Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medical School of Japan

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The result was ~~merge to Medical School of Japan~~. (non-admin closure) Kharkiv07 (T) 14:31, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Shoot, I meant merge to History of Roman Catholicism in Japan. Thanks to Athomeinkobe for pointing that out! Kharkiv07 (T) 01:29, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Medical School of Japan

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I'm not entirely convinced if this ever existed as my searches found nothing at all specifically for this (mostly for other related subjects or simply mirrors) and there's not much information to help widen the search. Inviting past users Excirial, DGG and Miyagawa and also Calamondin12 and TheGGoose. SwisterTwister talk 01:57, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 01:59, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment I only had time for a quick search, but there are multiple sources that say that the Jesuit missionary Luis de Almeida founded the first medical school in Japan in Kyushu around 1557-8: [1], [2], [3], [4], etc. None of these give an official name, however. Michitaro (talk) 02:20, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. undue skepticism. I just needs expansion. For some thingso ne search for more than the exact phrase. This is part of a very long history of jesuit work there, of of Japanese reception of Western medical science. DGG ( talk ) 03:41, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/Redirect to History of Roman Catholicism in Japan. There isn't enough here to stand alone, and no expansion work has been conducted on it in six years. Miyagawa (talk) 10:01, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/Redirect as Miyagawa, unless there is a better target, more specifically related to the Jesuit mission to Japan. I doubt that we would ever get this expanded to be more than a stub. Peterkingiron (talk) 22:23, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to History of Roman Catholicism in Japan. If any of the details in the article can be supported by reliable sources, then they can be merged or added to History of Roman Catholicism in Japan, but leaving an unsourced article with no evidence that the school was even called "Medical School of Japan" contravenes the core Wikipedia content policies of verifiability and No original research. --DAJF (talk) 10:45, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/Redirect There is no doubt that there was something equivalent to a Western medical school founded in Kyushu in 16th century Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries. Whether the article is referring to that school or not is unclear because the article lacks specifics as well as sources, and because the sources I found above that confirm the existence of the school do not confirm a name for the school. Ideally, this should be merged to an article like History of medicine in Japan, which exists for some countries, but not for Japan. The next best option would be to merge with an article on Luis de Almeida, but we don't have one on him either (here is the Japanese article: ja:ルイス・デ・アルメイダ). Unless someone wants to create one of those articles, the best option probably is History of Roman Catholicism in Japan. Michitaro (talk) 14:07, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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