Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Limburgish

Limburgish
While generally a book should not be deleted solely because of poor quality, I think this book is just too poor. There is only one lesson, and one can hardly learn from it because it is difficult to match the English word with the Limburgish word. I read through lesson one without even knowing where on earth Limburgish is spoken (I've never heard of the language.) And the pronunciations should be easier to understand like those in French. It's also very technical, as if you have to be a linguist to understand it. And look at those section headers of lesson one - the author won't even tell you what they mean! The TOC contains nothing but the lesson one, which means this book does no have plans for future development. Kayau ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 09:06, 20 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Poor quality isn't grounds for deletion, it's an opportunity for contribution. --Pi zero (talk) 17:07, 20 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed it is not very good. But it is a real language, and a fair attempt at starting a book. Whats pronunciation guides, I have never seen symbols like this before. If this is a standard technical phonetic system we should link to something to explain. Thenub314 (talk) 19:05, 20 June 2010 (UTC)


 * However, a book from where you can learn nearly nothing unless you're a professional is not exactly what one could contribute to. Should somebody want to write a book about Limburgish, he/she should try to start from scratch so that it's more reader-friendly! Kayau ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 23:48, 20 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Not all books are pitched at the same level; but in this case, you may be underestimating how standard IPA is &mdash; I'm not greatly fond of it, but it is standard. It's an ordinary tool for teaching foreign languages.  It's standard for representing pronunciations on Wiktionary and Wikipedia, and there's an example of it in the Wiktionary "logo".  There are about 1300 Wikipedia users with IPA babel boxes, which is comparable, I believe, to Arabic, and somewhat more than Hindi &mdash; and that's just the users who are sufficient IPA geeks to want to use an IPA babel box.  --Pi zero (talk) 04:52, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, I never felt it wasn't standard, just outside of the collection of stuff I have seen. But I already put the link to wikipedia in so folks like me might realize what is written in the book if they haven't seen it before as well as adding a comment about where the language is spoken. Thenub314 (talk) 07:55, 21 June 2010 (UTC)