Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neta

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 transwiki. W.marsh 01:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neta

del a neologism attempt. From the article text it follows that the word means simply topic. mikka (t) 23:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• Transwiki It's an interesting word, a reversal of the syllables of tane. The article will make a valuable addition to Wiktionary. Fg2 01:21, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Is it current in English usage so that it can go to wiktionary? Wiktionary seems to collect lots of garbage lately. An occasional looker (mainly when creating disambig pages with wiktionary link) I am, yet have already fixed several errors and outright hoaxes there. mikka (t) 02:04, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This has widespread usage and it certainly isn't an attempt to coin the term. I think it would be better served to be merged with some other Japanese terms such as DQN instead of seperate articles though. Maybe List of Internet slang? kotepho 03:06, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Please provide reputable references for the origin and "widespreadness" of the term. Google gives tousands of hits, but for wrong "neta", at least in the first 300 hits (way beyond my usual diligence level). If it is spread wide, it must have been done quite thinly. Anyway, googlisms for "neta" are quite amusing. mikka (t) 03:16, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Did you even bother googling for ネタ[1]? kotepho 03:38, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I had a hard time[pdf] finding links. Not to mention all of the ones that talk about neta in relation to sushi. kotepho 03:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Did you happen to notice that this is English wikipedia, and Japanese words, unless they are in normal English circulation, are not for this place? We don't have articles for hajime, watashi, konnichi wa, denki kikai, kiri, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of other Japanese words expressions, some of them are occasionally known even to americans and other gaijin. mikka (t) 04:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Notice how I said it probably does not deserve its own article but we might find a place for it? kotepho 04:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

• Transwiki to Japanese Wikipedia, English Wiktionary, or Japanese Wiktionary. I'm not seeing a place for this material here. Stifle 00:06, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki. I have included it in my Glossary of owarai terms, which I will move to the namespace soon, where it describes the use in Japanese comedy. I concurr with Fg2, a little bit weak for its own article.  freshgavinΓΛĿЌ  00:11, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Regardinig your owarai list: are these words in English language usage? mikka (t) 00:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

No, they are simply Japanese words that are very common when discussion certain Japanese things (in this case owarai) and it's much easier to refer to a glossary each time instead of explaining. neta's claim of English use is completely bogus.  freshgavinΓΛĿЌ  02:58, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Transwiki as per Freshgavin and others. Neier 13:02, 13 March 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.