Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Shinto shrines in Canada

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The result was delete. List seems to lack any content suitable for merging. Regards, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:12, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Shinto shrines in Canada[edit]

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Only one item, cf. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Shinto shrines in the Netherlands. The problem is that almost all of these shrines are in Japan (with several in Taiwan.) Formerly, List of Shinto shrines was explicitly about Japanese shrines; I moved it to List of Shinto shrines in Japan, making the former a dab. When I looked at the other articles, though, there were this, List of Shinto shrines in Brazil, List of Shinto shrines in the United States, and List of Shinto shrines in Taiwan. Could the Brazil, Canada, Netherlands (deleted), and U.S. data be merged into List of Shinto shrines outside of East Asia or somesuch? Maybe List of Shinto shrines in the Americas and List of Shinto shrines in Europe? Does that make any sense? Either way, this article is not sustainable without some more items added to it and there are not likely to be many other Shinto shrines in Canada. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:15, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum See also: List of Shinto shrines in France. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:28, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge all of them in List of Shinto shrines. --Cyclopia ^talk 14:49, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge somewhere. I'd think that List of Shinto shrines in the United States could just as easily be called "List of Shinto shrines in North America", or that one could make a List of Shinto shrines with the section for Japan saying "Main article: List of Shinto shrines in Japan" Mandsford (talk) 15:03, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I would say merge if there was an article about the shrine. A lot of these shrines in those various lists have neither an article nor a source. There's no way to tell real from fake from spam that way.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 15:55, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete single-item list, and that single item we don't actually have an article on. I disagree with the anon that spam has anything to do with this, I really can't imagine shrines spamming themselves on Wikipedia the way, say, a webcomic or garage band would. Still, this one-item list needs to go. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:16, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I'm not saying this particular case is spam (I don't think it is either), just that in list articles with nothing but red links or direct external links (not cite from independent reliable sources), one cannot distinguish between genuine entries and fake or spam ones. It's all about WP:V and WP:N.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 18:35, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this is basically empty. If someone wants to create an article on Shinto Shrine is N.America, fine, but there's nothing to merge here.--Scott Mac (Doc) 17:14, 15 February 2010 (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.