Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Titles in Japan for Foreign Movies

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:33, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Titles in Japan for Foreign Movies[edit]

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Unsourced, indiscriminate, not likely to be fixed. Full of arbitrary examples and [disambiguation needed]s that no one can be arsed to take care of. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 18:16, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:04, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:04, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:04, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The article was created just 1 year ago. Give it some time. There seems to be a bit of WP:BITE going on here too. --Kvng (talk) 20:51, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd submit that one year is plenty of time to fix an article, if the issues are indicated clearly to the author and other editors. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 15:55, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Indiscriminate list, and many of the claimed "English titles in Japan" appear to have been arbitrarily translated/invented by the author. --DAJF (talk) 23:58, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Technically speaking, there is a source, but it is a blog post of which the list is a 1:1 copy and it is not beyond reasonable assumption that the author of the blog and the author of the article are one and the same. At least some of the translations I've checked do not match, so this is indeed inaccurate. Above all, there is absolutely no need for this article - Japan is far from being the only country that changes titles of movies for distribution (as the article sort of implies), and the poor distressed expats that this article is supposedly meant for (see last comment here) can find the information in other, more appropriate places, and besides, I have serious doubts even a list like this, without the actual Japanese titles would help in a video rental. That is, of course, if an article being a how-to manual was suddenly allowed by wikipedia standards. The intention may have been good, but wikipedia simply isn't the place for this. TomorrowTime (talk) 01:41, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information - Kollision (talk) 12:06, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and this list appears to be OR and has not satisfied theWP:GNG. Karanacs (talk) 13:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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