Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanese-planned Republic of the Far East

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 delete. Secret ^account 18:31, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese-planned Republic of the Far East[edit]

Unsourced article about non-existent "proposed republic". Article includes description of Japanese intervention of 1918-1920, various unsourced and unrelated to each other military directives, Japanese estimates of Soviet forces in the Far East, alleged Japanese interests in Siberia. No reliable sources supporting existence of such general plan for a puppet republic. No Japanese or Russian interwikies. This article is example of WP:Original research and WP:Coatrack and should be deleted. DonaldDuck (talk) 08:54, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless Reliable Sources (or for that matter, any sources) can be found.--Unscented (talk) 14:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nom, when you said: "No reliable sources supporting existence of such general plan for a puppet republic." Did you mean, non can be found in the article, or I found none. Deletion is only a last resort when all reasonable attempts at finding sources have failed. - Mgm|^(talk) 14:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I tried searching google books - no good results.DonaldDuck (talk) 16:21, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Not very good coverage of a notable topic. This would work much better as an article about Japan's plans for an invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which, of necessity, would include information about the planned post-war administration. The Kantokuen plan, mentioned in the article, is noted in histories of the war a matter of record [1] and is also mentioned in Japanese strategic planning for mainland Asia (1905–1940). Perhaps these two similar articles could be merged. Mandsford (talk) 14:51, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 09:01, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 09:01, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
merge per Mandsford Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 09:06, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unsourced and dubious. I strongly recommend against merging uncited material like this - back when Wikipedia was young quite a few articles like this were created, in many cases by machine-translating Japanese websites, and they've proven to be highly unreliable. The distinguishing feature of these articles that they have an awkward title, lots of small sections, make bold claims and are unreferenced. This article was started in 2005 by an IP and I wouldn't trust a word of it based on the unreliability of similar articles. Nick-D (talk) 10:24, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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