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Influence of cultural and linguistic diversity in communication

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This article doesn't just read like an essay, it essentialy is an essay. I don't have much else to say on it, but it legitamately is just an essay on, well, the influence of cultural and linnguistic diversity in communication.

Ps: sorry about the deletion tags, it didn't really fit anywhere

TLDR; WP:NOTESSAY Gaismagorm (talk) 13:33, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language and Social science. Gaismagorm (talk) 13:33, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, completely an essay, the article subject is so narrow (and yet vague), no possibility of turning this into an encyclopedic article. Delete. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 18:18, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: This essay is only using a single source and reads like a college paper. Drafting wouldn't help with only one source; it's likely too specialized for a wikipedia article. Oaktree b (talk) 19:35, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. With a single reference, it is also a summary of a single academic paper, not establishing WP:GNG of the concepts discussed. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:13, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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. ✗plicit 10:42, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. The term has no particularized lexical content, but is merely an idiom—it describes nothing that about-face or U-turn does not, and that referent is not a real concept in political science or what have you. Remsense ‥ 论 10:34, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom and WP:INDISCRIMINATE – ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email · global) 10:46, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email · global) 10:48, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. It's more structured like a Wiktionary article than one for Wikipedia, even. 2601:44:180:98B0:190B:331F:A61A:D86 (talk) 19:15, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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