Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/江南

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 keep per WP:RFOREIGN and ambiguity. -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:35, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

江南[edit]

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No-one is going to search for this Chinese phrase in English Wikipedia, and no articles link to it. Bazonka (talk) 19:28, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Bazonka (talk) 19:28, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 20:06, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 20:06, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Korea-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 20:06, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

We do have a quite a few dab pages in Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles. – Uanfala (talk) 21:16, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If the decision for this one is to Delete, then I'll nominate most of those too. Maybe not the single character ones, but certainly all of the others. Bazonka (talk) 08:46, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Similar pages have been discussed at AfD in the past (some have resulted in no consensus: in 2010, 2013, others in keep: in 2011, yet others presumably in delete, but I can't track them). Because a string of characters can be a suitable WP:RLOTE redirect to several topics (often because of differences between the Chinese and Japanese readings), discussions of such redirects at RfD have often resulted in disambiguation (examples from 2015 and 2017). – Uanfala (talk) 11:13, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I just skimmed through Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disambiguations/archive which goes back to 2008, and the only CJK disambiguation pages I can find that resulted in delete are Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ニサ (it was a "pronunciation key", so different situation) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/失楽園 (not actually ambiguous, now a redirect). All others (義安, 高田駅, 火車, 平安, and the related Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 June 15#Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles) were kept. -- Tavix ^(talk) 14:51, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for reasons in nom. I don't think it makes sense to have this in English Wiki. Balle010 (talk) 02:42, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The name of a topic in its native language is always a useful search term per WP:RFOREIGN. When that term is ambiguous, the solution is to disambiguate. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/CJKV task force for more information. -- Tavix ^(talk) 14:41, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment For editors to get an idea how popular this page is, this article was accessed 53 times in the last 30 days on EN, 75 times in ZH (note that ZH has a primary topic assumption, the non-disbim page has 3617 views) , and 1682 times on JA. Jumpytoo Talk 00:36, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Jiangnan (disambiguation) links to it. A link could also be added to the hatnote for Jiangnan with a {{for}} template. An example of similar use is the link to Köln (disambiguation) in the hatnote on Cologne. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 06:23, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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