Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beautiful land

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The result of the debate was delete.. - Mgm|(talk) 23:11, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Beautiful land
Created by User:Kojangee to illustrate a point. Foreign language dicdef at best; I do not see any potential for this to become encyclopedic. Therefore, delete. Visviva 02:58, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Would it be too POV to merely redirect this to the United States? Hehe. —Cleared as filed. 04:19, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as currently unverifiable, although I would probably change my vote if given cites, it would be an interesting thing to note if true. Dcarrano 05:39, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete self-referential dic def. Also, hopes to be policy about use of the word which goes against current naming conventions. - Mgm|(talk) 08:19, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete To explain, Beautiful Land is a transliteration of miguk(미국;美國) which is in turn taken from mirigyeon(미리견;美利堅), old Chinese transliteration of America. The character mi(미) means beautiful, but the meaning was not a factor in constructing the name of the country. Btw, Japanese use "米国" which also reads miguk in Korean, but means "Rice Land." noirum 09:03, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi, just a note on linguistic jargon: Beautiful Land is the literal translation of the abbreviated Chinese/Korean transliteration (in the broadest sense of the term) of America.--Defrosted 00:50, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per MoS (use English). Kokiri 11:30, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as I was fishing and indeed caught my fish as Kokiri has given me enough evidence to demonstrate my point on another issue. For those interested, Beautiful Land is indeed a translation of what Koreans and Chinese use for America. However, most modern Japanese use "Ah-Meh-Lee-Kah" and not Rice Land, an antiquidated term in Japanese. The point I was trying to make was that Koreans use the term "East Sea" (Donghae) for the "Sea of Japan" in Korean, yet some people are too stubborn and want to use the Korean word but put into English. My point is that if they want to use the Korean name and put it into English, why would the reverse not be called for? Anyway, my point has been made. Kojangee July 15th, 2005 19:33 Beijing Time
 * Because the English name of the United States is not a matter of international dispute, perhaps...? Oh, wait, it must be because we're idiotic dupes of the great international Korean conspiracy to denature the English language.  -- Visviva 14:28, 15 July 2005 (UTC)


 * delete the Korean name for the United States translates as "United States" and not "beautiful land". Revolución 02:04, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete POV, not encyclopedic. JamesBurns 04:14, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per JamesBurns' comment. Also, wrt the Japanese name for the US (アメリカ), it's Amerika in the official romanisation and not Ah-Meh-Lee-Kah. --Denihilonihil 16:47, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Preaky 04:04, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
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