Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fundamental Law of Education


 * 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 - Altenmann >t 18:13, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Fundamental Law of Education

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Unnotable topic. Fails WP:N. Almost entire article is paraphrased from a single "source" and/or directly taken from the Japanese wiki with translation clean up. Has been tagged for lacking of sources, being OR, and notability since January without a single edit being made to it beyond the adding of an interwiki link, which goes to a Korean law, not the same topic. PROD was removed by User:Fg2 with reason of "Removed deletion proposal. Objecingt to deletion. Topic is very worthy of an encyclopedia article." -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 13:56, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is apparently a key statute governing education in Japan; the subject's notability seems baldly obvious to me.  Other issues mentioned are matters for cleanup, not deletion.  - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:04, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Education in Japan already has an article, so why is this article needed when all it does is repeat the law and then surround it with unsourced interpretation to it? If it is so key, why does nothing link to this article at all, including that article on Education in Japan? Can you find reliable sources showing that it is, indeed, a key statute, that this is the law's actual name, and that the article is factual? Can you verify it?-- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 14:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  —Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:04, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Sourcing is always a potential problem for foreign language subjects, but the fact that much of this article is taken from the Japanese Wiki is an indication that the information is factual and notable. Edward321 (talk) 14:44, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * How so? The Japanese wiki is not known for its extensive verification requirements (indeed, references there are as rare as can be). Nor does it have the same criteria of notability. its existence on another wiki does not mean it is notable here.-- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 15:12, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. A notable historical subject that is largely ignored by Education in Japan.
 * http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wrUUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J8QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7146,2137971&dq=the-fundamental-law-of-education
 * http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22The+Fundamental+Law+of+Education%22&cf=all
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Fundamental%20Law%20of%20Education%22
 * http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/179408/education/47705/Education-after-World-War-II
 * http://www.mext.go.jp/english/org/struct/006.htm — Rankiri (talk) 15:24, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  —TexasAndroid (talk) 15:53, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep National law mandates education and has shaped the twelve years of compulsory and voluntary education of tens of millions of Japanese born since 1940 or so. Fg2 (talk) 12:10, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep As mentioned above, it has influenced a large number of people. This caused a notable impact on history.  D r e a m Focus  16:40, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
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