Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dangan

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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 was Keep and moved to Dang'an. ELIMINATORJR 12:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dangan

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The word Dangan means "dossier" in Chinese. It's a generic word and is not notable. Atchom 12:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

(This AFD lacked a header. I've fixed it. JulesH 13:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC))
(Thank you, I was going slightly mad trying to figure out what it had to do with Monty Python) Otto4711 19:37, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete, WP:WINAD. Redirecting to dossier is probably not a good idea either (especially since the Pinyin is ambiguously misspelled); the incoming links suggest this should probably be a page about the village of the same name in Ireland. cab 01:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletions. cab 01:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Move to Record management of the People's Republic of China or something. --Skyfiler 02:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. In response to the objections: (1) Passport and hukou are generic words in the same field, and show how an encyclopaedic article on this topic might end up. (2) This system is notable: it influences the careers of 1.3 billion people. Hukou is a related system (hukou is residence, dangan is workplace). It is vaguely comparable to National Insurance numbers in the UK, or Social Security numbers in the US, if those examples are helpful. Record management of the People's Republic of China seems rather vague. References will be difficult though, because the system is secret.
    • I've considerably expanded the article. I was wrong about the 1.3 billion, but I think it's now clear why it's notable. Seektruthfromfacts 07:15, 21 August 2007 (UTC)