Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ishigaq

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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:39, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ishigaq

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This article had only one source, a self-published book at vanity press lulu.com. I can't see any obvious candidates to serve as sources in its place. Guy (Help!) 15:14, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:V but without prejudice to recreation if a source shows up. This page has been on Wikipedia for a very long time (predates me, which says something), so many web references to this term are to this article. I tried fairly hard to find a non-Wikipedia based source for this term and failed. I did find plenty of references to "little people" in Yup'ik and Inuit mythology, but none by the name given in this article. That said, I worry about WP:SYSTEMIC, and this is an area that's particularly susceptible to that problem, considering that much of the knowledge in this area is likely oral tradition. I don't have a good solution for that problem. agtx 06:29, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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