Talk:Rhinelandic
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I wish to register scepticism about the value of this article:
- It treats as a single dialect area a region split by two major isoglosses, and seems not to see this as a problem.
- It is not NPOV about the so-called "German defintion"
- The tone of the article does not inspire confidence: the statement "those dialects have nothing in common except one single word (ich)"; "The Benrather Linie, one of the isoglosses most frequently mentioned in books" !!
- It matches no equivalent article in German, and the nearest Dutch article http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijnlands, which is not linked, doesn't seem to offer any support for this one.
- Finally, it offers no sources to allay those reservations.
There might be useful information here, but I guess Limburgisch would be a better place for it. --Pfold 22:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
- I agree. There are no sources cited, and the article sounds very much like it's arguing for a specific analysis. That's both original research and non-NPOV. I'm tagging it as such now. Angr 21:01, 25 September 2006 (UTC)