Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earl of Hai Hun

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The result of the debate was no consensus to delete. -- Francs2000 | Talk 15:53, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Earl_of_Hai_Hun

The name was based on a mistranslation by me -- it is now properly handled by a redirect from Marquess_of_Hai_Hun.

• It's a harmless rediredt, and somebody else might make that same mistranslation when searching for an article. So keep. - ulayiti (talk) 23:36, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, per above. Also, requests to delete redirects should go to Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion, since they're a kind of special case. -- Visviva 23:41, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as it is pretty unlikely that this particular mistranslation will ever occur again. To the ears of a native english speaker, "Earl of Hai Hun" suggests "Hai Hun" is a geographic place. This is not so, therefor a cautious translator would avoid this formulation. "Hai Hun" (海昏) is a derisive nickname, so a clearer translation would be "Earl Hai Hun" (without the "of"), directly translating as "Earl Ocean Confusion". So if we want to keep as a redirect, I suggest renaming it to "Earl Hai Hun" or "Earl Ocean Confusion" (which gets right to the point). But deletion is probably better. technopilgrim 19:28, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.