Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Happy Corner (2nd nomination)


 * 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. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:25, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Happy Corner
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Procedural nomination as suggested by Requests for undeletion/Archive 145.--180.172.239.231 (talk) 06:12, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - I completed the nomination for IP and fixed the link. Ansh666 05:14, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2014 August 2.  — cyberbot I  Notify Online 05:28, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. 07:08, 2 August 2014 (UTC) --180.172.239.231 (talk) 07:08, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. 07:08, 2 August 2014 (UTC) --180.172.239.231 (talk) 07:08, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I originally closed this as Redirect to "List of school pranks" but the nom had an issue so have reopened to keep everyone happy!. – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  07:35, 2 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment Hmm ... After some checking I'm not sure that this isn't at best original research and at worst a hoax. "Sawing" (锯人) certainly exists per the Beijing Youth Daily article cited, but the other two references are dead links (now tagged as such) and their source appears to be this non-reliable blog posting. I'm going to do some more digging in Chinese sources but at the moment I'm leaning towards delete with the "Sawing" elements redirected to List of school pranks. FWIW, contrary to the claim in the article, I've never encountered a street lamp in Hong Kong that looked like it could be extinguished by hitting it with one's "private part". Philg88 ♦talk 14:23, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply The first link has been fixed. --180.172.239.231 (talk) 23:45, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply I've updated some more links to improve the sentence with the dead link. 杨肇峰 (talk) 14:29, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete This is a clear case of WP:TNT without prejudice to its recreation under a different title. The current title does not appear to be the common name in Chinese - "Happy Corner" is only mentioned as an afterthought in the corresponding Chinese article. The only extant content for which sourcing is available is "Sawing" as mentioned above and "Aruba" (the Taiwanese name for the same thing). I would suggest a new article under one of those titles WITHOUT all the wild unreferenced claims made in the "Working methods" section. Philg88 ♦talk 06:56, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete, no redirect I concur with Philg88, this is mostly WP:OR. As the current title is not actually used in English, and other names, such as "sawing", are more prevalent, no redirect is needed. I doubt that the topic is notable under WP:GNG, and believe that any coverage under List of school pranks is quite sufficient. If indeed in the future there is overwhelming significant coverage in independent reliable sources, then a new article with an appropriate English title can be spawned from List of school pranks.  --Bejnar (talk) 16:27, 9 August 2014 (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.