Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nyoi-bo

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The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 15:48, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nyoi-bo

Is every single object from the Dragon Ball Z series encyclopedically noteworthy? With 139 unique google hits [1], what makes this article "worthy" of inclusion? GRider\talk 00:52, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete, not notable, fancruft. Megan1967 01:06, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge or keep, necessary to adequate coverage of the games/mangas/whatevers. Kappa 01:23, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC) Keep, necessary to adequate coverage of Journey to the West, Monkey (TV series), Dragonball and Saiyuki. Kappa 10:28, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge with main article. Just like lesser characters. Radiant! 09:54, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC) Thanks for explaining that, Dopefish. Very well, keep and expand. Radiant! 16:25, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, nn fancruft. ComCat 02:23, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, the Nyoi-bō is the main character's signature weapon from an extremely well-known Chinese folktale that DBZ is loosely based on (Journey to the West). It's the "as-you-will resizeable cudgel" mentioned in the Sun Wukong article. I've seen several allusions to the Nyoi-bō in other anime/manga and I imagine there are many more in Chinese and Japanese culture. The article would need some expansion and clarification of this though. I think Nyoi-bō is just the Japonicized name for it, it would probably need redirecting to the Chinese name. DopefishJustin (・∀・) 04:02, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
    • The kanji/hanzi spelling is 如意棒 which gets 3,730 Google hits. The phonetic Japanese spelling にょいぼう gets 1,680 Google hits. DopefishJustin (・∀・) 04:05, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. This weapon from Journey to the West as a plot device of an artless anime does not need its own article. Change vote to keep but redirect. Move to a title under its Chinese or Sanskrit name. Fire Star 18:36, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC) It can be mentioned in Sun Wukong or the DB article with one or two lines. Fire Star 06:32, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • You wouldn't say that about Excalibur. Kappa 10:28, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Good point. There is also a link from this legend to some Chinese martial arts, especially Monkey style. Fire Star 18:36, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Borderline keep. Failing that, merge - David Gerard 17:42, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, When does google hit counters tell how good an article is? Wikipedia's main page gets more hits then one of millions of its other articles. And plus the page is very encyclopedic. Louisisthebest_007 19:14, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, Dragonball is still very popular. This helps explain what could be unknown to a few. With other animes getting pages, why wouldn't DB not get any?

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