Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Chinese painters

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 of the debate was keep. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 18:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List_of_Chinese_painters

The majority of the symbols are chineese, and unreadable on English computers without additional language packs, so placing this on en.wikipedia is pointless. Not to mention the majority of the links no longer work. Matt 00:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, they're transliterated too, though. At most just get rid of the Chinese characters. Recury 00:46, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Actually the Chinese is in only 2 of the 5 columns, and a good number of cells in these two columns are empty. I'd guess that no more than 25-30% of the words on this page are in Chinese characters. In each case, there are two differnt transcriptions of the Chinese characters. I'm not sure if it's the case that many links no longer work or if they don't yet work. I know that Wiki policy discourages the creation of red (empty) links but they can serve a purpose of guiding editors to write articles for these as yet uncovered topics. The page needs work, but rather than delete it, I'd favor letting people continue to work on, and through, it. Interlingua ^talk 00:50, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I don't have the problem described by the nominator. As my computer is not made in England (it is assembled in Sweden from parts made in Japan and Taiwan), it is capable of accepting additional language packs. (Comment to Interlingua: As far as I know, Wiki policy does not discourage the creation of red (empty) links when they lead to notable topics that should be covered.) up+land 10:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It's standard practice to write names written in non-Roman scripts in both their romanized and native forms. The list is readable without them, but they should absolutely not be removed if the article is kept. I'm not a big list fan, but it's a notable subject. If there were a reason to delete this article, it'd be that there are probably millions of Chinese painters. — AKADriver ☎ 14:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Useful reference. Wikipedia is supposed to be a reference, right? This list makes it easy to find articles on painters. If you're looking for a Ming Dynasty painter and you can't spell the name, you can search this list and browse for the right one. It makes the encyclopedia easy to use. Readers who care about the Chinese characters will have them installed, and readers who don't care can ignore them and click the link to get to the article (when one is created). Please note that Wikipedia does not require all links to be blue (although to reach featured status, as on article in a thousand does, it might be necessary). Fg2 15:09, 19 June 2006 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.