Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Japanese names


 * 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. --Core desat 03:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

List of Japanese names

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Deltion nomination Too broad to be useful, not only unreferenced but likely unreferencable, wikipedia is not a directory, no criteria for inclusion beyond "Japanese". Jayron32| talk | contribs 03:04, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Definitely too broad. A phonebook serves this purpose better.  Citi Cat   ♫ 03:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indiscriminate information, potentially thousands of names could be listed. There are now several similar lists in Category:Lists of names, I won't list them here, but if these type of lists are going start being deleted then we probably should do them all. Crazysuit 04:36, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions.   —Fg2 05:02, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT. Keb25 05:06, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unreferenced bare list with far-too-broad inclusion criteria. Most individual given names are not going to be notable, either, unlike surnames. Incidentally the far superior enamdict, part of EDICT, is already available under a CC-BY-SA licence; this list, which doesn't even include kanji or proper romanization, is utterly useless by comparison. cab 05:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * In its current state, the list is incomplete, contains incorrect information, and is not a good article. Delete. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:29, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * transfer to category-for those that are not redlinked, that does represent an outlay of time, and that would be a useful categorization. Chris 05:32, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment The red links can be useful for creating new articles to go in the category. For that reason it might be worthwhile to temporarily save the list in somebody's user space or in a subpage of WikiProject Japan. Fg2 05:50, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I have made a working copy here for this purpose. Feel free to edit it to remove the spurious links mentioned below. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:55, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Joe beat me to it, I was going to suggest making a fresh subsection of Requested articles/Japan Chris 05:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment again Speaking of links, many blue links are spurious. They lead to unrelated articles. Fg2 05:51, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Categorize. This type of list would function much better as a category.  Useight 06:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Deleteper nom, and all above, and reason mentioned in the English names debate.Ridernyc 06:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, although I would love to see the surnames that were deleted at Articles for deletion/Lists of surnames come back. This list of given names is not of the same standard, though. Neier 07:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is practically (almost) impossible to list all of Japanese names. I can image there might be a list of, say, Japanese names of unusual readings, but not this one. -- Taku 09:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is largely a list of Japanese personal names. As such, it's a re-creation of something already deleted, mostly because it can't be completed. To the extent that it isn't merely a list of Japanese personal names, it's a superset of such a list and therefore even more eligible for deletion. As pointed out above, a large percentage of the blue links are misleading. Don't subject Wiktionary to this junk: Wiktionary already suffers from, inter alia, a page that implies that the only way to write Akio is 明夫 and another that implies that names such as しにちろ ("Shinichiro") are used. -- Hoary 10:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The indiscriminate list of blue links at its very worst. This one includes first names, surnames, boy's names, girl's names... and its all in one big list!   There's an occasional "F" or "P" written alongside.  I guess it's here so that if you read that "Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan returned to Tokyo" you can see if Yasuo or Fukuda might be a "Japanese name".  Mandsford 12:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * At this point, my vote seems like overkill, but I'll cast it anyway. Delete. Unlike the English names article, this one also suffers from tons of anime names, which are not always regular everyday Japanese names. You'd probably spend quite some time trying to dig up a real life flesh-and-blood "Himeko", for instance. Also, there's names for folklore beings and gods (Raiden, Amaterasu) and even a fictional band of mercenaries (!) (Bankotsu). How all this fits in with the concept of "Japanese names" is beyond me. Even if the list were maintained up to a standard, and only actual names were listed, I cannot imagine of what possible use it could be. TomorrowTime 12:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You mean Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is not a real japanese name? --Jayron32| talk | contribs  15:41, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No no no, no. No, no no. Mandsford 17:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Nah, that's a real name alright. Matter of fact, that's the name of the friendly old guy with the oden stand just down the road from where I used to live in Japan. TomorrowTime 17:06, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete with no prejudice towards properly sourced and notable version. --Solumeiras talk 19:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * And what might a "notable version" be? -- Hoary 22:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as a list of legal Japanese personal names because the Japanese government has an official list of acceptable names, that may be used in Japanese legal documentation. 132.205.44.5 02:38, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * There is a list of kanji which are acceptable, but, afaik there is no list of acceptable combinations, nor of the readings you have to assign to each kanji. Jinmeiyō kanji can cover that quite well, although the article is currently a mess.  Neier 02:51, 10 October 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.