Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 January 30

January 30[edit]

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on January 30, 2012

Fight against Japanese oppression[edit]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was Delete because "Resistance to the ambitions of imperial Japan was not unique to Korea". Ruslik_Zero 16:45, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fight against Japanese oppression → Korea under Japanese rule (links to redirect • history • stats) [ Closure: keep/delete ]

Delete this redirect. "Fight against Japanese oppression" doesn't seem to be a unique phrase that was written about in English. Nobody would search for this article (or any article) using this string of words. "Japanese oppression" could refer to a lot of things, and has no special link to Japanese Korea, which this redirect currently points to. Shrigley (talk) 00:09, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this redirect. "Fight against Japanese oppression" is a direct translation from a common Korean term for the period. (Heroeswithmetaphors) talk 01:45, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I did a web search for "Fight against Japanese oppression". Here are the unique results Google gave me:

[1] "When the Japanese occupied Manila in 1941, Chinese immigrants joined hands with Filipinos in the fight against Japanese oppression." Refers to the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, not Korea.
[2] "Around the year 1919, the tide of the national democratic movement on the mainland hit Taiwan. Progressive organizations and societies emerged everywhere to arouse the people to fight against Japanese oppression." Refers to the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, not Korea.
[3] "Chen Zhen and his fight against Japanese oppression in Republican-era China was actually a fictional creation of writer-director Lo Wei". Refers to the Japanese occupation of China, not Korea.
[4] "Japan has secretly harbored a superiority complex over the neighbor that it colonized... [in] World War II.... The fight against Japanese oppression instilled a soulful defiance, the [Mainichi Shimbun] article said." Probably refers to Korea during WWII.
[5] "A snowy mountain with a lake represents Mount Paektu where Kim Jong Il is said to have been born in a log cabin during the fight against Japanese oppression" Probably refers to Korea during WWII.
[6] "Like many martial arts, krav maga was born of warfare. Okinawans developed their brand of karate in their fight against Japanese oppression." Refers to the Japanese annexation of Luchu (Okinawa), not Korea.

So while the equivalent phrase may or may not be popular in Korean, it's not used much in English. When it is, it is used to refer to the Japanese "oppression" of many countries during its imperial expansion, and not just Korea. If the phrase were more common in English, then I would recommend that it become a disambiguation page. Since it isn't, and since the English-language phrase isn't connected to Korea in any unique way, the redirect should just be deleted. Shrigley (talk) 02:22, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this has nothing to do with Japanese oppressing the Chinese people. 70.24.249.120 (talk) 07:18, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as redirect from POV name placeholder. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 01:37, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as misleadingly arbitrary. Resistance to the ambitions of imperial Japan was not unique to Korea. ~ Ningauble (talk) 14:17, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Page blanking[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Ruslik_Zero 16:43, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Page blanking → Wikipedia:Vandalism (links to redirect • history • stats) [ Closure: keep/delete ]

In general, we don't link from the mainspace to the project space. This practice easily could have its own article because Wikipedia is not the only wiki with this happening. Jasper Deng (talk) 06:55, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism on Wikipedia may be an appropriate target until an article is created. - Eureka Lott 00:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to virtual vandalism. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 22:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: the term is known for wikis only (in other cases it's a Defacement (vandalism)), and in the most ever used wiki it is a request for deletion. DAB would be an overkill for this name. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 01:42, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as inappropriate cross-namespace redirect. As noted, this would need a new article or disambiguation to be effective because blanking is not always vandalistic. ~ Ningauble (talk) 14:15, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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