Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nakamura Diary

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The result of the debate was Delete. Fernando Rizo T/C 19:26, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Nakamura Diary

 * For a related VFD discussion see Votes for deletion/Articles on Imperial Japan.

This article is a mixture of translation and description of an uncited primary source: the war diary of a man identified only as Corporal Nakamura. I have been unable to trace the source document through Google, the British Library or Nielsen Bibliographic Data. The first draft of the article was in broken English, from which subsequent editors have guessed the intent, but the accuracy of the present version of the translations cannot be verified without the source. It has been suggested that this should be transwikied to Wikisource but the work is inappropriate for that project because it is not simply a transcript of a source. So, as matters stand, the article is not quite encyclopedic, not quite a source and not quite original research. Perhaps it would have a home somewhere at Wikicities. I am convinced, however, that it has no place here. &mdash;Theo (Talk) 16:35, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, as a summary of a historical document it's pretty good as it stands. Could use some touch up.Gateman1997 17:15, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * What and where is the historical document that is being summarized here? When performing a "touch up", how do you propose that editors be able to confirm that their summary still accurately reflects the historical document being summarized? Uncle G 19:53:07, 2005-08-11 (UTC)
 * Delete unless it can be researched, cited, expanded, and its notability explicitly stated. JDoorjam 19:26, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Theo. --Scimitar parley 22:54, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
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