Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taikyoku nidan

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was merge & redirect to shotokan. Rossami (talk) 00:15, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Taikyoku nidan
This page does not seem to have any context or much content. If there is any relevance to the linked entries, then merge. If not, delete. I prefer the latter.
 * Comment: This is second in a series of about 30 pages explaining different kata exercises from shotokan karate. Kappa 18:36, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn, stubby. Wyss 19:40, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Question: Do you want to delete the other 30 as well, or just the stubby ones? Kappa 19:46, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Perhaps they ought to be merged. The page would not be complicated, and would be far more encyclopedic.  Smoddy | Talk 19:50, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 22:42, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Question: are the other 30 shotokan katas not notable either? Kappa 22:52, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * They're notable within the context of shotokan, certainly. But the shotokan article already lists them, and they're not notable in and of themselves.  Merge all the kata articles into shotokan, then delete them. Shimeru 02:06, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * I was about to reply when I saw Shimeru's response which is roughly the same thing I was going to say anyway. Megan1967 01:55, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge all 30 shotokan katas into one article, makes more sense that way. Rje 00:11, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Right. This one got my attention because Taikyoku is possibly a Japanese pronunciation of &#22826;&#26997; (T'ai Chi). As with the martial art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan, or any other martial art, having an article for every single technique taught by such an art is silly. We aren't talking about Star Wars or Star Trek, after all. Delete. Fire Star 02:58, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. But this is just a stub, as are the other 30, and the information can be covered in the parent article, which is not long. --BM 12:29, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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