Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Human rights in Japan

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. — JIP | Talk 09:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Human rights in Japan

Nothing but a copy and paste of http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41644.htm. -- RHaworth 00:24, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

• Hmmm, not a tradional copyvio by my understanding as US Government reports are in the Public domain from the date of publication. Given this, it isn't an A8 speedy. However, it does need to be cleaned up and wikified and the status of the document made clear although it is a clear cut and paste even outlining the section that prepared it. Keep and cleanup. Capitalistroadster 00:49, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Wikisource. Solarusdude 01:02, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Move/Transwiki to Wikisource. --Aquillion 01:37, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Wikisource. - Sensor 01:54, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Kappa 03:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the Human rights in Japan. Wikipedia also has Human rights in the United States, Human rights in the United Kingdom, Human rights in Belarus, Human rights in Finland, Human rights in Russia, and Human rights in Turkey. Yamaguchi先生 05:09, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Wikipedia has lots of public-domain articles from US Government, 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, and other public-domain sources. See, for example Japanese art. Editors can edit as appropriate. Agree with Capitalistroadster that it should be wikified. Topic is encyclopedic. Factual nature of content is not in dispute. Attribution is clear. Fg2 07:42, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as with country articles copied from the CIA Factbook. Gazpacho 07:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Yamaguchi and cleanup. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 10:26, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Wikisource but Keep as a topic. I think there's no problem with having an article about Human Rights in Japan, it just needs to be in encyclopedic format and in someone's original words, not drawn straight from a gov't document. LordAmeth 10:58, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree it should be wikified (put in encyclopedic format). I also hope it will become something very different from a government document as people edit it. Maybe a way to view it is as being at the same stage of completion as a stub, but instead of starting from a sentence or a paragraph, it starts out as a government document. Fg2 11:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, wikify, and expand, as per Fg2 and others. — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 11:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Yamaguchi, with cleanup tag. I'll be following this one, it looks like it has the makings of an interesting case study on NPOV :-) - Just zis Guy, you know? 11:50, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, obviously. Trollderella 16:36, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep please professor yamaguchi is right and it is not a copyright violation Yuckfoo 21:22, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep Copy and paste from public domain sources is a good practice to add high quality text to Wikipedia. Of course the text needs to be wikified, but thats not what AfD is about. -- Mkill 21:59, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, whatever problems there are with the article, they can be sorted out without deleting it. --DannyWilde 04:25, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Seems to be a worthy article that some work could improve markedly. --Meiers Twins 18:13, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. There has been a lot of work done on this article since I first cast my vote. Kudos to users MKill, Yamaguchi, Mikkalai, Gazpacho and RHaworth for their contributions. Capitalistroadster 04:03, 22 October 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.