Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Made in Japan

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The result was DELETE. --MelanieN (talk) 03:45, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Made in Japan[edit]

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Not a dictionary. So obvious no need for an article Legacypac (talk) 06:59, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - If, like many countries, Japan has any form of legislation on this issue then this is certainly able to be turned into a good article. I suggest consulting WikiProject Japan. JT_dale^Talk~ 07:16, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. ^BE _CK ^Y _SA ^{Y L}E _S 16:55, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Even dictionaries assume that the reader can work out what "Made in X" means, for any X. Imaginatorium (talk) 17:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to Made in Japan (disambiguation). Sorry, but "Made in Japan means it was made in Japan" is not an article. Reyk _YO! 18:55, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. "Made in Japan" is not your everyday lexicographic triviality. It has been a phrase weighted with significance since (at least) the post-WW2 era. Hundreds of good sources (one example: [1]) tell the story of how "Made in Japan" was perceived as a synonym for shoddy, cheap stuff, and then gained a reputation for quality in many sectors (and now maybe the reputation slipping again[2]). It's no small point that Sony's Akio Morita chose the title Made in Japan for his autobiography; as one reviewer of that book noted, "Few phrases have taken on such a dramatic change in meaning in the English language". [3] Having said all that, we already have an existing article entitled Manufacturing in Japan, which might be the most appropriate place to discuss the changing reputation of Japanese manufacture. That page is already listed under "See also" on the Made in Japan dab page. --Arxiloxos (talk) 20:00, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This could be a notable topic but nothing in this article provides supporting evidence of that. There are minimal standards for an article to exist and this article does not meet them. There is almost no content here and nothing which stands alone to make an article. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:58, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:30, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is not a proper article, just a one-sentence definition that tells the reader nothing that they couldn't have guessed from the title. If there is a real topic to be covered under this title, such an article can be written by other editors later. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 21:02, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to Made in Japan (disambiguation). I agree with Arxiloxos that this could be a topic in Manufacturing in Japan. But this short stub has nothing to contribute to that. – Margin1522 (talk) 08:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and move Made in Japan (disambiguation) here. Per Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Naming the disambiguation page, "The title of a disambiguation page is the ambiguous term itself, provided there is no primary topic for that term." That appears to be the case here. --Michig (talk) 12:05, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No substantive content. Delete, or redirect to something appropriate. Bensci54 (talk) 04:35, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.