Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oi zuki

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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 Delete with redirect to Tsuki. Alabamaboy 00:23, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oi zuki

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This article, which is about a specific punching technique in karate/Japanese martial arts, consists of about 95% "howto" material, contains no references, and is possibly non-notable, or at least not notable enough to deserve its own article. It is also listed at List of shotokan techniques, and List of kyokushin techniques (there as "seiken oi tsuki"). I tagged the article with {{howto}}, which lasted all of 40 minutes before it was taken down, with the rationale that the article cannot be made less "howto", so it seems appropriate to "test" the article with an afd nomination. I believe notability is the primary concern; if notable, a two to five sentence stub (with a reference) would be an appropriate non-howto treatment of the subject. If kept, I also propose a move to Oi-zuki (same title but with a hyphen) to better indicate the compound nature of the word, rather than its current appearance as two words. Bradford44 13:19, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Support; previous work in de-howtoing random martial arts techniques stubs (including this one) has convinced me that they're rarely worthy of their own articles. Chris Cunningham 13:35, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge together with Choku-zuki and Gyaku-zuki back into Tsuki. I am not sure it is possible to explain the differences between various punches in any non-howto way. --Cubbi 14:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete If a stub can't be expanded, then it's not a good article. MarkBul 14:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- Fg2 10:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge/Redirect to appropriate budo article as unredeemable. VanTucky Talk 22:42, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Maxim(talk) 21:56, 21 September 2007 (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.