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Contested PROD. Original reason was Unsourced since 2009 - the only source is a dictionary entry. I checked several Japanese dictionaries (daijisen, daijirin, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) and none of them makes any mention of it being an honorary title - daijs only says "剣術にすぐれ、奥義を極めた人。" (person who is extremely skilled at fencing). It's telling that there's no entry for this in the Japanese wikipedia.Jackmcbarn (
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18:31, 17 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete. Looks like a collection of original research regarding both the claimed definition of kensei and the list of names who are supposedly kensei. --
DAJF (
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14:56, 18 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete Certainly needs more references than just a single dictionary reference - I think the original PROD was correct. The Japanese articles mentioned above are not the same thing and a lot of what was written in the article is different from my understanding - it really isn't a title as such just that occasionally it was a term used in association with a particular swordsman. Sort of like calling the occasional King 'the Great'. Without supporting references I would call original research. A wiktionary entry at best.
Peter Rehse (
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16:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete The phrase gets very few hits on Google or the Japanese wikipedia. The Japanese article for
Miyamoto Musashi does not use the phrase to describe him, but the article for the
Musashi Museum does. Regardless, I do not think this is a very notable term. Regarding the reference to the Kenkyusha dictionary, I understood the reference being to the term that is being compared to, Kenshi. I think I have access to that dictionary (but perhaps not the same edition), so I will check which term is actually printed.
AtHomeIn神戸 (
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05:53, 19 December 2014 (UTC)reply
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
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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.
Contested PROD. Original reason was Unsourced since 2009 - the only source is a dictionary entry. I checked several Japanese dictionaries (daijisen, daijirin, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) and none of them makes any mention of it being an honorary title - daijs only says "剣術にすぐれ、奥義を極めた人。" (person who is extremely skilled at fencing). It's telling that there's no entry for this in the Japanese wikipedia.Jackmcbarn (
talk)
18:31, 17 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete. Looks like a collection of original research regarding both the claimed definition of kensei and the list of names who are supposedly kensei. --
DAJF (
talk)
14:56, 18 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete Certainly needs more references than just a single dictionary reference - I think the original PROD was correct. The Japanese articles mentioned above are not the same thing and a lot of what was written in the article is different from my understanding - it really isn't a title as such just that occasionally it was a term used in association with a particular swordsman. Sort of like calling the occasional King 'the Great'. Without supporting references I would call original research. A wiktionary entry at best.
Peter Rehse (
talk)
16:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete The phrase gets very few hits on Google or the Japanese wikipedia. The Japanese article for
Miyamoto Musashi does not use the phrase to describe him, but the article for the
Musashi Museum does. Regardless, I do not think this is a very notable term. Regarding the reference to the Kenkyusha dictionary, I understood the reference being to the term that is being compared to, Kenshi. I think I have access to that dictionary (but perhaps not the same edition), so I will check which term is actually printed.
AtHomeIn神戸 (
talk)
05:53, 19 December 2014 (UTC)reply
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
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