more you think there is to say, as I am not very familiar with ITA. The article says zess looks like a backward z and is used where s is pronounced /z/. Is there more to it than that? Cnilep (talk) 01:21, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't say there's much more to be said than is already said, just that there's more to say about Zess than many of the other letters of the I.T.A... AnonMoos (talk) 20:34, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

...And even that's not much. Pokajanje|Talk 23:30, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Yunshui 雲‍水 13:34, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This isn´t notable enough alone, or are there any reliable sources that have that specific letter as a theme? No, Merge!--Müdigkeit (talk) 18:48, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - I didn't find any article mentioning Initial Teaching Alphabet that also mentioned "Zess". There is not enough source information for the Zess topic to meet WP:GNG to justify a stand alone article. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 10:19, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.