Talk:I'm illiterate

RFD discussion: February–March 2016

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I'm illiterate

This is simply not a useful phrasebook entry. Finding and using the entry presume literacy, and I don't think that a good phrasebook would normally include it. (Note that I'm also nominating for deletion any translations of this phrase that exist.) —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:58, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

A literate person could look it up and read it out for an illiterate friend. Unlikely, though. Equinox ◑ 02:59, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Especially bizarre is that the table shows both masculine and feminine forms for French, though the distinction is made only in writing. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 04:24, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Delete - along with most of the rubbish entries in the phrasebook. SemperBlotto (talk) 06:23, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Delete but archive here. --Droigheann (talk) 09:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Delete. The phrasebook needs to become a bit more serious and provide only useful entries. At one point, there was a discussion about deleting the entire phrasebook because there were more joke entries than serious ones. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:02, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Keep, the very fact that we have this entry is funny as hell. The author of this entry is a true genius. --Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 12:05, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Also, @Metaknowledge, I’m surprised that you haven’t nominated I need a dictionary, another work of art. --Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 12:10, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

I keenly await the phrasebook entry for "I don't need or want to say this". Equinox ◑ 13:25, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

I need a phrasebook and I can't talk are also good ideas. --Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 15:51, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

One that would be actually useful: I need a better phrasebook- this one sucks Chuck Entz (talk) 16:33, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Delete. As funny as this entry is, we need to take ourselves seriously in order to be taken seriously by users. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 23:12, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

• Delete. Sorry for repetition from #I need a dictionary. First, since in Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2012-12/Removing phrasebook editors were split approximately fifty-fifty, it would be in keeping with the consensus principle to err on the more exclusive side when pondering candidate selection criteria. google books:"phrasebook", "I'm illiterate" and google books:"phrasebook", "I am illiterate" find zero phrasebooks, unlike google books:"phrasebook", "I am thirsty". Thus, it seems that we could use the lemming principle to exclude this "I need X" item while keeping some phrasebook items, at least for English. Disclaimer: there was a vote that proposed something like a lemming principle for the phrasebook and it failed; it is Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2010-10/Phrasebook CFI and the opposers cited other languages than English; but for English there should be enough phrasebooks published to use something like a lemming principle. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:15, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

deleted. Probably would have kept this if there were an audio pronunciation that people could download to their phone and play in front of others. -- Liliana • 00:10, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

The determination of the closer should be made based on consensus and nothing else. Since there is a consensus for deletion, the result "RFD deleted" is correct. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:25, 27 March 2016 (UTC)