The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the page's undeletion.
If an editor would like to create a Redirect to Wiktionary, feel free to do so. Liz Read! Talk! 22:51, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
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There are currently 200 pages in the category Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles. Usually, Wikipedia policy is to WP:TRANSLITERATE article titles. In the past this category of pages has been treated as an exception because many Chinese characters are not just used in Chinese but also Korean, Japanese, etc, and have multiple valid transliterations.
While I acknowledge these characters are ambiguous, I don't think Wikipedia should be in the business of dis-ambiguating them. Wikipedia is WP:NOTDICT nor a translator. Where appropriate (such as for 〇 (disambiguation)) I propose that we redirect readers to Wiktionary. Otherwise, I think these pages should be deleted. SilverStar54 ( talk) 21:40, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
they should all stay or all go, there could very well be some that are more better and some that are more worse.From a practicality standpoint, a single word or term in CJK glyphs is unlikely to be a smart thing to search for if a person is searching for one of the articles linked from the dabpages (by which I mean they should employ a second search term, like "Osaka", "amusement park", "department store", "Hong Kong", etc). On the other hand, for the particular case explored, the 新世界 dabpage does help winnow out a lot of search hits that are less likely to be what the person is searching for (like, from the first page of results, Fantasy Land Tour 2004 in Taipei, List of Terra Formars episodes, and Jiahewanggang station).I don't know if I have a point I'm trying to make, or really any idea what if anything to do about this category of dabpages. I'll report back if a thought shows up. Folly Mox ( talk) 20:55, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting. Discussion is wonderful and important. But we also need some opinions on what should happen with this specific article for this discussion to be closed.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Liz
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Talk! 23:31, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the page's undeletion.
If an editor would like to create a Redirect to Wiktionary, feel free to do so. Liz Read! Talk! 22:51, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!
There are currently 200 pages in the category Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles. Usually, Wikipedia policy is to WP:TRANSLITERATE article titles. In the past this category of pages has been treated as an exception because many Chinese characters are not just used in Chinese but also Korean, Japanese, etc, and have multiple valid transliterations.
While I acknowledge these characters are ambiguous, I don't think Wikipedia should be in the business of dis-ambiguating them. Wikipedia is WP:NOTDICT nor a translator. Where appropriate (such as for 〇 (disambiguation)) I propose that we redirect readers to Wiktionary. Otherwise, I think these pages should be deleted. SilverStar54 ( talk) 21:40, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
they should all stay or all go, there could very well be some that are more better and some that are more worse.From a practicality standpoint, a single word or term in CJK glyphs is unlikely to be a smart thing to search for if a person is searching for one of the articles linked from the dabpages (by which I mean they should employ a second search term, like "Osaka", "amusement park", "department store", "Hong Kong", etc). On the other hand, for the particular case explored, the 新世界 dabpage does help winnow out a lot of search hits that are less likely to be what the person is searching for (like, from the first page of results, Fantasy Land Tour 2004 in Taipei, List of Terra Formars episodes, and Jiahewanggang station).I don't know if I have a point I'm trying to make, or really any idea what if anything to do about this category of dabpages. I'll report back if a thought shows up. Folly Mox ( talk) 20:55, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting. Discussion is wonderful and important. But we also need some opinions on what should happen with this specific article for this discussion to be closed.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Liz
Read!
Talk! 23:31, 2 November 2023 (UTC)