Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Government by assassination (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Can be userfied via WP:REFUND on demand (but not by me).  Sandstein  14:47, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Government by assassination
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This term appears to merely be the title of a book (Byas 1942), not a common way of describing the early 1930s time period in Japan (described at Shōwa_period). The first AfD was closed as "stub-ify" on this article which was already a stub. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 18:28, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per previous AfD-not a one-off term, but used by several authors.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 18:53, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't think that AfD establishes that; there are several Google book sources, but most of them are of the form "what an English journalist called 'Government by Assasination'"; all except "The War in the Pacific" (a short illustrated book for adolescents) directly cite Byas. One calls it Byas's take a "myth" and one an "exaggeration". power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 18:59, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
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 * Comment It seems like this article would make more sense as an article about the Byas book. Such an article could discuss the book's contents and reception without having to make broader claims about the significance of the term. The book clearly passes WP:NBOOK, and it would be more straightforward to integrate an article about the book into broader topical articles throughout the encyclopedia. Bakazaka (talk) 21:18, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment -- This has the feel to me of a dictionary definition covering two separate events in 1930s Japan. however I would not oppose the last suggestion.  Peterkingiron (talk) 13:40, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with re-purposing to be about the book; I see a Kirkus review and a "capsule" 1-paragraph review in Foreign Affairs in addition to the scholarly references from the last AfD. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 15:45, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete per nomination. The text could possibly be used as a draft for an article about the book. The subject is merely a non-notable, unimportant turn of phrase, as evidence by the lack of notability-supporting material. -The Gnome (talk) 11:30, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- RoySmith (talk) 23:16, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Draftify so that those who want to repurpose it as a book article can work on it. Can't have it "as is" in mainspace – too misleading. SpinningSpark 08:43, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - my references searches turn up no use of the term in significant coverage or historical use. Happy to see other examples that would strengthen the case for notability though. Isingness (talk) 02:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete No sources. Agree with the nomination 100%. --1l2l3k (talk) 00:49, 6 November 2018 (UTC)


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