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 town name itself is "Kudus", if you search for it I think you will get a lot of results. I titled the article "Kudus, Kudus", to disambiguate it from
the regency it's in, which is also called Kudus. My understanding from
WP:ID-NAME is that "Kudus, Kudus" is the appropriate way to title the town. Similar to
Demak, Demak and others. Example external pages discussing Kudus:
[1] (you can get the idea of the article using Google Translate).
HaEr48 (
talk)
03:21, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Most cities of over 90,000+ people (and many much smaller) have articles. Passes
WP:GEOLAND as it is a census district: "populated, legally recognized places are typically presumed to be notable." It seems to have some interesting features, looking on Google maps street view. Is
Menara Kudus Mosque in the city of Kudus? Also interesting is that Google translator translates this locality as "Holy City" and the regency of Kudus as "Holy District." I get the impression that much more can be said.
Jack N. Stock (
talk)
03:56, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
The "Holy City" thing is probably a mistranslation. "Kudus" can also mean "holy" in Indonesian, although that meaning is slightly archaic (the more commonly used word is "
wikt:suci"). It is named that way because it used to be a centre of Islamic scholarship in the 16th-17th century (which also explains the famous mosque you mentioned), and is still famed today for that aspect of its history.
HaEr48 (
talk)
04:08, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Yes, although I'm surprised that it called "Kota, Kudus" rather than "Kudus, Kudus" ("kota" means "city"). Looks like to distinguish from the regency, the town itself can also be called "Kota" or "Kota Kudus". Probably similar to how people use "the City" or "New York City" to distinguish the city from the state?
HaEr48 (
talk)
04:25, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep - not because I agree with the creator or the implication that encyclopediac 'inventions' suit the encyclopedia compared to what is found on the ground, when I travelled through Kudus during the new order era I never ever 'heard' or 'saw' anything that identified Kudus being 'Kudus Kudus' - Kota, yes.
Note -the Keep is conditional on adequate redirect to and from the main 'Kota, Kudus' traditional name, and expansion - the wikiproject indonesia has a very large amount of one source one line stubs (too many) - I do think the standard needs to be raised for surviving stubs should have more than one ref, and more than one line of text - if it was not created by a very good and dedicated editor I would say delete without hesitation due the close to meaningless one line one ref (or less) stubs on the project (modified)
JarrahTree01:15, 15 February 2017 (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
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
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 town name itself is "Kudus", if you search for it I think you will get a lot of results. I titled the article "Kudus, Kudus", to disambiguate it from
the regency it's in, which is also called Kudus. My understanding from
WP:ID-NAME is that "Kudus, Kudus" is the appropriate way to title the town. Similar to
Demak, Demak and others. Example external pages discussing Kudus:
[1] (you can get the idea of the article using Google Translate).
HaEr48 (
talk)
03:21, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Most cities of over 90,000+ people (and many much smaller) have articles. Passes
WP:GEOLAND as it is a census district: "populated, legally recognized places are typically presumed to be notable." It seems to have some interesting features, looking on Google maps street view. Is
Menara Kudus Mosque in the city of Kudus? Also interesting is that Google translator translates this locality as "Holy City" and the regency of Kudus as "Holy District." I get the impression that much more can be said.
Jack N. Stock (
talk)
03:56, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
The "Holy City" thing is probably a mistranslation. "Kudus" can also mean "holy" in Indonesian, although that meaning is slightly archaic (the more commonly used word is "
wikt:suci"). It is named that way because it used to be a centre of Islamic scholarship in the 16th-17th century (which also explains the famous mosque you mentioned), and is still famed today for that aspect of its history.
HaEr48 (
talk)
04:08, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Yes, although I'm surprised that it called "Kota, Kudus" rather than "Kudus, Kudus" ("kota" means "city"). Looks like to distinguish from the regency, the town itself can also be called "Kota" or "Kota Kudus". Probably similar to how people use "the City" or "New York City" to distinguish the city from the state?
HaEr48 (
talk)
04:25, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep - not because I agree with the creator or the implication that encyclopediac 'inventions' suit the encyclopedia compared to what is found on the ground, when I travelled through Kudus during the new order era I never ever 'heard' or 'saw' anything that identified Kudus being 'Kudus Kudus' - Kota, yes.
Note -the Keep is conditional on adequate redirect to and from the main 'Kota, Kudus' traditional name, and expansion - the wikiproject indonesia has a very large amount of one source one line stubs (too many) - I do think the standard needs to be raised for surviving stubs should have more than one ref, and more than one line of text - if it was not created by a very good and dedicated editor I would say delete without hesitation due the close to meaningless one line one ref (or less) stubs on the project (modified)
JarrahTree01:15, 15 February 2017 (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
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.