Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/漫画

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 delete. howcheng {chat} 21:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 漫画

This is the English Wikipedia. Why do we have a page with a Japanese title? --Khoikhoi 21:07, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I don't even think the search engine for English Wikipedia can even accept those characters. 23skidoo 22:07, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment Yes it can....however the average English keyboard is probably incapable of rendering them, you have to cut n paste. That having been said, the characters do seem to point to words that when Anglicised sound something like Manga. Jcuk 22:52, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as nothing links to it, and nothing ever will. Flyboy Will 01:39, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment It's possible to search for this article by typing in with the correct input methods, and it doesn't require a special keyboard or hardware to input Japanese text. However, thinking about it, I don't know if this article can be useful or not. Having one extra article with not many words doesn't seem to make any difference. Also, I made a list of redirects of Japanese articles, such as 折り紙, 日本政府, etc. They redirect to their English counterparts. But on futher thought, if a person doesn't understand English and types those characters onto "search", maybe they shouldn't be reading the English Wikipedia at all? --Ichiro 03:26, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Weak Delete On the second thought, these articles may not even show up on most computer which doesn't have Asian font installed, so it will be useless for most people. But then again, does anybody reads every article on wikipedia? --Ichiro 03:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Redirect - nothing wrong with redirecting this to a disambiguation page in English. Better yet, move the article to an appropriate disambiguation page title. --HappyCamper 03:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, regarding redirection in English, this title is written the same way in three languages, but are pronounced differently. It's mainly because the fact that we Japanese people, borrowed (and never gave it back btw ^^) Chinese characters and we are still using them today. We developed different pronounciations, but we write the word 漫画 in the same way it is written in both languages. So which one of the reason why I created this article, but right now maybe this article is pointless. --Ichiro 03:46, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Another comment, the text 漫画 in both Japanese and Chinese, refers to the same thing, comic books. Japanese even uses the word manga to describe American Comic Books. However, in the context of English, the word manga (漫画), strictly refers to Japanese comic books and not comic books in general. So there is a difference.--Ichiro 03:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, yes, I forgot about this subtelty. Well, as they say, 'redirects are cheap' :-) Would it be better to redirect to manga instead then? --HappyCamper 04:42, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - I am happy for this as a disambiguation page. It is quite reasonable to suggest that a Japanese user might not know the English word for something and might type in the Japanese word (above) and then want the English words that it means (it is one word in Japanese, 3 words in English). They might be confused which word it means, so this is reasonable. They are looking for English words, but don't know the English words to look for. I can see the use for this. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 13:38, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete why the hell would anyone search for that title???  Grue  17:31, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• If we have a Japanese Wikipedia, transwiki this to it, otherwise delete per Grue. Stifle 00:48, 24 December 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.