Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of words censored by search engines in the People's Republic of China


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The result was keep. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 17:39, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

List of words censored by search engines in the People's Republic_of_China
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Per WP:IINFO and a lack of notability. Additionally, this list is nearly impossible to be updated in time. Most of the content are out-of-date. Jimmy Xu (talk) 11:12, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep "Wikipedia is not censored" either. Censorship practices are most certainly notable, as are methods of detecting dissidence in a police state.  The only valid objection that I see here is that some of these may be out of date.  Even the fact that certain words were censored   in the past is notable, regardless of what nation it's taken place in.  Here in the United States, when we were at war with Germany, sauerkraut was referred to in the press as "liberty cabbage".  More recently was the silly "freedom fries" that some people took seriously.  Mandsford (talk) 13:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. I have added a References section to avoid original research accusations. Let's source the article, even though it's trivially easy to verify the claims. -- Dandv (talk) 13:52, 13 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep. You can easily find tons of sources if you try to search "Search engine+censorship" or some similar keywords in some Chinese search engines, say google.cn. Maybe people outside China don't give a fuck about this, but I don't think that would make the article fail WP:N. Blodance (talk) 14:10, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep This may be a job for the cleanup crew. There is no good reason to delete. Polargeo (talk) 14:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I may say that this list is uncompleted and wouldn't complete at any time (unless Chinese government stop its censorship). If the leading section is kept and the article is moved to some name like "Search engines censorship in the People's Republic of China" that would be fine, but if this is still a list, maybe it's not very suitable. BTW, apologies for my English.--Jimmy Xu (talk) 14:56, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China exists. Is it not useful to have an article on what is censored as long as it is well sourced it should not matter if it changes or is never completeable. The topic could be narrowed if editors thought the inclusion criteria were too broad and the list was getting out of control. Polargeo (talk) 15:24, 13 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep per above.  Grue   15:35, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong keep per Blodance. Racepacket (talk) 16:22, 13 January 2010 (UTC)


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