Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanese exonyms

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ya sh ! 22:58, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese exonyms

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Not enough RS for verification Meatsgains (talk) 20:44, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, don't see anything wrong with this article. VegasCasinoKid (talk) 20:46, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not enough RS to confirm that this meets WP:GNG/WP:LISTN. Even if such sources are presented, this article is dubious in terms of WP:NOTDICT. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 21:49, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'll just add that we have a category structure Category:Exonyms which includes a lot of Fooian exonyms, like this. I've added it to the category. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:56, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep We seem to have consensus that main lists of Fooian-language exonyms are encyclopedic. That we would delete the article for a major language like Japanese simply because the article requires improvement is not a valid deletion rationale, that I can see. (Also WP:NOTDICT is generally applied to articles on individual words or phrases, in my experience.) Shawn in Montreal (talk)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:21, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: there's a relevant previous discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of European exonyms. – Uanfala (talk) 23:37, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
TRANSWIKI Transwiki to Wikiversity, categorize it under linguistics or Japanese. Michael Ten (talk) 05:03, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep-I actually typed this in as a search term just now, and lo and behold it was just created this week. Useful and in line with similar articles. Sourced and expanded, def keep.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 16:10, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: this article exists in German, Japanese, Chinese and ko:나라 이름의 한자 표기 목록.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep in principle this is sourceable from dictionaries, so I do not think the claim of lack of reliable sources stands up. Similar articles exist already: see List of European exonyms which is a list of such articles. There are dozens of them. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:13, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Don't do Japanese, but I have often found the lists in various different European languages useful in gathering / distinguishing information. Like most lists (see Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists), this is not an "encyclopedic" article but part of the reference structure or apparatus that makes for having better articles and where WP:PAPER definitely applies. --Andreas Philopater (talk) 21:21, 25 November 2016 (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.