Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hiragana and katakana place names

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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) Maliner (talk) 19:59, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hiragana and katakana place names[edit]

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Unsourced since it was created 18 years ago. On its face it looks like a textbook case of WP:INDISCRIMINATE, and I can't find anything which talks about this at all. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 19:38, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language, Geography, Lists, and Japan. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:21, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - see the Japanese Wikipedia version of this article: ja:ひらがな・カタカナ地名 ^{(Google Translate version)} This is not an indiscriminate list.

The Japanese article discusses this topic in greater depth. There have been municipal summits about this topic. There have been political disputes over the use of hiragana or katakana writing for place names (instead of the more traditional kanji).

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 22:11, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Care to add any of those sources? The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 03:50, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

From the Japanese Wikipedia article:

村山研一 (12 2009). “市町村合併と市町村名称の選択”. 地域ブランド研究(5): 19.
- Discusses this phenomenon in the case of 3 cities: Sakura, Midori, and Tsukubamirai
日本の特別地域特別編集58 これでいいのか山梨県p29,鈴木士郎, 佐藤圭亮 - 2014
- Discusses municipal mergers and resulting renaming issues. See our own article also: Municipal mergers and dissolutions in Japan#Naming of new municipalities

Regards,

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 04:43, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another one:

Hosokawa, Naoko (5 February 2021). "Katakana and Japanese National Identity. The Use of Katakana for Japanese Names and Expressions" (PDF). Silva Iaponicarum (56–59): 119. doi:10.12775/sijp.2020.56-59.7. Retrieved 1 November 2023.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 05:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy close per A. B.. Cavarrone 07:32, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per new sources. FOARP (talk) 11:10, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
comment It's clear that there should be an article with this name, but I have my doubts about whether this will become an adequate article on the subject. Mangoe (talk) 13:21, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep surprisingly enough, seems to pass GNG. AryKun (talk) 13:17, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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